In a strange twist, the two-player mode here isn't competitive but cooperative, with you and a friend fighting against another team of monsters. The fighting aspect isn't particularly deep, but the fact that you get to fight as giant monsters seems to make things better. While you outwrestle your opponent, you crush buildings and fight off attacks from the military. You take on the role of one of six giant monsters as you fight in areas of the city that have been blocked off by electric walls. King of the Monsters is billed as another early SNK fighting game, although it plays more like a wrestling game. The combat here is a bit stiff but feels smoother than Art of Fighting. ![]() Most matches see you and the opponent jumping from the foreground to the background and back again, giving the game a sense of depth before 3-D fighting became all the rage. The hook for Fatal Fury was the different planes in which the fighting could take place. Much like Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury limits the single-player experience to three fighters while the versus mode gives you access to every fighter in the game. While the game itself doesn't have anything that makes it stand out from the pack, the issues with collision and the Engrish drag it down.įatal Fury is another of SNK's early fighting games. Burning Fight has qualities of Capcom's Final Fight but doesn't have that polish. This is the good baseball game for those that don't care about the MLB license or the pitcher and batter cursor system that's been employ in more recent baseball titles.īeat-'em-ups were still big business when the Neo-Geo came out, so it was no surprise that the system got one of its own. The graphics are great, the controls are tight, and the presentation, complete with cut scenes, is top-notch. What you get instead is some really good baseball that falls under the realm of easy to play but tough to completely master. Baseball Stars 2, included in this compilation, completely rips out the sim portions, so if you're looking for a deep sim this time around, keep looking. The first Baseball Stars was a bona fide classic with good core gameplay and a pretty deep management tool, and some say that it's the first sports sim to hit the market. As far as the fighting goes, it's OK but nothing too spectacular. This limits the single-player game a bit but also gives it a more cohesive story. While the two-player mode allowed you to select any of the characters to play with, the single-player mode only allowed you to choose between the two main characters. In this case, it was visible character damage and camera zooming whenever the fighters got close to each other. ![]() While old-school Neo-Geo fans will immediately remember the games once they hear the title, those with fuzzier memories or who have never played the games but love old-school gaming would be curious to know what they're getting in this first volume.Īrt of Fighting is one of SNK's early fighting games that started to do something different in order to stand out from the crowd. ![]() This 16-game compilation (15 readily available + 1 locked) gives a pretty good value for the dollar, especially when you compare it to buying them all on the Nintendo Wii Shop. The question is whether you should get this disc or wait for the inevitable Volume 2 instead. With 16 games for $29.99, the compilation disc represents a good value for those looking for some retro gaming. After several ports of their arcade games and game series compilations were brought to home consoles, SNK is bringing out a compilation of Neo-Geo games on their own for the Nintendo Wii with SNK Arcade Classics Vol. For consumers, the system represented great 2-D gaming in the face of 3-D gaming coming from other arcade manufacturers and home consoles alike. The console that lasted for 14 years gave the company a chance to create arcade games at a lower cost in comparison to their competitors. This is the full list of the 20 games included:ĭespite being released only in Japan the game has friendly English menus, the don’t have much text because they are arcade games but still the very few text i found was in English i haven’t played all games so i don’t know if some games were left in Japanese, sorry about that.Released in 1990, the Neo-Geo console by SNK represents a milestone in arcade history. ![]() This game a compilation of classic arcade games by SNK, you might remember SNK Arcade Classics Vol.1 maybe? Well this came out a few years later but in fact it contains older games compared to the Vol.1 version hence the name “0”, so it’s a like a prequel some might say.Īrcade classics 1 had games from 90’s~’97, this zero version has games released between ’85 and ’89 on the Arcade Machines.
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