Post by: MegaByte on September 12, 2007, 07:07:52 AM
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=14376
SNK to Release Classic NEOGEO Arcade Games on Wii(tm) Virtual Console(tm)
Wall, NJ - Sep 12, 2007 SNK PLAYMORE USA CORPORATION, the U.S. publishing arm of the SNK PLAYMORE CORPORATION, today announced that the Company will release several of their greatest NEOGEO arcade games via the Virtual Console(tm) feature on Wii(tm). Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points(tm) to download these classic games through the Wii Shop Channel. D4Enterprise, Inc., headquartered in Tokyo, will manage the release of the titles.
Key NEOGEO titles will include "Fatal Fury," "World Heroes," and "Art of Fighting." Each title is expected to cost 900 Wii Points. More titles will follow over the coming months
Post by: vudu on September 12, 2007, 07:16:45 AM
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on September 12, 2007, 07:18:38 AM
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This is news? Did I miss something? Does the article imply that these are available now?
Well I don't think the specific games was announced. Regardless Nintendo better give us the ability to run games off an external HDD or SD Card because I REFUSE to erase my internal memory to put 1 or 2 games on it.
Post by: decoyman on September 12, 2007, 07:36:13 AM
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Originally posted by: vudu
This is news? Did I miss something? Does the article imply that these are available now?
Well I don't think the specific games was announced. Regardless Nintendo better give us the ability to run games off an external HDD or SD Card because I REFUSE to erase my internal memory to put 1 or 2 games on it.
We also got pricing. 900 points – not too shabby.
Post by: vudu on September 12, 2007, 07:39:53 AM
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Post by: Ian Sane on September 12, 2007, 07:56:04 AM
Fatal Fury gets better but the first game isn't so hot. The must-download Neo-Geo fighters are King of Fighters, Samurai Shodown, and the Last Blade.
Bring on Baseball Stars 2. It's easily my favourite NeoGeo game and favourite sports game of any kind.
When I was a kid my ultimate dream game was a fighting game that combined Street Fighter II with SNK's games (and numerous other SFII clones). I think every SFII fan wanted to make that game. Of course it now exists in Capcom vs. SNK, which I think is great, but it came out years too late. If it came out in like 1994 or 1995 I would have been so ecstatic and since 2D fighting games were still huge it would have been an insane success. It's like Mario and Sonic teaming up. There was a time where a mere suggestion of a team-up between the companies would have caused riots.
Post by: cubist on September 12, 2007, 08:27:56 AM
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Originally posted by: vudu
This is news? Did I miss something? Does the article imply that these are available now?
Well I don't think the specific games was announced. Regardless Nintendo better give us the ability to run games off an external HDD or SD Card because I REFUSE to erase my internal memory to put 1 or 2 games on it.
Too bad you can't boot a game off of the SD Card or the USB port which would be used for the external HDD.
Post by: Spak-Spang on September 12, 2007, 08:44:07 AM
I never enjoy King of the Fighter series.
Now, I hope they release several of their shooter and other games quickly, because fighters are nice, but I don't want all fighters...and I want a HDD that will actually play games off of it. Please Nintendo. Please.
Post by: Jonnyboy117 on September 12, 2007, 08:56:29 AM
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Post by: BwrJim! on September 12, 2007, 09:58:43 AM
and lets face it, the neo geo had great sound samples all around!
Post by: planetidiot on September 12, 2007, 10:51:46 AM
also i'm not buying anything until k0f 96 or samurai showdown anything.
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come to me, my Magician Lord...
and lets face it, the neo geo had great sound samples all around!
Come on, nice guy! But your life is mine very soon!
Post by: Maximilian on September 12, 2007, 11:12:36 AM
One of my friends in high school had a Neo Geo system, so I actually got to play many a Neo Geo game with him and at the numerous Neo Geo machines peppered around the area. Magician Lord, Cyber Lib, Crossed Swords, World Heroes, Super 8 Man, King of the Monsters, the Samurai Showdown series and a few whos names I can't remember... So many great games and good times. I'm sure some many won't hold up as well today but the prospect of playing some of these again on my Wii is very exciting. I'm not surprised that the first games announced are fighters as that's probably what SNK is known best for. But they made all kinds of other games that at the time were pretty much priced out of anyone's range.
I'm also glad that the price is under $10, unlike Japan's $12.
Post by: Caliban on September 12, 2007, 11:22:18 AM
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Post by: MegaByte on September 12, 2007, 12:52:43 PM
Post by: Ian Sane on September 12, 2007, 12:53:17 PM
You're ruining my memories with your facts and such. How could 100 MEG SHOCKER games in reality be so small? I remember Donkey Kong Country and Super Street Fighter II were 32 meg SNES games which was f*cking huge at the time and bigger than any other SNES or Genesis games. Strider was a big deal when it was released at 8 megs and Super Metroid was a major deal at 24. So when you went to the arcade and World Heroes 2 said it was over 100 MEGS it was like "HOLY F*CK!" No wonder those games cost hundreds of dollars.
Someday we'll go back to cartridges as solid state media is catching up in capacity and they have an obvious load time advantage to discs. And when they do I hope we go back to advertising cartridge sizes as a big deal with newer games getting brand new BIGGER cartridges. Use gigabits just to keep the misleading size convention of megabits alive. 100 GIG SHOCKER!!
Post by: UncleBob on September 12, 2007, 01:24:31 PM
Post by: Louieturkey on September 12, 2007, 02:18:06 PM
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Originally posted by: Ian SaneSomeday we'll go back to cartridges as solid state media is catching up in capacity and they have an obvious load time advantage to discs. And when they do I hope we go back to advertising cartridge sizes as a big deal with newer games getting brand new BIGGER cartridges. Use gigabits just to keep the misleading size convention of megabits alive. 100 GIG SHOCKER!!
ASH for the DS is a 2 gigabit shocker, as it's the largest DS game to date. Does that make you feel better?
Post by: Djunknown on September 12, 2007, 02:57:21 PM
Shock Troopers 1 and 2 plz.
Post by: MegaByte on September 12, 2007, 03:44:11 PM
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Every game has its own emulator? Does that apply just to Neo-Geo (and any other forthcoming systems that weren't in the original lineup) or is that *every* game? If so... ouch.
Every. game.
Post by: that Baby guy on September 12, 2007, 04:09:14 PM
Post by: KDR_11k on September 13, 2007, 12:21:04 AM
Ian: To continue with the "uphill... both ways!" rant: I remember an ad for a 2000 DM (roughly 1000$) harddrive for the C64. It could hold a whole 20MB, I bet I could have fit my whole collection of floppies on there.
