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SAMURAI SHODOWN 4 SPRITES PRO
The Neo-Geo Arcade Stick Pro came with only 20 games, but has added an additional 20 free titles since release.
SAMURAI SHODOWN 4 SPRITES SERIES
Despite having a small range of games, it tends to pick the best of each series but is curiously lacking Shock Troopers. It also has Metal Slug 3, the later Samurai Shodowns, Sengoku 3, King of Fighters ’97-’99 (all of which were strangely missing on X) and Twinkle Star Sprites. It comes with Blazing Star and Garou out of the box, and has Last Blade 2 instead of having to buy Last Blade separately. With only a little bigger library than the old X, the Mini has overall better games. If you really want to play these games portably, Switch has it covered. With 36 games in all, it was missing a ton of classics and even games like Garou and Last Blade needed to be bought separately.
SAMURAI SHODOWN 4 SPRITES PLUS
It came with 20 games plus a bonus one, and had five packs of three available for separate purchase.
SAMURAI SHODOWN 4 SPRITES PORTABLE
So yes, they are petty enough to have a subsidiary go in and actively block mentions on these countries in 25 year old games.Īlright, but what about the modern Neo-Geo consoles? I’m not going to go into the specifics of the quality of these, as I haven’t tried the recent ones, but we have the old Neo-Geo X from 2012 which connected to the TV or used a separate portable mode, the Neo-Geo Mini from 2018 which is a standalone mini arcade that also connects to the TV, the Neo-Geo Arcade Stick Pro from 2019 which only connects to the TV as a console but also works as an arcade stick in itself, and the upcoming Neo-Geo MVS X almost fullscale arcade. Why? Well, Taiwan and Hong Kong have teams in those games, and SNK is now owned by a Chinese company. It should be noted that the PS2 titles often go on sale cheaper than individual ACA Neogeo titles, but in return might not be arcade perfect.īut if there were 109 games, what happened to the missing four? It’s definitely worth mentioning that four football games were listed by Hamster to be available at one point: Neo Geo Cup ’98, Super Sidekicks 2, Super Sidekicks 3 and The Ultimate 11. And of course, titles like Garou, Last Blade 2 and Samurai Shodown V Special have dedicated separate releases with online support. A couple can be had in collections or separately, like the Art of Fighting and Samurai Shodown games. It also gets complicated as some games appear only on PS2 re-released collections, such as Aggressors of Dark Kombat, Ninja Combat, Ninja Commando, Ninja Master’s and Twinkle Star Sprites on the ADK Damashii collection, and Savage Reign and Kizuna Encounter on the Fu’un Super Combo collection. Luckily this doesn’t include many notable titles, but Strikers 1945 Plus, World Heroes Perfect and the last three King of Fighters games are some of them. What about the Playstation 4? Theoretically it should have the same games, but a couple are not available in Europe for whatever reason. Consider this the master list of available games (bolded are the major classics): Both have access to all 104 currently available ACA Neogeo titles, but only the Switch (and PS4) has the remastered version of Windjammers.
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With that in mind, the best place to get the biggest Neo-Geo library is the Switch or Xbox. While we’re about to get new consoles, both are backwards compatible so the library should theoretically port over to Playstation 5 and Xbox Series S/X. Now, I’m not generally counting any re-releases for Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 or Wii, because at this point they are probably as hard to find as an original MVS title (if possibly cheaper). As of September 30th 2020, 109 of the 148 official Neo-Geo titles listed on have been re-released on at least one modern format. Aside from the library, the look, and the addition of Samurai Shodown, the units will still be the same as the regular Neo Geo Minis with an HDMI cord to hook up to your TV and two wireless controllers.Despite once being the most expensive, exclusive and elusive console, Neo-Geo is now actually the most ever-present classic format available to any modern gamer.
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SAMURAI SHODOWN 4 SPRITES FULL
We have the full list of games for you below, but if you're looking to get your hands on a copy it will run you ¥15,000 (about $137) as the game will go on pre-order in Japan on May 16th with an official release on June 27th. The Japanese site PR Times revealed three translucent versions of the console, in red, white, and blue, along with the complete library of games that will be included. Samurai Shodown is apparently going to get a few different special editions from SNK, one of which will be a special Neo Geo Mini with the game included.