Samuari Showdown II hitting the Wii Virtual Console on August 4th! |
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by the hammer of Dan Zuccarelli! |
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As far as the NEO-GEO arcade system went, Samuari Showdown was my favorite. I played a ton at our student center back when I was in college (missing one class often enough that dropping it was the only way to avoid failing). Sure there were other factors at play (like the pinball and pool tables), so it wasn’t entirely the NEO-GEO’s fault.
The inclusion of Samuari Showdown on the recent SNK anthology made me want to pick it up at some point, but now I’m thinking I may just pick up the superior sequel on the Wii virtual console next week for 900 points (9 bucks.)
The press release after the jump also mentions an anthology of Samuari Showdown games hitting the Wii later this year for $29.99. So, on second thought maybe I’ll wait for that…. my Wii is filled to the brim and I just don’t have anywhere to store stuff.
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When most people think of the video arcade, they think of the early eighties. Those were the days of wine and roses (and Pac-Man). Of course it didn’t last very long. The bubble burst and, for the most part, the arcade scene died a quick and painful death. During my formative years however the arcade scene had a brief but successful resurgence. The early nineties saw a number of great titles that brought the popularity of quarter-munching electronic entertainment back to the forefront. Games like Street Fighter II, Lethal Enforcers, and the six-player X-Men Arcade ruled the day. But tucked away in the back of the arcade was one cabinet that few of us knew what to make of. It usually cost a little more than the rest, but it didn’t have just one game. You could choose from two, four, or — if your local arcade could afford it — up to six different games. The big red cabinet didn’t have much in the way of art to draw you in, just big white letters in a generic font . They read NEO-GEO. From the second I put my first fifty cents into that machine, I was in love.
The collection includes a few others worth nothing as well. Baseball Stars 2 is the sequel to the superb NES game, and everyone should know about Metal Slug. Fatal Fury, King of Fighters, King of the Monsters, Magician Lord are all Neo Geo arcade games and do a good job of rounding out the package.
