stratogustav
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Post by stratogustav on May 13, 2020 18:28:11 GMT
Not all Arcades held every SNK game. I my self never got to play Real Bout 2 until around 2004 through emulation when it was originally released 1998 which is a shame because it's one of the best SNK games of all time. That sucks man, it was a big hit where I grew up, but to be fair Capcom was always more popular with their Street Fighter Alpha, and Marvel Vs. Capcom series. Tekken and Time Crisis were big too. Arcade culture was awesome back then. |
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Post by Bogard on May 14, 2020 2:11:20 GMT
Not all Arcades held every SNK game. I my self never got to play Real Bout 2 until around 2004 through emulation when it was originally released 1998 which is a shame because it's one of the best SNK games of all time. That sucks man, it was a big hit where I grew up, but to be fair Capcom was always more popular with their Street Fighter Alpha, and Marvel Vs. Capcom series. Tekken and Time Crisis were big too. Arcade culture was awesome back then. Yeah i know man. It was such a tease too because the Saturn Magazines always showed screen shots of it that looked awesome as well as the main retro gaming shop had it on the front glass hooked up to a AES and would just let the intro play over and over all day. It was one of the only SNK games that I wanted to play that wasn't available in any form for me. There were other games I didn't get to play back in the day but that was alright because I didn't even know it existed until the internet such as Shock Troopers which I later owned for the MVS. There were also other games that the Arcades around me didn't have such as KOF 96 but that was OK because it was released on home consoles and I owned it for the Saturn. The Arcades around me always had a good balance between Capcom and SNK fighters and shooters. I guess I was lucky at that. I've come across people who have said they have never seen an game from SNK until the ps2 era and how all they had were Capcom and Konami games in their arcades. |
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Post by stratogustav on May 15, 2020 6:20:39 GMT
Yeah i know man. It was such a tease too because the Saturn Magazines always showed screen shots of it that looked awesome as well as the main retro gaming shop had it on the front glass hooked up to a AES and would just let the intro play over and over all day. It was one of the only SNK games that I wanted to play that wasn't available in any form for me. There were other games I didn't get to play back in the day but that was alright because I didn't even know it existed until the internet such as Shock Troopers which I later owned for the MVS. There were also other games that the Arcades around me didn't have such as KOF 96 but that was OK because it was released on home consoles and I owned it for the Saturn. The Arcades around me always had a good balance between Capcom and SNK fighters and shooters. I guess I was lucky at that.I've come across people who have said they have never seen an game from SNK until the ps2 era and how all they had were Capcom and Konami games in their arcades. At least they got to play them at some point. I honestly think it is never too late to enjoy those games for the first time if you are open minded, and you can appreciate the art behind them. I did saw many SNK games at the arcades, buy I also missed on many too, just like everyone else, they definitely didn't have them all, but they had a good selection. So it is good the ones many of us missed on are accessible now. Heck Windjammers is a big hit now. You mentioned Konami, but all they had back then was different iterations of Dance Dance Revolution, which was huge, and the main attraction, but that's all they had. I didn't get to see their glory days of Turtles In Time, The Simpsons, or X-Men. I was playing, and I had a Super Nintendo, that's when Mortal Kombat II came out, but I wasn't old enough for the arcades when that happened, so I missed on those golden years. I jumped in right after that, around Killer Instinct 2, and Mortal Kombat 4. Killer Instinct 1, and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 were still popular, but Street Fighter II time was over, and Street Fighter Alpha 2 was the new big thing. |
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Post by Bogard on May 15, 2020 22:28:28 GMT
Yeah i know man. It was such a tease too because the Saturn Magazines always showed screen shots of it that looked awesome as well as the main retro gaming shop had it on the front glass hooked up to a AES and would just let the intro play over and over all day. It was one of the only SNK games that I wanted to play that wasn't available in any form for me. There were other games I didn't get to play back in the day but that was alright because I didn't even know it existed until the internet such as Shock Troopers which I later owned for the MVS. There were also other games that the Arcades around me didn't have such as KOF 96 but that was OK because it was released on home consoles and I owned it for the Saturn. The Arcades around me always had a good balance between Capcom and SNK fighters and shooters. I guess I was lucky at that.I've come across people who have said they have never seen an game from SNK until the ps2 era and how all they had were Capcom and Konami games in their arcades. At least they got to play them at some point. I honestly think it is never too late to enjoy those games for the first time if you are open minded, and you can appreciate the art behind them. I did saw many SNK games at the arcades, buy I also missed on many too, just like everyone else, they definitely didn't have them all, but they had a good selection. So it is good the ones many of us missed on are accessible now. Heck Windjammers is a big hit now. You mentioned Konami, but all they had back then was different iterations of Dance Dance Revolution, which was huge, and the main attraction, but that's all they had. I didn't get to see their glory days of Turtles In Time, The Simpsons, or X-Men. I was playing, and I had a Super Nintendo, that's when Mortal Kombat II came out, but I wasn't old enough for the arcades when that happened, so I missed on those golden years. I jumped in right after that, around Killer Instinct 2, and Mortal Kombat 4. Killer Instinct 1, and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 were still popular, but Street Fighter II time was over, and Street Fighter Alpha 2 was the new big thing. Yeah SNK is one of those companies that when people even now discover it they just can't seem to grasp why they've never heard of it and become dedicated die hard fans. I used to see a lot of these people come onto Neo Geo.com. SNK is true Gold. As for the people who spoke of the Konami Arcades, thinking back at it now I don't really know what they meant. I automatically presumed games like Turtles in Time and Sunset Riders. But yeah 2D fighters were born in my generation. I was there for Street Fighter 2 and it became apart of my life and DNA. To this day I cherish Street Fighter as a historical pillar of the timeline of my life. Although SNK later became my all time favourite thing, I didn't really care for it until KoF 95, And even then i didn't think it was better than Street fighter Alpha. Until the early 2000's I was a Capcom guy until they took their foot completely out of the Arcade and put their main concentration on Games like resident Evil and Devil May Cry when SNK was still pushing out what we Arcade fans wanted which pushed a lot of people like my self into homecoming strictly SNK fans. |
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