@JasonR:

Shoosh, don't ruin anything for those who have not seen it yet!

Thanks!

EnigmaNemesis

I believe this is the first compilation of games that I truly believe is a good deal. Off with her head!

Rob

@skullivan:

VC is a rip off for anything above classic NES games.

EnigmaNemesis

Any chance of the Cloverfield monster making an appearance in King of Monsters?

JasonR

Sweet Fatal Fury and Samurai Showdown i loved those in the arcade. Also isnt King of Fighters the same Fatal Fury with a few differences?

GUNDAM-RX-78-2

This is a must buy for me ... King of Monsters FTW!

jayntampa

Titles like this really make me wish psp had a better d-pad :(

megahurtz

King of Monsters! Please bring that over to XBLA w/ online play.

Nex Antonius

Oh, and I I guess won't be buying anymore NeoGeo games for the Wii either. I mean hell, with the limited memory afforded for VC games anyway, I might as WELL be putting a game disc in everytime I want to play a game that has a larger memory footprint, what with all the shuffling/deleting/re-downloading/moving to SD you have to do.

Knoxximus

Windjammers in Vol. 2 FTW!!

Knoxximus

Lame. This had been announced for Wii also but I guess they decided to cancel it since a lot of these games are available on VC for $9 a pop.

The discrepancy between the price per game on VC and in collections like these is just absurd. I'm assuming the title will be $30, making each game about $2 a piece.

skullivan

@RioHustlaInc: Seriously, what's with the lack of online implementation in these packs. Multiplayer is what made a lot of these games into classics in the first place and now that online gaming is just about everywhere it just doesn't make sense to me to neglect it in these reissues.

Dang-fuzz

Sold for the PSP version!

EnigmaNemesis

Crap. I would buy this for the PS2 and play it on my PS3 if mine had BC. Then again, there's always:

1. SCEI hiring "PlayStation 3 compatibility feature engineer" and wait for PS2 software emulation on my PS3
2. Purchase a PSP Lite within a few months

I think I'll go with option 2. Been eyeing up a PSP for quite some time now.

Candlejack

lame!!!

finder39

NO THE REAL QUESTION IS WHY ISNT IT ONLINE???????????????????????????????????????????????

RioHustlaInc

This is a great collection of games, a mix of old favorites (King of the Monsters, Sengoku, Metal Slug), and a bunch of games that were never given enough play time back in the day.

But where is WindJammers?

animatedexistance

As A Neo Geo Home and MVS/Arcade Owner this is a great value for any Game player. These same games sell for upwards of $100-$3000 each for Neo Geo Home Cart System. Also consider these games sell for $10 a piece on Virtual Console and you are getting like 13 free games.

Japhei

This should also be be released on the Wii eventually. It can be found on the ESRB list.

jeffx

@tocatl:
Downloads are never fairly priced. Beyond the minimal cost of porting them and the bandwidth to distribute them its all profit.

VishusBurn (PSN)

If they release this for the Wii for like 39-49 dollars why the fuck are we spending 9 buck a piece on each one. and i thought we where getting the Samurai Showdown collection before all of this?

MURDERFACE

Yet another to add to my PSP library. Very excited for this one.

TearsandScreams

Yay for SNK!
This was a long time coming.

TheCleaningGuy

Heck yeah, King of the Monsters. Heck yeah, Sengoku.

Bring back Riding Hero!!!!

HighlanderWolf

Not a bad start for a "Classics" series. I'll be waiting for later titles, though (Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad, Sengoku 3).

Draconis

@EnigmaNemesis: At least for some n64 and snes games its a fair price the vc...

tocatl

@DarthHomer: Ah ok thanks i was going on the assumption of characters without ever playing the game never could find KoF in the arcades.

GUNDAM-RX-78-2

@GUNDAM-RX-78-2:
Nope. Both games are mostly different. Although Fatal Fury characters are prominent in King of Fighters...

DarthHomer

My PSP needs more games, but fighters with that d-pad do nothing but annoy me. I'll go with PS2.

brello

FINALLY!!!! Neo Geo releases some arcade classics on a disc with more than one franchise! Definitely a must buy for me, even though I own a few of these on my Neo Geo cart system...I just hope there are no frame rate issues with these games, but most of them are so old that there should be no problem.

Phester

You know, seeing Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, and Metal Slug on there makes me wonder if SNK is going to keep putting out collections based around a single series.

megahurtz

I wish they would stop doing this.

Kai_

@Dang-fuzz: Online multiplayer would require a lot of time, money, and effort invested on a title that probably will still make a profit without it.

I can't speak for everyone, but the prospects of trying to make a ten to fifteen year old arcade game support network play doesn't sound all that appealing to me.

spiderweb1986

this on psp is a must for me
:)
Yippee!

evilralphwiggum

ACTUALLY, the d-pad of the PSP-2000 works like a charm with 2D fighting games.

interstate78

Mmmmm Neo Turf Masters.

IT'S ON THE GWEEEEEN!

coach_mcguirk

I don't get it. Isn't the overwhelming majority of these games playable on Gametap?

Darkmoon

@EnigmaNemesis: I'm so getting this for the PSP, I still play a ton of my time with old Sega collection on PSP etc.

Irenicus-the one and only

@EnigmaNemesis: Highly inaccurate, once again. $8 for two fairly unanimous top-10 all time games? (Link to the Past and Super Metroid). $10 for The Ocarina of Time? Sure, some of the lesser games aren't worth the price, but to blanket it like that is showing the kind of integrity you display all the time around these parts. Sorry, for a LEGAL way to experience those games, there isn't a better price.

HAGE

The first Shock Troopers is possibly the most underrated Neo Geo game of all time, cuz it never got an official home release, I think. In order to play it on the home system you had to buy an arcade game (MVS to AES)to home converter called the phantom. That was an expensive investment for me, but I really enjoy my old school NG.

RonJeremy4Pres

King of the Monsters, Shock Troopers and Metal Slug look like the only appealing things on there.

I miss that monster game (snes ver), squeezing my friends for an hour straight even though their bar was completely red. Then finally pinning them when they've had enough.

ReginaldTheSeventySecond

This is an awesome collection and worthy of a purchase by anyone who loves videogames. If Windjammers is in Vol. 2, that's another sale.

Now that the awesome is out of the way, what the hell is with people bitching how something like this doesn't have online (especially as its only for the PSP and PS2)? I'm getting sick of it. Yes, online gaming is huge today, but these games were in the arcade where you play alongside your friends. Are you people seriously too lazy to go over to a friend's house, or have them come over to yours? If you have no friends or family to do this with, there's an exception, but i do feel sorry for you.

Half the fun of multiplayer with such titles is the fact that the person you are playing with is in the same room.

This is the same reason i get annoyed with people bitching about the gimped online capabilities of the Wii with titles like Smash Bros Brawl (and the upcoming Mario Kart). I dunno, perhaps i'm just spoiled, having grown up through the 80s and 90s, and experiencing multiplayer primarily in the arcades, in friend's houses and at lans.

Online can't replicate the great social aspects of these types of gaming no matter how hard it trys. Text is unfeeling and voice chat is just annoying. Yeah i seem to have gone off on a tangent but i needed to get that off my chest. =/

end rant.

Atomicvege

@Irenicus-the one and only:

So do I, was one of the first things I bought with the new slim PSP after having a PSP hiatus for a year and a half!

EnigmaNemesis

shame every game's not link to the past or super metriod, eh?

responding to that

EnigmaNemesis

@TheIrishNinja (PSN), IrishNinja2099 (XBL):

v

Exactly my point!

:)

EnigmaNemesis

Hmm I thought SNK were dead.

Harteex

@TheIrishNinja: Or Yoshi's Story. More games should be Yoshi's Story.

Maldron

@Kai_: ...what? why? who's against classic collection packs? theyre an awesome deal.

@HAGE: shame every game's not link to the past or super metriod, eh?

@jayntampa: same here; solid pack overall (classic fighters) but king of monsters is what got me.

TheIrishNinja (PSN), IrishNinja2099 (XBL)

No last blade 2 == no buy for me.

/I would pay like $30 just for LB2 with online multiplayer.

lordargent

PSP infrastructure capabilities FTW and im sold!

bird1988

Most of those games are on GameTap, and some of them are free, no subscription required. You can even play against/with other GameTap members on games like Metal Slug & Shock Troopers. So, I probably won't get this collection since I can play almost all of them on GameTap.

dawimp523

ATOMICVEGE: If you have no friends or family to do this with, there's an exception, but i do feel sorry for you.

I don't have a PSP and I have no friends with a PSP and my family aren't gamers (Granted, I just gave my sisters my PS2, but I'm 31 and she's 16 and has totally different interests as far as gaming goes (DDR + dance pad, bleh)).

/A lot of my gaming friends have moved to different cities over the years. Online play is a way to keep in touch and game with all of them without all of us in the same city.

/once you hit 30, gaming friends in the same city are harder to come by. It would be easier for me to round up a group of friends to play golf or go bowling than it would be to round up folks for a last blade 2 session.

lordargent

@Knoxximus: Won't happen - Data East made that game, not SNK. Who knows who owns the rights to their games.

@megahurtz: The single series collections include arrange soundtracks, which is well worth the $15 price tag. There's four or five collections that haven't been released stateside. They've got enough to keep going for several eyars.

@lordargent: Get the Gekka No Kenshi two pack from Japan. It has both games, and online multiplayer (actually, most of these compilations have online multiplayer in Japan.)

This whole set is one heck of a bargain.

Now where's my Sunsoft Collection? It was announced in Japan last year, and had Galaxy Fight and Waku Waku 7. C'mon, SNK-P. Make it happen!

Dave Silva

@EnigmaNemesis: Hehhe, yeah it is awsome :) Sonic, golden axe etc all in one package. I still just got an old PSP, I want the slim one but can't get myself to buy it. I want it though.

Irenicus-the one and only

Wow. That's really good cross-section of the first few years of the NeoGeo's life. I was hoping when tey said "SNK Classics" though that we might see Ikari Warriors, P.O.W., or Guerilla War. Oh well, maybe in volume 2...

Though if they're sticking to NeoGeo only for the next release then here's hoping that Super Spy, Ninja Combat, Waku Waku 7, Nightmare in the Dark, Twinkle Star Sprites, and Super Dodge Ball make the cut.

Either way, I'll be picking this up for both platforms when it releases.

Nightshift_Nurse

Ah, SNK. I didn't have to read the entire list, you had me at Metal Slug. Samurai Showdown (Spirts) Compilation for American release now please and a Re-release of Garou: Mark of the Wolves is fine too.

@Harteex: SNK is the phoenix. They died In 2000, but rised from the ashes as SNK playmore in 2001.

KeroseneClimax

I'll pick up the PS2 version I guess.

DigitalHero

King of Monsters was awesome!

Witzbold

Aw, no Kabuki Clash?

Maybe volume 2.

Johnny_Under

Thanks be to Allah! SOLD for my PSP.

~

Hiroken

@Knoxximus: According to Wikipedia which is obviously not 100% accurate all the time, most of Data East's IP are now owned by G-Mode and Paon Corporation. So it would be up to which ever of these owns Windjammers if it would ever come out but I would not expect it on any compilation.

daizyujin

This set looks pretty hot snk ftw.

GreenCard200

@dawimp523: beat me too it. Half of those re for free on gamefly. The other half are for emulation or flash.

The only benefit I see is the PSP's portability. which is always a plus for classic gaming

huginn (XBL - WendingoPSU)

King of Monsters? I remember that game from a huge stash of roms my cousin gave me. It's a lot like my GC game, Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee...

Sabre_Justice

@dawimp523: Sorry already said!

drack48

All those are on gametap now, I play them with the 360 controller on the PC.

drack48

I only wish that the companies putting out these arcade compilations would start adding features that allowed for limiting continues, etc. Without the looming threat of running out of quarters at the arcade, playing many of these games lose a lot of the original excitement.

Nightshift_Nurse

That pic's background just reminds me of Simcity 2000. Wouldn't it be great if we can just export your simcities and do battle with Gojira? WOo!

konchy

@SpuddOner: You're right. Next time any company decides to release a retro compilation they should check with you first...make sure there's no overlap with your collection.

Ass.

Nightshift_Nurse

I already legally Own all these games so whats the point?!....lol

SpuddOner

Crossed Swords, please.

Karlott

Only good thing the Wii has done= VC titles bundled into collections for a price worth biting at.

gam3r

@Nightshift_Nurse:
You totally called him on it.

@SpuddOner:
"I already have this so I find it pointless to remake it for other people to enjoy" = douchebaggery [www.urbandictionary.com]

VishusBurn (PSN)

Great, this will probably cost 29,99€. On Wii we can buy these all for 128€.

Miharu

@ NIGHTSHIFT_NURSE & VISHUSBURN (PSN), Get off his Nutz!

You did not hear the sarcasm in "legally Own all these games ". Dont you know how easily "Illegally available" these games are?!.. fanbois! :)

SpuddOner

@ NIGHTSHIFT_NURSE & MIHARU

I usually don't respond to ignorance but you obviously didn't "Hear" my sarcasm when i said " Legally Own all these games". If i need to explain myself any further, Neo-Geo Roms/Emulators have been around for a few years now so if SNK is going to try to milk some money out of these classic games, Now is the best time since the PS2 is nearing the End of it's cycle. I'm Sure " SABRE_JUSTICE" knows what I'm talking about. A compilation really has to mean something. These games are classic but it barely cost them anything to slap it together, throw some image galleries and concept art that's easily available online, shove it down our throats for $15-30 dollars Gaining Maximum profits. the only satisfaction we get is that we physically own the game and bought it "legally", when i can easily download the whole Neo-Geo Collection, Unzip the files, Customize the Control settings to my PC/360 Controller and be playing the games on Hi-Def with Filters turned on(No Pixels), Start playing before you even get back home from buying the game and making negative annotation's about my comment so you can feel better about yourself because you are mad that i own all those games?! Give me a break... lol i cant believed i just wasted my time with yawl 2.

SpuddOner

@brello: Do you have the PSP-2000? If so the D-pad is so much better for fighting games. If not, you'll be better off raising the D-pad using a simple mod where all you need is less than 1 mm to give you access to moving diagonally with ease.

BigDanG

Portable Turf Masters?

I just creamed myself.

daybona

i want this collection now
:-(

evilralphwiggum

Good times. I really like the NeoGeo arcade cabinets back in the day.

Benjo

@SpuddOner: I'm aware of emulation..used it myself for years in fact. It doesn't change the fact that you're a twat and your original comment wasn't sarcasm, just douchebaggery for the sake of it. Any claims you made to the contrary were refuted by your own words in your last post.

It might also be worth pointing out that emulation, like custom firmware on the PSP is something that the majority of consumers aren't even aware of, able to use, or able to understand. The bulk of my friends who have an understanding of emulation don't even own computers capable of running most of it. My own laptop is unable to run most emulators I'd care about with VBL Sync on and the framrate locked at 60 without periodic video and music stuttering.

Finally, claiming "sarcasm" on a message board is traditionally the sanctuary of trolls and assholes. Further evidence of dickhead status? You seem to take personal offense to the idea of a particular game being released at all. The type of person who forgets others may want this game and if you don't then there's no gun to your head forcing you to buy it.

Nightshift_Nurse

Oh no... and I just got used to having money.

Foxy_Blue

@SpuddOner:
Sorry but sarcasm doesn't carry well in plain text. I don't think you were being sarcastic thou. Sounds more to like you were just looking for a way to brag about you cartridge collection and in the process said something that made you look like a dick and are now claiming sarcasm in an attempt to redeem yourself.

And that whole argument that they shouldn't make things that can be pirated is just retarded. Not everyone wants to steal there games just because they can.

VishusBurn

Homina-homina-homina-homina...

sandwiches

@ VISHUSBURN & NIGHTSHIFT_NURSE

Good attempt at validating your "non- sarcastic" point of view regarding this issue. I made a very plain and simple statement, (Which was the total opposite of what everybody else was saying but the majority of you understood where i was coming from), and "yes" even though i directly did not say it with (Sarcasm) in parenthesis, you got immediately butt-hurt enough to search through the urban Dictionary to express your feelings about your interpretation of what i said. And you are the one talking about me trolling? Please. Get over it.

SpuddOner

this is awesome. Much better than playing the emu versions. They should include artwork and commercials etc as well in these compilations.

toneroni