I assume everyone knew this already, but SNK 40th Anniversary Collection is out, and I wrote the museum text again. All the DLC is out now, so it's quite a few games in there, but I'll admit a lot of them do feel pretty old. Beast Busters, Bermuda Triangle, Crystalis and some others are pretty cool though, and for me it was pretty interesting just seeing where a lot of that SNK ethos came from... they really were innovating even at that early stage, which I guess is how they got to eventually make the Neo Geo. I had lots of conversations with former staff that didn't make it into the final game, like... I met with two people and took a walking tour in Esaka of all the former SNK locations. They could identify which windows each team worked in, from the outside! It was all pretty neat. Anyway, if you wind up getting it please read the museum stuff!

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Posted by exodus on December 19, 2018 at 14:59:22 EST.

I assume everyone knew this already, but SNK 40th Anniversary Collection is out, and I wrote the museum text again. All the DLC is out now, so it's quite a few games in there, but I'll admit a lot of them do feel pretty old. Beast Busters, Bermuda Triangle, Crystalis and some others are pretty cool though, and for me it was pretty interesting just seeing where a lot of that SNK ethos came from... they really were innovating even at that early stage, which I guess is how they got to eventually make the Neo Geo. I had lots of conversations with former staff that didn't make it into the final game, like... I met with two people and took a walking tour in Esaka of all the former SNK locations. They could identify which windows each team worked in, from the outside! It was all pretty neat. Anyway, if you wind up getting it please read the museum stuff!

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I have it but I’ve only read the book so far. I believe I’ve conned the grandparents into buying my kid a Switch so soon I’ll hopefully be able to play it. I’m very interested in almost every aspect of this release. If you do some other kind of data dump of your SNK history work let us know. I wish I could take you on a tour of the bijou theater turned arcade/bowling alley where I played Ikari back in the day but it’s a fucking Walgreens now.

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(15:24:18 12/20/18 EST)

hmm yeah, I could maybe put some of that out as an article, I hadn't really even thought of it. It'd probably be good promo for the game as well! When I've got a bit more time I'll see about putting something together. Also a lot of what you see in the book is in the game itself, but obviously there's 70+ titles discussed in the game vs 12 or whatever there is in the book. And yeah, all the cool places where I learned about arcade games are gone now. I just read a thing saying that not only has sega now been out of the console industry longer than it was in it, Microsoft is only one year from beating sega in terms of length of time in the console industry. bleh!!!

(exodus)

(18:42:56 12/20/18 EST)

Wow. And they have so little to show for it. Do people even play Halo 1 anymore?

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(21:46:43 12/20/18 EST)

realistically they've probably made more money in the console industry than sega did, so they've probably got something. People played the Halo 1 Remaster when it came out!

(exodus)