Posted by substance J on March 20, 2021 at 10:20:19 EST in reply to Well, no one posted a thread for the release of the Neo Geo Pocket Color Collection Vol. 1 getting released on Switch so I guess I'll do it. SNK Gals’ Fighters, Samurai Showdown 2, King of Fighters R-2, The Last Blade: Beyond the Destiny, Fatal Fury First Contact, SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millennium, Metal Slug: 1st Mission, Metal Slug: 2nd Mission, Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 and Neo Turf Masters. $40, which is probably what it cost to buy one of those repackaged Neo Geo Pocket blister packs back in the day but you don't get a clicky stick. from aerisdead.
I took a minute to play 2nd Mission when I was home over the holidays. After maybe 8-10 years since my last play, that was pretty impressive. When those games came out, I felt a tinge of sympathy for the people who produced them knowing that the amount of effort needed to achieve success was probably disproportionately high when your task is to take the the pinnacle game of an era typified by high-spec, super-indulgent everything and reduce it to something like NES quality. The NGPC games turned out well, although I probably would've enjoyed them even more if they hadn't use the Metal Slug name. At the time it would have been crazy for SNK to forego the marketability of that series when the NGPC was still perhaps viable. Looking at it now, if they released those games with an original IP (especially if it was awesome sounding like CRASH IRON STOKER or MAD ORDINANCE RANGER ECSTACY or something), I bet they'd be selling for $1,400 instead of $140.
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