Review By Kevin "Berserker" Hall:
"A few months ago, SNK Arcade Classics Volume 1 was released on PS2 and PSP. SNK has now released this classic game collection for the Wii console and it comes to us with the usual Wii controls and a slight price increase ($10) that is expected on the Wii console. Much like how the PS2 had some of these classic games already released in other collections, the Wii has some of the games available in its online Virtual Console via the Wii Shop Channel store, so not all of these games are new for Wii owners either. All of them together for the price of $30 is still a better deal than having to dish out 900 points each for the Wii Virtual Console versions if you plan to buy all the ones available on the Wii Shop Channel however.
SNK Arcade Classics still has all the games that were released for the PS2 version: Art of Fighting, Baseball Star 2, Burning Fight, Fatal Fury, King of the Monsters, Last Resort, Magician Lord, Metal Slug, Neo Turf Masters, Samurai Showdown, Sengoku, Shock Troopers, The Next Glory, The King of Fighters '94, Top Hunters and World Heroes. If you are interested in my opinions of the full game lineup then be sure to check out my SNK Arcade Classics PS2 review since my thoughts still remain the same with this version."
In the first episode of Let's Play Arcade, we review Street Smart by SNK. Street Smart is a co-op fighting / beat-em up game that was released in 1989. It was later ported to the Sega Master System in 1991. Players must fight two computer opponents in order to win the affection of young women. At the end of each match, you must fight your partner to decide who will get the woman as their prize.
Carl Williams writes, "It is a rule of gaming, when one game is a hit, there must be a sequel to capitalize and cannabalize sales. SNK was no different in this regard as their unstopped rampage through fighting games on the Neo Geo system attested- as the system went on, fewer and fewer original games were released as sequel fever took over. King of the Monsters was popular enough to spawn one sequel, King of the Monsters 2: The Next Thing. King of the Monsters 2 was not perfect, neither was the original. What it set out to do though, it did well."
It is a decent game, the first one is better than this sequel- not trying to take away from the fun that can be had with this one.
It is definitely worth the $5 or so to grab a copy on SNES off of Ebay.
I remember playing Neo Geo at a local arcade, they had 5 to 8 machines set up with various games, many had 3 to 4 games each. It was tough to get a machine once the fighting game craze hit because they would load at least on of the popular fighting games on each of these machines.
Carl Williams writes, "The Neo Geo was known for great arcade games that catered to many gamer tastes, at least early on. There were racing, fighting, action and adventure games available on this SNK arcade behemoth, that is before fighting games really took off. One such action game, Top Hunter, borrowed a little from the Fatal Fury fighting games and some from the Mario series from Nintendo and created a unique experience that, sadly, was only one game and not a series."
The article was written and posted on the correct date, it just took longer to get approved here on N4G. That is why I put the date in the title so people know when it is supposed to have happened.
to bad NEO-GEO type games not coming to ps4 or ps3 , we're stuck another 7 years with open world FPS games such sadistic sadness ashame !!!
