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Last week's re-release on PlayStation 4 and Vita makes it easier to play than before (though I'm not budging from my MVS because frankly I'm awful like that), hopefully ensuring The Last Blade 2 finds a new audience. As for SNK? Late in April it made the small, sizeable move of rebranding, ditching the Playmore suffix it's carried the past 13 years and now calling itself, quite simply, SNK. There's a fresh emphasis on games, and an all-new King of Fighters to look forward to later this summer. Amidst all that, SNK restored its old slogan: 'The Future Is Now'. Maybe it's as true now as it was back then, but there's certainly been no better time to rediscover the company's brilliant past.
Eight more popular SNK titles are free to download on Prime Gaming starting today for a limited time.
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "In recent years it seems the demand to bring retro games to modern consoles has grown exponentially and no company has done a better job of riding this wave than Code Mystics, a porting studio whose emulation work has been among the best in the industry. Working in partnership with numerous companies, including Atari and LucasArts, but most notably SNK, Code Mystics has re-birthed numerous classics and the Vita has always been an integral part of its plans, making the company a perfect match for this series of articles."
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "The Neo Geo was something of an oddity in the gaming market – a family of systems that included the MVS arcade machine, AES home console machine, and a number of short-lived experiments such as the Neo Geo CD and Neo Geo Pocket. What tied these all together were the brilliant 2D titles created by SNK, which included a number of the most enjoyable fighting games of their time. Thanks to the company’s resurrection in recent years and some internal cheerleaders at Sony, the Vita has been home to a great number of Neo Geo games, although sadly it hasn’t received the brilliant Arcade Archives series by Hamster, meaning it's an incomplete library."
The switch is also another portable NeoGeo, lots of incredible games on it. If you like old school beat them ups and fighting games, as well shoot them ups, it's the place to be. The Vita will go down as an incredible piece of tech that got overlooked. Still playing mine to this day.
