GWN writes: "This may be the first official collection of SNK's "greatest hits" games on one disc but it certainly isn't the first time we've seen these games outside of a Neo-Geo cartridge and there lies the only real problem with this collection.
For $29.99, you get sixteen games including Fatal Fury, King of Fighters '94, Samurai Showdown, Metal Slug, and King of the Monsters. There truly are some choice games on here but the problem is that most of these games have a complete collection of their own or have been repackaged before in some form be it mobile, XBLA, or Virtual Console. Hey, at least the price of this collection beats out the Virtual Console's prices and won't take that much space on your precious hard drive space."
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."
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."
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 !!!