The chibi-style reworkings of each company's luminous back catalogue of characters exuded charm and style and, on a personal note, the game provided a delicious videogame-track to a sunny honeymoon, providing welcome respite from all the riotous lovemaking and cautious Chlamydia-dodging. The considered gameplay revealed its depths gracefully over the long haul neither overwhelming a novice nor under-serving an expert.
#SNK VS CAPCOM PC SERIES#
The game (and we can give you more detail here because, at this point the older game and this sequel share some DNA) was a Pokémon clone in style but for your deck, a multitude of card-bound SNK and Capcom characters were pulled from every series imaginable. More fool them because, to this day, the NGPC's Card Fighter Clash games simply haven't been bettered for depth and elegance in the card-collecting genre. With the system nearly dead, nobody save obsessive arcade fighting fans paid much attention to this game and, of those, not many were interested in a kiddy card game anyway. The second game in the partnership was released in two collectable editions and was, to the incredulity of fans, a card-battling game. You can assign these to favour certain play styles. You can construct up to ten different decks from your bank of collected cards. It brought together SNK's King of Fighters and Capcom's Street Fighter characters to glorious confrontation for the first time and dazzled fighting fans. Capcom: Match of the Millennium was perhaps the greatest (thanks to that aforementioned control stick) 2D fighting game to grace a handheld. One year before that SNK signed a deal with arch rival Capcom to team up and release two co-branded games. Perhaps inevitably the machine, along with the company that created it, slipped into a quiet death in 2000. Its games were too arcade-y (Metal Slug, King of Fighters), too sparse and there weren't enough third party supporters. Despite being utterly brilliant pieces of hardware - the NGPC indisputably boasted the finest control stick to grace any handheld console - this was a system squashed under Nintendo's sheer boisterous weight of product.
#SNK VS CAPCOM PC UPGRADE#
SNK's Neo-Geo Pocket and its subsequent color upgrade were the Game Boys who never grew up. This is meant to have been the redemptive life developer SNK should have lived but, instead, it ends up just being the story of how SNK actually lived: A sorry tragedy of squandered potential, wasted talent, vision clouded and international humiliation.
This should be about faith and justice and redemption. We should be writing about how the plucky little card-battling guy stuck two fingers up at fate and circumstance, threw off the need for a GDP-size development budget to punch above his weight and deliver a miraculous victory.
No, this should be the tale of the underdog made good, of the unknown fighter hoisted high upon critical shoulders, receiving the praise and mainstream adulation that should rightfully have been his eight long years ago.
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