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List Price: $14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 3150
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: PlayStation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
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MPN: 20022
UPC: 828862200228
EAN: 0828862200228
ASIN: B0012RCNUA
Release Date: April 29, 2008
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 A Good Value But May Not Meet All Expectations May 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well considering if you tried to buy all 16 games here in 1995 you would have to spend over $[...]! That makes this compliation golden for any fan of SNK or Neo Geo owners. Finally Magician Lord, Samurai Showdown, and King of Monsters are at your finger tips.
But unfortunetly, this compliation is far from perfect.
- The first thing I noticed is the sound quality. Neo Geo games had great sound especially noticible in the Arcades, but the sounds on this compliation are low and muffled sounding especially with Samurai Showdown.
- The second thing are the graphics, now maybe its been too long and I just forgot, but I seem to recall Neo Geo games having some fairly sharp looking graphics. But the graphics for the PS2 version look terrible with jaggies galour. I swear they were sharper on the Neo Geo. Luckly the PSP version of this compliation looks much better and lot closer to what I remember. I want to mention that I'm using my PS3 (fw 2.30) to play the PS2 version. I tried with and without scaling, but it made no difference.
Most game also have alot of slowdown which is odd, because the Neo Geo didn't. Is the Neo Geo more powerful than the PS2?
-The third thing is the bonus content. The bonus content are things that the game should have given you in the begining, such as character moves. Thats a wierd choice for bonus content since its pretty standard stuff elsewhere.
Now aside all that the reason why I gave this game 3 stars is mainly because, one of my favorite games that I was really looking forward to playing agian is not availible right out of the box! I'm talking about World Heroes! Some idiot at SNK though it would be cool or funny to make this game part of the unlockable bonus conent! That is just stupid! In order to unlock World Heroes, you have to earn 10 achievments found through out various other games. Arg! They should not be advertising this game with World Heroes the way that they are.
-- Bottom line is that you should definely get this game just becuase it is sort of a holy grail for 1990s gamer. Nearly $[...] worth of content on one disc for $[...]! And most of these games are classics! Metal Slug and King of Monsters are worth the purchase alone.
But just be warned that this compliation is flawed!
good retro-gaming fun May 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great value for 14.99 ! There are some true classic on here. I highly recommend Metal Slug, Samurai Showdown, Last Resort, World Heroes, and Magician Lord . The other games are decent also. The emulation is not perfect, but for the most part, these are the Neo Geo arcade games we all loved. This is a must own for all retro-gamers.
 Giga Power May 9, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was one of those few who owned a Neo-Geo home system back in the 90's. Had a blast with it. But ever since selling the good ol' Neo-Geo and my prized collection of games, I've been waiting some time for a miscellaneous collection of the Neo-Geo library. Well here it is.
I am very pleased. Still remember paying 250+ plus for one new game. In this collection, you get 16 games for 20 bucks or less. Is everything perfect? Of course not. The speed of the load/save feature is a little slow. Wished there were more background material. Also, I would've replaced some of the older titles with newer ones. But otherwise I will not let some of the small details get in the way of my enjoyment of this collection.
My personal favorites are Neo Turf Masters, The Next Glory, and of course, Metal Slug. The oldest game in this collection is Magician Lord(1990). The newest is Shock Troopers(1997). You'll notice that the programmers really learned how to utilize the power of the system in the later years to display graphics with much more complex level of shading and detail when you compare games such as Shock Troopers or Metal Slug to a game such as Burning Fight.
Hopefully, SNK Playmore will address some of the minor issues in future collections. Otherwise, don't hesitate to get yourself a copy to re-experience the "mega-power" of the Neo-Geo.
Uneven but still fun compilation of Neo Geo titles. May 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Over the last few years since SNK's surprising rise from the corporate ashes, the long running game company has released some anthologies of their more celebrated titles on their 1990's arcade game machine Neo-Geo. To date they have released World Heroes Anthology, Fatal Fury Battle Archives Vol. 1 & 2, Metal Slug Anthology and the Art of Fighting Anthology. On the horizon are a King of Fighters Anthology and a Samurai Showdown anthology (YAY!!!!).
Why am I mentioning this?
Well, it's due to the fact that SNK has included the 1st World Heroes, Fatal Fury, King of Fighters, Samurai Showdown, Art of Fighting and Metal Slug games on the new SNK Arcade Classic Vol. 1 for the PS2 and PSP. Being that this collection has 16 games on it (you have to unlock World Heroes BTW), 4 (soon to be 6) of those games are already on other anthologies that hardcore SNK fans have already bought. That leaves 10 games (Baseball Stars 2, Burning Fight, Last Resort, King of the Monsters, Magician Lord, Neo Turf Masters, Sengoku, Shock Troopers, Super Sidekicks 3, Top Hunter) that someone owning the anthologies wouldn't have already.
So who was this collection targeted to? I'm guessing the more casual classic games fan that might want more of a sampling of what SNK had to offer in the 90's instead of diving into the individual anthologies themselves for some of the gamns. However this will have some people like myself buying a collection of 16 games that has 6 on it that I already own. Also, there is the argument of people wondering why they put some sequels on here but didn't put some of the best games of other respective series on here like Fatal Fury 3, World Heroes Perfect, Samurai Showdown 2 and Metal Slug 3, Sengoku 3 instead of the 1st games of those long running seires.
One thing this entry has going for it is sheer variety. You have everything from action platform games to sports to shooters to one-on-one fighting to beat-em-ups. A few of the games can get a bit monotnous on one player (Burning Fight and Sengoku) in particular but while being far from the best types of games in that particular beat-em-up genre, since this only costs 15 bucks it makes the uneven quality of the games somewhat even out.
Being a Shooter fan, I absolutely love Last Resort and the Mercs style overhead shooter/action game Shock Troopers. We also can't forget about the action/platform masterpiece that is Magician Lord. That's still one of my favorite games of all time. Baseball Stars 2 is still one of the most fun pick-and-play baseball games of all time IMO. Turf Masters is also a lot of fun even though I'm not that much into golf games. And the original Samurai Showdown is still a classic regardless that the sequel bettered it in terms of number of characters and backgrounds.
The emulations are pretty much dead on and I found it funny that Last Resort which was plagued by slowdown on the Neo Geo has almost no slowdown on this version which makes a maddeningly at time difficult game even that much harder. Some people have complained of slowdown in certain games but to be frank I haven't seen it. Also, the version of Metal Slug on here doesn't suffer from the load times on the Anthology version, but the control does seem to lag a bit in comparison especially when the action gets really hectic.
If you're a casual fan just wanting to sample what SNK was about, this is a terrific deal to see what the NEO GEO was during it's prime. If you already have the before mentioned anthologies, then it'll depend on how much you want one or more of the 10 remaining games on here.
 SNK Arcade Classics PS2 May 7, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Hello fellow Neo Geo and SNK fans.
Well we all waited for it.
Looked to be amazing!
Its not.
It fails on many many levels.
The good news first.
You get 15 games!
Neat intro and the design is pretty cool overall.
The bad news......yikes.
Every game on here is busted. There is either slowdown up the wazoo(KOF94) or there is this weird almost video refresh problem(fire up Magician Lord to see it really go nuts)
Samurai Showdown has the blood but the sound is jacked up big time.
ShockTroopers is the 1 man rom.
Baseball Stars 2 runs almost perfect but they still messed this up. Its a strange version of the ROM where all of the teams have different names(Korean or Euro I am guessing)
The save option takes about 10-12 seconds everytime you change an option.
I cant believe how bad the emulation is on this.
I think they tried a little too hard to copy the way the Capcom Collections are and that "backend" is eating up too much resources and the games themselves are suffering.
Overall yeah it was only $[...] US but I really didnt expect the games to run and look like crap on here when all of the previous collections run perfect(minus Metal Slug Collection).
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