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GameSpot Recaps 25-Year History of SNK
Decaffeinated Jedi writes "GameSpot has offered up an amazingly in-depth history of SNK -- the company behind such classic games as Ikari Warriors, Fatal Fury, and King of Fighters, as well as the NeoGeo hardware system. The 39-page retrospective covers nearly every aspect of the company's 25-year history and includes an annotated list of key SNK titles, trivia, insider interviews, hardware comparisons, screenshots, promotional art, and more."
Samurai Showtime?
That's a disturbing image...
Kick, one two! Slice, one two! C'mon you hussies, you want to be in "A Chorus Line" or what?
HAI!
One of the most mainstream gaming review sites in recent memory is now doing a heartfelt article on SNK? I don't buy it for an instant. It'd be like IGN doing some actual research before they publish something (their "Nintendo DS" articles with web message board joke images springs to mind).
"...see you at the crossroads"
Kick, one two! Slice, one two! C'mon you hussies, you want to be in "A Chorus Line" or what? ;)
I was thinking more along the lines of this
Hayatatatacha!
Kick! Punch! It's all in the mind
If you wanna test me, I'm sure you'll find
The things I'll teach ya is sure to beat ya
But nevertheless you'll get a lesson from teacher
Kick - Punch - Chop - Block
Once more now
Kick - Punch - Chop - Block
Don't get cocky, it's gonna get rock
We gonna move down to the next ya jockey now
Duck - Jump - Turn - Pose
Listen carefully
Jump - Pose - Duck - And turn
Hm, yeah I see you're gettin' better
Kick to the limit in order to get her now
Kick, punch - Chop, block - Chop, kick - Punch, block
It's gonna get harder now
Duck and jump - Turn and pose - Duck and turn - Jump and punch
Come on now, why don'tcha follow my words
Because we're almost done, I'll make it easy at first
I wanna see if you wanna see what it takes
To be the man with the master plan
Are you the man now?
Kick, punch, block
Chop, kick, block
Block, turn, and kick it
Block, duck, punch
Duck, duck, turn
Jump, kick, chop
Punch, punch, punch
Hatatatacha! That's it for today.
Good job, Parappa, you can go on to the next stage.
Join the TWIT army now!
Love the bit about "4 dimensional graphics" in one of the ads.
I'm sorry if I haven't offended anyone
The Ninja Blacksox are going to win the pennant this season. ;)
DecafJedi
my weblog: apropos of something
Those were the days. There was an Ikari Warriors machine in the Union Building at my university -- we also had Ghosts and Goblins, and der Asteroidenmaschinen (which had been nobbled by sparkers so many times it was stuck in German mode, or so the story ran).
Ikari Warriors was performance art. You'd throw a grenade as the enemies ambushed you, and if you timed it right you'd get half a dozen of them evenly spaced across the screen, all going into their spin-around-and-fall-over death animation simultaneously. We used to call that one the North Vietnamese Formation Dying Team.
Ah, nostalgia.
It is a woman's prerogative to change other people's minds.