News by Matt S. SNK has announced the sixth in its ongoing effort to bring its Neo Geo Pocket Color classics to Nintendo Switch. The new one will be SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium, and this one is apparently very, very good. Related reading: Our review of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Having never owned a Neo Geo Pocket Color, I have really appreciated SNK’s efforts to emulate a range of the classics and bring them to the Nintendo Switch. Fatal Fury: First Contact is the fifth in the series, following SNK Gals’ Fighters, Samurai Shodown! 2, King…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. People often forget that the genesis of Super Smash Bros. was as a modest, local multiplayer, fun-over-competition brawler. Given how bloated and meta the series has become it is easy to forget that, but on the Nintendo 64, Super Smash Bros. had a tiny few characters…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Kirby Fighters 2 is an excellent little fighting game that has oodles and oodles of charm going for it. Something else going for it is that it captures the local multiplayer magic of the early-era Smash Bros. that I do think has been lost a little…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. We already knew what the developer behind Fight Crab was capable of. The previous title, Ace of Seafood, was a manic, truly Dadaist trip of a game, eschewing such mundane considerations as “good gameplay” to instead throw players into something wild, different, and really quite subversive…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I’m going to review the Nintendo Switch “ports” of Neo Geo Pocket Color fighters King of Fighters R-2 and Samurai Shodown! 2 together, as I don’t think there’s enough to write an entire review on them individually – especially as these games share many of the…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. I never did own a Neo Geo Pocket Color, but on the strength of the two fighting game ports that have just landed on Nintendo Switch: Samurai Shodown! 2 and King Of Fighters R2, I really wish I did, because this humble little handheld showed just…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Fighting games tend to age poorly. There’s a lot to the genre, from the need for intricate animation and precise physics, through to the consumer demand for expansive rosters and characterisation. That means it’s a rare fighter indeed that hasn’t been completely superseded a console generation…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Just last week, SNK Gals’ Fighters was released on Nintendo Switch. A brilliant port of an old Neo Geo Pocket Color title, Fighters preempted SNK Heroines from 2018. And yet, despite the super-modest hardware and two-button approach to fighting, Gals’ Fighters is arguably the superior of…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. All good things come to an end. For Dead or Alive 6 it seems like it came to an end far too soon, with Koei Tecmo announcing that the new DLC that was released this week will be the end of it. I know, I know,…
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