9:33 - Portuguese native speaker from Brazil here. SNK game always were big here. Even in my small 200.000 people town I had the joy to play almost all KoFs that released on arcades, as well as all Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting games, plus Samsho and some others (such as Savage Reign).
It's amazing that we live in a timeline were SNK has big budget again and is reviving IPs we thought we would never see again like Fatal Fury and AOF, City of the wolves is my most anticipated games in years and i can't wait to see how it'll turn out. Also side not but i hope that we someday get a The Last Blade AAA style game, the world of that game is beautiful and deserves to be known by more people.
After watching this video I just realized the reason i knew they're games first because THEY WERE ALWAYS THERE! I played a shit ton of metal slug and bubble bobble and both are SNK games so I've known of SNK games for a long time now just I never payed attention to who made it because they were always so good and with 2d sprites it was really impressive now I know the insanity of snk and playmore and brezzasoft and all of it and Jesus SNK feels like it throws out miracles in the most crucial of moments
"EIKICHI (KAWASAKI) IS NOT TO BE MESS WITH" Kawasaki is such a Boss!! 😁 👍 I wonder if Geese or Heidern were inspired by him. Now I think of Kawasaki in the Boss Challenge Mode of KOF XV 😆 Respect to the Big Boss!
15:13 Speaking of Top Hunter. Oda said in an interview about he really wanted to put Cathy in the roster of SNK Heroines but couldn't because of time constraints. At least he could put Jeanne "Janne" D'Arc from World Heroes in SNK Heroines, his favorite WH character. I hope we get s sequel of SNK Heroines. The original has unique mechanics that work really well! It plays like Smash Bros and Marvel vs Capcom. It just needed a bigger roster and stage.
That's just the nature of the TH-cam beast man. I'm just glad that anybody is viewing my stuff and that there are some people that still remember me, appreciate you all for watching and thanks for the kind words.
Great Video! It's hard to find videos with more detail about SNK's demise. Here are a few more things I came across and came to a conclusion from my research. 1). SNK treating the Home Console market as a secondary market, mostly due to relying on the arcades for profit. This also caused SNK to become incapable of porting their games to later systems and rely on others to do it for them. Another factor for this might also be due to the fact they didn't want to get involved with Nintendo and Sega's Console Wars at that time. 2). SNK of JP had SNK of America do most of the marketing of the Neo-Geo Color Pocket and they had little to no help from SNK of JP when it came to communicating with third-party developers. SNK of America was going through some bizarre stuff after SNK of JP took control of their day-to-day operations. I'm not sure if this happened to any of their other branches. 3). SNK treated most of their games as experiments instead of creating long-lasting IPs for them to rely on after the fighting genre ended. This is most notable after they became SNK Playmore when they had no other IPs to fall back on aside from KOF and Metal Slug. The company just relied too heavily on popular arcade games.
Im very excited for Garou, kinda bummed because of 3D, but I think thats the default for these days and.. what the f, Guilty Gear you bastards... anyway, there is a sequence(???) for Samsho RPG, im also very exciting for that and I hope SNK can return to the top, there is so much stuff that they can do at EVO this year.
9:44 this is huge. As a Street Fighter fan and being spanish I'm really bummed out by the fact that the one and only spanish character is Vega (Claw), and he's missing from a lot of SF games, and even in the ones in which he appears, he has a pretty wonky playstyle with the claw, you can lose it and have to pick it back up. I'd love to see even just one more spanish character that feels nice to play. Yes Mexico and south america is a way bigger audience, but man we never get representation... At least Tekken gave us Miguel I guess, but I don't play Tekken :(
15:07 THANKS for showing some love to Twinkle Star Sprites! Such an underrated scrolling shooter! It is really FUN! One of ADK's masterpieces! 🫡🥲 Too bad its sequel never left Japan and was only on the PS2 I wish SNK makes a new Twinkle Star Sprites, and put some of the characters in crossovers. I would like to see Dark Ran, Really Till, Load Ran/Princess Sprites in KOF
If we only lived in a timeline where SNK fixed SamSho 7 and KoF 15 quickly instead of years later. People rightfully loved the good about these games, but they somehow blundered the most important parts at just the perfectly wrong time (like SNK seems to be really good at). Now instead of these being massive tournament mainstays, they're kind of tragically niche. People would be lining up for whatever the next SNK release or DLC would be begging them for more, but instead are at best looking with caution or even have decided they don't want to support the company at all because these two games were basically borderline unplayable online. Still, high on copium I hope a season 3 of KoF 15 comes and Garou doesn't have these issues again now they've figured out the problems FINALLY. The former still has the potential to bring a lot of people back to the KoF fold while the later is kind of SNK's biggest chance to truly restore trust again. Also as far as not knowing who Terry is, if you didn't actually look at or really play Fatal Fury/KoF and are like 30 or younger... You probably maybe at best have heard the name before. SNK has only really been releasing niche titles for a long time. If you're not a fighting game enthusiast, their IPs aren't really going to come across your radar anymore despite the history. It's not JUST smash fans - smash fans are just a cross section of your average gamer today. The number of people who have never ever heard of King of Fighters today is unfortunately pretty staggering until maybe very recently. Had I not played KoF 14 prior to Terry being put out, I wouldn't have been able to tell you the first thing about him. Geese being a Tekken character unfortunately had a little more truth to it sadly than we want to admit in the landscape prior to 15 at least.
SamSho was absolutely murdered by that launch, SNK couldn't have handled that any worse and the timing of rollback becoming standard just dug it deeper. But in the case of KOFXV I'm in the camp of thought that it would've ended up niche as hell even if the online worked because of the overall difficulty of entry for that game, I know the devs kept going on about how they wanted that game to be an entry point for newcomers, but I think they only managed to make XV an "easy" KOF game for the crowd (including me) that was already very familiar with the franchise. I personally tried to get a few people into KOF with that game and man, that didn't end well. Wasn't even a case of the terrible matchmaking pitting them against vets who've been playing since '97, most drop outs happened because the speed and general mechanics that make KOF... KOF just aren't as easy or quick to pick up as other games. You can get into SF6, Strive, Tekken (the golden standard for "easy to learn, ball-bustingly hard to master") green as grass and end up doing basic stuff in a short time, but even an easier KOF comparatively asks for quite a lot from a player for just basic gameplay. Adding in auto-combo options, tweaking the MAX/EX stuff and making some inputs more simple (R.I.P pretzel) isn't going to do jack when Johnny Newcomer gets caught up on the multiple jumps and characters the game asks him to learn before he can even push any buttons. All that being said, I absolutely adore KOFXV. It just isn't something that had a chance of breaking out of niche status regardless, if KOF ever wants to do that they're gonna have to go the Guilty Gear Strive route (whether that sounds like heaven/hell will depend on the person). That's a future I could actually see happening too because if Garou 2, a game they've talked about making very newcomer friendly for real this time, actually does some significant numbers you can bet your ass SNK is going to be eyeing KOFXVI with the overhaul hammer.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism In other words, no matter what you buy, you'll still indirectly funding evil things, so basically just buy what you want
Really good stuff man, thanks for making this. Long format yet felt short. Probably the lightest and most entertaining explanation of all the chaotic bankrupcy shenanigans that happened around the turn of the millenium. Eikichi was not to be trifled with, my man chose VENGEANCE 😆(probably sent Yamazaki to Aruze office too)! The universe simply can't let SNK disappear, their characters and battle direction are too good and needed in this timeline. Go forth SNK, and fulfill your destiny. Despite the shortcomings, XIV was tons of fun, XV is a future classic and CotW looks awesome. The Future Is Now! (always has been) 💗🔥
The funny part about the "Weird Era" and "2nd Death" its because some games arent that bad, there is my favourite KOF, that is XI, because of gameplay and competitive, its a well balanced KOF, but SNK were so out of touch, dont reading the trends, trying to make their own thing despite of their history of failures, they couldnt get the market back, if XII and XIII cooked some more, they could lead to another 10's Fighting Game Era, just after SFIV reviving the fandom.
Sympathetic narration, great production value, a lot of new insights (for me as a SNK nutcase) and fantastic long runtime! Great video, Instand subscription!
11:08 - Playing Rugal meant being banished of constantly "attacked" (as in "in game" attacked") from an arcade place. Some very local places wouldn't even sell you tokens to play anymore.
Oh wow welcome back! Are you gonna start up your KOF guide series again? Im curious about a bunch of the characters! Also this video was complete fire!
9:33 - Portuguese native speaker from Brazil here. SNK game always were big here. Even in my small 200.000 people town I had the joy to play almost all KoFs that released on arcades, as well as all Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting games, plus Samsho and some others (such as Savage Reign).
Same here, live in a small town, but almost every bar here had an arcade machine with KOF
@@exsulesfilii So people can play while drinking. It's a win-win.
Hi, I'm from South East Asia. SNK / KoF were big here too.
@@hermontarmand2404 hey Hermon, nice knowing it! Much respect, and Please Come to Brazil!
I'd go to your country, but I'm poor.
Holy mama I never clicked a video notification so fast before. Welcome back dude!
It's amazing that we live in a timeline were SNK has big budget again and is reviving IPs we thought we would never see again like Fatal Fury and AOF, City of the wolves is my most anticipated games in years and i can't wait to see how it'll turn out.
Also side not but i hope that we someday get a The Last Blade AAA style game, the world of that game is beautiful and deserves to be known by more people.
i don’t usually leave comments but this is a great video! youtube needs more content and TH-camrs like you!!!
After watching this video I just realized the reason i knew they're games first because THEY WERE ALWAYS THERE! I played a shit ton of metal slug and bubble bobble and both are SNK games so I've known of SNK games for a long time now just I never payed attention to who made it because they were always so good and with 2d sprites it was really impressive now I know the insanity of snk and playmore and brezzasoft and all of it and Jesus SNK feels like it throws out miracles in the most crucial of moments
To think that Chrsitiano Ronaldo is cooking something in COTW...
great video! im so fuckin excited for garou 2 and will buy it day one even though i know they will mess it up big time somehow lmao
We actually have a Hyper Neo Geo 64 + Buriki One at our FGC locals. Game is amazing.
How do I emulate it right my nigga
Eikichi is more than a hero, he's a Gigachad.
I've owned the Neo Geo pocket and it was awesome.
Did he just say bukiri one?
"EIKICHI (KAWASAKI) IS NOT TO BE MESS WITH"
Kawasaki is such a Boss!! 😁 👍
I wonder if Geese or Heidern were inspired by him.
Now I think of Kawasaki in the Boss Challenge Mode of KOF XV 😆
Respect to the Big Boss!
When the world needed him most, he returned
19:03 - Yes, Garou. Thank you for mentioning Garou.
This is such a good retrospective of the story of "that company who has its fans in South America" I love it
44:38 - And it's *BEAUTIFUL* . I can't help but get my eyes watery.
15:13 Speaking of Top Hunter.
Oda said in an interview about he really wanted to put Cathy in the roster of SNK Heroines but couldn't because of time constraints.
At least he could put Jeanne "Janne" D'Arc from World Heroes in SNK Heroines, his favorite WH character.
I hope we get s sequel of SNK Heroines.
The original has unique mechanics that work really well! It plays like Smash Bros and Marvel vs Capcom.
It just needed a bigger roster and stage.
Just a quick note.. Mexico is commonly mistaken to be part of central america but is in fact still part of north america! uwu
Why the fuck do you only have 270 views? This is legitimately an amazingly edited and presented video, i can feel the work that was put into it dawg.
That's just the nature of the TH-cam beast man. I'm just glad that anybody is viewing my stuff and that there are some people that still remember me, appreciate you all for watching and thanks for the kind words.
He's back with an hour long video!?! Amazing!
Welcome back man. We missed you
39:17 - Shamsho sen was BRUTAL. I think it's the most violent game ever made by SNK.
Anyone interested hyper neo geo games are all running in MAME. Not perfect but playable.
One hell of a history, the most comprehensive one I have seen. Good job!
Great Video! It's hard to find videos with more detail about SNK's demise.
Here are a few more things I came across and came to a conclusion from my research.
1). SNK treating the Home Console market as a secondary market, mostly due to relying on the arcades for profit. This also caused SNK to become incapable of porting their games to later systems and rely on others to do it for them. Another factor for this might also be due to the fact they didn't want to get involved with Nintendo and Sega's Console Wars at that time.
2). SNK of JP had SNK of America do most of the marketing of the Neo-Geo Color Pocket and they had little to no help from SNK of JP when it came to communicating with third-party developers. SNK of America was going through some bizarre stuff after SNK of JP took control of their day-to-day operations. I'm not sure if this happened to any of their other branches.
3). SNK treated most of their games as experiments instead of creating long-lasting IPs for them to rely on after the fighting genre ended. This is most notable after they became SNK Playmore when they had no other IPs to fall back on aside from KOF and Metal Slug. The company just relied too heavily on popular arcade games.
Im just happy that we are not in pachinko anymore
46:46 Cant wait for my snk ladies to get their burqas costumes :D
showing hair is haram!!
He lives!
46:32 - Yeah... So that happened.
Yay he's back!!!
Im very excited for Garou, kinda bummed because of 3D, but I think thats the default for these days and.. what the f, Guilty Gear you bastards...
anyway, there is a sequence(???) for Samsho RPG, im also very exciting for that and I hope SNK can return to the top, there is so much stuff that they can do at EVO this year.
Sadly, ive heard of 3 of the games on the neogeo 64. Mainly because ive played samsho 64
9:44 this is huge. As a Street Fighter fan and being spanish I'm really bummed out by the fact that the one and only spanish character is Vega (Claw), and he's missing from a lot of SF games, and even in the ones in which he appears, he has a pretty wonky playstyle with the claw, you can lose it and have to pick it back up. I'd love to see even just one more spanish character that feels nice to play. Yes Mexico and south america is a way bigger audience, but man we never get representation... At least Tekken gave us Miguel I guess, but I don't play Tekken :(
Hey, I just found out that you're back. Even though I just found your channel last year (KoF videos). But hey, nice to have you back man.
15:07 THANKS for showing some love to Twinkle Star Sprites!
Such an underrated scrolling shooter! It is really FUN!
One of ADK's masterpieces! 🫡🥲
Too bad its sequel never left Japan and was only on the PS2
I wish SNK makes a new Twinkle Star Sprites, and put some of the characters in crossovers.
I would like to see Dark Ran, Really Till, Load Ran/Princess Sprites in KOF
The editing was great.
22:41 I thought this video about making fun of.. the history of SNK lol
14:16 especially here in the philippines, those bootleg cabinets are everywhere
This was very respectful. I now want a Xhi Li character guide. Do it.
22:02 Dude, we know it's a 'make fun of' video, but it is BURIKI, not BUKIRI 😂
Fast forward to now, Terry Bogard is coming to Street Fighter 6!
If we only lived in a timeline where SNK fixed SamSho 7 and KoF 15 quickly instead of years later. People rightfully loved the good about these games, but they somehow blundered the most important parts at just the perfectly wrong time (like SNK seems to be really good at). Now instead of these being massive tournament mainstays, they're kind of tragically niche. People would be lining up for whatever the next SNK release or DLC would be begging them for more, but instead are at best looking with caution or even have decided they don't want to support the company at all because these two games were basically borderline unplayable online.
Still, high on copium I hope a season 3 of KoF 15 comes and Garou doesn't have these issues again now they've figured out the problems FINALLY. The former still has the potential to bring a lot of people back to the KoF fold while the later is kind of SNK's biggest chance to truly restore trust again.
Also as far as not knowing who Terry is, if you didn't actually look at or really play Fatal Fury/KoF and are like 30 or younger... You probably maybe at best have heard the name before. SNK has only really been releasing niche titles for a long time. If you're not a fighting game enthusiast, their IPs aren't really going to come across your radar anymore despite the history. It's not JUST smash fans - smash fans are just a cross section of your average gamer today. The number of people who have never ever heard of King of Fighters today is unfortunately pretty staggering until maybe very recently. Had I not played KoF 14 prior to Terry being put out, I wouldn't have been able to tell you the first thing about him. Geese being a Tekken character unfortunately had a little more truth to it sadly than we want to admit in the landscape prior to 15 at least.
SamSho was absolutely murdered by that launch, SNK couldn't have handled that any worse and the timing of rollback becoming standard just dug it deeper. But in the case of KOFXV I'm in the camp of thought that it would've ended up niche as hell even if the online worked because of the overall difficulty of entry for that game, I know the devs kept going on about how they wanted that game to be an entry point for newcomers, but I think they only managed to make XV an "easy" KOF game for the crowd (including me) that was already very familiar with the franchise. I personally tried to get a few people into KOF with that game and man, that didn't end well. Wasn't even a case of the terrible matchmaking pitting them against vets who've been playing since '97, most drop outs happened because the speed and general mechanics that make KOF... KOF just aren't as easy or quick to pick up as other games. You can get into SF6, Strive, Tekken (the golden standard for "easy to learn, ball-bustingly hard to master") green as grass and end up doing basic stuff in a short time, but even an easier KOF comparatively asks for quite a lot from a player for just basic gameplay. Adding in auto-combo options, tweaking the MAX/EX stuff and making some inputs more simple (R.I.P pretzel) isn't going to do jack when Johnny Newcomer gets caught up on the multiple jumps and characters the game asks him to learn before he can even push any buttons.
All that being said, I absolutely adore KOFXV. It just isn't something that had a chance of breaking out of niche status regardless, if KOF ever wants to do that they're gonna have to go the Guilty Gear Strive route (whether that sounds like heaven/hell will depend on the person). That's a future I could actually see happening too because if Garou 2, a game they've talked about making very newcomer friendly for real this time, actually does some significant numbers you can bet your ass SNK is going to be eyeing KOFXVI with the overhaul hammer.
15:29 Fatal Fury, KoF, but no mention of Art of Fighting?
So now i understand my hatred towards kof xiv and xv
43:22 - Man, I *HATE* that music!
Damn unwishlisted all their games not giving Arabs my money
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism
In other words, no matter what you buy, you'll still indirectly funding evil things, so basically just buy what you want
Holy shit you're alive!!!!
I finally know the initial SNK
Athena PS1 BGM. Nice.
Really good stuff man, thanks for making this. Long format yet felt short. Probably the lightest and most entertaining explanation of all the chaotic bankrupcy shenanigans that happened around the turn of the millenium. Eikichi was not to be trifled with, my man chose VENGEANCE 😆(probably sent Yamazaki to Aruze office too)! The universe simply can't let SNK disappear, their characters and battle direction are too good and needed in this timeline. Go forth SNK, and fulfill your destiny. Despite the shortcomings, XIV was tons of fun, XV is a future classic and CotW looks awesome. The Future Is Now! (always has been) 💗🔥
YAMATO TAKE OFF!! :D hahahahah im dying rofl
the return of the king
The funny part about the "Weird Era" and "2nd Death" its because some games arent that bad, there is my favourite KOF, that is XI, because of gameplay and competitive, its a well balanced KOF, but SNK were so out of touch, dont reading the trends, trying to make their own thing despite of their history of failures, they couldnt get the market back, if XII and XIII cooked some more, they could lead to another 10's Fighting Game Era, just after SFIV reviving the fandom.
The Middle East has a big SNK and KOF fanbase and fighting scene. Also a buoyant games industry.
Sympathetic narration, great production value, a lot of new insights (for me as a SNK nutcase) and fantastic long runtime! Great video, Instand subscription!
11:08 - Playing Rugal meant being banished of constantly "attacked" (as in "in game" attacked") from an arcade place. Some very local places wouldn't even sell you tokens to play anymore.
Oh wow welcome back! Are you gonna start up your KOF guide series again? Im curious about a bunch of the characters! Also this video was complete fire!
This was a very well thought-out, funny and informative video. Glad you are back at it!
22:01 - You are absolutely right. And what a uninteresting game it was.
Welcome back! We missed your content. Hope all is well.
i love the i will take my company back, story... so mishima like
Lol guess I'm a liar cause I still use my Neo Geo Pocket color from High school.
It's a shame, your character guides were my favorite in this site.
38:02 - That's because it is. Spot on!
Great video, glad I gave it a shot
Banger video good job
thats quite the story
Amazing video
Holy shit he's back!