Originally posted by neofan1:
<strong>[LONG]Wow, i'm shocked that i have something to add here, i usually am contempt at lurking, but i digress..
I had the opportunity to be at the E3 a couple of years back when SNK actually had one of the biggest booths and lots of cool freebies. Hell they even had kof 1999 in an MVS cabinet to promote the PSX and DC versions.
anyway, they had lots of unreleased US games (in english of course) playable, so there are demo carts of lots of these games. I remember playing games (released in europe) cotton, evolution, big bang pro wrestiling, last blade, puzzle picture, etc...
but they also had biomotor unitron 2, and a demo of cool cool toon, both in english. they also had a company that was displaying the mp3 adapter and had a very cool demo of nakaruru and rimiruru (in japanese)from some drama cd. apparantly the cool cool toon game was to use the mp3 function in some aspect too. all of these games were playing on regular neo geo pocket carts and looked great.
About the midway thing, snk-usa announced EARLY (were talking the weeks before the B+W pocket came out) that midway was going to release a few games for the NGP. There was more than the 2 listed for release (it's been too long to remember), but i went to the midway booth at E3 (3 years ago)and talked for a long while with one of the producers for their portable games, and he said that they never started work on any NGP titles, tho he was a big SNK fan and had expressed interest to them. SNK may have just sold them a developers kit or something like that, but there are no midway-made carts to be had
Lastly, at that last E3 for SNK (2 years ago), they had big hopes for success (their booth was bigger than capcom's) they just moved to a new office, and they were signing new developers (american) for the pocket (apparantly 3Do had signed to do an Army Men game), so a couple of weeks later when they closed for business, everyone was shocked. it's going to be very hard for them to ever sell to any US distributor or developer ever again.
later gamers
-scott</strong><hr></blockquote>
Huh...that's interesting, thanks for the info! Seems that SNK weren't so hostile to external developers after all...
And you should post more!
