New Release dates

PS2:
Metal Slug 3 - 04/24

PSone Books:
Samurai Spirits: 斬紅郎無双剣
Samurai Spirits: 天草降臨SPECIAL
both 04/24

I think that KOF97 and KOF 98 are already known here (03/27)

no kof 2001 PS2 port

Yo i have found on a japenese webpage the planning for futur PLAYMORE games and goods, it's was annoncing METAL SLUG 3 date 3-4 days before PLAYMORE update.

here it is: <a href="http://www.rikkyo.ne.jp/esd/yoshikun/" target="_blank">http://www.rikkyo.ne.jp/esd/yoshikun/</a>

As we can see, there is:

<img src="http://www.rikkyo.ne.jp/esd/yoshikun/img/box.jpg" alt=" - " /> <img src="http://www.rikkyo.ne.jp/esd/yoshikun/img/include.jpg" alt=" - " />

ALL ABOUT SNK DVD on 30 January
KOF2002 DVD on 27 February
NEW POWA INSTINCT MATRIMELEE on April
METAL SLUG 3 for PS2 on 24 April
METAL SLUG 5 on JULY
and SNK VS CAPCOM in 2003

k'_127:
no kof 2001 PS2 port

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It's still on the release list, it's just pretty far down there (right below SNK vs Capcom).

neojedi:
It's still on the release list, it's just pretty far down there (right below SNK vs Capcom).

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I saw that but the game was annouced before MS3 and it's still doesn't have a release date oh_no

gozu+mezu:
here it is: <a href="http://www.rikkyo.ne.jp/esd/yoshikun/" target="_blank">http://www.rikkyo.ne.jp/esd/yoshikun/</a>
<img src="http://www.rikkyo.ne.jp/esd/yoshikun/img/box.jpg" alt=" - " /> <img src="http://www.rikkyo.ne.jp/esd/yoshikun/img/include.jpg" alt=" - " />

ALL ABOUT SNK DVD on 30 January

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Thanks for the link, gozu+mezu. Looks like these folks have already got their copies, judging from their list of SNK personnel/personalities they've listed as participating in this DVD set. As if I wasn't eager enough to get my copy, now I see that Famitsuu managed to include former SNK spokes-idol, Chiba Reiko, in this project. Nuts. I don't see a smiley that's doing backflips til he becomes nauseous with bliss (my mental state after seeing her name on that list). For those not familiar with Chiba Reiko (aka, CHIBAREI), she worked for SNK for a few years back around 1994. She represented the company at various trade shows/conventions, often cosplaying as different SNK female game characters (usually Nakoruru, Cham-Cham, and Blue Mary). She also provided the voice of Cham-Cham in Shin Samurai Spirits and Shinsetsu Samurai Spirits Bushidou Retsuden (aka, SamShoII and SamSho RPG), the voice of Nakoruru in the much-decried Samurai Spirits anime TV special (aka, SamSho The Movie), and the voice of newcomer Moe in KOFEX and KOFEX2. She also appeared in a number of NEO-GEO Japanese TV commercials, including the Shin SamSpi adverts featuring the Nakoruru vs Yagyu Jubei live-action battle sequences.

--Chris

Chris, you're a cool guy!

Man I love this kind of 'trivia'!

Such goodness... drool_2

Need more money.

Looks like they've also got Hashimoto Jun on this DVD set. He provided SNK with the following character voices:

Andy Bogard (FF2, FF SP, KOF'94)
Cheng Sinzan (FF2, FF SP)
Minakata Moriya (LB, LB2)
Lee Rekka (LB, LB2)
Seo Yong-song (BURIKI-ONE) [not sure of the spelling on this one] : )
Kim Donghwan (MOTW, KOF'00)
Kain R. Heinlein (MOTW)

--Chris

the character in BURIKI ONE is SUE WONG SONG, one of KIM KAPHWAN DOJO's pupil il Korea.

<small>[ February 04, 2003, 03:14 AM: Message edited by: gozu+mezu ]</small>

Thanks, gozu+mezu. Threw that together late last night and didn't have time to dig thru the game room to find my old NEO-GEO Freak magazines to check the spelling (I'm back on the early shift at work, so I have to be up by 4:00-4:30 a.m. PST).

--Chris

NO PROBLEMO