SNK closes down Neo Geo World

searchingtom · Mar 20, 2001

SNK has announced today that their amusement park, "Neo Geo World Tokyo Bayside", will be closing down after 3/31. The last major venture project before its acquisition by Aruze, SNK's Tokyo Basyside Neo Geo World has been opened for 2 years now, since its debut in 3/19/99.

As a special service, the "amusement passport" which allows for enterance and unlimited rides, will be sold for the low price of 2200 Yen (normally 3200 Yen). One free game of bowling at the "Neo Geo Bowl" and one hour of free Karaoke at "Karaoke NeoStage" will be added as a bonus as well.

http://www.neogeo.co.jp/ngw/ngw_tokyo/event_tokyo/event_close.htm

searchingtom

PrOzErG · Mar 20, 2001

Man SNK is really dying

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RabbitTroop · Mar 20, 2001

That is too bad, I was hoping to visit there this summer. Oh well... bye bye SNK... seems like things are looking grim.

-Nick

Neo Bomber Man · Mar 20, 2001

They've still got the other one elsewhere in Japan, don't they? I was also planning to go there later this year.

Yagyu Jubei · Mar 20, 2001

Long live SNK...I hate to see them go out like this. We will always have to games to remember them by.

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Shuuchan · Mar 20, 2001

The videogame market is growing and growing but there still seems to be only bad news for true gamers.

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jbeedham · Mar 20, 2001

Lets hope Sega doesn't shut down Gameworks, it is right by my house.

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ravenmgs · Mar 22, 2001

why is it that companies like namco can produced slaped togahter quickes like Tekken which has had prity much the same graphics engine sence teken 2, and stay on the high horse. And an company like SNK who can make a 16 bit system look much more powerful than any 32bit system on the market (in 2d anomation) die? This realy makes me wonder about the intelegence of the majority of gamers. The gameing industry is realy headed for a downward fall in quality if people prefer parapa the raper as apposed to something like Metal Slug or SS.

RabbitTroop · Mar 22, 2001

I love Parappa the Rapper, I think that for the time it was a completly fresh and fun game... There was also a lot of imaginiation in it... bad example... why not pick on Final Fatasy or another one of the over hyped series... atleast Parappa stood on it's own merits and delivered a fun game. Not trying to be an ass, I was just kind of hurt you thought I was an idiot cause I like Parappa!

-Nick

Vektorlogic Ltd · Mar 22, 2001

In fairness, SNK have nobody to blame but themselves for all of this. Their arrogance has cost them their company, and Aruze have to break it up to get a return on investment.

JF

ravenmgs · Mar 22, 2001

I was useing parapa the raper as an example because the gamne has NO work put into it, it a a horrable use of programing and the plot is horrable. While it might be "fun" it can't stand with games like metal slug or ss. The amount of work put into these games is insame. As to final fantasy 7 and others, i feel that a large amount of work went into them. The backgrounds and characterazations appeared to have lots time put into them, much more than parapa the rapper..........

SNK closes down Neo Geo World

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