Greetings all,
I just wanted to give you devoted SNK and Neo Geo fans a heads up about a rather lengthy article I'm working on for GameSpot. It's called the History of SNK and is scheduled to run next weekend (14th/15th) -- assuming my computer doesn't explode before I turn it in tomorrow morning.
The piece itself covers the entire history of SNK, from the beginning in 1978, through the NES and Neo Geo periods, through the Neo CD and Neo Pocket, into the Aruze fiasco, and finally to the present. I managed to get a wonderful interview with Chad Okada -- the Game Lord -- as well as a somewhat brief interview with SNK NEOGEO USA Consumer president Ben Herman. The collectors among you may be interested to know that portions of the piece delve into the rarity and collectible nature of AES and Pocket releases, specifically Metal Slug, Kizuna Encounter, Ultimate 11, Faselei UK, and Evolution UK.
As best I can without getting GameSpot into legal trouble, I've also touched upon counterfeits and the conversion phenomenon also.
I hope you'll all find it interesting, or at least, an honest and fair look at the company you have so much love for. I've been a fan of SNK and the Neo off and on for a long time (I love Crystalis, owned an AES for a few years in the mid-90's, and still play my Neo Pocket to this day) and am ecstatic that I've been given the chance to write something like this.
Shawn at the Neo Store has been pretty helpful providing image assets for the article, and has even given me a little exclusive surprise to unveil that AES fans have been chomping at the bit to see. I give Shawn and the Neo Store credit in the article, but I also wanted to publically thank him here as well. He's a stand up guy.
Thanks also go out to each one of you. Because this forum has so much traffic and because many of you run fan sites, it was easy for me to suggest an article like this to my editor. If SNK and the Neo didn't have such a devoted fan base, I'd probably have been stuck doing another baseball feature *grin*
I just wanted to give you devoted SNK and Neo Geo fans a heads up about a rather lengthy article I'm working on for GameSpot. It's called the History of SNK and is scheduled to run next weekend (14th/15th) -- assuming my computer doesn't explode before I turn it in tomorrow morning.
The piece itself covers the entire history of SNK, from the beginning in 1978, through the NES and Neo Geo periods, through the Neo CD and Neo Pocket, into the Aruze fiasco, and finally to the present. I managed to get a wonderful interview with Chad Okada -- the Game Lord -- as well as a somewhat brief interview with SNK NEOGEO USA Consumer president Ben Herman. The collectors among you may be interested to know that portions of the piece delve into the rarity and collectible nature of AES and Pocket releases, specifically Metal Slug, Kizuna Encounter, Ultimate 11, Faselei UK, and Evolution UK.
As best I can without getting GameSpot into legal trouble, I've also touched upon counterfeits and the conversion phenomenon also.
I hope you'll all find it interesting, or at least, an honest and fair look at the company you have so much love for. I've been a fan of SNK and the Neo off and on for a long time (I love Crystalis, owned an AES for a few years in the mid-90's, and still play my Neo Pocket to this day) and am ecstatic that I've been given the chance to write something like this.
Shawn at the Neo Store has been pretty helpful providing image assets for the article, and has even given me a little exclusive surprise to unveil that AES fans have been chomping at the bit to see. I give Shawn and the Neo Store credit in the article, but I also wanted to publically thank him here as well. He's a stand up guy.
Thanks also go out to each one of you. Because this forum has so much traffic and because many of you run fan sites, it was easy for me to suggest an article like this to my editor. If SNK and the Neo didn't have such a devoted fan base, I'd probably have been stuck doing another baseball feature *grin*
). Although thats still just a bit mmm hmmm...
