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Euro Kizuna was known to exist within a few years of release, back when even ultra rare English games like U11, Slug 1, NTM and several others didn't sell for more than $2k. Shawn stated he paid ~$500 for his Euro Kizuna. Most others that were 'verified' by Shawn, were from original buyers direct from the distributor.
The game got released in 1996. If you had $300 to spend on a game, you had many better options like KOF96 or Sam Sho 4.
While I like the conspiracy theory that this was an elaborate fake 15 years before the AF3 debacle, let's just go with Occam's razor here.
The European SNK distributor Maro in Germany made a small release, few sold, then the remaining stock was returned to sell in Japan.
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?2550-Kizuna-Encounter-English/
Now that prices are in the stratosphere, faking AF3 made sense. Faking Kizuna would make sense now, but the scrutiny would be much higher. Faking it back in the day would have been easier to conceal, but the payoff was not worthwhile.
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