The 1993 game selection - your favorites?
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Fatal Fury 3 is from 1995 and I can't recall it eating anything.
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If I was old enough to frequent an arcade in 93 and came across the Samurai Shodown attract screen then I'd be there with the rest of you and select it as my pick. But I wasn't so as much as I admire it's simplicity and favour it over the second Shodown title (SS1=Fave) I'll go with Fatal Fury Special.
I recall picking it up a FFS cart for cheap when I first got into MVS and it's just a beautiful game. It feels chunky, heavy, the music punchy, the colours bold. Tung's stage on a misty mountain, Jubei's stage with the wooden boards, Mai's boat stage, Venice, so much detail. Every time I put it in to play it hands my ass back to me but it doesn't feel unfair in an AOF2 kind of way. It's the game that made me pay more attention to the craftmanship and progression of earlier SNK titles.
I recall picking it up a FFS cart for cheap when I first got into MVS and it's just a beautiful game. It feels chunky, heavy, the music punchy, the colours bold. Tung's stage on a misty mountain, Jubei's stage with the wooden boards, Mai's boat stage, Venice, so much detail. Every time I put it in to play it hands my ass back to me but it doesn't feel unfair in an AOF2 kind of way. It's the game that made me pay more attention to the craftmanship and progression of earlier SNK titles.
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Pretty much says it all. 
SamSho comes just next as my favorite Neo Geo I never play!
It gives me the same feeling I have towards SFIICE. I love the hell of it, but it's a Vs CPU game to me. I only extract fun from it if I play alone.
2P Vs is always better, but I don't like the way they use only Haomaru/Ukyo stage for 2P Vs. It's the game only flaw.
The presentation, characters, sound, graphics... everything is just about beautiful in those games.
I just like FFS better.
SamSho comes just next as my favorite Neo Geo I never play!
It gives me the same feeling I have towards SFIICE. I love the hell of it, but it's a Vs CPU game to me. I only extract fun from it if I play alone.
2P Vs is always better, but I don't like the way they use only Haomaru/Ukyo stage for 2P Vs. It's the game only flaw.
The presentation, characters, sound, graphics... everything is just about beautiful in those games.
I just like FFS better.
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Hey spamrad, sam sho 2 is from 1994.
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Sam Sho was revolutionary. It was about the smoothest fighter of 1993 (fuck off FFS with the stupid planes system).
Sengoku 2 was fun, but ultimately primative in design. Some of the sprites were just ugly.
Sengoku 2 was fun, but ultimately primative in design. Some of the sprites were just ugly.
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fatal fury special has a special place for me since it was the first game i owned for my aes and loved how you can play as the boss caracters.
samurai shodown was and always will be a classic
samurai shodown was and always will be a classic
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Funny that I (re-)found this thread.
Actually, 3 Count Bout gets absolutely NO love. Yet, I've been rocking to its OST the whole past weekend.
It's actually very thrashy. The chars needed a bit more of ... "character" to make it more memorable.
The presentation, sound, graphics are all in there. Shame it's a button-destroyer. It gets more mashing than a non-autofire shmup!
Actually, 3 Count Bout gets absolutely NO love. Yet, I've been rocking to its OST the whole past weekend.
It's actually very thrashy. The chars needed a bit more of ... "character" to make it more memorable.
The presentation, sound, graphics are all in there. Shame it's a button-destroyer. It gets more mashing than a non-autofire shmup!
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.As a kid in South East Asia after years of Street Fighter 2, seeing Samurai Shodown for the first time was like someone lit a fire under my ass.
It literally was the first MVS cart I had to get for myself.
Also to OP, Im so glad you chose these years as the point of discussion. These were the years that defined the Neo Geo for me.
It literally was the first MVS cart I had to get for myself.
Also to OP, Im so glad you chose these years as the point of discussion. These were the years that defined the Neo Geo for me.