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SNK announces THE KING OF FIGHTERS: The Ultimate History Book
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Another SNK Book upcoming from Bitmap Books (KOF)
Introducing THE KING OF FIGHTERS: The Ultimate History We are beyond excited to announce our next book, which marks another collaboration with the arcade icons that are SNK. THE KING OF FIGHTERS: The Ultimate History has been over 12 months in the making, and is our biggest...
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Apparently the spiffy edition will have a slipcase cover that plays voices for characters when you touch their pictures. Touch them all at once and you have a battle royale for the ages.
Reminds me of those old Disney kid books from the early 90s where you'd touch Mickey or Goofy and they'd say a word or two.
Reminds me of those old Disney kid books from the early 90s where you'd touch Mickey or Goofy and they'd say a word or two.
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More gimmicky bullshit for people with no taste.
Can I just get a goddmaned game, book, record etc. without all the extra crap? Seems like everything now has 3 different collectors editions, limited variants and tons of additional useless tacky garbage.
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Never mind the book, the news story is that spin came back.
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LOL it is if I say it is.
Personally I'm done with just the first book Neo-Geo A Visual History. Don't get me wrong, I love this book, but anything more is just getting repetitious.
How much longer can they keeping milking their old games/franchises into books, merchandise, and compilations on current platforms? Next thing you know it, Bitmap Books will be publishing Samurai Shodown The Ultimate History Book.
I'm glad I resisted the urge the buy any of the current PS4/NSW games in snap lock cases, look at how many KOFXV variations you need to get for complete collection?
How much longer can they keeping milking their old games/franchises into books, merchandise, and compilations on current platforms? Next thing you know it, Bitmap Books will be publishing Samurai Shodown The Ultimate History Book.
I'm glad I resisted the urge the buy any of the current PS4/NSW games in snap lock cases, look at how many KOFXV variations you need to get for complete collection?
It would be great and quite obvious if they do it.
If you love the book, you should get a copy of them. They are beautiful and the print quality is great with a lot of illustrations. The interviews are very interesting and elaborate. It shows the brain and all the hard work behind those game until their release.
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I wish I could just buy the pdf version. I just want to read the history/interview stuff. I don't need a physical copy to take up space.
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Any interesting previously unknown insights into kof development?
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The interviews are the most interesting parts of the book. The questions are relevant and the discussions pleasant to read. There are nice anecdotes, but you always have to keep a distance regarding the veracity of certain information.
Nevertheless, we learn that after the KOF98 release, a developer had fun developing Ken and Ryu characters that he integrated into an internal version of the game.
There is an ultra-motivated developer who created a sprite of Mai with dozens of frames of animation, of her breasts and buttocks in particular. The result was a person with a lot of animation, but impossible to integrate into KOF.
There is also the free choice of KOF95 teams which would not be a last minute decision, but a choice that would come from the production period of KOF94. Which is understandable, because of the character balancing issues following this decision.
The book is very unbalanced regarding the information for each KOF. There are a lot for KOF94, then less for the following episodes. Some episodes are not covered at all.
This remains an excellent book at a low price, especially as it benefits from superb quality illustrations. It is provided with its pdf version, but the images are better appreciated on the paper version and in a better resolution.
I hope they will continue to publish books with the same level of quality. I would be interested in Samurai Spirits, but it wouldn't be my first choice, the series is already extremely well documented thanks to the Samurai Spirits Neo Geo Anthology videos and other long interviews. On the other hand, investigations on third-party SNK companies such as ADK or Saurus would interest me much more.
Nevertheless, we learn that after the KOF98 release, a developer had fun developing Ken and Ryu characters that he integrated into an internal version of the game.
There is an ultra-motivated developer who created a sprite of Mai with dozens of frames of animation, of her breasts and buttocks in particular. The result was a person with a lot of animation, but impossible to integrate into KOF.
There is also the free choice of KOF95 teams which would not be a last minute decision, but a choice that would come from the production period of KOF94. Which is understandable, because of the character balancing issues following this decision.
The book is very unbalanced regarding the information for each KOF. There are a lot for KOF94, then less for the following episodes. Some episodes are not covered at all.
This remains an excellent book at a low price, especially as it benefits from superb quality illustrations. It is provided with its pdf version, but the images are better appreciated on the paper version and in a better resolution.
I hope they will continue to publish books with the same level of quality. I would be interested in Samurai Spirits, but it wouldn't be my first choice, the series is already extremely well documented thanks to the Samurai Spirits Neo Geo Anthology videos and other long interviews. On the other hand, investigations on third-party SNK companies such as ADK or Saurus would interest me much more.
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Any pictures of prototype versions of the games, not concept art but more something like different looking character sprites or backgrounds than what made it into the final package?
Any insight on why they were considering, but then decided not to have a samurai showdown team in kof94? Did it just strain credulity too much since the rest of the cast plausibly fit into a 1990s time period?
Any insight on why they were considering, but then decided not to have a samurai showdown team in kof94? Did it just strain credulity too much since the rest of the cast plausibly fit into a 1990s time period?