The system spawned several long-running and critically acclaimed series, mostly 2D fighters, including Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Samurai Shodown, The Last Blade, World Heroes, and The King of Fighters, as well as popular games in other genres such as the Metal Slug and Baseball Stars series.
Regardless of the failure of later Neo Geo hardware, games for the original MVS and AES have been well received. Soon after their release, SNK encountered various legal and financial issues - however, the original Neo Geo MVS and AES continued getting new games under new ownership until officially being discontinued in 2004, ending the brand. SNK later extended the brand by releasing two handheld consoles, the Neo Geo Pocket, and later Neo Geo Pocket Color, which briefly competed with Nintendo's Game Boy. A planned home console based on the hardware was never released. The system did not fare well and only a few games were released for it. In an attempt to compete with increasingly popular 3D games, SNK released the Hyper Neo Geo 64 arcade system in 1997 as the successor to its aging MVS. The console was met with limited success, due in part to its slow CD-ROM drive. Years later, SNK released the Neo Geo CD, a more cost-effective console with games released on compact discs. However, the high price for both the AES console and its games prevented it from directly competing with its contemporaries, the Sega Genesis, Super NES, and TurboGrafx-16. Both the MVS and AES were powerful for the time, and the AES allows for fully authentic versions of games released for the MVS. The Neo Geo MVS was successful with arcade operators worldwide. On the market from 1990 to 2004, the brand originated with the release of an arcade system, the Neo Geo MVS and its home console counterpart, the Neo Geo AES. Neo Geo is a family of video game hardware developed by SNK. Neo GeoĪrcade system board, video game console, handheld game console Hoping for a new Garou: Mark of the Wolves game? Yasuyuki Oda (director of SNK's upcoming King of Fighters XIV) wishes for one too.Not to be confused with National Geographic.
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Notable titles on the Neo Geo include various SNK fighting games, such as the aforementioned Garou: Mark of the Wolves along with the Fatal Fury series and Double Dragon. The iconic Neo Geo logo:įor those unaware, the "Neo Geo" is a home console and arcade system created by SNK from the 90s. Garou: Mark of the Wolves does not yet have a confirmed release date for PlayStation 4 and Vita, but in the meantime you can enjoy it on other platforms, such as on mobile devices (iOS/Android), and of course on the classic Neo Geo.
Terry now functions as a mentor for the new main character and Geese's son, Rock Howard. In terms of older characters, Terry Bogard is the only one to make a return. With a decade having passed, there are now several new members in the Fatal Fury cast, including Kim Kaphwan's sons Kim Dong Hwan and Kim Jae Hoon.
Geese's iconic fall from Geese Tower (and death) in the original Fatal Fury Garou: Mark of the Wolves is another sequel to the Fatal Fury series, taking place ten years following the previous antagonist Geese Howard's supposed death after confronting the main character, Terry Bogard. Protagonist Rock Howard holding the iconic hat of his mentor, Terry Bogard In order to celebrate the ongoing EVO 2016 along with Fatal Fury's 25th anniversary, SNK is porting a "Neo Geo classic" to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, a fighting game known as Garou: Mark of the Wolves (or Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves on Dreamcast).