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That number wasn't enough to send Nintendo running for cover, but it was enough for SNK USA to eke out a profit and enough to convince Toys "R" Us to begin placing demo kiosks in its stores. Metal Slug: 2nd Mission came out in late May and sold out its entire initial run of 10,000 copies. Fans were looking forward to Last Blade, Faselei!, and Dynamite Slugger in June and to Evolution and Cotton in July. The most eagerly awaited was Faselei!, which was a mech robot strategy game that completely flexed the
graphical and audio capabilities of the tiny NGPC. Digital music is common in handheld games these days, but back then, Faselei!'s MP3-quality intro music was a wake-up call. Sadly, the June
honeymoon would not come. Faselei! was a great turn-based strategy game with a cool MP3 intro. It never came out in America. On June 11, 2000, rumors began surfacing on the
Internet that SNK would be pulling out of the US and European markets. Admittedly, while the NGPC was beginning to reach a watershed mark in the US, it was failing miserably in Japan. The system's initial
popularity there had died out when Bandai introduced its WonderSwan portable game system.
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Going back to 1998, a number of companies had been running lucrative businesses selling liner artwork and rare AES games to hungry NeoGeo fans. The problem is, many of these liners were "custom" reproductions, and some of the rare AES games these companies were selling were not actually manufactured or sanctioned by SNK. They were unauthorized conversions of MVS games mechanically modified to work in AES consoles. During the fall and winter of 2003, SNK Playmore obtained an injunction against a group of four different companies, which resulted in the
seizure of hundreds of AES cartridges. The new SNK Playmore logo. In January 2004, SNK reached an agreement with two of these companies, acknowledging their
right to sell legitimate AES cartridges and authorized reproductions of liner artwork--while putting an end to their ability to sell modified MVS cartridges for home use.
