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The first four games--NAM-1975,
Baseball Stars Professional, Top Player's Golf, and Magician Lord--took familiar genres and reinvigorated them with the kind of colorful 16-bit graphics and huge character sprites that players had been wanting to see in arcade games for some time. NAM-1975 spoke to the shoot-'em-up crowd, Baseball Stars and Top Player's Golf attracted sports fans, and Magician Lord is widely regarded as one of the defining side-scrolling adventure games of the 1980s. Consumers had always dreamed of bringing the arcade experience home. That's why the Sega Genesis and Nintendo Super NES consoles were so successful--they allowed gamers to get a taste of those large sprites and colorful backdrops in their own living rooms. SNK wanted to take advantage of people's desire to play arcade games at home, but without making the same compromises on CPU and memory horsepower that typical home consoles were forced to make. In 1991, the company released a home version of the MVS, a single cartridge unit called the NeoGeo Advanced Entertainment System (AES for short). Initially, the AES was only available for rent or for use in hotel settings, but SNK quickly began selling the system over the counter when customer feedback suggested that there was an untapped market out there composed of grown-up gamers willing to bring the real arcade experience home no matter what the cost. Bigger, Badder, Better -- the NeoGeo AES console landed in homes in 1991. (Thanks to Kenny
Perry Jr. , legend of the NeoGeo community, for providing this image. ) Compared to the other home consoles of the time, the NeoGeo AES was a beast.
[6][7] The YuYu Hakusho manga is serialized in North America by Viz Media in the American Shonen Jump magazine. [3] The first volume was released on May 13, 2003, as of January 2010 all 19 volumes were released and the series finished its run in Shonen Jump. Anime[] Main article: List of YuYu Hakusho episodes The anime, directed by Noriyuki Abe and co-produced by Fuji Television, Yomiko Advertising, and Studio Pierrot, consists of 112 television episodes and two movies: The Golden Seal and Bonds of Fire. The series aired from October 10, 1992, to January 7, 1995, on Fuji Television in Japan. [8] In North America, the episodes aired from February 23, 2002, to April 1, 2006, on Cartoon Network. [8] Initially, the episodes were shown on Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block from February 2002 to April 2003 and switched to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block for the remaining episodes. [9][10] The four seasons that compose the series are each
their story arc and referred to as "sagas" by Funimation. [11] Thirty-two DVD compilations have been released by Funimation for the four sagas, with the first released on April 16, 2002, and the thirty-second on July 19, 2005. [12][13] Also, DVD collection boxes have been released for each saga,[14][15][16] containing all the episodes of every saga, except the Dark Tournament Saga, which had two collection boxes. [17][18] Funimation will be releasing season box sets of the anime starting with season 1 which was released on July 8, 2008, and season 2, which was released on
September 23, 2008. The third season was released on November 11, 2008, and the fourth season was released on January 13, 2009.
In 2015, SNK Playmore announced that it was withdrawing from the pachislot market, choosing instead to focus on console and mobile gaming, as well as character licensing[49] using its popular characters such as Mai Shiranui, Ukyou Tachibana, Nakoruru, and Haohmaru. Additionally, all of the aforementioned characters made their appearance as guest characters in a mobile multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), Wangzhe Rongyao, roughly translated to English as Honor of Kings, which is the world highest-grossing game of all time as well as the most downloaded mobile app globally. [50] On April 25, 2016, SNK officially dropped the "Playmore" name from its corporate logo and reintroduced its old slogan, "The Future Is Now", to signify "a return to SNK's rich gaming history". [51] A legal name change from SNK Playmore Corporation to SNK Corporation followed on December 1, 2016,[7][52] to more firmly establish SNK Playmore as the successor to the old SNK brand and legacy. [35] The King of Fighters XIV, the first entry in its series in more
than half a decade, was released in 2016. In July 2018, SNK released the NEOGEO Mini, a miniature console based on the design of the company's Japanese arcade machines. It was pre-loaded with forty
classic Neo Geo games. [53] In June 2019, the 12th entry in the Samurai Shodown[54] series was released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, followed by an arcade version in October and a Nintendo Switch version later in the year. On September 4, 2019, Nintendo announced that Fatal Fury protagonist and The King of Fighters character Terry Bogard would be added as a downloadable, playable character to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, with a planned release in November 2019. [55] Terry was made available on November 6, alongside a The King of Fighters-based stage and 50 songs from various SNK series.
