SNK

SNK (Or as they're called now, SNK Playmore.) is a company that mostly made several action and fighting games, including Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Samurai Shodown (Or as Japan calls it, Samurai Spirits.), The King of Fuckers Fighters, and Metal Slug. Their series' have many fans, and Samurai Shodown II is one of the few games to receive acclaim from everyone who's played it, but Capcom hates their guts for some strange reason. Maybe it's because one of their characters is a Street Fighter knockoff. Their also famous for many spelling errors/Engrish (It's most notable in the game Samurai Shodown II.).

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One special example of Engrish in a Samurai Shodown game.

Also, they made the Neo Geo arcade system/home console and the portable Neo Geo Pocket/Neo Geo Pocket Color. They also closed down in 2003 and then reopened a while later as the aforementioned SNK Playmore. They're also releasing collections of their old games on the Playstation 2, PSP, and the Nintendo Wii for some strange reason, and a few installments of their most well-known series are on the Wii's Virtual Console, as well as the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade. Their games are notable for featuring smooth, low high-quality animations. Most recently, they're going to release The King of Fighters XII for the Arcades (Surprisingly), Xbox 360, and Playstation 3. This means that once again, the Nintendo Wii gets screwed over.

M. Bison after getting a The King of Fighters-style makeover. Notice how his left hand looks like he's jerking off when he's not doing anything.

Games That They Made

• Ozma Wars (Their first ever video game.)
• Vanguard
• Ikari Warriors (Series)
• P.O.W.: Prisoners of War
• Athena
• Psycho Soldier
• Guerrilla War
• Baseball Stars (Series)
• Crystalis
• Magician Lord
• King of the Monsters (Series)
• NAM-1975
• Fatal Fury (Series) (Also has a Real Bout spinoff.)
• Art of Fighting (Series)
• World Heroes (Series)
• The King of Fighters (Series) (Used to be a yearly series, but stopped being yearly in 2004.)
• Samurai Shodown (Called Samurai Spirits for some strange reason in Japan.) (Series)
• Metal Slug (Series)
• The Last Blade (Series)
• Blue's Journey (Called Raguy for some strange reason in Japan.)
• Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy
• Sengoku (Series)
• Shock Troopers (Series)
• Garou: Mark of the Wolves (Which is a ten year jump in the Fatal Fury series.)
• SNK vs. Capcom (SVC Chaos and Match of the Millenium, with assistance from Capcom on the latter)
• Neo Geo Battle Coliseum
• Doki Doki Majo Shinpan

Capcom Vs. SNK

The supposed origin behind this series was an issue of Arcadia magazine in which there were articles covering both The King of Fighters '98 and Street Fighter Alpha 3, both of which were released at around the same time. Readers had misread the cover, which said KOF vs. SF, to mean that there was a fighting game that would pit characters from Street Fighter and The King of Fighters. Because of this uproar, Capcom and SNK supposedly signed a deal that would allow them to produce only two fighting games concerning both franchises in 1999. Thus, the series started, resulting in four games; two by SNK, and two more by Capcom. Although the other three were well-received, SVC Chaos: SNK Vs. Capcom received some criticism for the odd and somewhat scary-looking sprites, and how apparently, Earthquake is more important than Haohmaru and Nakoruru. Yeah, that's indeed odd (The game was actually rushed out due to contractual obligations and that was when SNK was still bankrupt and Playmore, who didn't merge with SNK at the time, held all of SNK's properties.). Also, SNK secretly made three different card battling games of both their companies' properties (Though, Capcom didn't mind that.) that's sort of similar to Yu-Gi-Oh! or Magic: The Gathering, only played differently and was SNK's supposed answer to Nintendo's Pokemon franchise. (Which, of course, like all others, failed.) With recent news, there is a rumor from a Capcom employee that there is a possibility that there could be a third Capcom Vs. SNK game. However, both Capcom and SNK have said to be having of no interest of having a new Capcom Vs. SNK or a SNK Vs. Capcom game at all.

Vs. Games

• SNK Vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millenium (Neo Geo Pocket Color)
• SVC Chaos: SNK Vs. Capcom (Neo Geo/Arcade, Xbox, Playstation 2 {Japan & Europe Only})
• Capcom Vs. SNK: Millenium Fight 2000 (Arcade, Sega Dreamcast, Playstation)
• Capcom Vs. SNK 2: The Mark of the Millenium 2001 (Arcade, Sega Dreamcast {Japan Only}, Playstation 2, Xbox, Nintendo Gamecube) {The Xbox and the Nintendo Gamecube's versions were called Capcom Vs. SNK 2 EO. The EO stands for "Easy Operation".}

Card Battling Vs. Games

• SNK Vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash (Neo Geo Pocket Color)
• SNK Vs. Capcom: Card Fighters 2 Expand Edition (Neo Geo Pocket Color) {Japan & Asia Only}
• SNK Vs. Capcom: Card Fighters DS (Nintendo DS)

Notable SNK Characters

• Ralf Jones (Ikari Warriors/The King of Fighters/Metal Slug)
• Clark Still (Ikari Warriors/The King of Fighters/Metal Slug)
• Athena Asamiya (Athena/Psycho Soldier/The King of Fighters/Neo Geo Battle Coliseum)
• Terry Bogard (Fatal Fury/Garou: Mark of the Wolves/The King of Fighters/Neo Geo Battle Coliseum)
• Mai Shiranui (Fatal Fury/The King of Fighters/Neo Geo Battle Coliseum)
• Geese Howard (Fatal Fury/Art of Fighting/The King of Fighters/Neo Geo Battle Coliseum)
• Rock Howard (Garou: Mark of the Wolves/Neo Geo Battle Coliseum)
• Kyo Kusanagi (The King of Fighters/Neo Geo Battle Coliseum)
• Iori Yagami (The King of Fighters/Neo Geo Battle Coliseum)
• Rugal Bernstein (The King of Fighters)
• Goenitz (The King of Fighters)
• Takuma Sakazaki/Mr. Karate (Art of Fighting/The King of Fighters)
• Ryo Sakazaki/Mr. Karate II (Art of Fighting/Fatal Fury/The King of Fighters/Neo Geo Battle Coliseum)
• Robert Garcia (Art of Fighting/The King of Fighters/Neo Geo Battle Coliseum)
• Yuri Sakazaki (Art of Fighting/The King of Fighters)
• Billy Kane (Fatal Fury/The King of Fighters)
• Blue Mary/Nude Mary (Fatal Fury/The King of Fighters)
• Genjuro Kibagami (Samurai Shodown/Neo Geo Battle Coliseum)
• Haohmaru (Samurai Shodown/Neo Geo Battle Coliseum)
• Nakoruru (Samurai Shodown/Neo Geo Battle Coliseum)
• Marco Rossi (Metal Slug/Neo Geo Battle Coliseum)
• Tarma Roving (Metal Slug)
• Fio (Metal Slug)
• Eri (Metal Slug)
• Mars People (Metal Slug/Neo Geo Battle Coliseum)
• General Donald Morden (Metal Slug)
• Dan Hibiki (Let's face it; without SNK, he probably wouldn't exist.)

Liked By

• Ninja Coach Z (For the Samurai Shodown/Spirits series.)
• Nobuhiro Watsuki (The creator of Rurouni Kenshin.)
• Bugs Bunny
• Lots of people/poopers.
• Me (Loves the Metal Slug series specifically, though doesn't mind everything else made by them.)
• Dan Hibiki (He does want to be the King of Fighters though.)
• GameSpot
• EGM

Disliked By

• Ninja Coach Z (STRANGE; ISN'T IT!?)
• Dan Hibiki (He hates the Art of Fighting.)
• Capcom (For ripping them off.)

Trivia

• SNK stands for "Shit Shin Nihon Kikaku," which means "New Japan Project" when translated into English.
• Contrary to popular belief, the Nintendo 64 technically wasn't the last system to use cartridges as their main use for playing on systems. The real last system was SNK's Neo Geo (though it was around ever since 1990), which their cartridge-based system lasted all the way until 2004, which was two-three years longer than the Nintendo 64.
• They also released a Neo Geo CD system, but it failed due to really long load times.
• They would also try to go into the realm of 3-D by making the Hyper Neo Geo 64, but that was an even huger failure than the Neo Geo CD.
• Their Neo Geo Arcades/system lasted longer then popular systems such as the NES (which lasted until 1995), the Sega Master System (which lasted until 1991), the TurboGrafx-16 (which lasted until 1993/1999), the Sega Genesis (which lasted until 1998/2002), the SNES (which lasted until 1999/2003), the Sega Saturn (which lasted until 1998), the Nintendo 64 (which lasted until 2002), and even the Sega Dreamcast and the Playstation before it bit the dust in 2004. Oh, and I almost forgot about the Philips CD-i and the Game Boy/Game Boy Color as well.
• Infact, the Neo Geo was the second longest-lasting system ever (The longest-lasting system ever was the Atari 2600.).
• Sometimes, people confuse SNK as the Neo Geo company.