Re: Kenshira Plays: Audio playthroughs and demos of mainstream games
Hi, everyone! It's a new week, which means that its time for a new game! Today, I party like its 1999 all over again as I play through snk vs capcom, match of the millennium for the neo geo pocket color!
Well, seems like I was a year late in my estimation of the time that this game came along and rocked my world. It was the fall of 2000 when someone sold me a neo geo pocket color and 2 games for just 40 bucks. The games in question were metal slug, and snk cs capcom, and both of them kept me and those around me entertained for hours and hours. My junior year in high school was just beginning, and I distinctly remember playing this on bus trips to and from school for months and months, undoubtedly drawing stares and comments from fellow passengers. Before, after,, and even during school if I wasn't busy, you could be certain I had my neo geo pocket color out and cranked as I fought to unlock all that this game had to offer, and boy o boy was it loaded!
Snk vs capcom was published by snk and released in 1999 for their very own portable console. The console had a very memorable clicky stick which made it perfect for this and other fighters released for it during its short lifespan. In terms of gameplay, this is a single/team based 2d fighter similar to what we were getting on home consoles at the time. The game was quite flexible in how it allowed you to progress through the tournament, be it alone in 2 round matches, or as a tag team of 2, or a team of 3. There are 18 default characters, with an additional 8 that you unlock simply by beating the game over and over again. In addition, the game has an Olympic mode, where you can compete in survival and time attack modes, as well as various mini games specific to the two companies. You can use the points you earn through gameplay to unlock new moves for each character from within this mode. I am not kidding when i say that this has a ton of lasting value, especially for a portable fighter released in 1999 on an obscure console. Snk vs capcom, match of the millennium is arguably the best pocket fighter of that deckade.
This is a good opportunity for me to inform you all that snk has recently begun to rerelease other fighters for the neo geo pocket on the Nintendo switch e-shop for about 7 bucks a piece. There are 4 of them now I think, including samurai shodown 2, king of fighters r2, the last blade, and gal fight, so if you like what you hear in this demo, maybe give one of those a try, and perhapse ask them to rerelease this one also. They are listening.
In the demo below, I form a 3 man team with Akuma, Ryu, and Ken as I work my way through the tournament. It does actually have a story that is conveyed through text that does not auto scroll, so you can ocr to your hearts content. Although the ngpc is a 16-bit console, its sound engine is mostly chip tune, and this game is no exception. Still, hits sound like hits, as do blocks, jumps, and the swish of punches, kicks and bodies as they fly through the air or get tossed about. Youll hear plenty of familiar music if you are at all familiar with either capcom or snk games. Speaking of which, when played on official hardware, the music is in stereo when heard through headphones. For this demo, I'm using my psp, and with exception to the mono sound, is very accurate to the real thing. Find the playthrough below.
I hope you guys enjoyed this week's game. It was a fantastic trip down memory lane for me. Next week, we will visit one of my dreams come true, right here in this thread. Tune in then to find out what it is. Until next time!
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