The History of SNK

I read bit more of it just now. Aside from the stuff pointed out by Recap, I also noticed this bit:

On a humorous side note, the main figure responsible for many of the later Fatal Fury, Samurai Shodown, and King of Fighters sequels in SNK's lineup was Takashi Nishiyama, who had initially worked on Street Fighter II for Capcom! It's no wonder that arcade-goers in the 1990s would get into heated arguments about which company's characters would win fights against the other company's characters. The same people were making these games! It only makes sense that the two companies would ultimately join forces to make the Capcom vs. SNK fighting games that we enjoy in the arcades and at home on multiple consoles today.

I could be wrong, but I though Nishiyama only developed the original Street Fighter (not SF2) and that Fatal Fury was already in development before Street Fighter II was released.

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Evoga is not a game developer. They actually owns (produced) the game, which was developed by Noise Factory. SNK Playmore just distributed it in Japan.

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Actually Evoga was involved in developing the game, although they mainly did graphic design and debuging. Noise Factory did the coding.

Indeed, Fatal Fury has a "prequel" called "Street Smart". FF was conceived as an extension of this game's concept.

Very nice article and interview.

I think Sasuke vs Commander and Fantasy also deserve mention among their early innovative games.

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In total, SNK USA sold two NeoGeo Pocket units between the months of April and August in 1999. Two.

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I was one of those two!!!!

I bought my NGP directly from SNK in May 99 along with all the games they had. :)

But ummmm.... it was a NGPC that I got directly from them. And I know it was in May because I brought it along with me for the Plane trip to Europe at the end of June in '99. So there's another error in their report.

No wonder the person who took my order seemed so lost at the time.

Nice article.

Have they done these developer histories before or is this the first one?

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Originally Posted by Nick

Have they done these developer histories before or is this the first one?

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They did an article on Konami before, although it had bit more factual errors than this one.

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Originally Posted by Almaci

Reno you bitch, why the fuck didnt you give me your hotel details for France.

Yah Reno was working on this, he told me about it.

This website believe it or not houses quite a few talents who will go on and make it big.
Some already have BTW.

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aye. Zero is one of them! :)

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Have they done these developer histories before or is this the first one?

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Theyve been doing articles like this for years - mostly these long articles from a guy named Geoff Keighley who writes about a single game. They are very good articles. The one that sticks out in my mind is Daikatana's.

Anyway, yea, this sort of thing isn't anything new.

Now if SNK would just stop making games on the MVS everything would be fine.

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Originally Posted by Recap

Indeed, Fatal Fury has a "prequel" called "Street Smart". FF was conceived as an extension of this game's concept.

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Rather interestingly, one of the player characters in SS resembles (probably is) a younger Takuma Sakazaki. I doubt this is just a coincidence. If I had to guess, SS's story may be 20 years before AoF's timeline.

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Originally Posted by gameoverDude

Rather interestingly, one of the player characters in SS resembles (probably is) a younger Takuma Sakazaki. I doubt this is just a coincidence. If I had to guess, SS's story may be 20 years before AoF's timeline.

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That would place Street Smarts in the 50s, considering the original Art of Fighting took place during the 70s (before SNK retconned that idea for the KoF games).