SNK 40TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION REVIEW FULL
Want the game to be full screen? Display like an old computer monitor? Stretch to fit? Everything is in your power. The interface is slick and easy to use too, allowing for quick, simple selections of virtually every option. It’s all at the touch of a button or two. Want to play the console version of Ikari Warriors instead of the arcade version? Not a problem. Want to play the Japanese version of Crystalis where it’s known as God Slayer? You can do that. Every single game has every version of each title that was originally available accessible to you. 25 of them, including Baseball Stars which is exclusive to the Xbox One! It’s definitely a huge collection. SNK 40 th presents you with such a wide variety of options, it’s honestly hard to choose where to even start!įirst off, there’s the games. Starting with Ozma Wars (which is surprisingly good) way back in 1979 and moving up through the late 80s with classics like Time Soldiers, this collection has a wide variety of vintage SNK titles presented in one of the best interfaces I’ve ever seen for a collection. The SNK 40 th Anniversary Collection celebrates the history of SNK with a focus on their pre-Neo Geo games, many of which modern gamers have never seen. From then they grew, expanded, evolved, and eventually created the Neo Geo line in the 1990s, cementing their history in video games for all time. They haven’t been around as long as Nintendo, but SNK got it’s start way back in the late 1970s at the very beginning of video gaming. SNK’s got a rich history, and despite the fact that they’re still operating to this day, it feels like they don’t really come up in conversation like they used to.SNK has been around a long time for a video game company. I will say there are a lot of shoot ’em ups in this bundle, and a bit more variety would be quite welcome. There are also the givens, in this case, with titles like Crystalis and Guerilla Warriors still proving to be just as much fun as they were back in the day. The standout hits for me of the bundle was a throw-up between Beast Busters, a chaotic, Heavy Metal inspired shooter that has you facing down all sorts of bizarre enemies in a rain of cartoonish blood and gore, and the immensely fun Prehistoric Isle, a Shoot ‘Em Up set on a prehistoric island where every single thing wants to kill you, even the skeletons of dinosaurs. For every ho-hum shooter like Vanguard, or nightmare inducing title like Munch Mobile, the sentient car who has to eat to keep himself alive, there’s a genuine treat like replaying any of the Ikari Warrior titles. Among the twenty or so titles that are now available in the collection, there’s admittedly a bit of gristle to get through before you really get into that juicy retro goodness, but it’s still worth noting how this spanning collection of games shows just how SNK evolved over the course of their reign in the arcades.įortunately, the majority of the games stand up well enough. You can also mess with the visuals, allowing you to recreate that blurry, scan-line infused goodness your parents warned about by sitting too close to the TV.
Each game also allows you to adjust the difficulty among four settings, ranging from easy, to very hard, but your wallet will thank you either way, as you won’t need to drop quarters into your system.
The games each have a nice degree of customization, allowing you to set score thresholds for extra lives, as well as how many of those extra lives you have from the get-go. You can even go so far as to play them in Japanese, should you desire although there didn’t appear to be much of a difference for the most part in that regard.
Featuring an extremely thorough amount of customization, you can tackle these games in either their native arcade form, or in the cases of some titles, their console versions as well. If you hadn’t tried any of their other recent retro collections, then let me tell you upfront that Digital Eclipse has outdone themselves with this newest entry.
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