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49-581: The first game in the series, released in 1999 for the Neo Geo Pocket Color handheld console, was the first crossover between SNK and Capcom . Characters in the game are illustrated in the super deformed art style. There are two complementary versions of the game: the SNK version and the Capcom version. Each version of the game has a different starting deck and different exclusive cards that can be obtained, but

98-578: A monochrome one, and is fully backward compatible . Although the system had a decent market debut, competition against Nintendo 's Game Boy Color was tough, and ultimately Neo Geo Pocket Color sales were not as good. The system was discontinued in the West by mid-2000, and continued to be marketed in Japan until SNK's bankruptcy in October 2001. Despite being a commercial failure, the platform has been well regarded for

147-627: A pre-order incentive for Samurai Shodown (2019). These re-releases were later compiled into Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection Vol. 1 (2021) and Vol. 2 (2022), which were also released for Windows . SNK sold over 25,000 Neo Geo Pocket Color systems in Japan and over 100,000 in Europe by the end of 1999. By May of 2000, the Neo Geo Pocket Color retained a 2% market share in the North American handheld market; although minuscule compared to

196-742: A cable to connect the NGPC and the Dreamcast , as part of a partnership between SNK and Sega . Games that featured this option include King of Fighters R-2 (links with King of Fighters '99 Dream Match and King of Fighters Evolution ); SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millennium (links with Capcom vs. SNK ); SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash (links with King of Fighters Evolution ); SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters 2 Clash Expand Edition (links with Capcom vs SNK ) and Cool Cool Jam (links with Cool Cool Toon ). A total of 73 games were released for

245-413: A conversion of Pac-Man , which came with a plastic cross ring that restricted the system's clicky stick to four directions; this version is often seen as one of the best home ports of the game to be released. Compile , Data East and ADK also produced ports of Puyo Pop , Magical Drop and Crush Roller respectively. Success published Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams , a successful port of

294-489: A good reception, so the publisher decided to found the magazine specialized for it. The first issue of Famitsu was published on June 6, 1986, as Famicom Tsūshin . It sold less than 200,000 copies, despite 700,000 copies printed. The major competitor was Family Computer Magazine launched in July 1985 by Tokuma Shoten . Famitsu ' s editor found many readers had multiple game consoles, and they thought it would be better if

343-485: A good sales start in both the U.S. and Japan with 14 launch titles (a record at the time), subsequent low retail support in the U.S., lack of communication with third-party developers by SNK's American management, the popularity of Nintendo's Pokémon franchise and anticipation of the 32-bit Game Boy Advance , and strong competition from Bandai 's WonderSwan in Japan, led to a sales decline in both regions. Meanwhile, SNK had been in financial trouble for at least

392-508: A near-perfect score, was a joint effort between Japanese developer Square Enix and American developer Disney Interactive Studios . Famitsu administers the Famitsu awards. Video games receive a number of different awards in categories like Innovation, Biggest Hit, Rookie Award, Highest Quality, etc. One or two " Game of the Year " awards are granted as the top prize. Top prize winners are determined by

441-706: A number of highly-acclaimed exclusive games derived from the Neo Geo arcade system, such as SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium and King of Fighters R-2 , as well as its arcade-style microswitched joystick, which has been praised for its accuracy and being well-suited for fighting games. The Neo Geo Pocket Color was released on March 19, 1999 in Japan, August 6, 1999 in North America , and October 1, 1999 in Europe , entering markets all dominated by Nintendo , competing with Nintendo's Game Boy Color . The U.S. version of

490-1068: A perfect score is Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth . As of 2023 , all but three games with perfect scores are from Japanese companies, ten being published/developed by Nintendo , four by Square Enix , three by Sega , three by Konami and one by Capcom . As of 2023 , the only three completely foreign games to achieve a perfect score are The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim by Bethesda Softworks , Grand Theft Auto V by Rockstar Games , and Ghost of Tsushima by Sucker Punch Productions . Other foreign games that have achieved near-perfect scores are Grand Theft Auto IV , Red Dead Redemption , L.A. Noire , and Red Dead Redemption 2 , all by Rockstar Games ; Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 , Call of Duty: Black Ops , and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 , all by Activision (but published by Square Enix in Japan); Gears of War 3 by Epic Games ; and The Last of Us Part II and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End by Naughty Dog . Kingdom Hearts II , another game with

539-479: A year; the company soon collapsed, and was purchased by American pachinko manufacturer Aruze in January 2000. However, Aruze did not support SNK's video game business enough, leading to SNK's original founder and several other employees leaving to form a new company, BrezzaSoft. Eventually on June 13, 2000, Aruze decided to quit the North American and European markets, marking the end of SNK's worldwide operations and

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588-491: Is often considered one of the greatest games produced for the system. Taito contributed a port of their successful arcade game Densha de Go! 2 and Puzzle Bobble Mini , also known as Bust-A-Move Pocket . Capcom worked in conjunction with SNK on several crossover games featuring their characters, including SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millennium and the SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash series of games. Namco published

637-502: Is still hard to put down, even today." XGP Famicom Ts%C5%ABshin Famitsu , formerly Famicom Tsūshin , is a line of Japanese video game magazines published by Kadokawa Game Linkage (previously known as Gzbrain), a subsidiary of Kadokawa . Famitsu is published in both weekly and monthly formats as well as in the form of special topical issues devoted to only one console, video game company, or other theme. Shūkan Famitsū ,

686-459: Is the cartoon creation of artist Susumu Matsushita , and he takes the form of a costumed fox. The costumes worn by Necky reflect current popular video games. Necky's name was chosen according to a reader poll, and it derives from a complex Japanese pun: "Necky" is actually the reverse of the Japanese word for fox, キツネ, and his original connection to Fami com Tsūshin is intended to evoke the bark of

735-518: The Neo Geo Pocket Color in Japan. A fan translation for the game exists. This Nintendo DS game was released on December 14, 2006, in Japan and was released on April 24, 2007, in the United States. In addition, there are key features: Almost immediately after the American NDS version was released, an unavoidable bug was discovered in the game. The bug occurs on the ninth floor of the tower, during

784-576: The Nintendo Entertainment System ), the dominant video game console in Japan when the magazine was first published in the 1980s. LOGiN ( ログイン ) , a computer game magazine, started in 1982 as an extra issue of ASCII , and later it became a periodic magazine. Famicom Tsūshin was a column in Login , focused on the Famicom platform, and ran from March 1985 to December 1986 issue. It received

833-451: The Destiny were never previously released in United States, meaning that they have no U.S.-localized box or manual; however, these titles did receive a European release, incorporating an English translation. After the bankruptcy of SNK on October 30, 2001, the intellectual property rights were collectively transferred to the successor company SNK Playmore (later the second generation SNK), but

882-499: The NGPC had a 2% market share in the U.S. handheld console market; although tiny compared to the Game Boy and Game Boy Color , it was enough to turn a profit for SNK USA. On 21 October 1999, a redesigned, slimmer version called New Neo Geo Pocket Color was released in Japan, selling at ¥6800. It is 13% smaller than the original Neo Geo Pocket Color, with dimensions 125 x 73 x 27 mm, and also features improved sound output. After

931-518: The NGPC sold a successful 25,000 units. Prior to SNK's acquisition by Aruze, the Neo Geo Pocket Color was being advertised on U.S. television and units were being sold nationwide at Wal-Mart , Best Buy , Toys "R" Us , and other major retail chains. For the Christmas Holiday season in 1999, SNK spent $ 4 million on television advertisements that aired on channels including MTV , Comedy Central , Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon . By May 2000,

980-439: The Neo Geo Pocket Color had an exclusive launch on the website eToys in 1999. eToys also sold the initial launch titles in the plastic snap lock cases. The system debuted in the United States with six launch titles (twenty promised by end of year) and retail price of $ 69.95. Six different unit colors were available: Camouflage Blue, Carbon Black, Crystal White, Platinum Blue, Platinum Silver, and Stone Blue. In its first two months,

1029-527: The Neo Geo Pocket Color. Most of the system's games were produced by SNK themselves, featuring well-received titles from franchises such as Fatal Fury , Metal Slug and The King of Fighters . Several large third-party developers also contributed to the system; the most well known of these is Sega 's Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure , a title heavily based on Sonic the Hedgehog 2 that

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1078-588: The Neo Geo Pocket, it has a color screen in the middle. Similar to the Game Boy and its successors, the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance , the Neo Geo Pocket Color does not have a back-lit screen, and games can only be played in a well-lit area. Like the Game.com before it, the Neo Geo Pocket Color uses a CR2032 battery to retain backup memory and keep the clock active, as well as the usual AA batteries to power

1127-529: The Nintendo's Game Boy Color , it was enough to turn a profit for SNK America. Retrospective feedback for the Neo Geo Pocket Color has been positive. USGamer writer Jeremy Parish considers it an important and influential handheld for being a "technological bridge" between the 8-bit portable era and the Game Boy Advance , and for its "clicky stick" having been used for modern video game consoles. He praised

1176-462: The WonderSwan, the Neo Geo Pocket Color may not have succeeded in its goal of wrestling market share away from Nintendo, but that doesn't automatically mean it was a failure. Many fans will argue that the quality of the software available was far in advance of that on the Game Boy Color, and the fantastic controls, amazing battery life, cool PDA features and excellent screen combine to make a system which

1225-517: The arcade game of the same name. Similar to the Neo Geo AES console, Neo Geo Pocket Color games were packaged in large clamshell-like black cases, fitted with bright, colorful cover art on them. As a way to reduce costs, in North America the games were instead shipped in cardboard boxes, a move that has been negatively received due to their general poor quality. Japanese games were later released in

1274-409: The article with: "Neo Geo Pocket Color's life may have been painfully brief, but it was nevertheless memorable for those who experienced it. Perhaps all the more so for the system's brevity, in fact." Ryan Lamble of Den of Geek felt that the Neo Geo Pocket Color was the best rival to Nintendo's Game Boy Color for its "brilliant" game library, design and overall quality. Lamble expressed somber towards

1323-511: The back-stock of systems and games to be flashed and re-sold in Asia where the system would continue to be sold and supported. Some of the back-stock of American NGPC hardware and software began to resurface on the American and Asian markets in 2003. These units frequently appeared bundled with six games stripped of their cases and manuals. Two games often included, Faselei! and The Last Blade: Beyond

1372-446: The beginning of a new era when he saw a private demonstration of Final Fantasy VII in 1993. He thought the name Famicom Tsūshin should be refurbished. At the start of 1996 (with issue #369) the magazines underwent another name change, truncating their titles to Shūkan Famitsū and Gekkan Famitsū v The name Famitsu had already been in common use. The magazine was published by ASCII from its founding through March 2000 when it

1421-433: The bodged localisation is also, figuratively, a broken shell of what it once was and absolutely nowhere near as good as it should have been, is more than anything, deeply, deeply sad." IGN said it was "Without a doubt one of the biggest letdowns thus far on DS." Game Revolution said that the game "takes everything I remember about playing tradable card games, highlights the bad parts, and then breaks." Famicom Tsūshin scored

1470-579: The development of Neo Geo Pocket Color was discontinued after bankruptcy. Closely modeled after its predecessor , the Neo Geo Pocket Color design sports two face buttons on the right hand side of the system, and an eight-direction microswitched digital D-pad on the left. It is horizontally designed like the Game Gear , as opposed to the Game Boy 's vertical setup and the WonderSwan 's hybrid of both. Upgraded from

1519-451: The discontinuation of Neo Geo hardware and software there. The Neo Geo Pocket Color (and other SNK/Neo Geo products) did however, last until 2001 in Japan. It was SNK's last video game console, as the company went bankrupt on October 30, 2001. In June 2000, Aruze (parent of SNK) decided to discontinue all SNK operations outside Japan. As a result, remaining stock was bought back by SNK for repackaging in Asia. SNK were recalling most of

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1568-476: The fox, the Japanese onomatopoeia of which is コンコン . Necky makes a cameo appearance in Super Mario Maker . Famitsu publishes other magazines dedicated to particular consoles. Currently in circulation are: Famitsu spin-offs that are no longer in circulation include: Video games are graded in Famitsu via a "Cross Review" by having four critics each assign the game a score from 0 to 10, with 10 being

1617-564: The game a 25 out of 40. Neo Geo Pocket Color The Neo Geo Pocket Color ( NGPC ) is a 16-bit handheld game console developed and manufactured by SNK , released on March 19, 1999 in Japan with international markets following in August that year. It is the successor to the Neo Geo Pocket , which was released in 1998 only in Japan and Hong Kong; the Color features a color display instead of

1666-402: The game features a black and white graphic behind the title font on the cartridge's label, while bugged versions feature the label in full color. The other versions of the game did not contain the aforementioned glitch. The game was mostly poorly received. Eurogamer said it was "broken in the literal sense of not working as sold and, as such, must be scored appropriately. That the game underneath

1715-414: The game's small library for its quality and wide selection of genres, specifically titles such as SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash , Sonic Pocket Adventure , Magical Drop and Pac-Man , and for the system's build quality being robust and well-built. Parish blamed the system's commercial failure on both SNK's large lack of retail presence and for Aruze acquiring the company in 2000, concluding

1764-406: The gameplay remains the same, with card battles resembling a somewhat simplified version of Magic: The Gathering , in which a maximum of three "creatures" (i.e. fighters) are allowed in each player's field at any given moment and there is no mana to be spent to place them in the field (there are, however, Special Points, SP for short, which are gained as fighters are placed in the field and spent as

1813-766: The highest score. The scores are then added together. As of 2023 , twenty-nine games have received perfect scores of 40 from Famitsu . The console with the highest number of perfect-scoring games is the PlayStation 3 , with seven total. Four of the perfect-scoring games on PlayStation 3 were also released on the Xbox 360 , which is tied with the Wii for the second-highest number of perfect scores at five total. Franchises with multiple perfect score winners include The Legend of Zelda with five titles, Metal Gear with three titles, and Final Fantasy with two titles. The most recent game to receive

1862-465: The magazine covered various platforms. Increasing contents and the page count gradually, the magazine was published three times per month instead of semimonthly publication. On July 19, 1991 (issue #136) the magazine was renamed to Shūkan Famicom Tsūshin and issues were published weekly thereafter. Alongside the weekly magazine, a monthly version called Gekkan Famicom Tsūshin was also published. Hirokazu Hamamura , an editor-in-chief (1992–2002), felt

1911-412: The opponent's attack. Another new feature is special character cards with alternate versions of various characters depicted with regular artwork instead of the super deformed style. Instead of being released as two versions ( SNK and Capcom ), this game was released as a single version that lets the players decide to either start with a SNK deck or a Capcom deck. It was the last game to be released for

1960-431: The original Famitsu publication, is considered the most widely read and respected video game news magazine in Japan. From October 28, 2011, the company began releasing the digital version of the magazine exclusively on BookWalker weekly. The name Famitsu is a portmanteau abbreviation of Famicom Tsūshin ; the word "Famicom" itself comes from a portmanteau abbreviation of "Family Computer" (released overseas as

2009-582: The players use Action Cards—this game's equivalent of Enchantments—or combined attacks). The game received an emulated re-release for Nintendo Switch in January 2022, which includes both versions and features the ability to battle and trade between them on a single system. This re-release was later included as part of the Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection Vol. 2 game compilation, released for Nintendo Switch and Windows in November 2022. The game

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2058-466: The same cardboard boxes, while all European releases used the clamshell cases. Towards the end of the system's short lifespan in North America, games were often bundled together in blister packs and sold in stores to clear out inventory, often including previously-unreleased titles such as Faselei! . Several Neo Geo Pocket Color games were re-released for the first time via emulation on Nintendo Switch , beginning with Samurai Shodown! 2 in 2019 as

2107-434: The second play through. The game crashes after talking to an opponent named Jon, who has to be defeated in order to finish the game. On June 6, SNK announced that the replacement cartridge would be available in stores on June 25 and began the process of implementing a recall. These cartridges have been sent by mail along with a package of five King of Fighters trading cards. The recall ended in January 2008. Fixed versions of

2156-408: The system during usage. The Neo Geo Pocket Color has no regional lockout . The system has an on-board language setting, and games display text in the language selected (provided the cartridge supports that language). Other settings include time and date, and the system can provide customized horoscopes when one's birth date is entered. Cables for linking multiple systems were available, as well as

2205-518: The system's early defeat in the handheld market, saying: "It was a premature end for a system that, although doomed to remain a distant second to the Game Boy, could have forged a great little niche of its own." NintendoLife ' s Damien McFerran said that both it and the WonderSwan served as some of the most "interesting challengers" towards Nintendo. He commended the system for its game library and clamshell boxes, hardware capabilities, battery life and lasting legacy on future systems, writing: "Like

2254-404: Was mostly well received. TouchArcade said "It’s one of those games that gives back the more you put into it." Gamezebo said "Overall Card Fighters’ Clash holds up very well to modern scrutiny – like most of the top tier NGPC titles – and this sensibly priced port is a must play for anyone with even a passing interest in the card battler genre." This Japan-only sequel to SVC: Card Fighters' Clash

2303-535: Was released as カードファイターズ2 in 2001 for the Neo Geo Pocket Color after Capcom vs. SNK 2 . In addition to the 240 character and 60 action cards from the first game, 124 new cards are added, adding cast from Garou: Mark of the Wolves , Samurai Shodown: Warriors Rage , The King of Fighters '99 and 2000 for SNK , and Project Justice , Mega Man Legends , Dino Crisis and Onimusha for Capcom , while also including 40 Reaction cards that can be used during

2352-541: Was renamed to Famitsu in 1995. Shūkan Famitsū is a weekly publication concentrating on video game news and reviews, and is published every Thursday with a circulation of 500,000 per issue. Gekkan Famitsū is published monthly. Famitsu covers alternately feature pop idols or actresses on even-numbered issues and the Famitsu mascot, Necky the Fox in odd-numbered issues. Year-end and special editions all feature Necky dressed as popular contemporary video game characters. Necky

2401-401: Was sold to Enterbrain , which published it for 13 years, until their parent company Kadokawa published it from 2013 to 2017. Since 2017, Kadokawa's subsidiary Gzbrain has been publishing the magazine, while in 2019 the company changed its name to Kadokawa Game Linkage. Famicom Tsūshin initially focused on the Famicom platform, but later it featured multi-platform coverage. Famicom Tsūshin

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