Incidentally, I turned out to be wrong; the second batch of SNK Minis came a week after my prediction. I guess my timing is a little
off.
SNK Minis coming soon
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I'm assuming you misinterpreted Takao to mean that "Wonderswan" was a series of Japanese PS1 games. The Bandai WonderSwan was a family of Japan-only portable game systems roughly contemporary with the Neo Geo Pocket and Game Boy Color. Variants/enhancements through the family's lifetime included the WonderSwan Color and the SwanCrystal. It had some decent third-party support, notably from Square Enix (or maybe it was just Square at the time). I considered getting the FFI+FFII WonderSwan Color bundle myself a long time ago (years later, I ended up buying the PSP remakes instead).
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Once again, a PS Blog post for PS+ revealed weeks in advance that more SNK retro Minis are coming (of course, I'm well over a week late in discovering this). This time, we're getting a trio the week of 10/25:
- Ikari Warriors III: The Rescue (1989)
- Prehistoric Isle in 1930 (1989)
- Safari Rally (1979)Of these, Safari Rally is not part of SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 0, similar to Ozma Wars and Vanguard. It looks like it's a driving game vaguely similar to Coconut Dodge. Ikari III is presumably similar to Ikari I, and Prehistoric Isle is a side-scrolling shooter which I'm rather likely to get.
If anyone's curious, the Vol. 0 games we will still be missing after the 10/25 batch will be:
- Psycho Soldier
- Dogosoken (sequel to Ikari Warriors)
- P.O.W.
- Search and Rescue
- Gold Medalist
- Super Championship Baseball
- Touchdown Fever
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Prehistoric Isle In 1930... I think I remember watching that game being played on an old arcade machine in a sweet-shop back in the day. I hope I'm thinking of the same game... side scrolling shooter with world war 1 & 2 style planes vs dinosaurs?
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Just saw the new blog post. My "eagle eyes" took 10 days to notice the "announcement"; it's just time dilation, I swear!
I read that about Safari Rally as well, but the weird thing was that the YouTube clip I watched, though in color, still said "Shin Nihon Kikaku" (SNK) at the title screen. Couldn't figure what to make of it.
I never saw Prehistoric Isle anywhere at all before, thumbbandit. When you saw the game, were you on a prehistoric isle? Har har.
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Freelance
MemberWell that sucks. I had decided to go get a PSN card so I can take advantage of Open Emotion's bundle and if Prehistoric Isle is coming out tomorrow I'd go pick the card up on same day for the extra incentive but naturally PSN doesn't update til night so bah. I guess I should still go anyway and get it over with.
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This week's "The Drop" PS Blog post still shows no SNK Minis (or any Minis at all, actually). Not a good sign. I think SNK Playmore may have canceled. :( Perhaps they expected sales to have been better for the previous releases.
Anyone on Facebook willing to bug their NeoGeo Station page about it? That seems to be the only route through which they interact with the public. They've never responded to any e-mails from me before.
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Oh. Well, could you do me a favor and post a question about what happened to their Minis that were supposed to come out last month but didn't? They're the 3 listed in this PS Blog post about October PS+ stuff.
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I did find it strange that they would release Ikari Warriors III before Ikari Warriors II. Maybe they made a mistake in the scheduling. Hopefully the others are still in the pipeline. I\'ve been saving some money in my PSN wallet for the next batch, so I\'ll definitely be scooping these two up. PSYCHO SOLDIER! Woo!
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NGP Last Blade is soooo good.
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