![]() ![]() SS2 was a great follow up, reviewed great and had good distribution, but SNK decided to try and capitalize on it as an exclusive to move hardware. SS1 was ported everywhere with varying levels of success, but it broke through and was as popular as it deserved to be. ![]() ![]() SamSho has traditionally been mishandled in the west, arguably overall. But the NeoGeo Pocket Color Samurai Shodown! 2 was basically a scaled down 2D version of those games and was pretty fun to play. The PS1 "Warrior's Rage 2" game that was not really like those games, IIRC, also sucked ass. Guess I should check the state of emulation for that stuff. I have yet to play either Hyper NeoGeo 64 SS game. What made things worse is that Sen was developed by former Tenchu devs K2, who in turn were formed by ex-SNK staff who had worked on the original SS games. Then Sen came out and just sucked all kinds of ass. Didn't see a new SS game in an arcade until SS6 in 2005 in Japan. A couple of years later, I found an arcade that had one of the Hyper NeoGeo 64 games, but the machine was dead, lol. SS4 brought people back to it, but it still didn't reach SS1 levels. Already had the Saturn port or the Neo CD port of it by that point so didn't care. I saw SS3 in one arcade (in another state!) and that was it. It not not getting a home version at the time may have something to do with it- there was a period of time where SNK decided against letting anyone port their games to other platforms -apparently after enough complaints from NeoGeo owners were received- so some stuff from '94 never saw release on anything else until like a decade later. ![]() I remember everyone waiting to play the game when some random dude walks in, tells everyone that a local mall arcade just got Samurai Shodown II, and everybody ran out and jumped into their cars to go drive down there.Īlthough SS2 was the better game in pretty much every way, I don't remember it being as popular as SS1 was. There was usually that one game that made everybody queue up and SS was that game for a while in '93 and '94. But it was in every single arcade in my area, too, and was quite popular. ![]()
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