SNK developing new Neo-Geo portable

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SNK Playmore is developing a new portable version of its classic Neo-Geo console.

Named the "Neo-Geo Keitai", or "Neo-Geo Portable", the mobile device plays 20 pre-loaded games from the original Neo-Geo's nineties era, Kotaku reports.

The portable boasts a 4.3 inch LCD screen and 2GB of memory, presumably expandable through the included SD card slot.

The games included are World Heroes, Ultimate 11, Top Player's Golf, Sengoku, Nam-1975, Mutation Nation, Last Resort, King of Monsters, Frenzy, Cyber-Lip, Fatal Furty Special, The Art of Fighting, Super Sidekicks, League Bowling, Metal Slug, Magical Lord, Baseball Stars Professional, Samurai Shodown, The King of Fighters '94, and Fatal Fury.

Photos of the device show A, B, C and D, Menu, Start and two shoulder buttons, plus an AV Out port and a headphone jack.

SNK has yet to formally announce the device, photos of which were posted last night on Japanese gaming blog Famicom-Plaza.

The Neo-Geo was released in Japan and North America in 1991 during the SNES and Mega Drive era. SNK has recently begun re-releasing Neo-Geo titles on the Wii's Virtual Console service, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade.

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Kanselier #1 4 months ago

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For the right price this bought. I can not explain why though, I have the complete SNK library available via PSN for PS3 and PSP already. But hey, if the price is right eh
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Der_tolle_Emil #2 4 months ago

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I see rounded corners, Apple should sue.
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GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #3 4 months ago

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Heh profile view looks like an iPhone4
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Eldritch #4 4 months ago

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Loved the Neo-Geo Pocket Color, so I'll get this one - for the right price.
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sir_tripod #5 4 months ago

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Neo Turf Masters FTW.

"ON THE GLEEEEEEENNN!"
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kirankara #6 4 months ago

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Looks like a brick. have to be cheap to convince me to buy one
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sir_tripod #7 4 months ago

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"Fatal Furty Special"

What do you do in this game? Mash A until you furt?
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roz123 #8 4 months ago

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This is what happens when you send an iPhone into Envirofone.

I actually quite like the look of it.
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dadrester #9 4 months ago

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snk better get on and release some official product shots. these are awful photos
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evild_edd #10 4 months ago

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If it's super cheap I could be tempted. Would be ace if they released some NGPC back catalogue for it (mine got nicked at uni - gutting!)

I have an original AES but only a few titles for it as the decent ones are so bloody expensive
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richarddavies #11 4 months ago

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If the price is right i'll snap one up. I'll keep my eyes peeled for this one.
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carrotcake #12 4 months ago

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I love new hardware! And yet Sega still haven't made a pocket Dreamcast.
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sega #13 4 months ago

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SOLD! Don't care what games it gets - it has "NEO GEO" on it.
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SlackMaster #14 4 months ago

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I'd definately buy one for a reasonable price. Would be nice to have a few better games on it though. KOF 98 or 99 would have been nice as 94, Art of Fighting and Fatal Fury haven't aged all that well.
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cowell #15 4 months ago

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Ulitmate 11 you say? Hmmm......
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dose #16 4 months ago

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Weird shoulder button setup. Sounds neat though.
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cowell #17 4 months ago

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@dose

Yeah good point. How are you supposed to hit L2 without hitting L1?
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TheEarlOfZinger #18 4 months ago

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What is everyone's idea of 'cheap' for something like this?
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wizlon #19 4 months ago

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WANT WANT WANT WANT!
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monty_79 #20 4 months ago

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@TheEarlOfZinger
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BellyFullOfHell #21 4 months ago

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Loaded with a bunch of mostly shitty games, and pointless for pretty much anyone that already has a portable device. What are they thinking?
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th3duckst3r #22 4 months ago

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woot magicain lord and last resort.
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Eldritch #23 4 months ago

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@TheEarlOfZinger I'd be willing to cough up 100 EUR for it.
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Eldritch #24 4 months ago

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@BellyFullOfHell Last Resort and Metal Slug alone would make me buy this, and even the rest is hardly "mostly shitty".
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johnson81 #25 4 months ago

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Super Sidekicks 3 and few more Metal Slug games and I'm in.
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JodSUMO #26 4 months ago

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I wonder why it has 4 shoulder buttons? Neo Geo doesn't. Maybe they're planning on supporting other formats.
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bratmandu #27 4 months ago

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I see four shoulder buttons - L1 L2 R1 R2 - look at your own pictures EG!
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Bobbus74 #28 4 months ago

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2nd analogue stick is always a winner... oh wait.
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jaguarwong #29 4 months ago

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It looks sexy - and I love a bit of Neo-Geo - but those games are on Mame .37b5 ... which runs on Xperia Play... which is already in my pocket.
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rclifford #30 4 months ago

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The shoulder buttons are incorrectly labelled suggesting it's fake.

Surely the outside buttons should both be L1 & R1 and inside buttons L2 & R2 respectively.
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Cadence #31 4 months ago

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Hmm, why the need for a 16:9 display? I thought all the Neo Geo stuff was originally designed to output in 4:3? I hope they're not going to stretch the games to fit the screen. Just can't see why the need for a widescreen display at all.
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tachometer #32 4 months ago

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I'd buy this for �40
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riz23 #33 4 months ago

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Get me Windjammers, Soccer Brawl and a sub �90 pricepoint and I'm in.
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BellyFullOfHell #34 4 months ago

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@Eldritch
Come on, many of those haven't aged well at all. What I really don't get is why they want to mess around releasing something like this, rather than just releasing a compilation for existing handhelds, or individual titles for mobiles. It's not going to sell shit outside the few faithful - who's going to want to carry around another (probably 60-80) device just to play SNK games on - and anyone that dedicated probably already has these installed on a cracked PSP. Seems batshit crazy to me, and I doubt they'll make a penny from it. Now sell me the same comp on XBL for 800 points, and I'll bite. Again.
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lucky_jim #35 4 months ago

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I'm in. This is ten times more exciting for me than Vita.
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andromeda #36 4 months ago

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that looks suspiciously like its been doctored from some iphone 4 pics.
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jaguarwong #37 4 months ago

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@andromeda
You know what, looking again I think you're right.
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muttler #38 4 months ago

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Not sure there's a market for this.� Those games are very retro now.� It's one thing to do the rereleases on psn/xbla, but new hardware is abit different.� It would have to be really cheap and include Samurai Shodown 2 for me to be interested.
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PlugMonkey #39 4 months ago

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As with a lot of people on this thread, I desperately want one of these, and I have no logical justification for needing one.

I think it boils down entirely to being a teenager in the 90s, when the Neo Geo was about as attainable to me as a Bugatti Veyron is now.
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munki83 #40 4 months ago

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Looks pretty nice at the right price I'd pick one up just to play metal slug on the train
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cloudskipa #41 4 months ago

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DO WANT!!
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CaptainKid #42 4 months ago

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Mafia money needs laundering?
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Slipstream #43 4 months ago

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I own a NGPC with KoF Round 2 and Snk vs Capcom Cardfighters Clash, both brilliant games, sadly the only two decent games I was able to get my hands on at a reasonable price.

I am truly hoping the selection of pre-installed games are of a good variety because I am very interested in this.
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uiruki #44 4 months ago

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This is just some Chinese device which has, according to the Japanese link, is merely licensing the NeoGeo name from SNK. It says it in the first sentence of the Kotaku link. SNK is not developing it. Even Brian Ashcraft got that bit right.

And think about it - would SNK use the wrong logo font for their own company on the front? Would they use that one font that you see on every Chinese knockoff device for the buttons and other markings? Would they add a bunch of extra buttons for Neogeo games?

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chiz #45 4 months ago

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@LaFlamaBlanca http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DO4QEBqtZ4s this
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G-Lord #46 4 months ago

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There are tons of similar devices which can play SNK games out there already, but I think the true advantage of this one will be the stick. The Neo Geo Pocket had an amazing stick.
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TravisTouchdown #47 4 months ago

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@andromeda

I cannot believe it took until #38 for someone to point that out. It's clearly a nonsense.
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peeps #48 4 months ago

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Why do the shoulder buttons go L1, L2, R1, R2.... Shouldn't it be L1,L2,R2,R1 or L2,L1,R1,R2 i.e. symmetrical

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peeps #49 4 months ago

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@andromeda Yeh, plus if you look close at the shoulder button labels it looks photoshopped (the fuzzyness around the letter) and in the wrong order for that matter!
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FortysixterUK #50 4 months ago

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Looks very Iphone 4-ish in design. But for the right price I'd have one of those...looks like a lovely bit of kit.
�39.99 maybe ?

PLUS...it plugs into a pc via USB...so maybe you can buy more titles from a store they are going to set up...Like steam or gog? ...quite exciting really....

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Whitster #51 4 months ago

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@LaFlamaBlanca They're pretty much doing that via iOS/Android anyway. I guess that save on the hardware investment costs and gives you a larger installed userbase than a dedicated device. I reckon they'll start on the eshop/pssuite soon too.
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andromeda #52 4 months ago

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EG, I think you've been had...
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andromeda #53 4 months ago

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Come on EG, look a bit closer!
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mastablasta #54 4 months ago

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This looks better than the vita which is worrying
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neoturfmaster #55 4 months ago

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Also notice how the 'select' button becomes the 'menu' button in a later pic..
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bobbo #56 4 months ago

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This looks like a piece of shit fake, only slightly better than the popstation. I think Ashens needs to review it.
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Lucodeath #57 4 months ago

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Hope the games are not priced like they was in the 90s. �100 a game.
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jonc24 #58 4 months ago

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Definitely fake. Ad others have said, there's a fuzziness around the areas that have cleary been photoshopped from an iPhone 4/s. The menu/select buttons change between pictures and if you zoom in it looks "av out" is almost hand written. The v in particular.as awesome as this sounds, I'm afraid you've been had EG.
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OJSlaughter #59 4 months ago

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I love Neo-Geo. SNK are masters of arcade, and their games are still some of the best evermade. I would definetely buy such a console!
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Lamb #60 4 months ago

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I think this is probably the best handheld if it actually works. Check out the video in the link.

http://kotaku.com/5871231/android-tablet-rips-off-sony-nintendo-angry-birds-and-everyone-else
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FenderMaster #61 4 months ago

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That thing look gorgeous! If it can run emulators (MAME and other 16 bit consoles), has good battery life and a bright screen for under 100 Euros, then I'm sold! That little Neo Geo stick thing would be great for portable fighting games.
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alcides #62 4 months ago

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This is such a rip-off of a typical Samsung design.
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frazzl #63 4 months ago

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Unless it is ridiculously overpriced, this is a definite purchase for me . Now if only SEGA would do the same!
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andromeda #64 4 months ago

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seriously, has this not been realised yet for the fake that it clearly is??!!
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Hxy3000 #65 4 months ago

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Spent a fortune on these games at the arcade, guess I have to spend some more.
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16bitfan #66 4 months ago

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Looks like a nice piece of hardware, but why bother when you could pick a cracked PSP or a Caanoo up. My Caanoo already has 63 Neo Geo games on it and I have only had it a week! The price for this thing is going to be crucial.

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TRUTH #67 4 months ago

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Did anyone get KoF XIII on PS3 or XB360 - if not, get it as its one of the best 2D fighters out!
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