NeoGeo Battle Coliseum (SNK Best Collection)

Awesome memories of being in the arcade and popping quarters into fighting games!

This is great fighting.
I'm know some characters from past fightings, and really like'em.

If there's a good reason for playing NGBC is the variety of characters from different SNK titles, like Metal Slug, World Heroes, Aggressors of Dark Kombat, Samurai Shodown, KOF, Last Blade... The arcade mode is kinda strange, but it's a very interesting fighting title. SNK fans should appreciate it more.

SNK brought together their neo geo cast to duke it out KOF style. There is a wide range of characters available, and some new twists on old favorites (Ryo is now Mr. Karate, for example). The sprites are very well drawn and don\'t look copy/pasted - in fact, most are brand new. The backgrounds are very nice, and the music is good, for the most part. All the characters are very well balanced, even though two in particular have some \"Big\" advantage. Tagging is instant, unlike in KOF XI. There also is a color edit, but you have to dig around in the options to find it.

Now, for the cons. A large portion of the cast are KOF staples, meaning you\'ve probably seen them more times than you care to think about. The arcade mode is horrible and has no reason to be there, since tag match is a better version of it. Tag attacks do pathedic amounts of damage and don\'t look that impressive (even the \"special\" tag attacks that only about 6 characters have). You cannot turn off the timer. There is about 8 seconds of loading time before a match begins, but that really isn\'t too bad.

This is one of the best fighters I\'ve played in a long time. Highly recommended. While KOF XI overshadows it among SNK fans, there is still a good community surrounding Neo Geo Battle Coliseum.

I believe when SNKPLAYMORE made this game, it was to be a counterpart of Capcom Fighting Jam/Evoultion. Everyone anticipated that Capcom somewhat had a winner in their hands (but of course, now that is history, and the game is almost zilch to death); we now know who is supreme out of the two. This game takes a lot of the SNK games from the past, mixed some KOF well recognized fighters, Last Blade, Samurai Spirits/Showdown, Garou:MOTW, and throws in unexpected cast like Marco from the Metal Slug series, and brings back old characters from Fatal Fury such as Tung and brings a fresh new feel to the fighting scene. Of course, they added two new original characters made just for this game and the boss as well (not tourney legit). This is a must buy. And yes, the loading is a little long, and you really can\'t play online, but past that, and next to KOFXI, this is a MUST BUY!