Neo Geo games coming to PSN with online play

Nine months after the ESRB listed Neo Geo games for PS3 and PSP, publisher SNK Playmore has announced plans for a "Neo Geo Station" on PlayStation Network. Starting December 21, games from the Neo Geo's library will be released on PSN in both PS3 and PSP versions, costing $8.99 and $6.99 each, respectively. The pricing on the PS3 versions is equivalent to the cost of buying Neo Geo games on the Wii Virtual Console.

Unlike the Virtual Console releases, these aren't just emulated versions of the originals. SNK has added features like online co-op and versus play on PS3 (and Ad-Hoc Party support on PSP), along with other unspecified enhancements. Check after the break for all ten games hitting PS3 on December 21, and the two PSP games arriving at the same time. The other eight are scheduled to arrive on PSP sometime in January.

Fatal Fury (also on PSP 12/21)
Alpha Mission II
The King of Fighters '94
Samurai Shodown
Baseball Stars Professional
Magician Lord
Metal Slug (also on PSP 12/21)
League Bowling
Super Sidekicks
Art of Fighting

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I really wish they had a bundle PS3/PSP price, maybe 1 or 2$ extra to use both systems.

other then that more content for the PSP is nice!

@Draco84

Well for PS1 games and PS Minis it works like that. Buy it and it works on PS3 and PSP

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@CaptainProtonX

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@CaptainProtonX BUSTAH WOOLF!

Day 1 purchase(s).

Go go SNK. HD versions in the future please.

I guess SNK really needs money from their old games. Seems like for every new product they re-release 5 old ones.

@Lerkero
Not saying its a bad idea, just an observation of SNK releases over the past years. KoF13 must have really did them in.

@Lerkero

It's called the "SEGA Quantum".

I'm game for this. I wonder if they'll be adding trophies too since they're seperate versions. Straight emulations don't have online multiplayer or borders and such.

It's days like this I'm really glad I bought that PS3 a couple years ago.

@Shockwave i'm glad it's building momentum :)

@Chazzr

I'm upvoting you just for your use of the word dolts.

Moderately excited now - I'll buy most of these when they do the inevitable half-price sales. However, I'll be as giddy as a schoolgirl when Last Blade makes it on there. Both that and LB2 are a good bit underrated and deserve something like an SF4 style sequel / reboot.

Also, Trophies? Trophies please?

More Metal Slug please?

@Chazzr That;s for the PSP though. No such option for PS3 players.

@Chazzr i have a slim ps3. no bc for me :(. I had the anthology for the wii but I dont have my wii anymore.

Meh... i have come to the conclusion that alot of NeoGeo games played and looked great in my memories but when I played a couple today my happy memories are destroyed.

@shimrra74

thats what i feel with a lot of these old ports or remakes.

Baseball Stars and Super Sidekicks are awesome. NeoGeo really had an underrated sports line up.

Overpriced. They should have been 5.99 in line with the PS1 classics, then $10 for more popular titles. Plus, they should be able to be transferable between PSP & PS3.

A lot of the old SNK games haven't aged well, like Fatal Fury & Art of Fighting. The sequels to those games were so much better in nearly every aspect. And if the image can't be resized with the borders removed, then no thanks.

For those of you who suprisingly don't know about trophies by now....since 2009, every PS3 game, whether PSN or Retail, MUST include trophy support. These games are no different and will of course have trophies.

@Miadaskate
Emulated games don't have trophies though. That's what we're trying to find out for this. No PS1 or PC Engine classics have trophies.

@Douche McBaggins

If anything, it'll be like Final Fight released earlier this year, where it had trophies, even though the game was emulated.

@Miadaskate

Actually the Motorstorm 3D stand alone game didn't have trophies.

@FriedConsole

Okay, so that's one exception to the rule, and I'm sure there are some others, but Motorstorm 3D was mainly to show off the 3D capabilities. Kinda like a standalone thing. Yet at the same time, you'd think it would still have trophies....

Oh well, good call.

I've played all these games before. In fact, I have their other compilations on other systems. Jesus, localize King of Fighters 13 or bring over games you haven't already ported elsewhere- It's getting to the point where you're relying on your back catalog rather than new releases, like Sega and the same 4 genesis games they port everywhere.

@shattercross

Agreed.

I love my Dreamcast but how many times do you expect me to buy Chu Chu Rocket w/o updating levels?

@shattercross
Sega ported more then four games over and over. They ported 30 games over and over so at least they're going for the gusto.

WAKU WAKU 7 PLEAAAAAAAAASE!

cmonn online multiplayer Metal Slug

No Nam 1975? But, I want to go back to The Hell again ;)

Falcon' PUNCH!!!

Now this is something worth looking forward to.

Also!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk0kufx74Io

C'monnnn, Art of Fighting 3!

Oh, there's a list. Well, that's quite a few games nobody likes.

This is great news, but come on SNKP.. why start with the sissy shit? Release KOF 98 - 2002, Garou MotW, SNK vs Capcom, Metal Slugs 3 - X, Samurai Showdown 2 - 5 (perfect), Strikers 1945 plus, Aero Fighters 2 & 3 (arcade version), and Last Blade 2 all with online supports and you would strike gold. You can even sprinkle some trophy support in there for extra gravey. Once they are all arcade perfect with online play I will buy ALL.

Fatal Fury 1? Man that game did NOT age well.. they could have at least skipped that and released Fatal Fury Special, or one of the Real Bout games.. and then the awesome Mark of the Wolves.

Also they need Windjammers.. that game NEEDS to be on there because it is 2 player action at its BEST.

Where's Magical Drop? That's all I want. Most of the SNK games are already available on PSP and PS2 via the SNK Collection or the Anthology games; Metal Slug, Samurai Showdown, Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, etc.

They should do their HD rerelease magic to the PS2 versions of these games and release those with trophies instead of nickel and diming us into the poor house with all these $8 pos games.

@kosmocrisis Magical drop was amazing!

I would give any for the magical drops!

@Vuxnut
Er, wasn't Magical Drop F or something just recently added to the PS1 Imports section in the US PS Store?

not the best list,but ill proboly pick up samurie showdown.

THIS IS. GLORIUS! FATAL FURY FTW. GET READY? OK!!!!

Uh this isn't very exciting. The Wii has Neo Geo. ....Do we really need the same games on another console? I'm sure homebrewers were already playing Neo Geo games on thier PS3.

@pluupy
Are they playing their neo geo games against other people online though?

I want my samurai showdown.

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