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Capcom and SNK are in a race, it appears, to see who might be the primary to launch each one in every of their traditional video games on fashionable platforms. Which has led to some nice stuff, even when it often will get a bit foolish.
In Thursday’s model of that, SNK introduced that the 2000 Japan-only Neo-Geo Pocket Colour recreation Rockman Battle & Fighters is now accessible on Swap — beneath the title Mega Man Battle & Fighters within the west, although nonetheless in Japanese. It’s a port of two mid-’90s Capcom arcade video games (Mega Man: The Energy Battle and Mega Man 2: The Energy Fighters, each of which added versus combating recreation components to the Mega Man components), scaled down to suit the transportable {hardware}. The package deal got here from the period when SNK was constructing its Neo Geo Pocket Colour roster by signing licenses like Pac-Man and Sonic the Hedgehog, but it surely got here too late to make a lot of an impression in SNK’s battle in opposition to the Sport Boy.
The place all this will get to be a little bit of a dogpile is that Capcom simply launched the arcade variations of Mega Man: The Energy Battle and Mega Man 2: The Energy Fighters on Swap a pair weeks in the past, as a part of its Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium assortment. Conveniently, every of these prices about $4 and SNK’s duo prices about $8.
So whether or not you’re seeking to play two obscure Mega Man arcade video games, or the transportable variations of these two in Japanese and scaled all the way down to the Neo Geo Pocket Colour display (after which again as much as the Swap display) — all of that are nice, in case you can maintain monitor of them — Capcom and SNK have you ever coated.
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