Atari ST Arcade Conversions : SNK (#4)
575 arcade games from SNK were ported to the Atari ST between 1987 & 1990 : Beast Busters, Fighting Soccer, Ikari Warriors, Time Soldiers & Victory Road (Ikari Warriors II).
00:00 Introduction
00:51 "Fighting Soccer" (Arcade - 1988)
02:04 "Fighting Soccer" (Atari ST conversion by Sprytes Limited - 1989)
03:13 "Ikari Warriors" (Arcade - 1986)
04:27 "Ikari Warriors" (Atari ST conversion by Microwish Software - 1987)
05:56 "Beast Busters" (Arcade - 1989)
07:38 "Beast Busters" (Atari ST conversion by Images Design - 1990)
09:00 "Time Soldiers" (Arcade - 1987)
10:05 "Time Soldier" (Atari ST conversion by Smart Egg - 1989)
11:20 "Victory Road (Ikari Warriors II)" (Arcade - 1986)
12:32 "Victory Road (Ikari Warriors II)" (Atari ST conversion by Microwish Software - 1988)
13:51 "Metal Slug" (Arcade - 1996)
14:27 "Metal Slug" (Atari STe Demo Version by MST/masteries - 2021)
SNK Corporation (株式会社SNK) was a Japanese video game hardware and software company.
SNK was founded in 1973 as Shin Nihon Kikaku.
The first two titles that SNK released were Ozma Wars (1979), a vertical space shooter, and Safari Rally (1980), a maze game. Game quality improved over time, most notably with Vanguard (1981), a side-scrolling space shooter.
Between 1979 and 1986, SNK produced 23 stand-alone arcade games. Highlights from this period include Mad Crasher (1984), Alpha Mission (1985), and Athena (1986). SNK's most successful game from this time was Ikari Warriors, released in 1986. It was so popular that it was licensed and ported to the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, and NES. After Ikari Warriors, SNK released two sequels: Victory Road and Ikari III: The Rescue.
In 1990, the Neo Geo family was created. The company released a home version of the MVS, a single cartridge unit called the Neo Geo Advanced Entertainment System (Neo Geo AES). Several franchises of games derived from it, including Sengoku, The King of Fighters, The Last Blade, Super Sidekicks, Art of Fighting, Metal Slug,...
The Neo Geo line was halted in 2001 because financial troubles forced SNK Corporation to close in the same year. Anticipating the end of the company, Kawasaki founded Playmore Corporation in 2001, which acquired all of the intellectual property of the former SNK Corporation
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