{"id":22831,"date":"2022-12-16T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22831"},"modified":"2022-11-14T13:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T13:45:03","slug":"neo-geo-pocket-color-selection-vol-2-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/16\/neo-geo-pocket-color-selection-vol-2-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"NEO GEO Pocket Color Selection Vol. 2 (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Game maker SNK is known for their fighting games, but they also made their own consoles, like the NEO GEO and subsequent arcade machine.\u00a0 When it came time for them to compete with Nintendo\u2019s Game Boy Color, they brought out the NEO GEO Pocket Color.\u00a0 This was a really awesome little handheld, and for a short while, I even liked it better than Nintendo\u2019s portable offerings.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been happy they\u2019ve been re-releasing NGPC games on the Switch, and collections of those releases when they\u2019ve had enough to do so.\u00a0 And now you can play a collection of ten MORE NGPC games on the Switch!<\/p>\n

The menu screen lets you select from the ten games and view 3-D models of the boxes, instruction booklets, toggle the languages, and choose the borders (mostly NGPC handhelds).\u00a0 I\u2019ll briefly go over the games on here I haven\u2019t reviewed yet, and provide links to the ones I have.<\/p>\n

Baseball Stars Color<\/strong><\/p>\n

This collection has a few more sports titles than the last one did.\u00a0 Baseball Stars is SNK\u2019s signature baseball series, and the most playable sports game on this collection.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really like how slow your outfielders run, though, and I\u2019m horrible at batting.\u00a0 All the sports games here let you play a single round or a tournament.<\/p>\n

Neo Geo Cup 98 Plus Color<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a top down viewed soccer game.\u00a0 The characters are large and well animated as you run up and down a vertically scrolling field.\u00a0 The CPU is nigh impossible to beat, though.<\/p>\n

Pocket Tennis Color<\/strong><\/p>\n

The presentation of this tennis game reminds me of Namco\u2019s Smash Court Tennis series or their Family Tennis games.\u00a0 As with the other sports titles, the CPU opponents are way too hard.<\/p>\n

The King of Fighters Battle de Paradise<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is actually a board game featuring King of Fighters characters!\u00a0 It was never brought to the US, so it\u2019s all in Japanese.\u00a0 But luckily the instruction booklet is translated.\u00a0 Even so, it doesn\u2019t really help out much when you are actually playing.\u00a0 You can roll the dice or use cards during your turn, but it\u2019s hard to know what the cards do.\u00a0 You can land on spaces that give you coins or take some away.\u00a0 You can also buy cards on certain spaces, as well as play mini-games.\u00a0 But again, having to constantly refer to the instruction manual really slows down the flow of the game, and I have no idea how you win.<\/p>\n

Puzzle Link 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have a lot of good memories playing this on the NGPC back in the day because I reviewed it for The Dallas Morning News!\u00a0 It\u2019s a puzzle game where you shoot connection pipes to match two pieces of the same color and they\u2019ll disappear when this happens. Pieces will then fall up and make chain reactions with other same colored pieces.\u00a0 In one mode, if you clear the round fast enough, you can earn a card, and you can use those cards to play a battle mini-game.\u00a0 There are also endless and clear modes, too.<\/p>\n

Gunbare Neo Poke-Kun<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is another game never released in the US and it\u2019s all in Japanese.\u00a0 But it\u2019s very easy to figure out and the instructions are in English anyway.\u00a0 The game is one part virtual pet and one part mini-game collection.\u00a0 You view a character named Poke-Kun, who was kind of the mascot of the NGPC in Japan (I guess).\u00a0 Neo Poke-Kun lives in your NGPC and your goal is to make him happy.\u00a0 You do this by pressing a button to have visitors come in, and there\u2019s all sorts of weird ones.\u00a0 The only problem is that there is no indicator of how happy he is, and the visitors you invite are random and may not always make him happy.\u00a0 But when he is happy enough, he\u2019ll go and make mini-games for you to play.\u00a0 These start out as simple Pong and Breakout clones, with their own creative twists, but eventually get better and better until you are playing a fighting game nearly on par with other NGPC fighters!\u00a0 The game also uses the NGPC\u2019s real time clock, so if you play it at night he may sleep the whole time, so you want to try and play during the middle of the day.\u00a0 Even though this game has a lot of obvious problems, I actually really liked it for some reason.\u00a0 It used an internal clock way before most other games like Animal Crossing did, and it predates other mini-game collections like WarioWare by a few years!<\/p>\n

Big Bang Pro Wrestling<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Biomotor Unitron<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Mega Man Battle and Fighters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t think the two player modes would work here since you had to use a link cable in the originals, but they got around it here but having a second NEO GEO Pocket Color pop up so the other player can choose their character and whatnot.\u00a0 You can also use this feature to trade cards in Card Fighters Clash even though you don\u2019t really have two systems and a link cable to do so.\u00a0 Although some games don\u2019t use either of these features, unfortunately.\u00a0 Also, since these games came out 20 years ago, they don\u2019t have all the quality of life features that a lot of today\u2019s games have.\u00a0 But luckily, there is an option screen that takes care of a lot of that.\u00a0 You view the action on a mock up NEO GEO Pocket Color handheld (which is weird when you are playing the handheld on the Switch handheld mode), but you can choose to zoom in on the screen to make it much easier to see.\u00a0 You can also toggle various screen filters, and rewind, too.\u00a0 One thing I do like about this collection is that it has more variety than the first, which had mostly fighting games.<\/p>\n

The only problem I had was how these games were released.\u00a0 Originally they were sold separately before being on this collection.\u00a0 I don\u2019t like it when companies nickel and dime you like that.\u00a0 Just release the compilation!\u00a0 Also I would\u2019ve liked to have seen a physical release of this collection as well.\u00a0 But if you didn\u2019t get any of these titles separately, you gotta get this collection!\u00a0 Especially for Card Fighters Clash alone, I enjoyed that one back in the day even more than Pok\u00e9mon!\u00a0 I hope they keep releasing these classics in the future.\u00a0 Maybe someday we\u2019ll get an English translated Card Fighters Clash 2.\u00a0 Or maybe Crush Roller?\u00a0 And even though it\u2019s a licensed title, I\u2019d also like to see Sonic Pocket Adventure.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

NEO GEO Pocket Color Selection Vol. 2 is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Crude Humor, Fantasy Violence, Language, Simulated Gambling, and Suggestive Themes.\u00a0 Some of the games feature fighting, but you\u2019re just battling cartoony robots or pixelated people.\u00a0 The board game has dice rolling, so that\u2019s simulated gaming.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t really notice any bad language.\u00a0 The Neo Poke-Kun game has crude humor in that he picks his nose and farts, and some of the games feature anime ladies wearing skimpy outfits.\u00a0 But even so, the simple graphics negate a lot of this stuff and I\u2019d be mostly OK with any kid playing these titles.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, though, and some younger gamers may get bored with the older style titles.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget to check out my review of the first NEO GEO Pocket Color collection, too!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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