In 2012, SNK Playmore announced the release of the Neo Geo X, a handheld and home console based on the original AES.

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However, SNK reappeared in 2003 as SNK Playmore and continues to release games.

, officially abbreviated KOF, is a series of fighting games by SNK Playmore ( formerly SNK ).

In addition to the remakes of individual games such as Re-bout, Ultimate Match, and Unlimited Match, SNK Playmore has released compilations of their KOF games.

SNK is a former name of SNK Playmore, a Japanese video game company ( August 2001-present ).

SNK Playmore Corporation ( also known as SNK or Playmore ) is a Japanese video game hardware and software company.

Anticipating the end of his first company, Kawasaki founded the company Playmore in August 2001 which became SNK Playmore in 2003.

Due to this strong resemblance to the previous company both in name and identity, SNK Playmore is sometimes referred to simply as SNK.

SNK saw little success on the video game market due to ( reportedly deliberate ) under-financing on Aruze's part, so the original founder, Eikichi Kawasaki left the company, along with other executives, to found the company named Playmore on August 1, 2001.

In an attempt to regain control of SNK, Kawasaki's new company, Playmore, successfully bid for and was awarded SNK's intellectual rights in late 2001.

As a part of its efforts to reestablish its presence in the gaming market, Playmore purchased Brezzasoft and renamed it SNK NeoGeo Corp, giving the company an internal game development team.

All of these entities were later consolidated into SNK Playmore when Playmore regained the rights to use the SNK name for a holding company on July 7, 2003.

Today, SNK Playmore in Japan highly resembles the original company.

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There was a possibility that it would be released in North America, but after some consideration, at E3 2006, Ben Herman, president of SNK Playmore USA, stated that the game will not be published in North America The decision was that it will not be marketable for the North American audience.

Ben Herman, president from SNK Playmore USA, commented that although he received complaints about the English voices for the game, Maximum Impact sold over 100, 000 units as of May 2006.

The is a cartridge-based arcade system board and home video game console released on January 31, 1990 by Japanese game company SNK.

The last official game by SNK for the Neo Geo system, Samurai Shodown V Special, was released in 2004.

is a game console from SNK that was released in 1994, four years after its cartridge-based equivalent, in an effort to reduce manufacturing costs.

SNK released Fatal Fury a few months before Street Fighter II.

" The same year, SNK released The King of Fighters ' 94 in arcades, where players choose from teams of three characters to eliminate each other one by one.

Meanwhile, SNK released several fighting games on their Neo-Geo platform, including Samurai Shodown II in 1994, Real Bout Fatal Fury in 1995, The Last Blade in 1997, and annual updates to their The King of Fighters franchise.

SNK released the first game of this type, SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium, for its Neo Geo Pocket Color handheld at the end of 1999.

Capcom released Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 for arcades and the Dreamcast in 2000, followed by sequels in subsequent years.

The first game in the series, The King of Fighters ' 94, was released by SNK on August 25, 1994.

The success of the game led SNK to release yearly installments of the series and numbered the games for the year they were released.

By 2004, SNK abandoned yearly releases of the series and numbered future games in a more traditional manner ; the first main series game released as such was The King of Fighters XI, released on October 26, 2005.

The games produced by Capcom are Capcom vs. SNK in ( followed by a minor upgrade, Capcom vs. SNK Pro, in ) and a sequel titled Capcom vs. SNK 2, released in 2001.

However, in 1999 when SNK was expanded to North America, the games were also released there.

SNK has released a series of CD soundtracks known as SNK Character Sounds Collection or SNK Sound Character Collection ( SNKサウンドキャラクターズコレクション ).

When Capcom vs. SNK was released, it was a success but most of the profits went to Capcom as it developed the game.

SNK released SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millennium and SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash on the Neo Geo Pocket Color.

SNK decided to abandon the video game hardware business due to the rampant piracy of game-cartridges, which SNK believed was partially responsible for its bankruptcy in 2001.

SNK Corporation in Japan had at this point already shifted its focus solely toward developing and licensing video games for arcade use and ( later ) for early consoles.

SNK also licensed Tiger Electronics to market handheld electronic games from some of its brands.

SNK collapsed on October 22, 2001 when it filed for bankruptcy and placed the intellectual property rights for its franchises on bidding.

During this time, SNK licensed game production and development rights for its franchises to several other companies, such as South Korean-based Eolith ( who gained control of the King of Fighters franchise between 2001 and 2002 ) and Mega Enterprise ( who produced Metal Slug 4 ), and Japanese-based Noise Factory ( who is responsible for Sengoku 3 ).

The company then began to bolster its assets and rehire many former SNK employees.

During the same year, they also purchased ADK shortly after it filed for bankruptcy and closed its doors, which was a third-party company that has been heavily associated with SNK since the late 1980s.

It employs a good proportion of employees from the old SNK and occupies its former building.

SNK Playmore would within the same year discontinue the AES system, preferring to publish video games in cooperation with Sammy, using its Atomiswave arcade board, which would provide it a more secure platform for new arcade releases.

Only in Japan, SNK Playmore has released the NeoGeo Online Collection for the PS2 containing some of its older games, containing emulations of its classic games, with the ability to play online by way of the KDDI matching service.

SNK also licensed Tiger Electronics to market handheld electronic games from some of its brands.

* SNK Playmore ( formerly known as SNK ), the producer of Neo Geo arcade boards and games has its headquarters in the city.

Baseball Stars was a critical success, often referred to as the best baseball game on the NES platform ( and possibly of all-time ); as such it became a franchise series for SNK, spawning five sequels, and its " create player " and " create team " functions have become standard features in sports games.

Art of Fighting < nowiki ></ nowiki >' s events are referenced often in the wider SNK universe ; The King of Fighters ' 97, for instance, parodies the events of the game in its ending.

A Neo Geo Pocket Color remake of the game was developed by the original developer of the arcade version ADK, and released worldwide by SNK under its Japanese name Crush Roller.

With the retirement of the aging Neo Geo MVS system, SNK Playmore chose the Atomiswave as its next system to develop games for.