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

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.

Taunting is another feature of some fighting games and was originally introduced by Japanese company SNK in their game Art of Fighting.

Crystalis, known in Japan as, is an action RPG / action-adventure video game produced by SNK for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

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

Neo Geo Battle Coliseum is a 2 on 2 tag team fighting game for the Atomiswave arcade board, and SNK Gals ' Fighters is a fighting game for the Neo Geo Pocket Color.

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.

SNK is an acronym of, which was SNK's original name.

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

SNK is most notable for creating the Neo Geo family in 1990, which contained many game consoles and arcade systems throughout the 1990s.

Subsequently, both halves of SNK America were now being presided over by Paul Jacobs, who is notable primarily for having helped launch the company's Neo-Geo system outside of Asia.

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 ).

SNK Playmore USA released its first game on Xbox Live Arcade, which is Fatal Fury Special.

SNK Playmore is also set to release the Neo Geo X in December.

The Neo Geo Pocket Color ( shortened NGPC ), is a 16-bit colour handheld video game console manufactured by SNK.

* Athena ( arcade game ), a 1986 arcade game made by SNK, whose main character is " Princess Athena "

is a platform arcade game, produced and published in 1986 by SNK.

Afterwards, she becomes a secret boss in the dream match game SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos as an angelic being guarding the entrance to the Heaven World, which is patterned after the stages from her video game.

SNK, now SNK-Playmore, returned to the franchise development in this entry.

* SNK – revived by Playmore and now a third-party game publisher

Likewise Lenin's position as chairman of RSFSR's Council of People's Commissars ( SNK ), which he held since the Revolution, would now to be transformed as the Chairman of the Union's SNK.

All city council seats are now occupied by the Czech Social Democratic Party ( ČSSD ) members and the SNK European Democrats ( SNK-ED ), their minority coalition was enabled by the votes of Communists.

The PlayStation version is currently being distributed by SNK Playmore as a re-release version.

SNK signed up to become a third-party licensee for Nintendo's Family Computer ( Famicom ) system in 1985 and opened a second branch in the United States, based in Torrance, California and called SNK Home Entertainment that would handle the North American distribution and marketing of the company's products for home consoles.

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.

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

The arcade machines have a memory card system by which a player could save a game to return to at a later time and could also be used to continue play on the SNK home console of the same name.

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.

Nearly ten years after the game's initial release, Nintendo, with licensing from SNK, re-released Crystalis for the Game Boy Color on June 26, 2000.

Two of the characters from Crystalis are subtle nods to earlier SNK characters who later became part of The King of Fighters series ; the latter two sages, Kensu and Asina, are based on Kensou Sie and Athena Asamiya from the Psycho Soldier arcade game.

Only two King of Fighters games were made on the Atomiswave platform ( The King of Fighters Neowave and The King of Fighters XI ) before SNK decided to discontinue using the platform for the series.

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

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.

SNK also gave away a 4-cd soundtrack featuring songs from past KOF games with the preorder of KOF XIII on any Gamestop in the U. S.

Rather than become involved in the early 90s system wars, SNK Corporation in Japan jointly with SNK Corporation of America chose to refocus their efforts on the arcade market, leaving other third parties, such as Romstar and Takara, to license and port SNK's properties to the various home consoles of the time with help from SNK's American home entertainment division.

With console ports mainly being handled outside the company, they moved on to developing SNK branded arcade equipment.

But SNK also wanted to take advantage of people's desire to play arcade games at home, but without making the same compromises on CPU and memory performance that typical home consoles were forced to make.

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.

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

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

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.