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Metal Slug 2 and KoF ’96 Added to NeoGeo Station

By Keith Schleicher

Posted on October 11, 2011

The NeoGeo was a great system for fighting games and platformers, if you could afford the price of admission. If you couldn’t buy one, you would probably be able to find one in an arcade cabinet. The cool thing about that cabinet is it often let you choose from several different games to play from. Fortunately it’s a lot less expensive to play those games now since they can often be found emulated in SNK collections or now on the NeoGeo Station on PSN. SNK Playmore has announced that Metal Slug 2 and King of Fighters ’96 have been added to the NeoGeo Station.

SNK PLAYMORE USA CORPORATION is proud to announce the release of PS3™ Ver. & PSP® Ver. “METAL SLUG 2” and “THE KING OF FIGHTERS ’96”, as the fourth set of downloadable game titles for “NEOGEO Station”, via the “New Releases” category and the “SNK NEOGEO” Featured Publishers page available on SONY’s PlayStation®Store, from Tuesday, Oct 11th, 2011.

These are definitely some old school games, but if you haven’t checked out previous King of Fighters games, King of Fighters ’96 is a good place to start.

Keith Schleicher

Senior Tabletop Editor | [email protected]

While not working as a Database Administrator, Keith Schleicher has been associated with Gaming Trend since 2003. While his love of video games started with the Telestar Alpha (a pong console with four different games), he trule started playing video games when he received the ill-fated TI-99/4A. While the Speech Synthesizer seemed to be the height of gaming, eventually a 286 AT computer running at 8/12 Hz and a CGA monitor would be his outlet for a while. Eventually he’d graduate to 386, 486, Pentium, and Athlon systems, building some of those systems while doing some hardware reviews and attending Comdex. With the release of the Dreamcast that started his conversion to the console world. Since then he has acquired an NES, SNES, PS2, PS3, PSP, GBA-SP, DS, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One S, Gamecube, Wii, Switch, and Oculus Quest 2. While not playing video games he enjoys bowling, reading, playing board games, listening to music, and watching movies and TV. He originally hails from Wisconsin but is now living in Michigan with his wife and sons.