EU VC Releases - 5th October - Fatal Fury and Sega Week

The time has come - The first Neo Geo game has hit the European VC! As expected, it's the classic fighter, Fatal Fury. Play as Terry Bogard, Andy Bogard or Joe Higashi and try to avenge yourself on Geese Howard. Neo Geo games cost 900 Wii Points each (As previously stated), due to their great graphic and sound quality.

by Marcel van Duyn Fri 5th Oct 2007

Joining Fatal Fury are 4 Mega Drive titles, as it's the first update of the month, naturally meaning it's Sega time!

The first one is Landstalker. We sadly missed out on this fantastic isometric RPG last month (While America alreayd had it!), but it's now finally available in Europe too. Do yourself a favour and get this game, as it's perhaps one of the Mega Drive's finest!

Second, it's Streets of Rage 3. The final part of the trilogy has received lots of criticism for it's odd choice of graphics and sound, but it's still a fantastic ending to a fantastic series. If you loved the first two, you can't go wrong here!

The third Sega game is Golden Axe III, coincidentally also the last of a beat 'em up trilogy. The Golden Axe series (Especially the Sega ports) have never truly been amazing, but if you liked them before, this one will be right up your alley. It wasn't released in Europe originally!

Finally we have Super Thunder Blade. You'd do well to steer clear of this title - It was a pretty bad Star Fox/Space Harrier clone to begin with, but the years have been very, very harsh to it, and it's just awful now. Just ignore it and pick one of the other games this week!

So, five more games for Europe! Take a pick, four of them are good!

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Smash_Eggs_Garlic
Fri 5th Oct 2007

Europeans must be jumping and breaking roofs in joy.
Even though here in America we already had a few of them, Europe got too much awesome games at once(yes I'm even counting Fatal Fury as one of them,cool game, give it a try if you DON'T REALLY MIND. in comparison to other games at the same price).
I suggest Fatal Fury Battle Archives Vol. 1 instead if you are going to spend 900 Wii points in FF1.
Still playing Mario Bros. Lost Levels & Breath of Fire II.

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alexanderpas
Fri 5th Oct 2007

expensive week... 4100 points...

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alvieao
Fri 5th Oct 2007

Fatal Fury and three great Mega Drive/Genesis games (ignore the stinker that is Super Thunder Blade) comes to Europe which is really nice. Yep, Fatal Fury will eventually reach the North American region after. I hope the upcoming HORI Wii arcade stick is coming out because it's perfect for NeoGeo and fighting games...

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BJ1
Fri 5th Oct 2007

I can probably speculate the US getting Golden Axe 3 this monday.

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JNoodles
Fri 5th Oct 2007

Meh, it is an okay week. Fatal Fury looks to be the best of the bunch... that I don't already have. I got myself some Landstalker action, had had it for about a week! I might get Fatal Fury once it hits USA; not sure though.

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TBoneTony
Fri 5th Oct 2007

I got Landstalker, finally....

Good game but a bit tricky at the start trying to get used to the Isometric feel of it.

Good to see the Neo Geo titles and I won't mind picking up one of them in the comming weeks, but I may need to watch my remaining blocks on my wii as I already had to delete one of my N64 games from my channels (because I dropped down to 196 blocks left of memory) but I saved them on my Photo-Memory card before I did that though...

Hope that Nintendo has a way of increasing our Wii's memory soon or else I will have to delete a few more games inorder to get some good ones that are comming later on.

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RGVEDA
Fri 5th Oct 2007

Great week!!! But i still hope we get Samurai Ghost this Month, or at least next month.

Great start for the Neo Geo

RGVEDA

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Shortay
Fri 5th Oct 2007

Great week for sure, though no must buys in there for me...

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Paulymate
Fri 5th Oct 2007

As Golden Axe III wasn't released in Europe, is the VC version full screen and 60Hz like the titles in the Hanabi festival? Or have they given it a thorough 'PAL'ing?

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EnglishRob
Fri 5th Oct 2007

At last! Neo Geo on the VC!

I was a bit disapointed that I missed the SMB2, but I'm happy that I still have 900 wii points to get FF.

Rob

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__Albin
Fri 5th Oct 2007

damnit i want yoshi story

12
Fri 5th Oct 2007

yeah i was thinking the same

i want my Yoshi story -_-

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Rockman_90
Fri 5th Oct 2007

Maybe Super metroid is the 150th game now when metroid prime 3 coming the 26 of oktober in europe!?

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johnhood
Fri 5th Oct 2007

It's great to see NEO-GEO on VC Europe! However, I'm looking forward to some Rondo of Blood on TurboGrafx-CD! Well, I can dream can't I?

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__Tom2
Fri 5th Oct 2007

Yea i want yoshi story aswell =((

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JODIsBack
Fri 5th Oct 2007

I'd say Super Metroid has a 75% chance to come out in Europe the same day as Prime 3.

They did it with Excite Truck/Excitebike, so yeah

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__TheHolg
Sat 6th Oct 2007

What a mess, Fatal Fury runs at 50Hz and has borers. This really sucks! I say we boycot NeoGeo games until Nintendo gets this issue fixed.
I've been emailing them on a weekly basis to complain about the 50/60Hz issue and I encourage everyone to do the same.
Let your voice be heard!

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sco0504
Sat 6th Oct 2007

great releases this week but im waitin for super metroid

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__MrLonghair
Sat 6th Oct 2007

I owned a NeoGeo back in the days and I know that NeoGeo AES games have never been PAL, had borders or run at 50hz. You could take a Japanese AES unit, a US AES game and plug and play on any European TV. Since there's more vertical resolution to the PAL standard you'll see some graphical garbage instead of black borders, but it was 60hz.