1999 Neo Geo Fighter Fatal Fury: First Contact Has Just Surprise-Launched On Switch

Meanwhile, I still wait for the day when literally anyone can figure out how Hyper Neo Geo 64 emulation works. Until then, the only way to play Fatal Fury Wild Ambition is through the PS1 port.

I absolutely loved this when it came out for my NeoGeo Pocket Color back in the day. It's a brilliant fighter and is different to enough to sit next to SNK Vs Capcom: Match of the Millennium when it's eventually released.

My only problem is that people can't experience it with the original micro-switch joystick from the NGPC.. still never played a handheld with better feeling controls.

Cool! I’ll definitely give it a whirl. NGP was a great and sorely overlooked handheld

Apologies if this has been covered before, but can these Neo Geo Pocket ports display in full screen or without borders?

I really want this, I blasted through King of Fighters R2, except I haven’t giving making mode a go yet. I love Fatal Fury though so this is going on the wishlist! Maybe I’ll get a gift card this Christmas!

@Broosh you can take away the borders and go full screen just not widescreen.

@DanteSolablood I would love a joycon with an NGPC style stick on it in place of the analogue one. Would be perfect for fighting games and shmups.

They should release Faselei on Switch if only for preservation purposes.

I see a lot of these releases covered here. I've never played any, which would be a good one
to start with?

This was a great game back in the day
One of the best neo geo pocket games

That looks very cool indeed.

@UmbrageHill @Broosh
Good. I was wondering the same thing.

@DanteSolablood I totally agree! One of my biggest regrets selling 15 years ago a near perfect collection of NGP's and pretty much all the clam shell released pal games - amazing little machine.

Stop taking my money snk!

God, I love when when NGPC games randomly show up. Now where's Sonic?!

Hopefully we get a NGPC collection at the end of these releases.

Card Fighters????

Ah, I love me some more 60FPS NGPC goodness! (EDIT: well, the round and match transitions, as well as some victory poses, are in 60FPS) Gonna get this as soon as I get out of work.

EDIT: Oof, not sure what happened here but the game seems to be running slightly slower than from what I remember. I checked a number of YouTube videos, including Classic Game Room, who recorded the gameplay off-screen and that pretty much confirmed it. I might need to reach out and see if there's going to be a patch.

@Pisiform This game, of the ones released, is probably the easiest one to get into, IMO. Good controls, simple special move inputs, easy to combo. The bosses are kinda hard, so watch out for that. But yeah, compared to the others, KoF is more complex, and Samurai Shodown! and Last Blade are more technical with their spacing and zoning focus. Fatal Fury, you can just get in there.

@Pisiform if you're interested in trying a Neo Geo Pocket fighting game, I would recommend King of Fighters R-2. I always had more interest in KOF than Fatal Fury when it came to traditional SNK fighters. There are also weapons fighters that play differently, Samurai Shodown and Last Blade. Last Blade is my preference there.

I’ll have to get this as well as Last Blade.

It's only a matter of time until we get the Metal Slugs now.

It's a nice addition to the Switch family but still SNK could had easily just make a NeoGeo Pocket Color collection like they did with their NeoGeo arcade games and be done with it. The entire NeoGeo Pocket Color library including those in black and white could easily fit onto a single 2gb Switch game cartridge just fine.

I hope we'll get the Metal Slug games soon, these fighters are nice, but MS i what i really want.

They should give us a game that isn't a fighting game next, unless its SNK vs. Capcom.