Random: A 24-Year-Old Samurai Shodown Prototype Has Been Found Under A Tree In California
Samurai Shodown 64 has been discovered underneath a collapsed tree in California, Eurogamer reports. Now
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The amazing find was made pinball machine repair specialist Craig Weiss, after he had visited a client to repair a pinball table. Weiss asked about where the machine had originated and was pointed in the direction of a woman whose husband had owned his own repair business in the 90s.
Upon paying the woman visit, Weiss came upon six pallets of unknown parts underneath a collapsed tree on her property – auction lots purchased from a former SNK staffer in China which contained warehouse materials SNK had shipped back following the closure of its North American offices around the turn of the new millennium.
For sophisticated pallets. Updated on 17 March 2021
A never-before-seen Hyper Neo Geo 64 Samurai Shodown 64 prototype was found sitting under a tree in a Californian field recently.
It had been sitting there for 20 years, retro video game collectors believe.
Samurai Shodown 64 is a December 1997 fighting game released for the Hyper Neo Geo 64, the arcade system created by SNK as the successor to the Neo Geo MVS.
The Hyper Neo Geo 64 was meant to herald SNK s emergence into the new era of 3D gaming that emerged in the mid- 90s, but it failed to find an audience and reached the end of its life just two years later in 1999 with only seven games under its belt.
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