Athena's name is magic... Mystery, is what you see... Her crystal is the answer... Fighting fair... To keep us free... She's just a little girl with power inside... Burning bright... You'd better hide if you are baaaaaad... She'll get you... She'll read your mind and find if... You believe in right or wroooooong!... Fire, Fire, Psycho Soldier! Fire, Fire, Psycho Soldier!

@sebbie_gonzo

5 жыл бұрын

I swear the version I played had Japanese lyrics...

@nessadvantage9447

5 жыл бұрын

I dunno,I think the song is kinda catchy😂🤘

@WAEVOICE

5 жыл бұрын

Nevertheless, the Japanese version doesn't mistake psychic powers for magic. :P

@gameplayfirst6548

5 жыл бұрын

This song could sell me the collection. Not very interested in most of the other games.

@robertdavis4192

4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

A lot of these games are before my time but it is great to hear your perspective and nostalgic feelings for many of them. I am getting a copy myself to experience them for the first time. Great review Johnny!

@lennywright5655

5 жыл бұрын

I don’t think anyone could’ve done a better job reviewing this game!

We found our polar opposites here, lol. You are SUPER nostalgic for these types of games and I have ZERO nostalgia for any of these and just recently experienced them for the 1st time. Good to see a hardcore SNK fans opinion on this. Nice one!

@uncookedtreeo.l.r1207

5 жыл бұрын

Funny how I just watch your video about this.

I find it humorous the people complaining of the Switch exclusivity. 99% of third party games hit the other consoles waaaaaay before the Switch (Genesis collection.) Let Nintendo have one lol

@Lucrei.

5 жыл бұрын

What? I just want this collection on my PC bruh... that's not much to ask. I can just emulate them alternatively, but I'd like to give SNK my money if possible as this looks like a sweet product they've put together.

@happybudgies-wellensittiche

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lucrei. Oh well, I just want Street Fighter 5 on my Switch. This SNK Collection is like the first thing that is Switch exclusive that should be Multi Platform. 😁

@davidm410

3 жыл бұрын

Ppl should not overreact, they're usually times exclusives.. just snagged this on ps4

Crystalis is my favorite NES game period. Wild Fields FTW!!

@metaltom2003

5 жыл бұрын

Wild Fields is great, but I prefer Mt Sabre and Angry Sea. However, to be fair, the entire soundtrack is awesome.

Speaking of history lessons, if I'm not mistaken, Psycho Soldier is actually the first in the history of gaming to have included a song with actual singing and lyrics in it.

@ScaryGarrySG1

7 ай бұрын

That had to pull in some attention. I grew up near a large theme park with a huge arcade...every quarter that went into the Micheal Jackson "Moonwalker" game elicited the famous "HeeHee"sound..it sure didn't take long for everyone in the arcade to start doing it in unison each and everytime someone started a game. Same with Smash TV "I'll buy that for a dollar!" and then later with Maddog Mcree everyone would do the nervous guy's entire speech, and then his drawling "Youuu ooonnnlllyyy gooottt ooonnee liiifffee lefftttt." I never came across Psycho Soldier, but man, it would have really fit in!

THIS is how you do a retro compilation. You can tell a lot of love went into this. Thanks for the review!

That anime song is going to haunt me in my nightmares.

@acerola3576

5 жыл бұрын

the original japanese version is actually pretty good kzread.info/dash/bejne/q2itk5Wvnqq-lcY.html

@NOMNOM81

5 жыл бұрын

She's hiding under your bed, and will read your mind.

@RayShadow278

5 жыл бұрын

She will wait until you fall asleep and then do a Psycho Crusher on you lol

@peterk1837

5 жыл бұрын

Yep, if you get it on record and play it backwards she sings "I worship Lucifer"

@NOMNOM81

5 жыл бұрын

@@peterk1837 ROFL

The Psycho Soldier theme is quite the catchy little tune. KOF's done a number of remixes of it throughout the series.

Alpha Mission... man I haven't thought about that game in decades. Seeing the game play triggered the light in my brain having owned that game and forgetting all about it.

It's absolutely mindblowing that that song from Psycho Soldier was not intended as parody. Every line sounds like a cartoon theme song cliche that's been rewritten by a five-year-old, and appropriately, the singer sounds like she's imitating a five-year-old.

Thanks, reminds me of my arcade days. Also its great you got to a point where they send you games, and then you can share it with us, you and Vic are my go to youtubers for reviews etc

I am really happy that SNK is bouncing back after years of struggle. KOF14 was really great and the new Samurai Shodown looks incredible! The gallery and especially the "watch" feature in this collection are really great additions! As for the singing, there are actually two versions of the song and the Japanese one (for the Japanese version of the game obviously!) is MUCH BETTER!

@CrossoverGameReviews

5 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking that. But is it included? Well if it was, I'm sure HCG would've mentioned so no.

@jimsam8192

5 жыл бұрын

@@CrossoverGameReviews Probably not, but admittedly it would be a nice feature to be able to switch between regions. (who knows, maybe there is an option and HCG didn't notice). Especially in these old arcade games sometimes you get to see so many differences, like the level of violence or other elements that were altered or edited out, so having the ability to choose different regions would be a dream! XD

@Ginormousaurus

5 жыл бұрын

I saw on another video that the collection includes both the Japanese and English language versions of Psycho Soldier.

@TamakiMike

5 жыл бұрын

@@jimsam8192 Yeah, just like Ginormousaurus said, just like you can switch between console and arcade release, you can from Japanese to English.

SNK is such an underrated retro experience. I absolutely love them excluding the neo geo mini.

@NefariousDreary

5 жыл бұрын

And the Neo Geo X

@GiordanDiodato

3 жыл бұрын

@J S how?

I think this might be the definitive review for this game right now haha. GG. To my surprise the Museum ended up being my favorite part. Would love to get a copy of what they done for it in paperback. I feel like collections going forward should include museums like this by default.

Finally, after years emotional distraught I can patch the wound that Ikari Warriors: VR did to my chest playing it on the NES. Yes, these are tears of happiness!

Love hearing you wax nostalgic, man. I'm probably around your age (43), born in 1978. I was a kind when all these came out. A great era of gaming.

Lol at the singing in Psycho Solider! That was awesome! Man, this collection brings back so many fond memories for me! This was great, Johnny!

I love seeing collections like this released, it really gives people the opportunity to see where gaming has come from over all these years

Man ! I love Crystalis, I played the game boy color version. So happy to know someone else also remembers that great game and encourage me to buy this

My OCD greatly appreciated you reviewing and discussing all these old school SNK arcade/NES gems in alphabetical order. :)

Nostalgia. Thanks for the time travel trip again. I’m going to be humming that song at work the rest of the day.

Nice review. I am old and lucky enough to have pumped many quarters into these arcade machines. I loved Athena and I still completely remember that singing song.

Damn, that song is awesome! The best possible kind of cheese. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall during the recording/production of that.

Hoping they bring Samurai Shodown RPG on the next SNK compilation game

Its amazing to hear singning in a kinda of nes/amiga looking game. It just couldnt happen back in the day! i like the singning too!

@sivberg

5 жыл бұрын

@@lonewolf3314 Ye if all of humanity went together they could have done it too back in the day, thats not what i mean

I was on the fence about this collection, because of the price compared to other retro compilations; but the features really sold me and are appreciated . The care and thought is noted.

Iron Tank on the NES was great, I never did make it to the end. Back in the days when you bought a game by the box art only, and just really hoped it didn't suck.

Just subscribed to your channel, your energy is awesome & contagious.

It’s the psycho soldier team song! The second player in that game is Kensou!!!

I just picked my copy up Brand New at Gamestop for $20 and I had my monthly $5 off so it only cost me $15! Thanks for giving me a great pointer, I love the rewind feature and I love that game plays by itself if I want it to! Plus the Museum is fun and awesome! Thanks again man!

On the last day of the school holidays the day before I started High School my mom and dad gave me a heap of quarters to go to my local arcade and have fun finishing out the holidays. The year was 1990 and I remember I played the hell out of Street Smart. What an awesome collection of nostalgia! Gonna grab this for sure.

Great review. I remember Psycho Soldier showed up in my local pizza place for about a month when i was a kid. I remember the singing but it was in Japanese. It fascinated me for years.

I grew up playing more of the Neo Geo fighters and such. So it was a nice history lesson. Your enthusiasm on this video made me boot the game up with a coffee this morning.

Vanguard?! That was one of my favourite games for the Atari 2600 when I was young. I didn't realize it was an arcade game first, and had no idea it was an SNK game. Pretty cool.

@odaddy47

5 жыл бұрын

The Arcade game was my favorite, also Time Soldier will be a Free DLC, which I’ve been dying to play for years.

@Icza

5 жыл бұрын

@@odaddy47 Yeah I may have to get this now. I wasn't that interested before but with all the extras and features it has.. it looks so well done. I loved POW and Crystalis on the NES. I never owned them but rented them, Crystalis I rented multiple times.

I'm a young guy, but I've been fascinated with SNK since I discovered the NeoGeo here on KZread, and I actually found a local arcade with one that I've been playing this year. I might just have to get this!

Dude your so thorough in your reviews, thanks for that!

I’m old skool as I have a lot of fond memories of Vanguard. It was the first quarter muncher that I knew of at the time (continues). Ikari Warriors was a blast too and I haven’t played the sequels. Definitely picking this up...

Wow!! A lot of these games I haven’t thought about since I was 10. Baseball Stars?? One of my all time fave NES games. My friends and I made a league with our own teams and custom players. It was so much fun, occasionally devolving into fist fights. Vanguard was an Atari classic. Wow! I used to love that one on the 2600.

Gotta love the old school games. I miss them old simpler times of gaming.

Iron Tank! What I really love about that game is that it is the only video game my dad would play. I remember when I was really little, sitting on the floor next to my dad while he played it and he even has beaten it. My dad is not into video games at all but something about Iron Tank and Bayou Billy he really loves

This review is why I sub to you. No one else even mentioned this was coming out!

I remember Ikari Warriors, and P.O.W in the arcade in my mall. The arcade was 2-Bit Operation and I have alot of great memories in there. It was a small arcade, but It had some great games. Nostalgia is whats gonna sell this game for me. Me and my friends loved playing Ikari Warriors and P.O.W. (also TMNT, Street Fighter 2, and Out Run, but those aren't SNK) $40 is a bit steep, but in the end, there is no price on nostalgia.

To me as a broke kid in the late 90's and early 2000's Metal Slug was my go to arcade when my mom took us to do Laundry at the laundromat. Oh man I lost so many quarters.

Oh my god... I haven't heard that song from Crystalis in about 28 years... Gave me the unexpected nostalgia chills... Thanks for that Johnny!

"Better hide if you're bad.. SHE'LL CATCH YOU" That's some nightmare fuel for you, O_O'

@VideoGameStupidLC

5 жыл бұрын

Jhun Hoon would definitely be naughty. He would not mind getting his ass caught by her at all.

The Psycho Soldier theme was also played in other King of Fighters games as well not just 94.

I have so many of these arcade collections , they take me back to the good old days boi!!!

I remember like it was yesterday my old man recieving the arcade kit for p.o.w and helping him install it in a arcade cabinet and laying up the decals ....great memories snk i still have my original neo geo mvs single slot ....NeoGeo for life

Looks like a great game collection. I forgot about POW that was a favorite of mine and I used to play this at the arcade and if my parents knew i was playing a game with guns they would have flipped out, but the arcade was a great release from the hassles of childhood.

I just got a Neo Geo AES this year, and a lot of the games on it had prequels that were on their own arcade cabinet before the Neo Geo was created; which is what this collections seems to be about: playing the prequels that weren't on the Neo Geo. If you played King Of Fighters and want to know where Athena, Sie Kensou, Clark, and Ralf came from, get this collection. If you played Alpha Mission 2 and want to play the 1st game, get this collection. If you played Prehistoric Isle 2 and want to play the 1st one, get this collection. If you played Dark Arms - Beast Buster for the Neo Geo Pocket and want to play the original light gun game (it was also one of Michael Jackson's favorite games) get this collection. I never played any of these games, so I know I will be getting my money's worth out of this collection by not already having any ports of these games. I usually don't like collection games and prefer to get the original games on their original systems to get the authentic way they were meant to be played. But since most of these games were made for the arcade, and you know how much space and money an arcade cabinet takes up, I'll make an exception for this collection.

Playing POW at the arcrade and on the NES was so good. Memories!

Dude your channel is incredible. Loved this video

One of my favorite gaming memories is beating Psycho Soldier with friends at a birthday party in '91 or so. It ends with a music video. We totally lost it.

Listening to you talk about games and nostalgia makes my day better.

I remember playing "Vanguard" in an arcade back in the early '80s. Loved that game. If memory serves, it actually used four buttons in cross formation to fire in the cardinal directions.

when we were younger SNK was a massive game Company they put out loads of top Arcade Games in the 80s and 90s

Psycho Soldier is an old favorite of mine. I absolutely LOVED it back in the day. It was the first arcade game I ever remember having a theme song with lyrics. I'm always glad when people learn about it. I've had the theme stuck in my head for 20+ years though: "She's just a little girl with power inside, burning bright. You'd better hide if you are baaaad, *CHICKEN FEET! She'll read your mind, and find, if, youuu beeelieve in right ooor wroooong!" *Okay, they (probably) don't actually say "CHICKEN FEET" in that line, but fuck if my girlfriend and I didn't ALWAYS sing it.

I just ordered a copy all the way from Singapore today. It will be a month before it gets here but I will cherish it. Crystalis is my favorite NES game of all time. Thank you for pronouncing Crystalis the way I always did growing up. I still want to get a complete NES version some day...

POW was awesome... I have to get this. I loved Athena on the NES but never played the arcade version

I'm baffled with the massive amount of work put into this collection. Really well-done SNK. This is how you do classic collection.

I have never playing any of these before so I am happy to go back to this part of video game history. I'm especially interested in Crystalis and Athena, but hearing that there will be free DLC is really great. You're video also hyped me up for the oncoming release. Can't wait!

Love the Watch mode, so many good ideas to make a collection of this kind more user friendly. Seems very well presented.

10:30 yo that is by far the funniest video game music I've ever heard 😂😂😂😂

I remember playing some of these games on the original Nintendo and the arcades back in the 80s , I really like this collection from SNK

Awesome! I preordered the special edition a while ago! And I've very excited to get my copy!

One really interesting thing about the watch mode is that you can stop the video at any time and start playing from where you stopped it

This game is incredible! Love your passion Johnny. The rewind feature is wild. I played through a few and wondered how people managed to get anywhere in some of these arcade games lol.

Its a pickup for me just for "Crystalis"

Wow, brings back memories.. sniff..

Awesome review by you! I'm really thinking of getting this cartridge now :)

i actually liked the singing in psycho soldier, imma be jamming that song for a while.

I had Iron Tank growing up, and that game was so damn hard. I never did beat that game. I loved it though.

When you said "My favorite Crystalis theme" I was expecting the overworld theme and you didn't dissapoint! my favorite too!.

I already have mine on preorder.. I'm looking forward mostly to guerilla war

Great review, I will probably pick this up when I can or when it goes on sale. As I was born in the early 70s and grew up in the Arcade in the early 80s, I am their target audience for this collection. I wish other companies would do the same, but until then at least we have Arcade Archives and Sega Ages to bring the games.

Ah POW, that brings back some memories. Forgot about that one.

Thanks for the early review! I'm still a little unsure if I should keep my pre-order. I'm about the target age, close to 40, but the only game I have a lot love for is Crystalis, and although I remember seeing POW, Street Smart, Ikari Warriors, and Athena, I didn't play them extensively so Crystalis is the only game I feel nostalgic about. That said, the soundtrack and museum sections seem great features. The free DLC sounds awesome as well. So probably the collection is worth the asking price just for having a legal way to play Crystalis? I'm leaning a little bit towards yes...

I am only 26 and want this i loved the arcade's in the 90's. I remember playing king of fighters. I want this for my love of snk.

Hell yeah I'm 35 and I never played most of these games but I grew up in this era so you damn right ima enjoy these games they look awesome!

The Psycho Solder song sounds like something Kip would compose from Napoleon Dynamite.

The singing was cute

@garou119

5 жыл бұрын

The King of Fighter series add Athena as a payable character, and have lots of remixes for that song :D

@dl7174

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the singing on Anal Cunt's "picnic of love" album

@sladejosephwilson2300

5 жыл бұрын

listen to the original japanese version. A big difference kzread.info/dash/bejne/q2itk5Wvnqq-lcY.html

Do you know if the Switch can be set up vertically for the top down shooters?

That singing though “you better hide if you are baaad... I get you” 😂😂

"You better hide if you are bad" Amazing song writing. So stoked they recorded that song on an overdubbed cassette.

I´m happy to own this Collection and I am very excited about the free dlc with another 11 Games. Never thought, this would happen. Great News. Thanks to you! Love, watching your channell!

Great work, Johnny! Found myself being charmed by this review, and I felt that sweet nostalgia gently carrying me over to Amazon... THEN, the ANGER hit me, as I remembered Athena on NES ... AAAAAAAARRRRRRRGHHH! ; )

A lot of these games I have played back in the 89 90's and some I have never played or knew about, and I love the portable side of it, and Im glad to see these games come back from the dead, I wish SNK would release this on PS4 that would be cool too. Cool review Bro.

Great video Johnny. If I had a Switch I'd buy this game collection just for Crystalis. I rented it a lot back in the day. I really hope Nintendo releases more of these retro game collections.

That singing is awesome!!!!

Regarding the psycho soldier theme, if you search for "psycho soldier theme cassette" you'll find the version of the song that came with famicom copies.

Crystalis (Crysta-liss is how I've always said it) is a classic game for me. Also I totally forgot about P.O.W.! I remember playing that at the local Beckers as a kid. Gonna pick this collection up!

In the Psycho soldier game the music who are playing is the same of Athena in k.o.f 96 not 94,amazing.

I remember renting Crystalis when I was a kid, can’t wait to try it again maybe I’ll finally beat it!

Don’t have a Switch yet, but this plus the Atari collection has made me think about Black a Friday deals , although I also don’t have a PS4 and I could obtain that cheaper... 🤔

Thanks for another great review Johnny, your passion and realness are why I tune in so often.

SNK ALL THE WAY!!! I own several of these arcade cabinets in the RGL arcade. You and I are gonna have to give em a run at some point. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I had not heard about this one! This is an insta-buy for me!!!

Nice video as always Johnny. No wonder you never played Psycho Soldier in the arcade, it had an extremely limited release in the West. It is the first game with a vocal song as the audio track. How did they manage the Rotary Controls on this collection ?

Now that is batshit insane, I thought it was going to be only the arcade versions of these games, but they included the console versions too? Damn, you just convinced me this game is going to be worth its weight in gold, I'll definitely have to get it. Thank you for showcasing this.

Hi Johnny! Great review of historic SNK games, I recall playing them when I was a little kid, Street Smart was so cool! And POW in particular, I couldn't believe my eyes as a kid, and I wished my NES could have managed to showcase those amazing graphics lol, BTW, on topic: you experienced the same thing with the KOF94 song, like I did when booting up my copy of policenauts and realizing they play the intro song in Metal gear as well... great video Johnny!