This is absolutely an amazing documentary. So much history properly told and I'm flooded with great Arcade memories. I remember when Samurai Shodown 2 hit the arcades in 94 and how floored we were to witness it. When it came to detailed 2D fighting game stages, no company could touch SNK back then. Thank you for your hard work and fantastic video.

The quality here is simply staggering.

@TheAufziehvogel

4 жыл бұрын

First time in a long while I can drink my Whisky and relax to such a great narration. I'm from Europe and a country without any Arcade Culture, so I haven't the strongest bonds to SNK, but man, I'm a big fan of Samurai Shodown and King of Fighters and there clearly aren't enough good people out there on KZread who come up with good SNK stuff. Great channel.

@franciscor390

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheAufziehvogel That's awesome, that you have discovered the wonderful games that SNK makes, be ready for upcoming "the king of fighters XV (15)"

@TheAufziehvogel

4 жыл бұрын

@@franciscor390 I will. Hope they will create a Switch port (if announced) along with the other big consoles. Really enjoyed XIV. I think their DLC mechanics are acceptable. I mean, way more acceptable in comparison to Koei Tecmo and this damn Mortal Kombat XI where the retail version feels like you're playing on an arcade cabinet with all the monetization. Really hope SNK will not cross the border to scam people like they do. But I do think they will handle new titles quite well.

1:31:57 The intro of this game always makes me emotional and gives me chills. It is really a beautiful intro.

I havent even watch but i give it a straight like. 2 hours dedicated to this memorable game deserves it

Thank you for releasing the full documentary. I learned a lot about the series from this. Growing up I played the original in the arcade and eventually 2, 3 and 4. Most arcades closed in my area but I think I played Samurai Shodown V at the Jersey shore many years ago. I own the first game on Gameboy, Game Gear, Super Nintendo and 3DO. In my area Samurai Shodown was not common but the multigame arcade cabinets with Fatal Fury and World Heroes were found at roller skating rinks and movie theaters. I had an opportunity to play The Last Blade a few times which is my favorite series by SNK after Samurai Shodown.

This game was love at first sight. Dark Stalkers was another one.

@jonathancruz2324

3 жыл бұрын

YES DARK STALKERS I ALSO GREW UP ON IT

Samurai Shodown was the reason I bought a 3DO system back in the day. While some may fault that version, at the time the 3DO port by Crystal Dynamics was the finest non-NeoGeo version available and I feel it still holds up today. Yes, the 3DO only had a 2x CDROM, but that was a lot faster during gameplay than the painfully slow, but slightly more accurate NeoGeo CD version.

@koolk2115

3 жыл бұрын

I had the 3DO version as well. You are absolutely right about it being the closest port. My cousins and I would play for hours. Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo was an excellent port as well.

Man, this was so well done. I can only imagine the time and effort that you put into this. I played the first three instalments of the game and I never knew how grounding breaking this franchise was until this documentary. Great work 👏👏👏.

@NeoGeoNow

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words! If you have time dont forget to check my history of Art of fighting documentary, and the history of fatal fury which is currently still ongoing.

@NeoMoonSevin

2 жыл бұрын

Same his information is awesome I myself have been SNK since if first started playing fighting from SNK in arcades from 91 onwards his information is awesome and is fact he does his homework as a Passion well others long since moved on to other fighting games this teacher has remained loyal and stuck with SNK from day one but I stumbled soon this KZread years ago and subbed after watching afew of the docos on the lores of king of fighters and samurai shodown I myself did not know 98 % of what was going on in the SNK universe I'm glad I chose this channel and frequent often to watch the videos

One of my all-time favorite games!!! This game was epic!!! The nostalgia right now!!!

When NEOGEO hit arcades is was powerful but when this game dropped on SNES I was in love. I played for hours after school and mastered EVERY character on EVERY level of difficulty.

FYI, the English dub of Samurai Shodown The Motion Picture is uploaded on KZread. If you search for it, it’s free to watch, but please support the franchise ;).

@hammiranda

3 жыл бұрын

I much rather watch Ninja Scroll and pretend is Shamurai Shodown 😁

@sean.durham999

3 жыл бұрын

I used to have Samurai Shodown The Motion Picture on VHS, and I still have my DVD version.

All of the documentaries in this channel are amazing. One for Last Blade would be awesome!

That was just amazing. Your Love and dedication towards the series really shows in here. Thank you for the documentary.

😭 man this doc is so beautiful

dude...this took me back. and all my experience with this series was actually with arcade releases. from middle school to college. really good video, learned stuff too.

Oh my god! Two hours of Samurai Shodown history, that's all I asked today. Thank you.

@NeoGeoNow

2 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome! Makebsure to check the other documentaries i have on the channel, like hisyory of fatal fury, art of fighting and KOF!

Amazingly well done video bro! Samurai Spirits/Shodown is one of my favourite series of games with 2 being the best in my opinion. Keep these coming!

despite being a major fan of SNK (and ESPECIALLY SamSho) since forever, i learned so much in this well put together vid, thank you

Well done man. I love this series and it was sick to learn so much about its history. Thanks for all your hard work on this.

@NeoGeoNow

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words. Make sure to check my other snk documentaries like the history of Fatal Fury and the history of art of fighting.

I didn't know how this game ended up at the 7 Eleven and Laundromat in my teen era. It was awesome to hear the amazing story behind it. Thanks gamer brethren.

Amazing video, gg Nabil ! What you say about the 1st SamSho is exactly what i felt back then in 1993.. this is the game that had me ask my parents to buy me a Neo Geo. Looking forward to watch the next videos. Keep it up, Samurai !

Amazing documentary! Thanks for taking the time to make this.

Wow, so much effort. This should be a mainstream release somewhere.

Awesome video. I remember the first time I saw Samurai Shodown. It was round about the time arcades really took off in my country - right about the time several new malls were built in my area so you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting one. Naturally each mall had a movie theatre with attached arcade. In my case, I used to go with my mother on her Friday-after-school weekly grocery shopping trips to a particular mall, and I'd go and hang out in the arcade with whatever pennies I saved during the week. I already knew about Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat and a few other versus fighters, but the first time I laid eyes on Samurai Shodown, I just clicked with it. Unfortunately, I was shyte at the game, so I never got much play value for the tokens I pumped into it, but I still loved it. Some time later, it was joined by Samurai Shodown II, which was even more amazing to me. I had a Zambian friend at school who was also a fighting game player, and Samurai Shodown was all we would ever talk about - rumours we'd heard about how to do certain moves and such... Looking back, we clearly thought there was more to it than there actually was - but still a good time to be a teen gamer. He would also rant and rave in double dutch to me about this game called The King of Fighters, which was in the local arcade where he lived, but it didn't come to any arcades I could easily reach and I wouldn't play it for the first time until a few years later on console. I desperately wanted a home version of Samurai Shodown II, but it never happened. The Neo Geo console wasn't available in my country and, even if it was, it would have been so expensive hell would have frozen over before my parents would have let me get it, even for a combined birthday and christmas present. So, years later, I had to make do with pirate ROMs, but finally when the ACA releases came out, I snapped those up - and also the recently released collection. I love Samurai Shodow.

GOD BLESS YOUR SOUL FOR THIS RESPECTFUL AND BEAUTIFUL FILM ABOUT ONE OF THE GREATEST VIDEO GAMES EVER MADE

I've always loved every Samurai Spirits game from the first one way back in 90's.. It always remembers all my childhood days playing those games along the Street Fighter series.. I'm just glad that even now those legendary games are still updating giving us grown-ups the entertainment as just had when we were just little children and now for this new generation to experience that same excitement we felt back then... Trully SNK is right with their tag line: THE FUTURE IS NOW!!!…..

Great video you shed so much light and information regarding this beloved franchise it shows the uos and downs as well as transition of a video game series throughout changes and dealing with different market,censorships,evolution and fan fare..your amazing fir this and perfectly executed, with your narration and footage

Hey Man, thanks for your hard work and very comprehensive feature! One of my favorite fighting game series ever! However, I'm not sure if other commenters have mentioned it or not, but in the Samurai Shodown V part, you forgot to mention about the B+C+D / Issen move that you can do after you perform the rage explosion.

Dude! THANK YOU!!!!! This documentary is great and made things clear to much of us.

AHHH GREAT HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY OF ONE OF MY FAVOURITE FIGHTING GAMES OF THE 90'S!

This was excellently done!! Thank you for the in-depth information. I was there from the beginning when this game came out & your video filled me in on so much, and for a title I loved dearly. Thank you!

5 minutes in and this is amazing. well done job. thank you for this amount of detail and passion put into this video essay.

Samurai Showdown forever!

Thank you so much for this captivating documentary. The amount of dedication and hard work spent on this 2 hour video is very clear. Thumbs up !

Amazing job. Thank for this documentary. This is the best fighting game franchise ever for me.

Excellent video and this documentary is amazing. Thank you for your diligence and hard work. Looking at the game at 120fps with HDR brought me here.

Man, thank you so much for your hard work! Top quality! 👏

Never knew samsho was inspired by a sonny Chiba movie but it makes sense since they’re both legit badasses.

Such an awesome doc! Thank you for making this!

Amazing, impressive work. Thank YOU for this video!

Very interesting video! I haven't played much Samurai Shodown but always thought it looked really cool. It was fun to learn all about the franchise from this video!

Great information

Thanks for all the lore, man.

@NeoGeoNow

3 жыл бұрын

I am happy you enjoyed the documentary.

An exhaustive and extremely well done documentary. Thank you.

This was an excellent documentary. Very well made, and more detail than I ever expected. Thanks a lot for sharing this.

@NeoGeoNow

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Make sure to check my other 2 SNK documentaries, the history of Fatal Fury and the History of Art of Fighting.

You released this masterpiece of a video exactly 1 year ago. I came to show respect to your excellence

@NeoGeoNow

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you boss! Hoping the historybof Fatal Fury will be even better. Script of 1st ep is done.

@stevesteve0521

3 жыл бұрын

@@NeoGeoNow can’t wait to watch it

Dude.....hats off to you for this. I'm bowing, holding up my unborn child lol

Thank you for this documentary, I trully haven't time to watch it yet, but I'm really interested on this, this is one of my favorites franchises of all time

Great documentary ! my Lunch break became so much better with this

@NeoGeoNow

2 жыл бұрын

Glad i could make your lunch break better today ☺️

I really appreciated your effort to so a documentary of the best fighting Game series in the world

This is great, hope to see more longform like this. I can tell you put alot of work into it

Phenomenal work. You deserve waaaaaaaay more subs my dude.

after watching this i then watched the anthology for the games and it was well worth

Great video, thanks for taking the time to make it.

Amazing documentary thank you so much Sir for sharing this breathtaking work. Warm regards.

I remember seeing this game in 1993, instantly loved it. I drew so many puctures of the characters, I was so obsessed with this game lol. Loved Samurai Showdown RPG, wish Soul Calibur would do something like it.. I remember seeing Kyo, and Iori cameo in the game lol

Thank you so much for putting this out. Very cool to see the history of this game series. I was introduced to these games in the late 90’s, laundromat arcade 😂 after that, I used to play it with my older brother on an emulator that was burned to a cd (wish I still had it). Currently started playing the new samurai shodown on ps4, I suck but still tons of fun!

Amazing work. You deserve more than 900k views!!!

Brother, i really appreciate your content... it got me into snk games ... thanks brother

This video was quite insightful. Very well put together.

Impressive work, thank you so much for this content

1:51:49 "She becomes a fan favorite" ... I wonder why?

@marplatense31

4 жыл бұрын

Because she gives Mai some competition in the boobs department! 😜

I'm new to SamSho and this is a wonderful documentary. Thank you!

That was awesome man, nicely done

Thank you for your amazing work!

Every character was epic!!! I lived on this game in the 90's!!!

Great video here... I fall in love how you presenting the journey of the game

I woulda loved a SamSho in the style of KoF XIII, what a gorgeous game.

Thank you for doing Samurai Shodown justice! This is still my favourite fighting game franchise.

Amazing video man, better than we deserve.

Thank you! It was amazing!

Fantastic video. But may I correct one little thing @34:08 you say that "The game is the first to introduce a parry move", I'm not agree with this since Fatal Fury 2 (1992) did it first. This move is called "Defensive attack" or Guard & attack".

This video-doc definitely had me reliving my childhood i went n copped the game for ps4 and it had all 6 games available so living. The Neo-Geo dream

Beautiful video. So unbelievably amazing.

Thank you for this. Thank you.

Awesome documentary!!

This was my childhood thank you for doing this

Great job!! Thank you for the work. :)

In Japan, there was a 1995 port of 1 and 2 on 1 disc on the PS1. One of my most coveted items in my game collection

Great content, thank you!

Samurai showdown is technically is the first game I ever I played in my life I’m happy to see it back and I hope we will get a sequel with good netplay and perhaps crossplay

Thank you, i watch everything! 🙏

Thanks for this GREAT video!!!

Nice complete history of samurai shodown was a good watch, love the games on the neogeo and i rember buying the aes version on release and playing it to death what a game for it time.

Amazing video, full of nostalgia

Amazing detail documentary!

Excellent video documentation of the history! I love playing this series of games and wasn't aware of all the releases, wan-fu was my main in the first two installments but was saddened when he was dropped in later versions. The game mechanics and features got way too complicated and it was hard to find arcades that offered it. Now through ports I can play the anthology and the latest game is like coming home. Thanks again n I subscribed after watching this video! Cheers

Excellent video. Love these super long docs by ultra nerds on youtube, reminds me of PBS in the 80's.

this channel so underrated!!

Well executed documentary 👍👍👍👍👍

This is great. I finally have an mvs and ss1, and am enjoying it very much.

Great Work!!! Thanks for educating us.

@NeoGeoNow

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words. Make sure to check the history of Art of fighting and the hisyory of Fatal fury documentaries on my channel.

Hey dude. The Samurai Shodown RPG in English footage you used was taken from my channel. It was my translation project and a friend designed and drew the English "Tales of the Bushido" logo at my request. I don't mind its use, but credit and a link back to my SSRPG Let's Play would be appreciated. Thank you! Good work on the doc.

@NeoGeoNow

4 жыл бұрын

Done! Awesome work man!

@megatrolltrollington

3 жыл бұрын

@@NeoGeoNow why did he even have to ask for that? You don't ask for permission before you take something?

@NeoGeoNow

3 жыл бұрын

@@megatrolltrollington i always credit. This was a case of me forgetting nothing more.

@101iswhatsup

6 ай бұрын

​@@NeoGeoNowquality content, accountability. Keep doing your best bro. Respect the effort. Great doc. Peace.

Excellent video 🤟🏼🙂

Paku paku is Tam tam in disguise in order to protect cham cham

dope documentary. very detailed and knowledgeable.

very nice in-depth video. did a superb job capturing the essence of what made SS great. p.s.: what's your first language?

nice vid!

THANK YOU!!!

good job on the video