Physical ACA NEOGEO Collections announced (2024)

For those interested, SNK has announced ACA NEOGEO Selection Vol. 1 and ACA NEOGEO Selection Vol. 2 for Switch. Both will launch on December 12 in Japan for 5,940 yen each. Each collection includes 10 games previously released digitally as ACA NEOGEO titles.

Preorders are up on Amazon Japan:

The included titles are as follows:

ACA NEOGEO Selection Vol. 1

• Alpha Mission II
• Garou: Mark of the Wolves
• Metal Slug X
• Riding Hero
• Samurai Shodown V
• Savage Reign
• Shock Troopers
• The King of Fighters ’94
• Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy
• Top Player’s Golf

ACA NEOGEO Selection Vol. 2

• Baseball Stars Professional
• Fatal Fury 2
• Ghost Pilots
• Metal Slug 4
• Mutation Nation
• Neo Turf Masters
• Samurai Shodown
• Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad
• Stakes Winner 2
• The King of Fighters ’95

Hattori Hanzo said:

Finally a Riding Hero physical release on modern platforms.

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I'm excited about Stakes Winner

Which is oddly in collection 1 but its art is on collection 2's cover (same with several other games, who designed this?)

The ACA releases are legit good. Easy and cheap way to play some Neo nowadays I guess.

4 € a game in that collection is ok even if they include Slug 4 & Riding Hero.

Raph4 said:

One Switch cartridge can contain All NEO-GEO games.
Release that with book + snap case
and it's done, you have a real collector

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Honestly I'm surprised it's not one game per cart.

Love to know what they were huffing when they decided which games to include...

The fact they left out Fight Fever and Legend of Success Joe... someone needs their ass kicking.

HellioN said:

$40+ each?
That's kinda steep IMO.
These should be $20-25 at most.

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Switch carts and PCB's aren't too cheap especially when Nintendo gets a cut out of it. Hence that price possibly.

this gives me Neo Geo X vibes in terms of packages of games.

I like the idea, but they're milking the volume releases. I'll stick with getting the games I want digitally when theyre on sale, as i already have plenty of ways to play these games. For those who dont have previous versions or MVS or AES systems then this is likely more appealing,

city41 said:

I'm excited about Stakes Winner

Which is oddly in collection 1 but its art is on collection 2's cover (same with several other games, who designed this?)

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All of them are swapped. I'm assuming the game list is assigned to the wrong Vol. title.

High quality work as always from an SNK rom compilation.

Edit: Unless it was OP that swapped the game lists, I finally bothered to click through to the Japanese Amazon listing and they're correct on those pages, unless they were changed since originally posted.

lithy said:

All of them are swapped

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ah yeah, so they are. jesus.

lithy said:

All of them are swapped. I'm assuming the game list is assigned to the wrong Vol. title.

High quality work as always from an SNK rom compilation.

Edit: Unless it was OP that swapped the game lists, I finally bothered to click through to the Japanese Amazon listing and they're correct on those pages, unless they were changed since originally posted.

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Thanks lithy Yep, they were swapped in the english source, but are now corrected.

As mentioned by lithy, here is the original japanese announcement itself:

Glad these exist - the ACA titles across the board are great ways to revisit arcade classics for those without access to "rom machines." While I have no need for the Neo releases, I have a few on my PS5 like Qix, the Gradius games, etc.

That said, some of the inclusions here are a bit...questionable? Like, Fatal Fury 2 over Special? Metal Slug 4 over 3? Still, overall decent packages. Not for me or most of us here, but good for those that don't have other means to access these games.

Tarma said:

Love to know what they were huffing when they decided which games to include...

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Odd choices for sure.

Personally, I can't wait for vol.3 which will have a feature whereby your Switch will mock you for being such a fucking idiot for buying this game, every time you boot it up.

Also, will be available in a special toilet motif box set that also has comes with a limited edition SNK branded noose in Terry's red & white cap colors.

Vol 3:

• Joy Joy Kid
• Fire Suplex
• Mahjong Kyoretsuden
• Raguy
• Ninja Combat
• Super Sidekicks 4: The Ultimate 11
• SVC: Chaos
• Thrash Rally
• World Heroes
• Quiz King of Fighters

ACA NeoGeo games released around 2016-2020, so I suppose it's about time to look for more money. I picked up a few of them and enjoyed them, no complaints. I suppose I could nitpick that sprite flicker was removed from Blazing Star but I don't think many would complain about that.

However it's worth noting that ACA doesn't include online play. I suspect that if online were getting added, they'd be stressing it. If that affects anyone's decision.

Jeneki said:

ACA NeoGeo games released around 2016-2020, so I suppose it's about time to look for more money. I picked up a few of them and enjoyed them, no complaints. I suppose I could nitpick that sprite flicker was removed from Blazing Star but I don't think many would complain about that.

However it's worth noting that ACA doesn't include online play. I suspect that if online were getting added, they'd be stressing it. If that affects anyone's decision.

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I could see that, but let's suppose they don't include online play and these collections are just the same as what's available individually on the eShop...

What would ACA stand to gain by releasing 10 of their $4 ports physically for $40? It just doesn't seem like good business. These games aren't new, sure there are a few people new to them, but given that half of the NG library was released 30 or more years ago it seems like the potential market would already know which games they like or don't like and are worth buying (or could judge that themselves via emulation), and likely have bought the individual titles they'd want via the eShop. $4 to pick and choose 10 titles from the eShop sans manufacturing/distribution is a better deal for all involved than these 10 at $40 physical releases.

If these collections were retailing at $20 for 10 ports ($2 a pop) instead of $40 ($4 per, the eShop price) I could see where they're coming from. I might actually buy at least one (I already have the ACA Turfies from the eShop, and that's all I want on Switch).

My point is if they were smart they'd incentivize consumers with more than 10 games in a collection or a lower MSRP. As it stands now, what is the point of releasing physical collections at the same price as digital where a customer can't choose which 10 games they want? Only HMG likes Riding Hero, and he might legitimately have a developmental disability.

Jeneki said:

ACA NeoGeo games released around 2016-2020, so I suppose it's about time to look for more money. I picked up a few of them and enjoyed them, no complaints. I suppose I could nitpick that sprite flicker was removed from Blazing Star but I don't think many would complain about that.

However it's worth noting that ACA doesn't include online play. I suspect that if online were getting added, they'd be stressing it. If that affects anyone's decision.

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There’s actually ACA2 Neogeo coming out with online play. The only game announced so far is KOF98 for PS5 and XBSX