Retro-heads jump for joy, as old school classics from the NeoGeo are heading to the PSN courtesy of the ‘NeoGeo Station’ service. These titles will be available for both the PS3 and PSP, but breaking away from the norm SNK Playmore will be optimising and selling the different versions separately.  For example, the PS3 version will cost slightly more but will have online play and friend list support, whilst the PSP version will be priced slightly lower and have ad-hoc multiplayer.
The games to be released will also have some updated features such as being able to save button configurations, and you will also be able to pause and save your current progress, giving you the chance to pick the game up from that point at a later date.
So now onto the games, all of which come with a digital manual. Â The initial batch is as follows:
- Fatal Fury (Garoudensetsu)
- Metal Slug
- The King of Fighters ’94
- Samurai Spirits
- Super Sidekicks (Tokuten-o)
- Art of Fighting (Ryuuko no Ken)
- ASO II Last Guardian
- League Bowling
- Baseball Stars Professional
- Magician Lord
Currently this service has been slated for a December 22nd release in Japan. Â The official site does have links to currently inactive US and EU sites, so we expect an announcement shortly.
Source: SNK Playmore via Andriasang
m61726b
Awesome news. However news like this always makes feel old.
MegaBonez
METAL SLUG!!!!!! This is awesome news!
DrNate86
Second this, legendary game.
Kovacs
Fatal Fury. Heaven.
shields_t
Superb, absolutely superb.
Grey_Ghost13
Another string to the PS3’s bow! come on bring us some more!
cc_star
Brilliant news, that could only be bettered with the announcement of a full Virtual Arcade with Speccie, Master System, Megadrive, PC Engine, Amiga classics
cc_star
Actually I wonder if this is coming to EU, seeing as we don’t even have the PS1 Import section of the store that the US has had for a couple of months… I want me some JP shmups
Pedromr
Hoping for Pulstar on the second wave!!!