''SNK 40th Anniversary Collection'' is a video game compilation developed by

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consisting of arcade and console games published by

SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...

between 1979 and 1990. The collection was released for the

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in 2018, later in 2019 for

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on 19 March,

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on 3 May, and

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on 7 July.

Games included

The collection includes 25 games (Xbox One version has an exclusive game that replaces another game from the other versions). Original arcade versions are included for every game except for ''Baseball Stars'', ''Crystalis'', and ''Iron Tank'' (never released in arcades), which run on

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versions. NES ports of some other games are included. † Not available in the Xbox One version (replaced by Baseball Stars). †† Only available in the Xbox One version (content exclusive). Any copyright information in the Console games' title screens regarding Nintendo are still present.

Reception

EGM said that it was "one of the most impressive retro compilations I’ve encountered in recent memory". Game Revolution were impressed with "how much care and thought went into every corner of it". Jeux Video were not as impressed, saying "the good emulation, interface and fonctionnalities don't balance the cruel absence of many great SNK games".

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External links

* {{Official website, https://snk40th.com/ 2018 video games Nintendo Switch games PlayStation 4 games SNK game compilations Video games developed in the United States Windows games Xbox One games Digital Eclipse games Multiplayer and single-player video games