Highlights from this period include Mad Crash (1984), Alpha Mission (1985), and Athena (1986), a game that gained a large following when it was ported to the NES in 1987. Between 19 they produced 23 stand-alone arcade games. SNK Corporate in Japan had at this point already shifted its focus solely toward developing and licensing video games for arcade use and (later) for early consoles. The man chosen to run the American operation was John Rowe, the eventual founder of Tradewest and current (as of 2008) president and CEO of High Moon Studios. They established themselves in Sunnyvale, California with the intent of delivering their own brand of coin-operated games to arcades in North America. On October 20, 1981, the North American division (SNK Corporation of America) was opened. The 1982 SNK Logo combined with original 1978 "S" Logo SNK licensed the game to Centuri for distribution in North America, who ultimately started manufacturing and distributing the game themselves when profits exceeded expectations. Game quality improved over time, most notably with 1981's Vanguard, a side-scrolling space shooter that many people consider the precursor to modern classics such as Gradius and R-Type. The first two titles out of the new coin-op division were Ozma Wars 1979, a vertically scrolling space shooter and Safari Rally 1980, a maze game. When Eikichi Kawasaki noticed the rapid growth that was occurring in the coin-op video game market, he expanded SNK to include the development and marketing of stand-alone coin-op games.
SNK is most notable for creating the Neo-Geo arcade system and several franchises of games derived from it, especially Metal Slug. On December 1, 2016, SNK Playmore officially changed its corporate name to SNK News Release. On ApSNK dropped "Playmore" name from its logo and reintroduced its original slogan, "The Future Is Now", as a means to signify "a return to SNK's rich gaming history". Due to this strong resemblance to the previous company both in name and identity, SNK Playmore is sometimes referred to simply as SNK. The original SNK was founded in Osaka, Japan, in Jby Eikichi Kawasaki, and existed until October 22, 2001.Īnticipating the end of his first company, Kawasaki founded the company Playmore in August 1, 2001, which in 2003 became SNK Playmore. The company's legal and trading name became SNK in 1986. SNK is an acronym of Shin Nihon Kikaku (新日本企画), Japanese for "New Japan Project", which was SNK's original name.
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SNK Corporation is a Japanese video game hardware and software company.
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