Yes, Samurai Shodown II is finally coming out. This is something that has me both "pumped" and "stoked." In case you're not a billion years old, Samurai Shodown II is a terrific 2D fighting game that was originally released for the Neo Geo by SNK. I have spent hundreds of hours either playing this game or watching it be played by others. That said, I'm not amazing at it. My Haohmaru is usually pretty good, though. This'll be 400 points and will have online play. I assume it'll be roughly identical to the setup that was used for Fatal Fury Special on XBLA, and that seemed to work fine.
The other two games are Rocketbowl and Shotest Shogi. I could probably go the rest of my life without playing another bowling game, but Rocketbowl changes things up by having you bounce your rocket-powered ball off of walls and stuff to hit pins. Could be interesting Shotest Shogi is a shogi game. Dude, wow. This game came out in Japan a little while ago, and I took that to mean that it wouldn't be getting a domestic release. Shogi, in case you didn't know, is a Japanese chess variant. Each of these games will be 800 points.
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