SNK Corporation

Awesome.

So, you know, I definitely want to ask, like, you know, with the fact that, you know, your career in Boring came to the States at 14 and Now you're the English voice of the most famous Korean fighter in SNK and fighting games in general.

Did that sit on you at all in the booth? Or did you treat it like any other role? Or did it, like, there's so much pride on top of the anxiety.

But pride came with it as well.

It is an absolute honor, one, to have you on the show.

The English voice of Kim Capua is an honor to have you on the show.

It's an honor that SNK gave me the opportunity to have access to him.

And I was a longtime fan.

...

I mean, it was the SNK corner right here.

So it was-

Sure.

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Yeah.

Yeah, there were quite a few, uh, SNK-

Well, there was two, but it's-

And I do think that you can trace a direct lineage starting from Kung Fu Master and ending up at Street Fighter.

There's another, you know, then important to note that he would then leave Capcom and go to SNK.

where he would then do Fatal Fury and really kicking off SNK's role in the fighting game genre.

And, you know, that eventually kind of coming to a climax with the King of Fighters series, ultimately.

But, you know, that's a story for another day.

But...

Gen's another character who would come back.

Then it goes to England, where you fight Eagle, who doesn't come back until Capcom vs. SNK 2, but also notably Birdie, who shows up in Street Fighter Alpha, though it turns out in his fighting street appearance, he's real, real sick.

come on other ones I'm trying to think my goodness I'm

trying to think of some more retro ones Link's Adventure for sure Secret of Mana is a good one I'm going to say Crystalis on the NES for SNK.

I have a lot of, I have a soft spot for that game.

It's a post-apocalyptic top-down action RPG.

I feel like they get left out because everyone starts painting everything under the same stroke.

When this SNK thing, it's a great idea.

Like you were saying, it's great.

I didn't think it was great enough for me to actually invest in it.

So I'm like, okay, cool.

Right after the Neo Geo AES Plus was delayed a year, which is kind of like, boom.

Yeah, yeah, because, I mean, like, I think one of my friends, he's on YouTube, Jim, he said it best when he was just like, yeah, it sucks to get delayed, but on the plus side, you can play any SNK game with anything that has, like, electric current, you know? Like, you can play SNK games anywhere, you know? You can play it on your phone, you can play it on your laptop, but I know, like, the Neo Geo console, this AES Plus, like, the whole premises of it was, a re-release console, and I really wish it did really good, because if it did really good, guess what? Sega, Nintendo, all these other companies would follow suit, and I would love to see re-releases of old consoles.

Like, that would be fucking...

It's really incomprehensible.

More so than the typical SNK English that's just bad.

This just doesn't make any sense at all.

I can't understand what's happening.

But yeah, almost every fucking one, I've been putting City of the Wolves on here because this was a PS5-only game.

I'm a big SNK fan, and I've been wanting to play this game for however long.

And yeah, finally, Fatal Fury City of the Wolves is coming out in October also, but for 20 fucking bucks.

Yeah, let's go.

No, not yet.

I'm super excited about this game.

And, I mean, speaking of, like, you know, stuff being in Nintendo and all that, you know, I mean, a lot of these games were introduced to me through Virtual Console for Wii, you know, because, you know, we all wanted that to get the $600 SNK system or whatever, you know.

The Neo Geo.