Neo Geo Station Coming to PS3 and PSP on December 22

Neo Geo Station, an emulator"service"for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable, will be launching in Japan on December 22nd with 10 titles, SNK Playmore announced today. All games are priced at 900 yen (approx. $10.91 USD) for PS3 and 700 yen ($8.48) for PSP.

As evidenced by the above screenshot ofThe King of Fighters '94(courtesy of4Gamer.net), these will be straight"as-is"ports of Neo Geo titles rather than HD re-releases. SNK Playmore further insisted that games would retain all original bugs to maintain the experience.

The Neo Geo Station will offer some augmentations to these older games, however. Online play and ad-hoc wireless play will be added to the PS3 and PSP ports (respectively) and players will be able to save their game at any point. Sound Player Mode will allow for users to listen to each game's music at their leisure, and Replay Mode enables recording and playback of game footage.

Unfortunately, today's announcement did not address any details about the Neo Geo Station being available in markets other than Japan. The official website includes buttons for"US"and"Europe"at the top, but as of this writing they do not work.

The full list of launch titles is as follows:

• Fatal Fury
• Metal Slug
• The King of Fighters '94
• Samurai Shodown
• Super Sidekicks
• Art of Fighting
• ASO II: Last Guardian
• League Bowling
• Baseball Stars Professional
• Magician Lord

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