Neo Geo Battle Coliseum

Overview

Neo Geo Battle Coliseum (usually abbreviated as NGBC or NGB) is a fighting game designed for the Atomiswave arcade board developed and released by SNK in 2005. The game features characters from several SNK and ADK titles. Subsequently, a PlayStation 2 version of the game was released in Japan, North America, and Europe. The Xbox Live Arcade version was released worldwide on June 9, 2010. In 2020, a homebrew conversion was released for the Dreamcast.

The game system of the arcade NGBC, is a 2-on-2 tag battle, regardless of how many players are playing. While the two-player game system is similar to most tag-team systems of other games, the single player system is unusual. When the controlled character hits the opponent with a double assault, the reserve character will enter a hyper-charged state. When the player switches to a character in this state, they get two effects: "attack power increase" and "addition to damage value." Characters that already have high attack power will become even stronger with "attack power increase."

The game's single play is more like a survival battle, where the player must beat enemy after enemy as long as possible. However, the game gives the player 300 seconds, and when time-out occurs, instead of win or lose, the player will face the boss (depending on how well they perform). Only at this point will time-out determine the victor.

Every time the team do a location test, people say that KOF characters are stronger. Many people had problems with Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami. The main premise is that SBJ want to provide everyone with a new type of fighting game, but more than that, the basis of a tag match is that the team fights as one. Developers believe that by making the victory or defeat the team's responsibility, they can create a tense battle that places more importance on "partner combinations," "individual member strategies," and "teamwork," so they decided on this style. They were careful when making the game so that no money was wasted and don't make the gameplay volume too thin.

Official trailer

Gameplay Video. Watch on YouTube

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Game details

Genres

Fighting

Developer

SNK Playmore

Publisher

SNK Playmore, Ignition Entertainment

Series

The King of Fighters

Platforms

PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2

Age rating

ESRB T

Modes

Single player

Yes

Local multiplayer

No

Online multiplayer

Yes

Co op

No

Age ratings

GRAC

12+

ESRB

T

Release dates

Playable today

Credits

Region

US