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Samurai Shodown! 2

The portable classic returns on NeoGeo Pocket Color Selection for the Nintendo Switch!

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About the Samurai Shodown series

Samurai Shodown (サムライスピリッツ Samurai Supiritsu in Japan) is a fighting video game franchise created by SNK (previously SNK-Playmore during 2003-2016) that debuted in 1993 for the Neo-Geo MVS arcade board, and then spawned a number of sequels and related media. Despite the name of the series, most of the characters actually are not samurai in the true sense of the word. To make this very clear SNK alternatively uses the kanjis 侍魂 in the games' logos, where the second character means tamashī (soul/spirit), making a better reflect of the series' setting.

The original Japanese name Samurai Spirits was changed to Samurai Shodown during the western localization by the SNK USA Distribution team, changing "Spirits" to "Shodown" so that players could understand the concept instantly. Shodown is a intentional misspelling of "showdown", this as reference to the theatrical version of the miniseries Shōgun (NBC, 1980), keeping the first syllalbe (sho) plus the last one from showdown, resulting in SHODOWN.

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Samurai Shodown, know as Samurai Spirits in Japan, is the first game in the series produced by SNK in 1993 for all Neo Geo systems, and thanks to the good reception, the game was ported to video game systems as Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Panasoni's 3DO and others.

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A beauty proud as the rose. Am I hot or what? - Charlotte before a battle in Samurai Shodown IV




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