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In 1994 the Korean software developer VICCOM released their first NEOGEO game Fight Fever. Some
SNK programmers actually assisted them with the project as SNK and VICCOM had a friendly relationship.
In fact, the Korean fighter in SNK's 1992 Fatal Fury 2 game is named after the president of VICCOM,
Kim Kapawan!
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A PICTURE OF THE RARE KOREAN NEOGEO HOME CONSOLE.
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The coin op industry mostly had JAPAN, USA, and WORLD regions for the vast
majority of the games that it released. But as the world changed and NEOGEO's
popularity sky rocketed, SNK began tapping into the South American and Asian
markets. Without giving a history lesson here, suffice it to say that Japan
and Korea have a sordid past. And so when SNK began to market their games in
Korea, it became neccesary to make adjustments to the software.
As of this writing, we literally still do not know exactly how many of
SNK's NEOGEO titles were modified for this area of the world. What we have
done however is documented as many of these titles and their changes as
possible. And as more are discovered, we will surely update this section.
Basically, most games had the blood and violence censored. In addition, some
Japanese character names were changed. Furthermore, some introductions and
cut scenes were altered and/or completely removed from the games. And lastly,
in some cases, the games NGH software product number was modified, most often
by changing the first number from a 2 to a 1.
For this particular article however, our primary interest was with those
few and far between titles that actually had their title screens changed. And
so we have presented those screenshots here. Again, if and when more of them
are found, they will be posted here on this page.
NOTE: The Last Blade 2 (The Last Soldier 2) has been rumored by several
people and sites around the internet as also having been released in Korea.
However, absolutely no evidence whatsoever has surfaced yet to prove this.
Also, Quiz Daisousasen had a Korean version (and this has been 100% visually
confirmed), however it was brought there in 1995 (4 years after its release)
and the title screen was left unchanged in Japanese. Only the very bottom
copyright line was changed from c. 1991 SNK to c. 1995 VICCOM.
KOREAN TIMELINE:
-- 1994 -- SNK releases FIGHT FEVER by Korean game developer VICCOM.
-- 1995 -- FIGHT FEVER 2 IS DEVELOPED BUT GOES UNRELEASED
-- 1995 -- Viccom releases SNK's Quiz Detective translated into Korean.
-- 1996 -- Viccom releases SAURUS Quiz King of Fighters translated into Korean.
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