NEOGEO Pocket Color Selection Vol 2 Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

by Jim Smale · November 30, 2022

For our NEOGEO Pocket Color Selection Vol 2 Review, we play The second wave of the dream collection. Ten new NEOGEO POCKET COLOR masterpieces are included! This collection contains ten titles in total, including four that are currently sold separately—meaning six new titles have been added! Play through a varied lineup of genres from sports, puzzles, table games, and more!

NEOGEO Pocket Color Selection Vol 2 Review Pros:

Beautiful classic graphics.
983MB download size.
Collection of games from sports to puzzles and platforming.
Each game has a high res original game manual.
Game boxes are 3D, original, and can be zoomed in and rotated.
English and Japanese language options per game.
Device choices – New color, black and white, and color.
Neo Geo Pocket color display.
Eight skins and one without.
Full touchscreen support.
Can rebind controls.
Rewind feature with a Timeline bar to help.
Can change the screen and console size.
Set the screen up correctly and you are playing a Neo Geo Pocket Colour.
Two screen filters act more like brightness.
Can exit back to game selection.
Reset the game option.
Music on the main menu can be muted with a button press.
The game selection screen is the game Cartridges.
An absolute must-buy for NEOGEO fans.
Ten games – Baseball Stars color, Big Bang Pro Wrestling, The King of Fighters battle de paradise, Biomotor Unitron, Megaman battle and fighters, Pocket tennis color, Ganbare Neo Poke Kun, NEOGEO Cup ’98 plus color, Puzzle Link 2, SNK Vs Capcom Card Fighters Clash.
Fast loading times.

NEOGEO Pocket Color Selection Vol 2 Review Cons:

No online interactions like multiplayer or leaderboards.
Sucks if you already have some of these games as they were released earlier.
The only sense of history telling is the manuals.
No new gimmicks.
The NEOGEO Pocket skins are the same as all the other games.

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NEOGEO Pocket Color Selection Vol 2:

Official website.

Developer: Code Mystics

Publisher: SNK

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Nintendo

8/10
Graphics - 8/10
8/10
Sound - 8/10
8/10
Accessibility - 8/10
9/10
Length - 9/10
9/10
Fun Factor - 9/10

8.4/10

Summary

NEOGEO Pocket is back once again and this time it has bought its friends! This is the definitive collection of SNK games and it’s a perfect fit on the Switch, gimmicks wise it’s the same as the previous games so for those out of the loop, you get eight NEOGEO Pocket console skins and a ninth no-skin option, you can rewind games and comes with a handy time bar, the games load fast and you can adjust and resize the console on screen. I loved playing the previous games so to have them and more is an absolute dream, I get to experience games I missed out on, games I played previously, and generally get a good kick out of it. Kinda sucks for die-hard fans though as the collection will have games that have already been released but it’s a small price to pay. I wish it had more options and out-the-box ideas for console skins and filters and maybe even a seperate history part but make no mistake, NEOGEO Pocket Color Selection Vol 2 is a worthy addition to your games catalog.