And here's a handful of shots of the SNK edition from @pixnlove.games

One of my Christmas presents to myself this year 😍

I was super bummed when I found out about the NGPC Selection Vol 1 Deluxe Editions from @pixnlove.games well after they were sold out. They recently had a 15th anniversary 'last chance' event and I managed to grab one of both variants.

Here's the CAPCOM edition 💛

I think I was most excited for the music selection on vinyl but the whole set shows a lot of love. One of these days I'll make room to display all the acrylic characters and perhaps even frame all the art prints.

The repro snap case is an awesome touch and they even included prints of all the inserts which are /almost/ true to original size so they could potentially be used as replacements for the originals or in a repro snap case similar to the originals of one ever pops up (I'm looking at you @customgamecases 😉).

The included art book is fairly nice - there is some artwork I don't think I've seen before (I'm not sure if this is all from back then or if some of it may be newly created art for these titles).

It took almost a year but this showed up from @limitedrungames today 🤩

It's well known that the NGPC is perhaps my favorite handheld of all time...for whatever reason...so this was a no brainer.

I was shocked when they started rolling out the individual ports and completely missed the Samurai Shodown! 2 release as a pre-order bonus with the new Samurai Shodown game a couple of years ago. Who would have thought that we'd have these available again after more or less just being bargain binned in 4 packs what seems like yesterday?

While modern analog sticks can't compare to the classic clicky stick of an actual NGPC, you can't go wrong with this collection or any of the individual releases.

The included book is perhaps the highlight here. I haven't dug too far into it yet but there seems to be a decent amount of content on each game in the collection as well their arcade or series counterparts.

While I was as excited as the next NGPC fan to see the NeoGeo Pocket Color Selection Volume 1 release recently, to all of you out there saying this definitely means there will be a Volume 2...let me just remind you of this...

NeoGeo X Mega Pack Volume 1 for the... You guessed it: NeoGeo X. Remember that thing? There was never a Volume 2 (there were 5 smaller volumes that made up the 'Mega Pack' vol. 1).