It was just under two weeks ago that we brought you the announcement of “Neo Geo X Classics: Volume I“, which will be a new compilation of 3 classic Neo Geo titles for the new Neo Geo X handheld platform. At the time of the announcement, we brought you news that additional volumes were planned for the future. Thanks to the official Neo Geo X Facebook page, we now have the news that the second volume of the series has been confirmed, and will feature 3 additional classics: “Savage Reign”, “Samurai Shodown III” and “Super Sidekicks 3: The Next Glory”.

Savage Reign was a 1995 competitive fighting game released by SNK for their Neo Geo arcade and home platform, which was quite futuristically themed. It was later ported to the Neo Geo CD format, and later to the Sony PlayStation 2. A mysterious legendary fighter known as King Leo has risen up from the shadows of secrecy pubically challenged via television, for the strongest fighters to battle him in a fighting tournament called The Battle of the Beast God. In the broadcast, he promises immense wealth, as well as legendary fame, such a fame that could never had been imagined by anyone previously. A total of 9 individual fighters attend the tournament, with each fighter holding there own with their specific reasoning for battling King Leo.

“Samurai Shodown III: Blades of Blood” is the third game in the popular Samurai Shodown fighter games, however while it is the third game in the primary series, it was to become the first part of a two-chapter storyline between the first two games. In SNK’s tradition of typically using the third game in any game series as a way of starting fresh, Samurai Shodown III was to be the start of a bold new direction for the franchise, complete with a much darker storyline and all around feel. Despite the large amount of programming bugs that were found throughout the game when it was initially released, as time went on, the third game of the series has become better appreciated, despite the large number of in spite of its flaws.

Super Sidekicks was a series of video games based on the sport of soccer, also originally released for the original Neo Geo console, as well as the arcade. The third game in this series was originally published for home players in 1995, and offers to the player sixty-four national teams, which are divided into 8 regions. A new feature of this entry includes regional tournaments, in which a team from any region, is able to enter a tournament from either within it’s own region, or in another one. This feature was praised by players that liked a particular team, but didn’t care to face the same opponents with every new game play, as they would if they played the World tournament.

Currently, there is no information about what exactly will be included with this new SD card offering. It seems that SNK Playmore is keeping it’s promises so far with these new releases, since all three of these games were rumored to be included in a future “Neo Geo X Classics” collection. There is still no word on the price for either of these collections, nor is there a specific date that the compilations will be released. However, if both of these volumes are released at the same time, they will both be made available by the end of April of this year.