Remember SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 (PS2, PSP, Wii)? A year on and it looks like SNK is finally ready to release the next volume in the compilation. Thing is, it seems they're going backwards instead of forward.

A listing for a PS2 and PSP collection called SNK Arcade Classics 0 recently popped up on the ESRB database, and that "0" in the title suggests that SNK will be reaching even further back for this one compared to the 90s-centric Vol. 1.

Another clue is present in the ESRB's description which mentions that the 1989 game SAR: Search and Rescue is included in the collection. It actually got mentioned since it seems to be the only reason this game got an "M" rating:

The game receives a Mature rating for one game’s depiction of blood and gore: In SAR (Search and Rescue), blood covers the entire floor of some rooms. Although the perspective is top-down and the graphics are somewhat minimal (2D), there are frequent depictions of mangled human corpses strewn—or lying face-down—in pools of blood.

The description doesn't mention any other games, but it does say that there will be 20 in all comprising several genres: action, fighting, sports (baseball, football, Olympics), shooting, and platforming. Ikari Warriors and Psycho Soldier (or maybe Athena) are probably in there somewhere. The curious can find a list of SNK's old 80s games here.

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