The Complete History Of Samurai Shodown - Full 2 Hours Documentary

This is absolutely an amazing documentary. So much history properly told and I'm flooded with great Arcade memories. I remember when Samurai Shodown 2 hit the arcades in 94 and how floored we were to witness it. When it came to detailed 2D fighting game stages, no company could touch SNK back then. Thank you for your hard work and fantastic video.

The quality here is simply staggering.

1:31:57 The intro of this game always makes me emotional and gives me chills. It is really a beautiful intro.

I havent even watch but i give it a straight like. 2 hours dedicated to this memorable game deserves it

Thank you for releasing the full documentary. I learned a lot about the series from this. Growing up I played the original in the arcade and eventually 2, 3 and 4. Most arcades closed in my area but I think I played Samurai Shodown V at the Jersey shore many years ago. I own the first game on Gameboy, Game Gear, Super Nintendo and 3DO. In my area Samurai Shodown was not common but the multigame arcade cabinets with Fatal Fury and World Heroes were found at roller skating rinks and movie theaters. I had an opportunity to play The Last Blade a few times which is my favorite series by SNK after Samurai Shodown.

This game was love at first sight. Dark Stalkers was another one.

Samurai Shodown was the reason I bought a 3DO system back in the day. While some may fault that version, at the time the 3DO port by Crystal Dynamics was the finest non-NeoGeo version available and I feel it still holds up today. Yes, the 3DO only had a 2x CDROM, but that was a lot faster during gameplay than the painfully slow, but slightly more accurate NeoGeo CD version.

When NEOGEO hit arcades is was powerful but when this game dropped on SNES I was in love. I played for hours after school and mastered EVERY character on EVERY level of difficulty.

FYI, the English dub of Samurai Shodown The Motion Picture is uploaded on YouTube. If you search for it, it’s free to watch, but please support the franchise ;).

One of my all-time favorite games!!! This game was epic!!! The nostalgia right now!!!

dude...this took me back. and all my experience with this series was actually with arcade releases. from middle school to college. really good video, learned stuff too.

Man, this was so well done. I can only imagine the time and effort that you put into this. I played the first three instalments of the game and I never knew how grounding breaking this franchise was until this documentary. Great work 👏👏👏.

I've always loved every Samurai Spirits game from the first one way back in 90's.. It always remembers all my childhood days playing those games along the Street Fighter series.. I'm just glad that even now those legendary games are still updating giving us grown-ups the entertainment as just had when we were just little children and now for this new generation to experience that same excitement we felt back then... Trully SNK is right with their tag line: THE FUTURE IS NOW!!!…..

Hey dude. The Samurai Shodown RPG in English footage you used was taken from my channel. It was my translation project and a friend designed and drew the English "Tales of the Bushido" logo at my request. I don't mind its use, but credit and a link back to my SSRPG Let's Play would be appreciated. Thank you! Good work on the doc.

All of the documentaries in this channel are amazing. One for Last Blade would be awesome!

despite being a major fan of SNK (and ESPECIALLY SamSho) since forever, i learned so much in this well put together vid, thank you

Oh my god! Two hours of Samurai Shodown history, that's all I asked today. Thank you.

I didn't know how this game ended up at the 7 Eleven and Laundromat in my teen era. It was awesome to hear the amazing story behind it. Thanks gamer brethren.

That was just amazing. Your Love and dedication towards the series really shows in here. Thank you for the documentary.

Awesome video. I remember the first time I saw Samurai Shodown. It was round about the time arcades really took off in my country - right about the time several new malls were built in my area so you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting one. Naturally each mall had a movie theatre with attached arcade. In my case, I used to go with my mother on her Friday-after-school weekly grocery shopping trips to a particular mall, and I'd go and hang out in the arcade with whatever pennies I saved during the week. I already knew about Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat and a few other versus fighters, but the first time I laid eyes on Samurai Shodown, I just clicked with it. Unfortunately, I was shyte at the game, so I never got much play value for the tokens I pumped into it, but I still loved it. Some time later, it was joined by Samurai Shodown II, which was even more amazing to me. I had a Zambian friend at school who was also a fighting game player, and Samurai Shodown was all we would ever talk about - rumours we'd heard about how to do certain moves and such... Looking back, we clearly thought there was more to it than there actually was - but still a good time to be a teen gamer. He would also rant and rave in double dutch to me about this game called The King of Fighters, which was in the local arcade where he lived, but it didn't come to any arcades I could easily reach and I wouldn't play it for the first time until a few years later on console. I desperately wanted a home version of Samurai Shodown II, but it never happened. The Neo Geo console wasn't available in my country and, even if it was, it would have been so expensive hell would have frozen over before my parents would have let me get it, even for a combined birthday and christmas present. So, years later, I had to make do with pirate ROMs, but finally when the ACA releases came out, I snapped those up - and also the recently released collection. I love Samurai Shodow.