{"id":4204,"date":"2001-10-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2001\/10\/30\/snk-announces-closing\/"},"modified":"2001-10-30T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-30T15:00:00","slug":"snk-announces-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/snk-announces-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"SNK Announces Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 23 years of business, SNK has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neogeo.co.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">officially announced<\/a> on its Japanese website that &#8220;with deepest grief&#8230;in the Autumn of 2001, SNK will close the company.&#8221; Within recent years, SNK has suffered under tremendous financial debt that the company was unable to reconcile with.<\/p>\n<p>As a final gift to fans, SNK has created an &#8220;all-time <a href=\"http:\/\/gamespot.com\/gamespot\/stories\/screens\/0,10865,2821015,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">cast wallpaper<\/a>, featuring game characters from its 23 years of history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Arcade distribution of King of Fighters 2001 will be handled by Sun Amusement within Japan. There has been no word on what the future will hold for other SNK licenses.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/gamespot.com\/gamespot\/stories\/news\/0,10870,2821015,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gamespot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article courtesy of <a href=\"mailto:sgreen@skuldo.com\">Scott Green<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 23 years of business, SNK has officially announced on its Japanese website that &#8220;with deepest grief&#8230;in the Autumn of 2001, SNK will close the company.&#8221; Within recent years, SNK has suffered under tremendous financial debt that the company was unable to reconcile with. As a final gift to fans, SNK has created an &#8220;all-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}