It was the first fighting game by SNK to feature the character designs of former illustrator Shinkiro, who would go on to do the character designs for the later Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters games.
She and Ryu are the only Street Fighter characters to appear in every Capcom crossover title, including the SNK vs. Capcom fighting game series by SNK and the tactical role-playing games Namco × Capcom and Project X Zone by Namco.
Two of the characters from Crystalis are subtle nods to earlier SNK characters who later became part of The King of Fighters series; the latter two sages, Kensu and Asina, are based on Kensou Sie and Athena Asamiya from the Psycho Soldier arcade game.
This little character wasn't forgotten by SNK, since he has appeared in various artwork for the company - being used in part of the Falcoon artwork for KOF 2001 (in one of his "character cards", when Li Xiangfei is playing in a Neo Geo Pocket with Neo Poke-Kun in her shoulder).
In the SNK game The Last Blade the character Washisuka Keichiro, a member of the Shinsengumi, is sent to this place to "investigate" in his ending.
He is also asked by SNK to participate as a member of SNK's character image band, Band of Fighters based on the game series King of Fighters, under the role of Iori Yagami.
Takuma Sakazaki (a.k.a. "Mr. Karate"), a character from SNK's King of Fighters and Art of Fighting video game franchises, was inspired by Mas Oyama.
In December 2012, Tommo released a new Neo Geo handheld in North America and Europe with SNK Playmore license, It's a open source based handheld like Dingoo but closed to emulate Neo Geo games, with 20 built-in games, called the Neo Geo X.
Before SNK was bought out, the Neo Geo Pocket Color was being advertised on US television and units were being sold nationally in Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Toys "R" Us, and other large retail chains.
The Newman–Keuls or Student–Newman–Keuls (SNK) method is a stepwise multiple comparisons procedure used to identify sample means that are significantly different from each other.
Sacnoth was created in 1997 by Hiroki Kikuta, best known for composing the music to Secret of Mana series while working at Square and was set up with funding from the video game company SNK.
The game is renowned for having some of the most popular bits of Engrish in the history of video games, even considering SNK's history of questionable translation.
In spite of this, SNK managed to raise excitement by announcing that Nobuhiro Watsuki, the creator and author of the Rurouni Kenshin manga and anime series, was hired to design some of the new characters, and they were gradually revealed by way of silhouettes on the official website, and slowly showing the official artwork.
It is also to be noted that the wrestling organization (SWF) Max works for is the same one used in the SNK arcade game 3 Count Bout.
It is made in style of other fighting games such as Street Fighter, Art of Fighting, Darkstalkers and even The King of Fighters, of game companies like Capcom and SNK.
The SNK video game Samurai Shodown features a master swordsman named Yagyu Jubei who wears an eyepatch.