Pocket Rumble for the Nintendo Switch channels the best portable fighters

There’s a certain strain of 2D fighting games that, perhaps unsurprisingly, has largely fallen into obscurity. It comes down to hardware. The Neo Geo Pocket Color was a glorious handheld gaming device that, sadly, not enough people owned. Part of what made it so great was that it was the only place that you could find arcade-caliber fighting games that were designed to be played on the go, including revered SNK series like King of Fighters and Samurai Shodown. It was like an arcade cabinet you could put in your pocket. With the NGPC’s untimely demise, this particular breed of fighter died out — until now, that is, thanks to a wonderful throwback for the Nintendo Switch and Steam aptly named Pocket Rumble.

On the surface, Pocket Rumble...

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