Xbox is continuing to push the Xbox Play Anywhere program in a massive way right now, and it’s just been discovered that over 60 ACA NEOGEO games have received the “Xbox Play Anywhere” tag on their Microsoft Store pages.
This also means that a handful of these games have been delisted for PC on the Microsoft Store, as they don’t need to have separate versions anymore — one Xbox Play Anywhere game accounts for Xbox consoles and PC in one listing.
The weird part is that despite over 60 games getting the Play Anywhere tag, only a few of them actually have “PC” listed as part of their platforms right now, so we assume more work is still underway behind the scenes to enable the PC versions via XPA. There’s been no official announcement about this just yet.
Here’s the full list of ACA NEOGEO games with the Xbox Play Anywhere tag so far, as spotted by True Achievements:
ACA NeoGeo 2020 Super Baseball
ACA NeoGeo 3 Count Bout
ACA NeoGeo Aero Fighters 3
ACA NeoGeo Art of Fighting 2
ACA NeoGeo Art of Fighting 3
ACA NeoGeo Baseball Stars Professional
ACA NeoGeo Big Tournament Golf
ACA NeoGeo Blue’s Journey
ACA NeoGeo Burning Fight
ACA NeoGeo Crossed Swords
ACA NeoGeo Fatal Fury
ACA NeoGeo Fatal Fury 3
ACA NeoGeo Football Frenzy
ACA NeoGeo Garou: Mark of the Wolves
ACA NeoGeo Gururin
ACA NeoGeo Karnov’s Revenge
ACA NeoGeo King of the Monsters
ACA NeoGeo King of the Monsters 2
ACA NeoGeo Kizuna Encounter
ACA NeoGeo League Bowling
ACA NeoGeo Magical Drop II
ACA NeoGeo Magical Drop III
ACA NeoGeo Magician Lord
ACA NeoGeo Metal Slug
ACA NeoGeo Metal Slug 2
ACA NeoGeo Metal Slug 3
ACA NeoGeo Metal Slug 4
ACA NeoGeo Metal Slug 5
ACA NeoGeo Metal Slug X
ACA NeoGeo Money Puzzle Exchanger
ACA NeoGeo Mutation Nation
ACA NeoGeo NAM-1975
ACA NeoGeo Ninja Combat
ACA NeoGeo Over Top
ACA NeoGeo Pleasure Goal: 5 on 5 Mini Soccer
ACA NeoGeo Power Spikes II
ACA NeoGeo Puzzle Bobble
ACA NeoGeo Puzzle Bobble 2
ACA NeoGeo Puzzled
ACA NeoGeo Ragnagard
ACA NeoGeo Real Bout Fatal Fury 2
ACA NeoGeo Robo Army
ACA NeoGeo Samurai Shodown IV
ACA NeoGeo Samurai Shodown V
ACA NeoGeo Samurai Shodown V Special
ACA NeoGeo Savage Reign
ACA NeoGeo Sengoku
ACA NeoGeo Sengoku 2
ACA NeoGeo Sengoku 3
ACA NeoGeo Shock Troopers
ACA NeoGeo Shock Troopers 2nd Squad
ACA NeoGeo Soccer Brawl
ACA NeoGeo Spin Master
ACA NeoGeo Stakes Winner
ACA NeoGeo Stakes Winner 2
ACA NeoGeo Street Hoop
ACA NeoGeo Strikers 1945 Plus
ACA NeoGeo Super Sidekicks
ACA NeoGeo The King of Fighters 2001
ACA NeoGeo The King of Fighters 2002
ACA NeoGeo The King of Fighters 2003
ACA NeoGeo The King of Fighters ’95
ACA NeoGeo The King of Fighters ’98
ACA NeoGeo The Super Spy
ACA NeoGeo Thrash Rally
ACA NeoGeo Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy
ACA NeoGeo Top Players Golf
ACA NeoGeo Twinkle Star Sprites
ACA NeoGeo Zupapa!
As we say, there are only a few of these showing “PC” as part of their platforms on the Microsoft Store right now, and they are Sengoku, Blue’s Journey, Burning Fight, Crossed Swords, Aero Fighters 3, and Shock Troopers 2nd Squad. The four PC-only listings that have been removed are Aero Fighters 3, Crossed Swords, Shock Troopers and Sengoku.
It’s probably worth sitting tight for the time being and waiting to see what happens here — it looks like they’ve probably added the Xbox Play Anywhere tag too early for a bunch of them — but if you really want to go and buy the PC versions before they get delisted, that’s your call. In theory, every purchase of these games should soon provide you with both the console and PC versions for just a single fee.
What are your thoughts on this? Happy to see these games being Play Anywhere enabled? Tell us below.
[source trueachievements.com]
Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.