Trivia / NeoGeo Battle Coliseum

• Dueling Works: NeoGeo Battle Coliseum had some competition from Capcom's Capcom Fighting Evolution released the year prior. Going by critical reception, NGBC is the winner of this duel. Though NGBC is no critical darling by any stretch of the imagination, it is far more difficult to find any critics who have anything good to say about Capcom Fighting Evolution. The fact that characters in CFE retain their respective mechanics from their original games, thus putting characters from earlier titles at a disadvantage to those from later titles with more advanced defensive mechanics (air guards, rolls or dashes, parries, etc) whereas NGBC features a fairly uniform set of mechanics contributes to this difference of critical reception.
• What Could Have Been: Earthquake and Choi were to return from SvC Chaos, but higher ups wanted more "attractive characters" so they were dropped from the roster. The former does make a cameo in one of Akari's supers, so there's that.