NeoGeo Appreciation Thread: Would you rather be a cold weenie or a real hot dog?

[Shuri]

Shamelessly copied from wikipedia

The Neo Geo (ネオジオ Neo Jio?) is a cartridge-based arcade system board and home video game console released on January 31, 1990 by Japanese game company SNK. Being in the Fourth generation of Gaming, it was the first system in the former Neo Geo family, which only lived through the 1990s. The hardware featured comparatively colourful 2D graphics.



The MVS (Multi Video System), as the Neo Geo was known to the coin-operated arcade game industry, offered arcade operators the ability to put up to six different arcade titles into a single cabinet, a key economic consideration for operators with limited floorspace. With its games stored on self-contained cartridges, a game-cabinet could be exchanged for a different game-title by swapping the game's ROM-cartridge and cabinet artwork. Several popular franchise-series, including Fatal Fury, The King of Fighters, Metal Slug and Samurai Shodown, were released for the platform.

The manliest console/arcade hardware ever made! Tons of super classic games were made on this! Easily available to play on modern consoles thanks to emulation and compilation! 30,000$ home carts on ebay! Do you want to know more?

FUCK YEAH

Mismatched screenshots orgy YEAH thats how we roll



BUT SHURi, THIS IS 2012, HOW CAN WE ENJOY THIS MUCH AWESOME CONTAINED IN OVER 200 TITLES AT HOME?!

SHURI SAYS: EASY MUCHACHO!!!

• EMULATION - for the cheap chingalo
• AES SYSTEM - for the classy cogno: cheap hardware but EXPENSIVE SOFTWARE
• MVS ARCADE - for the pimp muchaho -- cheap games, but requires lots of maintenance
• CONSOLIZED MVS - An arcade mvs board contained in a sexy case, somewhat cheap hardware BUT CHEAP GAMES (i paid 20$ for samurai shodown 2!!). This is for the ultimate gringo!

Some consolized machines available on the internet:




WHY ARE YOU STILL READING THIS THREAD? GO GET YOUR GEAR ON EBAY NOW![/list]

Bonus material:
This is my own collection of mvs games!

[bork]

NEO-GEO

During the late 90s/early 2000s I owned multiple AES systems, an MVS, a Neo CD, and a Neo CDZ.  Played the Neo way more than I did the PS1 and Saturn (N64, lol).

I've since sold off all that stuff- the PS2 Neo compilations have replaced my collection, as have the emulated ports on Wii/PS3.  Getting AES games with Neo CD soundtracks is just awesome.  There are a few shitty ports and games not available, however, and in that case I emulate the games instead.

[Stoney Mason]

Never owned a NEO GEO in my youth. Was too expensive. Experienced it all through the arcade games and then emulation. One of my favorite systems ever though. Baseball Stars was an amazing thing.

[Trent Dole]

Didn't own any NG stuff when I was a kid cause holy shit was that stuff expensive but I loved me some Ninja Combat on a local Pizza Hut's machine.

[cool breeze]

Never owned a NEO GEO in my youth. Was too expensive. Experienced it all through the arcade games and then emulation. One of my favorite systems ever though. Baseball Stars was an amazing thing.

Baseball Stars 2 is my favorite Baseball game.  It's that old RBI style of baseball game perfected. 

And Windjammers is the best neo geo sports game period.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

This game doesn't get a lot of discussion but I was a big fan of this game when playing it on an emulator: Shock Troopers 2

I had a lot of fun with Baseball Stars 2, King of Fighters 98, and Waku Waku 7

[Shuri]

Never owned a NEO GEO in my youth. Was too expensive. Experienced it all through the arcade games and then emulation. One of my favorite systems ever though. Baseball Stars was an amazing thing.

Baseball Stars 2 is my favorite Baseball game.  It's that old RBI style of baseball game perfected. 

And Windjammers is the best neo geo sports game period.

Baseball Stars 2020 is basically BS2 with a early '90 style cyborg theme. Its pretty awesome

[bork]

It's called Super Baseball 2020, and it's only older than Baseball Stars 2 by like six months-- I wonder why SNK released two similar baseball games in arcades so close together?

2020 is also fun and had all that crazy cyborg stuff plus female players, but Baseball Stars 2 is the champ and the best arcade baseball game ever made.

[Eric P]

loved my NeoGeo Pocket Color; the only NeoGeo system i've owned.

[brob]

fuck you borys.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

[DCharlieJP]

when i first got to Japan in 2000 my first big purchase was a Raijin JAMMA runner and a few boards/b-board runners : Titan, Capcom CPS-2, MVS

and good god - back in 2000 they were giving away MVS, CPS, and MVS carts - i wiped out my collection in 2005 but even back in 2007 when i rebuilt it MVS wasn't bad in terms of pricing (outside a couple of games)

[bork]

when i first got to Japan in 2000 my first big purchase was a Raijin JAMMA runner and a few boards/b-board runners : Titan, Capcom CPS-2, MVS

and good god - back in 2000 they were giving away MVS, CPS, and MVS carts - i wiped out my collection in 2005 but even back in 2007 when i rebuilt it MVS wasn't bad in terms of pricing (outside a couple of games)

MVS wasn't shit to collectors.  It was and pretty much still is just AES carts that fetched ever-increasingly-stupid sums of money. 

I got my first Neo-Geo in 1996.  Back then they were fairly common and systems came and went at the game store I worked at, as did most of the common titles (Fatal Fury 1 and 2, Art of Fighting Samurai Shodown 1 and 2, Cyberlip, Baseball Stars 1 and 2, The Superspy, Ninja Combat, etc.).  Then a few years later TEH COLLECTORS came out in full force on the Internet-- suddenly systems were gone and cart prices skyrocketed.

But it was still fairly easy to get stuff.  I remember getting Waku Waku 7 and Kizuna Encounter new for about $300 each in 1998.  That was probably impossible by 2000.

[originalz]

This system was way ahead of its time, it wasn't really until the PS2 generation that we could actually get good ports of their games.  Not bad for hardware that was 10 years old at the time.

It's also interesting how SNK ported their games to rival systems, although I guess they realized that the common console gamer would never consider owning a real NEOGEO.

[bork]

This system was way ahead of its time, it wasn't really until the PS2 generation that we could actually get good ports of their games.  Not bad for hardware that was 10 years old at the time.

I blame that on shitty ports more than anything else.  They did good with KOF '95 when it used a ROM cart on the Saturn, but the switch to the 1MB RAM cart brought the quality of later ports down- they never switched to the 4MB RAM cart that Capcom offered with their games.

[Sho Nuff]

FUCK THIS THREAD GETS ME SO FUCKIN HARD

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

I love the shit out of SNK, even though they're probably the most feckless/luckless developer of all time.  Yes, even more then Sega.

the Dreamcast introduced me to superior 2D gaming, and as such, superior 2D fighting, in which of course, SNK guided the way.  Later on I bought ast many of their great damn PS2 ports as I could and loved them too.  Even knowing its probably pretty shitty, I would still probably drop cash on a PSN release of their 3D Metal Slug game, that's just how I roll.

oh, and Metal Slug Advance was fucking awesome and deserves just as much love as any of their other games from their golden age.

[Bebpo]

sexy awesome system

so many legendary games.  SSII fo life!

[DCharlieJP]

MVS wasn't shit to collectors.

I know - and as much as i loved throwing cash down drains i really couldn't hang with paying a couple of grand for Metal Slug AES when the MVS version was, like, $40.

(i would have loved to collect the shockboxed AES stuff, but i never got around to it)

Plus wife had a nice MVS Collection that i could pilfer from back in the day