you don't need to know someone who owned one in the 90s to know about it doofus. if you read general game magz or browsed general gaming websites you would've learned about it at some point.
>the frick did they put in there?
Pretty much the entire Arcade MVS game board. The Neo Geo console was the 1:1 Arcade experience at your house, that's why it was crazy expensive for the time, but you were paying for what you got.
Too ambitious for the time, however, that's why it was mostly a SNK only game machine, almost zero licensed support.
I find it interesting that the MVS had more of a presence here in the US as a rental item instead of something most people would own. I’ve read people on here talk about having attended parties or events where the host rented a Neo Geo and some games, and I thought that was neat.
I'm guessing you mean AES, and yeah it was originally intended only to be available through rental. They only changed their tune when they saw a lot of enthusiasts wanted to outright buy them.
Yeah, I misspoke; I meant the home console. The spectacle of being able to rent what's effectively a miniaturized arcade cabinet must have been worth the price of entry.
tbf that was for the gold pack with 2 bigass sticks and a game. the silver pack that was just the console and 1 stick was $400. Not that that's cheap either, but compared to PCs at the time the price to performance value was insane. The real issue with the pricing wasn' the console itself, but the games. Not much they could do about that tho.
I have to wonder if I would have bought one if I wasn't a baby at the time or was at least a baby with disposable income.
That's a big part of it, 90% of us were babbys or little kids kek. This shit wasn't intended for us or the mainstream market, it was intended for enthusiast young adults, or teenagers with part time jobs at youngest and poorest. Obviously that wasn't a huge market at the time, but it absolutely did exist.
tbf that was for the gold pack with 2 bigass sticks and a game. the silver pack that was just the console and 1 stick was $400. Not that that's cheap either, but compared to PCs at the time the price to performance value was insane. The real issue with the pricing wasn' the console itself, but the games. Not much they could do about that tho.
There is something incredibly satisfying about those big cartridges. Arrying them on a shelf, flipping through them as you decide which to play, pulling it out, feeling the weight in your hand, plugging it into the console. CDs, SD cards, and of course digital just don't have the same je ne sais quoi.
Sure you can download the entire library (its like 2gb as I remember) and play them on an emulator but it just never feels the same as original hardware.
Wait til you hear about the 3D0 and jaguar
I owned both of those
Jaguar had best Doom
3DO had frick all but I sure loved playing Slayer
>Jaguar had best Doom
ah, another person who watched the AVGN video instead of actually playing/researching the games himself
DOS has the best Doom you absolute Neighbor.
Don't feel bad, unless you went to school in Beverly Hills you'd never meet somebody that owned one during its time.
you don't need to know someone who owned one in the 90s to know about it doofus. if you read general game magz or browsed general gaming websites you would've learned about it at some point.
It was so kino
Wait until you hear about the Neo Geo CD
Why yes, I love fighting games that don’t register my hits or movement
They made a gameboy too.
And its tagline was "I'm not boy". Pretty gay
famous for those enormous cartridges. the frick did they put in there?
Yakuza money
>the frick did they put in there?
Pretty much the entire Arcade MVS game board. The Neo Geo console was the 1:1 Arcade experience at your house, that's why it was crazy expensive for the time, but you were paying for what you got.
Too ambitious for the time, however, that's why it was mostly a SNK only game machine, almost zero licensed support.
It actually got an assload of 3rd party support by the standard of arcade boards. I think NAOMI is the only one that got more.
I want to try Cyber Lip. It looks better and easier than Contra.
It's pretty cool, but it's more like Shinobi or Rolling Thunder than Contra imo.
posting in a zoomer thread
Neo Geo Pocket was goated.
yeah their games cost a small fortune thats why they marketed it to yuppies.
frick you scott the pozz.
For me it's the PC Engine
4 BRIGHT BUTTONS AND 2 JOYSTICKS
There’s tons of neogeo games in the ps store and they are all hot garbage. Just, the most garbage of arcade action. Not even as fun as snes games.
God awful take. snes sucks btw.
why yes i also prefer the inferior version , now excuse me while i eat some crayons
I find it interesting that the MVS had more of a presence here in the US as a rental item instead of something most people would own. I’ve read people on here talk about having attended parties or events where the host rented a Neo Geo and some games, and I thought that was neat.
I'm guessing you mean AES, and yeah it was originally intended only to be available through rental. They only changed their tune when they saw a lot of enthusiasts wanted to outright buy them.
Yeah, I misspoke; I meant the home console. The spectacle of being able to rent what's effectively a miniaturized arcade cabinet must have been worth the price of entry.
I have to wonder if I would have bought one if I wasn't a baby at the time or was at least a baby with disposable income.
That's a big part of it, 90% of us were babbys or little kids kek. This shit wasn't intended for us or the mainstream market, it was intended for enthusiast young adults, or teenagers with part time jobs at youngest and poorest. Obviously that wasn't a huge market at the time, but it absolutely did exist.
The console was 650 dollars, without adjusting for inflation, and games cost from 90 to 120 dollars; it was THE console that justified rentals.
tbf that was for the gold pack with 2 bigass sticks and a game. the silver pack that was just the console and 1 stick was $400. Not that that's cheap either, but compared to PCs at the time the price to performance value was insane. The real issue with the pricing wasn' the console itself, but the games. Not much they could do about that tho.
There is something incredibly satisfying about those big cartridges. Arrying them on a shelf, flipping through them as you decide which to play, pulling it out, feeling the weight in your hand, plugging it into the console. CDs, SD cards, and of course digital just don't have the same je ne sais quoi.
Sure you can download the entire library (its like 2gb as I remember) and play them on an emulator but it just never feels the same as original hardware.