Excuse my arcade ignorance

[USSEnterprise]

What is NeoGeo? I know it was a handheld game that went the way of the Game Gear, but what does it have to do with arcades?

[Q*Bert_OP]

www.hardmvs.com

[Goz]

* Gozur bashes head against the wall

Ok... I am calm now


Neo Geo / SNK mades arcade machines long before the hand held unit.

They have home consoles (AES) and arcade standards (MVS) and Neo Geo CD offering.

Take a peek at http://www.neo-geo.com and you'll see what games are played via Neo Geo hardware.

Chances are you've played at least some of them before. Remember Google is your friend.

-Goz

[Silverwind]

For a while, it was almost hard to find a pizza parlor without a neo-geo unit.   One of the most popular is the "metal slug" series.

They did have a brief entry into the console market with a neo-geo console.. but it was extremely expensive.  If I remember correctly it was about $500 for the console and each game was around $100-$200.. anyone else recall?

[CJK]

Yep, I remember the Neo-Geo home system very well. I wanted one very badly, because the graphics were fantastic when compared with my Atari 2600 -- they were just like the arcade games I saw in the malls.

Not only was the system pretty expensive, but the games were outrageous: $100-200 is what I remember also. And that was at a time when the Atari games were coming way down in price...

-- Chris

[grueinthebox]

Yep, I remember the Neo-Geo home system very well. I wanted one very badly, because the graphics were fantastic when compared with my Atari 2600 -- they were just like the arcade games I saw in the malls.

Not only was the system pretty expensive, but the games were outrageous: $100-200 is what I remember also. And that was at a time when the Atari games were coming way down in price...

Seeing as the AES didn't come out until like 89-90, which was about the same time (or just after) the 2600 was officially killed off once and for all, I can imagine that if you were one of the few people still buying new 2600 games at this time period, they would've been pretty cheap...  The NES had been out for ~4 years at the time (in the US), and the Genesis and TG-16 were both released, with the SNES right around the corner.

The AES was (and still is) an awesome system, but it's a little misleading to consider it in the context of the Atari 2600...  The home video game industry was already several generations beyond the 2600 by the time the AES was released.

[CJK]

My memory must be a little fuzzy, then.    Thanks for the correction. I had a Sega Master System at that time, so I must have been remembering the comparison between that and the AES.

-- Chris

BTW, anyone here have a Sega Master System up and running? I loved that system -- still have one in my closet, but I haven't plugged it in in years...