As a teenager, I worked at a game store. Saturday night, when the store closed, I could take Neo-Geo home. Good times! ;) Thank you so much, Raquel! ;)
Lucky bastard! The neo geo was my favorite console of all time. But nobody I knew could afford it. Much less the games were almost the price of a home console for each game. It was a rich man's console.
The 90’s for me was all about home ports being as close to the arcade game as possible. The NEOGEO was the “holy grail” being the actual arcade hardware, sadly too expensive for the mainstream..
I lucked out and bought one from a school friend who was about to move away. I was going to buy his system , 2 controllers, 2 memory cards and 5 games for $250. I gave the dude $100 and was going to drop by the weekend before he moved. I showed up 3 days early to pay him his final $150-$175 (forgot exact), but he moved 4 days before the original date he told me. So I ended up paying $100 for everything. I never could find any Neo Geo games to buy later on though. lol
The Neo-Geo will always feel like the future to me somehow. That epic startup screen...and certainly the most consistently strong library of any console ever made.
@referral madness Not quite sure. Those words show up on one of the screens when a neo geo game is in attract mode. It's probably something related to the machine's specs
I own the Linux ports of most of these games, save for Samurai Shodown (which I own 2 and V of) and KOF98 which I own exclusively for Windows and on XB1.
i dont play golf but since neorage came out in the late 90's I could endly play every neogeo game and Néo Turf Masters became one of my favorite and most played game ever ! now I own it on MVS and play it on my own SNK cabinet !!!
Neo Turf Masters is the BEST non simulation golf game ever made. It is perfectly simple to understand how to play but insanely deep when you really get down to the details.
I was the only kid who had a neo geo back in 93 I remember everyone trying to come to my house just to play it was light years ahead of Nintendo and sega but the cost of games were insane only reason I even had one was because it was a gift through my uncle who work on the wing commander series so he had friends in the industry that would just give him free stuff even got to meet mark hamil when he was doing voice acting work
Its really exciting when you also do non-Sega games & console videos. I love that you are spreading out your topics with even more variety every now and then while still keeping Sega the main focus of your channel most of the time. Merry Xmas SegaLordX!
Yeah... I was a teenager when this came out, and I still find it impressive with it's 2D graphics abilities. The hardware still makes me drool. Here we are 30 years later, AND I STILL CAN'T AFFORD A NEO GEO! LOL
I actually enjoyed playing the "World Heroes" games, particularly the second one, which I have a SNES copy that used to belong to my cousin after he let me keep it along with the instruction manual. :)
My own cousin lied and said he had neo geo. When I asked where it was, He said it was at his dad's house. This is how I learned my cousin was a habitual liar. He also said he beat x-men on genesis with just gambit. One night I made it to mojo, and professor x told me reboot the computer. I was gonna reset my genesis. He begged me not to do it. I reset my genesis because I already knew. He was shocked indeed. Anyone who completed x-men genesis, knows what i'm talking about. I never trust anyone to this day.
I used to read and watch everything in a game, afraid of missing useful information. Most games handhold so much now that I can safely skip all story content and still know what to do next. The last game I recall enjoying the story enough to participate was Witcher 3.
The price for the Neo Geo console was ridiculous! You could pick $400 for console and 1 controller or $600 for console, 2 controllers and 1 game. I can't tell you how many times I would stare at that advertisement page in Electronic Gaming Monthly back in the day.
How I would have loved to come into a large windfall in the early 90's. There's one guy who did and bought every Neo-Geo game that came out and made a fortune selling it off years later.
Me too. I never saw one in person back then, only saw it in the EGM magz, & the graphics looked so impressive. Lots of day dreaming in homeroom back in those days.
$400 would have been for the Neo Geo CD, the $600 was for the AES. Yes, I too stared at the advertisements and have wanted a Neo Geo ever since they came out when I was 10 yrs old, then about 6 yrs ago the opportunity arose for me to own my own MVS and I jumped on it. It's still an expensive system to own and especially collect for now since all the consolized MVS machines have come out (Since when does Ninja Combat, a terrible game that went for $20 for YEARS suddenly fetch $120+???), but I love it.
Yeah it was and still is kinda expensive but it was not supposed to be put for sale, instead SNK planned to rent the console in Japan. In my opinion they should have tried to launch the neo geo CD right from the start, cuz the games were very expensive too . the neo geo CD never had a chance btw, the 3do was already in the market by the time of its release and psx and Saturn were just around the corner.
No knock on the power of the polygon, but sprites will always hold a special place in my heart. This was a fascinating look at a one time powerhouse in the industry. I was seriously not expecting that number one entry. Looking at the footage he provided, it is easy to see why SLX placed it at the top. 2d forever baby!
Parents of a friend of mine bought him a Neo Geo as birthday present when where at school. They made a deal with him. Get A's and B's in all classes on his report cards and they would buy him 1 game every 3 months or so. He did it and had a sizable library. His father was a doctor and his mother a nuclear medicine tech so they could afford it. Plus he would get one on his birthday or Christmas. So yeah I was over his house all the time lol. He still has his original system and games too though he has had to get several replacement control decks and have a capacitor replaced in the console.
I can see why neo geo's price point was as high as it was back then. Some of its 2d renderings are better than anything on ps1 in my opinion. Also,no wonder the carts were so figgin huge.
My local game store sold Neo Geos and even had one in demo display. It was jaw dropping to see a console playing all those arcade classics without losses in quality but the price was absolutely ridiculous.
Speaking of Sega and Neo Geo, everyone should check out Galloping Ghost arcade in Chicago, its pretty much a love letter to our childhood. Like 700 arcade machines, tons of Sega machines like Revenge of Death Adder and Shadow dancer, tons of super scalers and an entire aisle of Neo Geo machines and much much more.It was awesome seeing all these beast in wild. Not a shill for this place I actually live in TN, but if you love or ever loved arcade games its worth a pilgrimage to Chicago.
@@greenkoopaIts worth it. It's 20 bucks all you can play, all day. You can even leave get something eat, show your receipt when you come back and keep playing. Definitely the highlight of the trip.
I sold my copy of Neo Turf Masters in 2001 for $800 which I thought was a lot of money. Imagine my shock and horror when I found out current prices for the game are north of $20,000. 😭
One sold 10 days ago for nearly $17,000 and that was from a seller in Berlin. www.ebay.com/itm/Neo-Geo-AES-Neo-Turf-Masters-034-Holy-Grail-034-/153755958630
I just bought the digital version of the Metal Slug Anthology on my PS4. I love that series and glad these options are available, due to the high price of a Neo Geo.
Neo Turf Masters is ridiculously good. I’m surprised there were no puzzle games on the list. Magical Drop 3 and Puzzle Bobble 2 (Bust A Move 2) are some of my absolute favorites.
30 years later and Neo Geo still looks absolutely amazing and beautiful. I'd buy one today for hundreds if I found one. Give us a true Neo Geo mini, SNK! And great list of games, SL! What a console....
there are plenty of Neo-Geos' for sale on ebay, i recommend getting one with modded Component and Stereo outputs in the back (unless you can tell the difference between 720p and 1080p, there are HDMI-modded consoles available as well)
Luke Dodge hundreds doesn't get you much in Neo Geo terms, a console in bad shape maybe with the crap NGCD controller and one of the cheapest games in bad shape. If you want more you'll need to pony up thousands for sure.
Onomato Poeia not really, it's not actually compatible, it's just an emulator that isn't that good and many of the nicer games have severe slowdowns and frame drops on it. You can buy a cheap android console and get a much better experience.
I remember as a kid hearing my older cousins talk about the Neo Geo as if it was some unattainable grail that only millionaires had. Then seeing the price lists in full page ads in video game magazines and immediately believing the hype, as my allowance in kindergarten was two quarters a week. Seemed “forever unattainable”. With “best in genre” gorgeous titles like Sengoku 3 (which I still consider to be the best animated beat em up prior to the 7th gen consoles), other timelessly gorgeous sprites and unique gameplay in the Samurai Shodown & LAST BLADE series, and incredibly fun titles like Shock Troopers & the Metal Slug series….and a fighting game near the level of Street Fighter’s Alpha series and III-series in Garou Mark of the Wolves …. All which have aged extremely well, and are still every bit as fun to this day…. …it’s no mystery why it still retains its grail status to this day. Owning a Neo Geo and tons of those huge cartridges…. It’s such a showpiece … a simultaneously vintage yet futuristic-Ish showpiece … Sh!t is like owning a Delorean lol
*He didn't say Windjammers?!?!?* Un-sub.. Throw out phone... Leaves country.... Unforgiveable!! Windjammers was my most surprising love for a non-fighter back when. I actually was playing ROMs and had them Zipped and backed up on multi-3.5" ... Those were the days..
@@cyberdemon7694 Once we hit Top 4... I did wonder if he loved Windjammers more than me.... sadly, that was not the case. He did preface it, but... *Windjammers* !!
neo geo games looked and sounded great, the problem was these games were based on arcade coin op games, which were designed to suck quarters. this is what limited the gameplay and the library of available games, you won't find a zelda like rpg for example, no realistic sports games. lots of fighting games though
I remember seeing the prices on the games and thinking it had to be a mistake they must have accidetaly added an extra zero,they were mostly just a bunch of overpriced/polished street fighter 2 clones.I never seen one in a regular store, just once at a funcoland and if your watching this your probobly old enough to remember that place before gamestop bought it and turned it to shit.
We had babbages and electronic boutique before gamestop and I felt the same way when i saw those prices! Whaat the F@&k 300 dollars or more for a game. Low and behold I never had one lol.
Ronny Clayton none of the games were SF2 clones numbnuts, try playing a Neo Geo sometimes if you get a chance. If you still think they are SF2 clones then you either haven't played SF2 or you have mental issues and probably need a legal guardian to get around.
I wish I would have bought the NEO GEO back in the 90’s. But it was out of my price range. I wish they would make a new NEO GEO system with the best games built right in there.
Does anyone else think if mortal kombat 1 2 and 3 would've been near perfect ports if midway would've put them on the might neo geo! The snes and genesis were pretty good but the neogeo with its 15 channels for sound 65000 plus color pallet and huge megabyte cartridges would of been a match made in heaven.
Charlie Cat - Absolutely! I remember the day vividly - I went to our local DieHard Gamefan video game store, and I traded in my Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Super Nintendo and over 100+ games to purchase a Neo-Geo AES w/ two controllers, Magician Lord and Nam ‘75. The following week I purchased Samurai Shodown. My friends envied me. Lol In fact, my friends came over all the time to play Samurai Shodown. My next cart purchase was Mutation Nation; I loved this game (and still do). I eventually purchased The King of Monsters, Last Resort, Baseball Stars, Super Sidekicks 2, Ninja Combat, World Heroes 2 Jet and The Super Spy. I was hooked on the Neo-Geo before buying the AES. I always played the 4-slot MVS cab my local arcade had, which was tucked away in a dark corner. Then came games like Kabuki Klash, Metal Slug, The King of Fighters ‘94 and Pulstar. It was (and still is) gaming bliss. And thanks to game developers like NG Dev Team and Neobitz, the mighty Neo-Geo continues to live on!
@@worldofretrogameplay6963 Hi WRG, Thank you for sharing it bro. Was really informative. I have a thread on Atariage.com called, "The Official NEO-GEO Thread". Feel free to come by at anytime to see and browse around on what we have to offer. Were welcoming to all. 8^) Anthony..
Back in the day I loved Neo Geo games in the arcade but I didn't know a single person who owned the home system. The system itself cost over $600 and the games were around $200 each. But I loved how Neo Geo stuck with the sprites and pixel art for so long during a time when it seemed like every other company had moved on to polygons/3D.
@@simonbelmont548 Saturn is my #1 and I've owned multiple systems from every generation over the last 25 years. It's all about the games that you connected with the most. The total library of good games for a system is irrelevant to an individual player. My favorite games in my lifetime (40 years old), are on Saturn. Shining the Holy Ark, Shining Force 3, Dragon Force, Fighters Megamix, Guardian Heroes, SEGA Rally, Daytona, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Nights, Bomberman... Etc.. Saying "lol" to someone's personal opinion makes you look arrogant and conceited.
PineKushDude if you're saying the Snes's hardware was "shit" I can surely get behind that, but the library? It had stellar support from many of the greatest Japanese developers during their arguable prime...(capcom, konami, squaresoft, irem, hudson, natsume etc). So a claim like that isn't even possible let alone true. But yes the Gen/MD is a true gem.
I love the ACA series on the current gen. How do you beat $8 each for all these amazing titles. I don't want to call them retro because there's nothing modern that beats them in my opinion. Great list as always.
Personally I hated the 3D backgrounds. That's not what Neo Geo and SNK were about for me. Same goes for Capcom's "Marvel Vs Capcom 2" even though it's a fantastic game.
Some Neo Geo love yes! Just wanted to share: Most people (like me) got exposed to Neo Geo with the big red cabinets, but really got deep through emulation. If interested in playing on actual hardware. For those same people who grew up, and (hopefully) have some disposable income... the 30 year+ AES consoles will definitely need to be modded and repaired (ie. recapped) after purchase. They definitely weren’t designed strong like an SNES or Genesis (but even these stock consoles will also die eventually). Cloned MVS units are easily found on ebay, cheaper than an AES, but either way, will need some technical know-how of how to consolize them. You can find heavily priced (already) consolized MVSs too. But for something more quality.... Watch out for the Behar bros CMVS coming soon! And we know AES carts are more expensive than MVS. No introduction needed. But you can reduce that price heavily with flash carts. Terraonion is the Rolls Royce, but Darksoft’s version has been steadily upgrading itself. Happy holidays
For me is: waku-waku7 Blue's journey Bomberman Yoyo master And for the last i forgot the name, it's scroll side action and the character could long strecth their arm and grab enemis
Hi, Sir I lost my NEO GEO collection when I had a divorce, over 5 years ago lol But could you please give me links to a VERY GOOD PC EMULATION PROGRAM ! I have a built a GOOD PC and Would like to play TURF MASTER :) Thank you and I love your channel mate:)
Blazing Stars, what a trip. Does anyone else remember that fucked up last boss? It was a friggin' BABY. And it howls otherworldly when you hit it. Yeah, nightmare fuel.
This is why i appreciate your channel and the content. You show literally gaming history. And the the different variety makes it even better. I own a Neo Geo but only 3 games for it because 1 Neo Geo Game cost as much as modern consoles today. The Last Blade 1 alone cost 405$.
This is a console I so desperately want in my collection. However the cost of entry for some of the lower end "decent" titles is still expensive. For me, emulation is the only real viable option. That and the various compilation titles and releases on other systems. Great video.
I heard theres at least ONE Everdrive like Cartridge out there but it think it did cost around 300-500 bucks (Dont quote me, its been a long time since i saw that). So thats the cheaper option to be honest.
There's always the Neo Geo Cd, I own one off them with the international bios chip, had it for awhile they are still cheap enough get but like all Neo Geo things they are starting to go up load times are meh, now I just use raspberry pi
@@glennmk5167 But them load times! The Neo CD is a good alternative outside of the realm of emulation, but those load times are a bit of a deterrent for me.
I know it was prohibitively expensive. I know it was big and bulky. I know it wasn’t even all that exemplary, but God Damn, I loved the Neo Geo. During its era it was beautiful and mesmerizing to me. Great video! Thank you for the walk down memory lane. Sam sho forever. ⚔️💥
The fighting game genre will truly never die and that is correct. (It has a small decline in the late 90’s but thankfully overcame that and there continues to be awesome fighters to this very day) It brings a tear to my face every time I hear that. I freakin’ love Garou: Mark of the Wolves (my personal #1 fav for the Neo Geo along with other platforms it was on) and the Last Blade. And also not forgetting the Samurai Shodown (check out the reboot man! I got it on PS4 and I have no regrets buying it. I want a sequel of it to be on PS5) or King of Fighters (wanting KOF XV on PS5) series, these games are very enjoyable to this day. The Japanese arcade-style fighting game style is pretty much perfect today and there will be plenty of those for generations to come.
No thank you. Its not only that "bonus" irritant, but i hate the way the backgrounds randomly change into abstract prerendered garbage.. then theres that mad last boss! If someone can hack the game and remove the above mentioned, then i can agree, but for now, the top side scrolling shooters on the neo is last resort, followed by pulstar
I was a huge fan of Neo Turf Master too! The gameplay was easy to pickup, a common feature of Neo Geo games. I'd add to what's appealing in Metal Slug are the great music and sound effects. They really draw you in the action. I'd have Neo Drift Out in my top ten. It's a really fast isometric racing game but that controls really well. The latter levels are quite challenging.
I always wondered how games would look today if developers had not gone with polygons as the future and stuck with sprites. You can make some impressive "3d" visuals using point sprites, I assume this is what we would have or something like it. Maybe before point sprites hit big we would see stuff like Doom taken to the extreme with more and more frames of animation until an object could be seamlessly viewed from every possible angle and resolution got so high that pixelization from up close viewing was no longer an issue. Maybe there is a universe out there where people play modern games without polygons!
Neo Geo games were $150 or more. You couldn’t buy anything for it outside of Software Etc or Electronics Boutiques which ultimately became GameStop. As far as I can tell, PlayStation and Dreamcast could run these games if you had those huge arcade cabinet joysticks.
Too many games coming out of Japan were arcade games. I understand that Arcades were Japanese culture but once SNES hit in NORTH AMERICA, Arcades were on their way out.
My Nes and Snes had my mind blown when i was younger, but i had the money too buy this Neo Geo system and i never did - now looking back i really wish i did purchase this system.
In a similar way to Neo Drift Out, there is just something about playing this with an arcade stick that makes this game 1000x better. It's an amazing game and tied with Tiger Woods 2004 for me as best golf game of all time.
As a teenager, I worked at a game store.
Saturday night, when the store closed, I could take Neo-Geo home. Good times! ;)
Thank you so much, Raquel! ;)
Lucky bastard! The neo geo was my favorite console of all time. But nobody I knew could afford it. Much less the games were almost the price of a home console for each game. It was a rich man's console.
I thought I was hot shit when I could take new games home from when I worked at Electronics Boutique but this is even better! :p
Praise be to Raquel. That's an awesome person right there!
Wow you were one lucky kid
But did you get to take Raquel home?
The 90’s for me was all about home ports being as close to the arcade game as possible. The NEOGEO was the “holy grail” being the actual arcade hardware, sadly too expensive for the mainstream..
we had 2, 1 in my bedroom and 1 in the living room, lucky i know
@@ArcadeCabNBud I had two balls 😂
Well the sega dreamcast was an arcade perfect sega Naomi home system ❤️💯 so there’s that
I lucked out and bought one from a school friend who was about to move away. I was going to buy his system , 2 controllers, 2 memory cards and 5 games for $250. I gave the dude $100 and was going to drop by the weekend before he moved. I showed up 3 days early to pay him his final $150-$175 (forgot exact), but he moved 4 days before the original date he told me. So I ended up paying $100 for everything. I never could find any Neo Geo games to buy later on though. lol
I’ve never even seen one with my own eyes. Definitely the holy grail
The Neo-Geo will always feel like the future to me somehow. That epic startup screen...and certainly the most consistently strong library of any console ever made.
Max 330 Mega pro-gear spec 👌
The future is now.
@referral madness Not quite sure. Those words show up on one of the screens when a neo geo game is in attract mode. It's probably something related to the machine's specs
They had to be with that fuckin price tag
I own the Linux ports of most of these games, save for Samurai Shodown (which I own 2 and V of) and KOF98 which I own exclusively for Windows and on XB1.
Hence why "The Future is Now" slogan
*megabits, not megabytes.
Turf Masters is like lightning in a bottle. They really nailed it.
Yup, one of my favorites. In the last 25 years I’ve got at least a couple thousand hours into this game with buds.
@@Gorilla_Jones I probably spent $1000 playing this game. When I was 21 the bar down the street had a NEO-GEO
i dont play golf but since neorage came out in the late 90's I could endly play every neogeo game and Néo Turf Masters became one of my favorite and most played game ever ! now I own it on MVS and play it on my own SNK cabinet !!!
Neo Turf Masters is the BEST non simulation golf game ever made. It is perfectly simple to understand how to play but insanely deep when you really get down to the details.
@@nexusofice9135 even my mam played it and she got seriously addicted/passion
These games of the 90s they are so good in terms of gameplay , graphics and sound that they look like they can be released tomorrow as new games.
Especially because they weren't crappy early 3D games, but instead focused on amazing spritework and animation, which if done well are timeless art.
I prefer Neo Geo arcade goodness than modern 2D gaming scene, which is 100% comprised of overrated metroidvanias.
Komagb God good point. I can't stand looking at PS1 games now. Early 3D games were garbage.
gonira preach! That's a reason why I haven't played the new Ori yet
that's silly as Ori is a gorgeous and fun game. It's also only $30
I was the only kid who had a neo geo back in 93 I remember everyone trying to come to my house just to play it was light years ahead of Nintendo and sega but the cost of games were insane only reason I even had one was because it was a gift through my uncle who work on the wing commander series so he had friends in the industry that would just give him free stuff even got to meet mark hamil when he was doing voice acting work
Lucky bastard!!!!!!
@@raypadilla254 dude I know I was that's why I always would share the love plus gaming alone is boring
Sweeeeet...what games did u have back in the days?
I still have mine 😂
Got mine in 1990 and still playing it 30 years later. :)
www.videogameobsession.com/videogame/zz-other/origins/Neo-Geo_Unwrapping_Xmas_1990.jpg
Its really exciting when you also do non-Sega games & console videos. I love that you are spreading out your topics with even more variety every now and then while still keeping Sega the main focus of your channel most of the time. Merry Xmas SegaLordX!
Those sprites and those animations...wow!
In the 90s it was like a console from outer space
Yeah... I was a teenager when this came out, and I still find it impressive with it's 2D graphics abilities. The hardware still makes me drool. Here we are 30 years later, AND I STILL CAN'T AFFORD A NEO GEO! LOL
@@CharlesHepburn2 Maybe take a look at the Mister Fpga. The Neogeo Core is awesome ;-)
i love how this entire channel could be a meme
I actually enjoyed playing the "World Heroes" games, particularly the second one, which I have a SNES copy that used to belong to my cousin after he let me keep it along with the instruction manual. :)
World Heroes 2 was still an enjoyable SFII clone. Yes it was cheesy... But that is why it was fun.
My own cousin lied and said he had neo geo. When I asked where it was, He said it was at his dad's house. This is how I learned my cousin was a habitual liar. He also said he beat x-men on genesis with just gambit. One night I made it to mojo, and professor x told me reboot the computer. I was gonna reset my genesis. He begged me not to do it. I reset my genesis because I already knew. He was shocked indeed. Anyone who completed x-men genesis, knows what i'm talking about. I never trust anyone to this day.
back then where games were actually games instead of movies.
Well said
Hate the open world's
Dragon's lair and space ace would like a word with you
@@darkforestzerothose are games. You don't sit back and watch Dragon's Lair.
Facts
I used to read and watch everything in a game, afraid of missing useful information. Most games handhold so much now that I can safely skip all story content and still know what to do next. The last game I recall enjoying the story enough to participate was Witcher 3.
neewbie collector: "Saturn games are expensive"
Neo geo: "Hold my megs"
Experienced collector: sell your collection, buy some flash carts and get some pussy.
"Hold my cartridge" so big it can kill a man...
Exactly!!!
@@Dessan01 I'm an experienced collector, but why would I sell my collection?
The price for the Neo Geo console was ridiculous! You could pick $400 for console and 1 controller or $600 for console, 2 controllers and 1 game. I can't tell you how many times I would stare at that advertisement page in Electronic Gaming Monthly back in the day.
How I would have loved to come into a large windfall in the early 90's. There's one guy who did and bought every Neo-Geo game that came out and made a fortune selling it off years later.
@John Mason folks from Fleabottom need not apply
Me too. I never saw one in person back then, only saw it in the EGM magz, & the graphics looked so impressive. Lots of day dreaming in homeroom back in those days.
$400 would have been for the Neo Geo CD, the $600 was for the AES. Yes, I too stared at the advertisements and have wanted a Neo Geo ever since they came out when I was 10 yrs old, then about 6 yrs ago the opportunity arose for me to own my own MVS and I jumped on it. It's still an expensive system to own and especially collect for now since all the consolized MVS machines have come out (Since when does Ninja Combat, a terrible game that went for $20 for YEARS suddenly fetch $120+???), but I love it.
Yeah it was and still is kinda expensive but it was not supposed to be put for sale, instead SNK planned to rent the console in Japan. In my opinion they should have tried to launch the neo geo CD right from the start, cuz the games were very expensive too . the neo geo CD never had a chance btw, the 3do was already in the market by the time of its release and psx and Saturn were just around the corner.
No knock on the power of the polygon, but sprites will always hold a special place in my heart. This was a fascinating look at a one time powerhouse in the industry. I was seriously not expecting that number one entry. Looking at the footage he provided, it is easy to see why SLX placed it at the top. 2d forever baby!
Parents of a friend of mine bought him a Neo Geo as birthday present when where at school. They made a deal with him. Get A's and B's in all classes on his report cards and they would buy him 1 game every 3 months or so. He did it and had a sizable library. His father was a doctor and his mother a nuclear medicine tech so they could afford it. Plus he would get one on his birthday or Christmas. So yeah I was over his house all the time lol. He still has his original system and games too though he has had to get several replacement control decks and have a capacitor replaced in the console.
A very good motivation to study.
That's awsome dude! Can you remember some of the games this lucky bloke had?
Great story
*What year was this? Also, name some names, what games do you remember your friend having? Thanks.*
What the fuck is nuclear medicine...?
Neo Turf Masters is an excellent choice for number 1. One of my all time favorite games.
Sengoku 3 is godly, love that game. I also beat Last Resort a few months ago its a real underrated shmup.
Stock troopers is the best neo geo game imo
I can see why neo geo's price point was as high as it was back then. Some of its 2d renderings are better than anything on ps1 in my opinion. Also,no wonder the carts were so figgin huge.
My local game store sold Neo Geos and even had one in demo display. It was jaw dropping to see a console playing all those arcade classics without losses in quality but the price was absolutely ridiculous.
I love a bit of slowdown, it adds to the charm, it also lets you know that they are squeezing every little bit of performance out of the system.
Speaking of Sega and Neo Geo, everyone should check out Galloping Ghost arcade in Chicago, its pretty much a love letter to our childhood. Like 700 arcade machines, tons of Sega machines like Revenge of Death Adder and Shadow dancer, tons of super scalers and an entire aisle of Neo Geo machines and much much more.It was awesome seeing all these beast in wild. Not a shill for this place I actually live in TN, but if you love or ever loved arcade games its worth a pilgrimage to Chicago.
That's good to know, I live in middle TN myself and have relatives in the Chicago area 🤔
@@greenkoopaIts worth it. It's 20 bucks all you can play, all day. You can even leave get something eat, show your receipt when you come back and keep playing. Definitely the highlight of the trip.
When I lived over in southern Michigan I would every once in a while make a day trip out to Galloping Ghost, so much fun.
I'm glad I found this comment
Man im gonna take a vacation to the galloping ghost ! It looks amazing
Sengoku 3 is seriously one of the SICKEST games ever made.
It blew my mind the first time I played it.
I guess it was the neo's best brawler, but i found it got a bit repetitive as with all brawlers
Shock troopers is the best game
You sure kick rgt85's butt and his NS Ad channel
I sold my copy of Neo Turf Masters in 2001 for $800 which I thought was a lot of money. Imagine my shock and horror when I found out current prices for the game are north of $20,000. 😭
you for real? I have this for the MVS
Sounds made up
@@neogenesis7706 A quick look on eBay will confirm it.
Sold price or asking price?
One sold 10 days ago for nearly $17,000 and that was from a seller in Berlin. www.ebay.com/itm/Neo-Geo-AES-Neo-Turf-Masters-034-Holy-Grail-034-/153755958630
I just bought the digital version of the Metal Slug Anthology on my PS4. I love that series and glad these options are available, due to the high price of a Neo Geo.
Neo Turf Masters is ridiculously good. I’m surprised there were no puzzle games on the list. Magical Drop 3 and Puzzle Bobble 2 (Bust A Move 2) are some of my absolute favorites.
Puzzle Bobble 2 🤍
Best golf game EVER!!
I’m a big 2-D games guy. The Saturn and Neo Geo are the greatest 2-D consoles ever made.
30 years later and Neo Geo still looks absolutely amazing and beautiful. I'd buy one today for hundreds if I found one. Give us a true Neo Geo mini, SNK! And great list of games, SL! What a console....
there are plenty of Neo-Geos' for sale on ebay, i recommend getting one with modded Component and Stereo outputs in the back (unless you can tell the difference between 720p and 1080p, there are HDMI-modded consoles available as well)
Luke Dodge hundreds doesn't get you much in Neo Geo terms, a console in bad shape maybe with the crap NGCD controller and one of the cheapest games in bad shape. If you want more you'll need to pony up thousands for sure.
Neo geo mini I would so buy!
There already is a Neo Geo "mini". They even published some extra sd cards with even more games for it.
Onomato Poeia not really, it's not actually compatible, it's just an emulator that isn't that good and many of the nicer games have severe slowdowns and frame drops on it. You can buy a cheap android console and get a much better experience.
Magician Lord all day! It has one the best game soundtracks of all time!
Love that game! Wish the neo had more like it!
@@daviddefortier5970 one day maybe the proto ROM will show up of Magician Lord 2 that they were working on. One can hope.
I remember back in 1990 in sixth grade playing Sengoku 1 on a NEO GEO 4-in-1 arcade system in a grocery store. IT BLEW MY MIND!!
I remember as a kid hearing my older cousins talk about the Neo Geo as if it was some unattainable grail that only millionaires had. Then seeing the price lists in full page ads in video game magazines and immediately believing the hype, as my allowance in kindergarten was two quarters a week. Seemed “forever unattainable”.
With “best in genre” gorgeous titles like Sengoku 3 (which I still consider to be the best animated beat em up prior to the 7th gen consoles), other timelessly gorgeous sprites and unique gameplay in the Samurai Shodown & LAST BLADE series, and incredibly fun titles like Shock Troopers & the Metal Slug series….and a fighting game near the level of Street Fighter’s Alpha series and III-series in Garou Mark of the Wolves …. All which have aged extremely well, and are still every bit as fun to this day….
…it’s no mystery why it still retains its grail status to this day.
Owning a Neo Geo and tons of those huge cartridges…. It’s such a showpiece … a simultaneously vintage yet futuristic-Ish showpiece … Sh!t is like owning a Delorean lol
Now this is a great list! I especially love how there’s no loading time and you essentially hit power, choose players and go. Excellent!
Wow, what about the Aero Fighter games? Those were my favorites!
*He didn't say Windjammers?!?!?*
Un-sub..
Throw out phone...
Leaves country....
Unforgiveable!!
Windjammers was my most surprising love for a non-fighter back when. I actually was playing ROMs and had them Zipped and backed up on multi-3.5" ... Those were the days..
Literally unwatchable!
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Once we hit Top 4... I did wonder if he loved Windjammers more than me.... sadly, that was not the case.
He did preface it, but... *Windjammers* !!
Total troll no. 1. Should have been Windjammers.
neo geo games looked and sounded great, the problem was these games were based on arcade coin op games, which were designed to suck quarters. this is what limited the gameplay and the library of available games, you won't find a zelda like rpg for example, no realistic sports games. lots of fighting games though
I can’t believe Windjammers didn’t make the list
Came here from your 3dO videos. Thanks for taking the time to make these. I'm reliving these 90s classics and loving it. Keep up the great work
Metal slugs is the best neo geo snk games ever.word up son
gregory netus Lol 😂
Facts 👍
Notable games that were missed out.
1. Metal Slug 3
2. Neo Drift Out
3. Robo Army
4. Spinmaster
5. Windjammers
6. Twinkle Star Sprites
7. Puzzle Bobble
8. Aero Fighters 2
9. Sengoku 2
10. Samurai Showdown 4
I remember seeing the prices on the games and thinking it had to be a mistake they must have accidetaly added an extra zero,they were mostly just a bunch of overpriced/polished street fighter 2 clones.I never seen one in a regular store, just once at a funcoland and if your watching this your probobly old enough to remember that place before gamestop bought it and turned it to shit.
We had babbages and electronic boutique before gamestop and I felt the same way when i saw those prices! Whaat the F@&k 300 dollars or more for a game. Low and behold I never had one lol.
The Game Prices were insane I couldn't believe them. But then I guess they were similar to arcade PCB prices.
Wow, funco land - i remember 😁
Had you decided to cough up the dough and held onto them, you’d be up a nice amount of money.
Ronny Clayton none of the games were SF2 clones numbnuts, try playing a Neo Geo sometimes if you get a chance. If you still think they are SF2 clones then you either haven't played SF2 or you have mental issues and probably need a legal guardian to get around.
I wish I would have bought the NEO GEO back in the 90’s. But it was out of my price range. I wish they would make a new NEO GEO system with the best games built right in there.
Garou is still my favorite fighting game. Quickly bought it on the Switch when I saw it available. Last Blade is great too!
Does anyone else think if mortal kombat 1 2 and 3 would've been near perfect ports if midway would've put them on the might neo geo! The snes and genesis were pretty good but the neogeo with its 15 channels for sound 65000 plus color pallet and huge megabyte cartridges would of been a match made in heaven.
Neo Turf Masters was one of my First Switch games.
Same team behind Metal Slug too
PopeTheRevXXVIII both awesome games.
Why be a "Weenie" and play on those limp systems? Be a real "Hot Dog" and play NEO-GEO!!
Charlie Cat - Absolutely! I remember the day vividly - I went to our local DieHard Gamefan video game store, and I traded in my Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Super Nintendo and over 100+ games to purchase a Neo-Geo AES w/ two controllers, Magician Lord and Nam ‘75. The following week I purchased Samurai Shodown. My friends envied me. Lol In fact, my friends came over all the time to play Samurai Shodown.
My next cart purchase was Mutation Nation; I loved this game (and still do). I eventually purchased The King of Monsters, Last Resort, Baseball Stars, Super Sidekicks 2, Ninja Combat, World Heroes 2 Jet and The Super Spy.
I was hooked on the Neo-Geo before buying the AES. I always played the 4-slot MVS cab my local arcade had, which was tucked away in a dark corner.
Then came games like Kabuki Klash, Metal Slug, The King of Fighters ‘94 and Pulstar. It was (and still is) gaming bliss. And thanks to game developers like NG Dev Team and Neobitz, the mighty Neo-Geo continues to live on!
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Hi WRG,
Thank you for sharing it bro. Was really informative. I have a thread on Atariage.com called, "The Official NEO-GEO Thread". Feel free to come by at anytime to see and browse around on what we have to offer. Were welcoming to all. 8^)
Anthony..
Back in the day I loved Neo Geo games in the arcade but I didn't know a single person who owned the home system. The system itself cost over $600 and the games were around $200 each. But I loved how Neo Geo stuck with the sprites and pixel art for so long during a time when it seemed like every other company had moved on to polygons/3D.
Sir you are a youtube treasure. Keep doing what you are doing.
Neo Turf Masters was my very first Neo Geo game
I must say I started with quite the impression 😎
Favorite systems.
1. Genesis
2. Neo geo
3. Sega saturn
@xii_7 if you had access to japanese games, the Saturn was epic.
If you swap the Genesis with the Dreamcast, that list would be mine.
@@simonbelmont548 Saturn is my #1 and I've owned multiple systems from every generation over the last 25 years. It's all about the games that you connected with the most. The total library of good games for a system is irrelevant to an individual player. My favorite games in my lifetime (40 years old), are on Saturn. Shining the Holy Ark, Shining Force 3, Dragon Force, Fighters Megamix, Guardian Heroes, SEGA Rally, Daytona, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Nights, Bomberman... Etc.. Saying "lol" to someone's personal opinion makes you look arrogant and conceited.
oscar zambrano
N64! 😂
PineKushDude if you're saying the Snes's hardware was "shit" I can surely get behind that, but the library? It had stellar support from many of the greatest Japanese developers during their arguable prime...(capcom, konami, squaresoft, irem, hudson, natsume etc). So a claim like that isn't even possible let alone true. But yes the Gen/MD is a true gem.
I bought Turf Masters on gog to play it on my "new" eMac through mame, wonderful experience!
King of fighters 98 was a masterpiece
I love the ACA series on the current gen. How do you beat $8 each for all these amazing titles. I don't want to call them retro because there's nothing modern that beats them in my opinion. Great list as always.
I was more astonished by the price rather than the quality of the games lol
Weirdo.
Personally I hated the 3D backgrounds. That's not what Neo Geo and SNK were about for me. Same goes for Capcom's "Marvel Vs Capcom 2" even though it's a fantastic game.
Some Neo Geo love yes! Just wanted to share:
Most people (like me) got exposed to Neo Geo with the big red cabinets, but really got deep through emulation.
If interested in playing on actual hardware. For those same people who grew up, and (hopefully) have some disposable income... the 30 year+ AES consoles will definitely need to be modded and repaired (ie. recapped) after purchase. They definitely weren’t designed strong like an SNES or Genesis (but even these stock consoles will also die eventually).
Cloned MVS units are easily found on ebay, cheaper than an AES, but either way, will need some technical know-how of how to consolize them. You can find heavily priced (already) consolized MVSs too. But for something more quality.... Watch out for the Behar bros CMVS coming soon!
And we know AES carts are more expensive than MVS. No introduction needed. But you can reduce that price heavily with flash carts. Terraonion is the Rolls Royce, but Darksoft’s version has been steadily upgrading itself.
Happy holidays
For me is:
waku-waku7
Blue's journey
Bomberman
Yoyo master
And for the last i forgot the name, it's scroll side action and the character could long strecth their arm and grab enemis
Hi, Sir I lost my NEO GEO collection when I had a divorce, over 5 years ago lol But could you please give me links to a VERY GOOD PC EMULATION PROGRAM !
I have a built a GOOD PC and Would like to play TURF MASTER :)
Thank you and I love your channel mate:)
Just use MAME. Works great
you said "ARCADE SYSTEM TURNED HOME PLATFORM" but it was actually an arcade system AS A home platform.
Agree and enjoyed, but first on the list should have been Last Blade 2.
Blazing Stars, what a trip. Does anyone else remember that fucked up last boss? It was a friggin' BABY. And it howls otherworldly when you hit it. Yeah, nightmare fuel.
This is why i appreciate your channel and the content.
You show literally gaming history.
And the the different variety makes it even better.
I own a Neo Geo but only 3 games for it because 1 Neo Geo Game cost as much as modern consoles today.
The Last Blade 1 alone cost 405$.
I am playing alot of the games on this still on powkiddy rg10 nax 2 console. My favourite is shock troppers
This is a console I so desperately want in my collection. However the cost of entry for some of the lower end "decent" titles is still expensive. For me, emulation is the only real viable option. That and the various compilation titles and releases on other systems. Great video.
I bought the arcade board. Their carts are less than half price
I heard theres at least ONE Everdrive like Cartridge out there but it think it did cost around 300-500 bucks (Dont quote me, its been a long time since i saw that).
So thats the cheaper option to be honest.
@@DieHardjagged 300 to 500 bucks for an everdrive cart for Neo Geo is still a steal compared to 300+ per game.
There's always the Neo Geo Cd, I own one off them with the international bios chip, had it for awhile they are still cheap enough get but like all Neo Geo things they are starting to go up load times are meh, now I just use raspberry pi
@@glennmk5167 But them load times! The Neo CD is a good alternative outside of the realm of emulation, but those load times are a bit of a deterrent for me.
I was so happy when I got Samurai Shodown 3 on the PlayStation. Since I never had a neo geo the PlayStation finally gave me the arcade at home
My favorites were the World Heroes and Super Sidekicks series.
And now you can just emulate the lot of them for free on your tablet. Arcade stick optional!.... (so I've heard 😏)
I know it was prohibitively expensive. I know it was big and bulky. I know it wasn’t even all that exemplary, but God Damn, I loved the Neo Geo. During its era it was beautiful and mesmerizing to me. Great video! Thank you for the walk down memory lane.
Sam sho forever. ⚔️💥
samurai showdown and metal slug are classics💪
The fighting game genre will truly never die and that is correct. (It has a small decline in the late 90’s but thankfully overcame that and there continues to be awesome fighters to this very day) It brings a tear to my face every time I hear that. I freakin’ love Garou: Mark of the Wolves (my personal #1 fav for the Neo Geo along with other platforms it was on) and the Last Blade. And also not forgetting the Samurai Shodown (check out the reboot man! I got it on PS4 and I have no regrets buying it. I want a sequel of it to be on PS5) or King of Fighters (wanting KOF XV on PS5) series, these games are very enjoyable to this day. The Japanese arcade-style fighting game style is pretty much perfect today and there will be plenty of those for generations to come.
Somehow, the Neo Geo AES (MVS? whichever was the home one) is still my dream console. Neo Geo games were the best darn it.
Blazing star is a fucking gem. Its my favorite shmup of all time. Its just damn good
RetroYPbPr +1 Also my fav shooter. Love the graphics / music. Also the difficulty is just right imo - I.e. hard as nails but still possible.
If it wasnt for bonus. I'd try it
Neo Genesis it grows on you..to the point where you genuinely enjoy it.
@@neogenesis7706 it can be annoying but once u get in the zone you phase it out. Its an awesome game
No thank you. Its not only that "bonus" irritant, but i hate the way the backgrounds randomly change into abstract prerendered garbage.. then theres that mad last boss!
If someone can hack the game and remove the above mentioned, then i can agree, but for now, the top side scrolling shooters on the neo is last resort, followed by pulstar
Garou Mark Of The Wolves should've been number 1, its by far the best Neo Geo game.
my favorite game garou MoW and sf3 third strike
I think the thing about Metal Slug wasn't just the graphics, it was the amount of personality expressed in those graphics.
Let's be Honest, It's a rich man's Console.
Funny how nowadays the whole thing can be emulated on a Raspberry Pi 4...
I was a huge fan of Neo Turf Master too! The gameplay was easy to pickup, a common feature of Neo Geo games.
I'd add to what's appealing in Metal Slug are the great music and sound effects. They really draw you in the action.
I'd have Neo Drift Out in my top ten. It's a really fast isometric racing game but that controls really well. The latter levels are quite challenging.
I love that into.. where is it from?
Neo Turf Masters is amazing. It’s challenging 20 years on & still crazy fun to play.
I have a 4 slot cab in my living room and usually keep Shock Troopers, Turf Masters, BB Stars 2 and Samsho 3 in the chamber.
That is an incredible mix of arcade goodness. I'd never get tired of it.
Sega Lord X absolutely! still trying to get copies of sengoku 3 and nightmare in the dark but so expensive :(
Before i spend 600+ on a next gen system...Im gonna buy a NEO GEO!
Yeah, prepare to pay a lot. The console and games are horribly overpriced.
Everybody's dream console in the 90s
Shock Troopers was probably my favorite Neo Geo game ever. Super underrated!
I also love "The last blade 2" and "World Heroes 2". Thanks for the great list.
"On the green!"
Lázaro lzr That game has a special place in my ❤️
Nope it's... "On Da Gween"!
I always wondered how games would look today if developers had not gone with polygons as the future and stuck with sprites. You can make some impressive "3d" visuals using point sprites, I assume this is what we would have or something like it. Maybe before point sprites hit big we would see stuff like Doom taken to the extreme with more and more frames of animation until an object could be seamlessly viewed from every possible angle and resolution got so high that pixelization from up close viewing was no longer an issue. Maybe there is a universe out there where people play modern games without polygons!
Preach on brother, some of the best games to ever grace earth!!!
Neo Geo games were $150 or more. You couldn’t buy anything for it outside of Software Etc or Electronics Boutiques which ultimately became GameStop.
As far as I can tell, PlayStation and Dreamcast could run these games if you had those huge arcade cabinet joysticks.
Man, what a great walk down memory lane! Thanks.
The only machine many of us still cannot buy.
I love plane shooting games! R-type, Darius, Raiden I miss those games.
Darius is my favorite series of all time! I have access to a Dariusburst Another Chronicle arcade cab at my friends arcade!
I have both on snes💯👌🏿
Raiden was hard!!! Darius Garden was my favorite.
Too many games coming out of Japan were arcade games. I understand that Arcades were Japanese culture but once SNES hit in NORTH AMERICA, Arcades were on their way out.
Great list , Alpha Mission 2 is still my favorite Neo Geo game i have to finish it once a year
My Nes and Snes had my mind blown when i was younger, but i had the money too buy this Neo Geo system and i never did - now looking back i really wish i did purchase this system.
18:06 The melodie of the song Robert Miles - Children 🔥🔥😉
I think they were sued for that...they had no credit to use it
Oh wow, no Art Of Fighting 2?
Samurai Shodown and Mark of the Wolves were my go to fighters. Art of Fighting did have its place early on in the life of the system.
Incredible system/console!
Neo Geo animation were just amazing at the time.
Man, Neo Turf Masters is so good, especially its incredible soundtrack!
KNGI Network I’d swear that one song on this vid sounds like Sonic the Hedgehog’s Star Light zone.
"On the Green" :P
In a similar way to Neo Drift Out, there is just something about playing this with an arcade stick that makes this game 1000x better. It's an amazing game and tied with Tiger Woods 2004 for me as best golf game of all time.
Blazing star had the same makers of rtype behind it. It’s not a knock off it’s a passion project.
It's a "bonus?"
Neo Turf Masters really is a good game, and I'm not even a fan of the sport.