View Full Version : Why do even most pros think the Neo-Geo came out in '91?
Even the DP Collectors Guide puts the earliest US games at July, 1991. Wrong. The system's official US release date is October 25, 1990, period. I got the system for my 18th birthday in November from my mom, less then a month after it was released. It came with Baseball Stars Professional and two controllers. It is NOT the Japanese version, as everything is in English. However, the box is a pretty ugly plain white (will take a pic if requested). For Christmas that 1990, I received Ninja Combat under the tree.
Sothy
08-04-2005, 05:37 AM
YOU JUST BEEN SERVED!
http://movies.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/you_got_served/images/keyart_left.jpg
Stark
08-04-2005, 05:59 AM
Thanks for clearing that up now where did you find this date of release?
Thanks for clearing that up now where did you find this date of release?
Back in '90, I used to get four gaming mags each month (EGM, Game Players, Game Pro, and VG&CE). I most likely got the date from one of those mags, as I was obsessed with the Neo-Geo since first reading about it in EGM. I will look in my mags, but the October 25, 1990 date has always stuck in my mind
I am 100% certain that I recieved Ninja Combat for Christmas, 1990. Call me a weirdo, but every single Christmas fromn 1987 to 1995, I wrote down every video game I recieved that Christmas. I also dated them, and Christmas '90, Ninja Combat was on the list (along with the memory card, and Mickey Mouse: Castle of Illusion for the Genesis). I also most likely have the reciept if I look hard enough.
BTW guys, I'm not some kid who thinks he remembers something and could be mistaken. I'm 32 years old, have been playing since '79, was on TV Pixx at age 7 in '80 (highest score of the week!), wrote a newsletter called Zap! in the early 90's, hold a certified world record in Monster Lair (TG-CD), have 32 systems, 1,000's of games, and over 500 magazines. Trust me, I'm 100% positive about this.
robotriot
08-04-2005, 06:20 AM
I am 100% certain that I recieved Ninja Combat for Christmas, 1990. Call me a weirdo, but every single Christmas fromn 1987 to 1995, I wrote down every video game I recieved that Christmas. I also dated them, and Christmas '90, Ninja Combat was on the list (along with AcrRaiser, Super Ghouls & Ghosts, and one or two other SNES games). I also most likely have the reciept if I look hard enough.
So did you get a Super Famicom then? Because from what I've read, the SNES wasn't released in the USA until August or September 1991. And Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts was released in October 1991 in Japan according to DP ...
So did you get a Super Famicom then? Because from what I've read, the SNES wasn't released in the USA until August or September 1991. And Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts was released in October 1991 in Japan according to DP ...
Oops, I'm going to agree that I made myself look like a total ass with that post. :) That was off the top of my head. <digs out Christmas list> Sorry for the mixup, here is my 1990 video game Christmas list of games I received:
Ninja Combat (Neo-Geo)
Memory card (Neo-Geo)
Mickey Mouse (Genesis)
For the record, here's my 1991 Christmas list:
Super NES (system)
Super Ghouls & Ghosts (SNES)
Act Raiser (SNES)
Snake's Revenge (NES)
Sengoku (Neo-Geo)
Both lists are dated, as are all my other Christmas lists.
Slimedog
08-04-2005, 09:18 AM
Jesus, I wish I had your family growing up. I got 2 games every year. And one of them had to be cheap.
Jesus, I wish I had your family growing up. I got 2 games every year. And one of them had to be cheap.
yeah no shit. My christams gift for 91 a used copy of battletoads. G4's little special about SNK says the AES was released in 91.
Retsudo
08-04-2005, 11:00 AM
Thanks for clearing that up now where did you find this date of release?
Back in '90, I used to get four gaming mags each month (EGM, Game Players, Game Pro, and VG&CE). I most likely got the date from one of those mags, as I was obsessed with the Neo-Geo since first reading about it in EGM. I will look in my mags, but the October 25, 1990 date has always stuck in my mind
I am 100% certain that I recieved Ninja Combat for Christmas, 1990. Call me a weirdo, but every single Christmas fromn 1987 to 1995, I wrote down every video game I recieved that Christmas. I also dated them, and Christmas '90, Ninja Combat was on the list (along with the memory card, and Mickey Mouse: Castle of Illusion for the Genesis). I also most likely have the reciept if I look hard enough.
BTW guys, I'm not some kid who thinks he remembers something and could be mistaken. I'm 32 years old, have been playing since '79, was on TV Pixx at age 7 in '80 (highest score of the week!), wrote a newsletter called Zap! in the early 90's, hold a certified world record in Monster Lair (TG-CD), have 32 systems, 1,000's of games, and over 500 magazines. Trust me, I'm 100% positive about this.
That brings back memories. Channel 11 TV Pix. Used to se that in the mornings before school.
PDorr3
08-04-2005, 12:41 PM
Back when I was a kid I didnt even know the neo geo existed, thankfuly because I would have wanted one and never got it :)
tritium
08-04-2005, 12:55 PM
WHEN I discovered the Neogeo, was at toys r' us at $560. I've always been a little behind on videogames. At least until I was an adult.
TheRedEye
08-04-2005, 01:12 PM
Wow, you were more spoiled than my little cousin who got a 3DO for Christmas. I hate both of you.
NeoZeedeater
08-04-2005, 01:29 PM
I definitely remember it coming out in late 1990 too. Not that I had money to buy it but I played it in Compucentre at that time.
Perhaps it was test marketed in 1990, but released nationally in summer 1991?
Damion
08-04-2005, 03:09 PM
Jesus, I wish I had your family growing up. I got 2 games every year. And one of them had to be cheap.
G4's little special about SNK says the AES was released in 91.
I really wanted to watch that. Is ther any place on the net I could get that to watch?
Jesus, I wish I had your family growing up. I got 2 games every year. And one of them had to be cheap.
G4's little special about SNK says the AES was released in 91.
I really wanted to watch that. Is ther any place on the net I could get that to watch?
I found it in a thread at Neo-geo.com Its pretty damn good. IMHO
Mattiekrome
08-04-2005, 06:55 PM
I always wanted one of those neo geo memory card things, never got one though :(
Yeah you did have some nice christmas' growing up. Hell I didnt get my NES until after it had been out for a couple years
Raedon
08-04-2005, 07:34 PM
With all the Neo-Geo AES freaks here I'm sure the guide is right on an official date.. there are just to many fanboys who come in here that someone wouldn't have argued the date already like in 1999 or something.
Me, I own a Neo-Geo CDZ.. very nice!
Wow, you were more spoiled than my little cousin who got a 3DO for Christmas. I hate both of you.
For Christmas '93, I got a Jaguar instead of the 3DO. The funny part is, that was a month after my 21st birthday, and I had no job at the time. :) However, at $699, the 3DO was too much to ask for (along with Laseractive and CDi). The Neo-Geo was an exception. I just HAD to have it, and did a lot of begging.
Jesus, I wish I had your family growing up. I got 2 games every year. And one of them had to be cheap.
Yeah, I was totally spoiled. From the period of '87 to '93, my mom bought me four games a month. My best year was probably 1989. My mom bought me the Genesis, Turbo Grafx, Lynx, Gameboy, and almost 30 combined games from the period of late August to the end of the year. ;)
I definitely remember it coming out in late 1990 too. Not that I had money to buy it but I played it in Compucentre at that time.
I never played it before I bought it. Although the October 25th, 1990 date is official by SNK, if I remember right, the few stores that initially carried it may have gotten shipments a week earlier...
Perhaps it was test marketed in 1990, but released nationally in summer 1991?
Perhaps. I do live in NYC, afterall. I don't see how they would wait a full 8+ months to go nationwide though. However, I didn't see it in stores at the October 25th date. Even in November, it wasn't in my local big name stores. My Mom had to mail order it, I believe from Game Express. It can't be the Japenese version. The box (a plain white), instruction, and games are all in English.
Mr.FoodMonster
08-05-2005, 01:04 AM
Well, looks like something intresting did happen on my birthday. (I was 2 on October 25th 1990. How old does that make you feel?)
I always wanted one of those neo geo memory card things, never got one though :(
Yeah you did have some nice christmas' growing up. Hell I didnt get my NES until after it had been out for a couple years
Neither did I! Checking my video game date book, it says I got my NES on January 8, 1987. A few weeks earlier, I had gotten a 7800 for Christmas '86 and was disappointed.
With all the Neo-Geo AES freaks here I'm sure the guide is right on an official date.. there are just to many fanboys who come in here that someone wouldn't have argued the date already like in 1999 or something.
Me, I own a Neo-Geo CDZ.. very nice!
There's just no two wayws about it, it came out in October 1990. I don't mean to sound smart, but my date book does NOT lie. I maty be a little nuts, but every system I've ever owned after the 2600 I write the date down that I received it. Let me check the Neo-Geo...says 11-29-90. Hmm, I though I got it earlier in November, but I was off by a few weeks. Oh well, that's still 1990.
Well, looks like something intresting did happen on my birthday. (I was 2 on October 25th 1990. How old does that make you feel?)
Not old at all. Let's see how good you look at 32. :)
Seriously, being born in late '88 sucks. You missed the entire 80's and not only the Golden Age of gaming, but the NES age as well. 8-)
Tron 2.0
08-05-2005, 06:14 AM
Jesus, I wish I had your family growing up. I got 2 games every year. And one of them had to be cheap.
G4's little special about SNK says the AES was released in 91.
I really wanted to watch that. Is ther any place on the net I could get that to watch?
Here ya go the SNK Icons special is nice but, it's realy more of a quick run down on it's history. It doesn't... cover every thing.
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98435
rbudrick
08-05-2005, 09:58 AM
First, you are one lucky bastid for getting a NeoGeo for Xmas. Second, I too remember playing th Neo in late 1990. Third, yes the SNES did come out in August, 1991 (the 11th or 20th is ringing a bell in my head...could be wrong). Fourth, your Neo came in a white box? WTF? Was it the gold model or silver? I know the gold sure didn't come in a white box...at least the one that was available at the local game rental store (yes, it was an USA model).
-Rob
Damion
08-05-2005, 10:27 AM
Jesus, I wish I had your family growing up. I got 2 games every year. And one of them had to be cheap.
G4's little special about SNK says the AES was released in 91.
I really wanted to watch that. Is ther any place on the net I could get that to watch?
Here ya go the SNK Icons special is nice but, it's realy more of a quick run down on it's history. It doesn't... cover every thing.
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98435
you sir are my new best friend :) If ever we're together in a life threating situation. I will hug you if you ask. But you must promise if we make it out alive you tell NO ONE.
Kidding I'll hug you right now *GIVES BIG BEAR HUG* Thank you.
First, you are one lucky bastid for getting a NeoGeo for Xmas. Second, I too remember playing th Neo in late 1990. Third, yes the SNES did come out in August, 1991 (the 11th or 20th is ringing a bell in my head...could be wrong). Fourth, your Neo came in a white box? WTF? Was it the gold model or silver? I know the gold sure didn't come in a white box...at least the one that was available at the local game rental store (yes, it was an USA model).
-Rob
Hey My neo Came in a white Box too! I bought it from a friend about a year ago. Heres some pics
The Top of the Box
http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/4047/top2ki.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
The Front Side of the Box
http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/4500/frontside8xh.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
inside the Box with a pic of the manual
http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/598/inside5od.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
and a pic of the serial number (011131)
http://img325.imageshack.us/img325/6017/betterpicofserial3qe.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
When I talked to Japangamesnow.com he said that he had never heard of it. He thought that it might have been a refurbed unit.
NEOFREAK9189
08-05-2005, 11:28 AM
my first the play neogeo was in my uncle store he have arcades in 1989 I play for free all day :D I got my first neogeo in 1995
any remember a movie with 2 black guys the play neogeo
I remember the movie was guy salen gun anyone remember the name of the movie I wanted to see the movie
Geddon_jt
08-05-2005, 07:25 PM
When I talked to Japangamesnow.com he said that he had never heard of it. He thought that it might have been a refurbed unit.
The same guy who sells the "ultra-rare green label white boxed Neo control sticks" with nearly the exact same packaging told you that the system you bought (in 1990) was a refurb? :hmm: LOL
Anyways, I'm sure your recollection in this case is correct. Here's my take on the mysterious "white box" US Neo AES systems.
First off, you aren't the first person with this story. I know a couple other people with white box Neos, one of whom purchased it directly from SNK prior to Neos being sold at retail in 1991. It's my belief and opinion that these were available direct from SNK for a short period (late 1990-early 1991) before the Neo hit the retail sector (hence the lame packaging). Keep in mind that during this time, Neos were marketed in Japan as a "rental-only" game machine that, if memory serves, came in almost identical white-box generic packaging. It was after a few months of the rental experiment in Japan that SNK decided to sell the system outright. It was most likely during this time that the white-box Neo's were made available direct from SNK-USA (yes, in 1990). And a handful of games, too.
I'm going to do some more research on this. Do you happen to know if your Neo was bought at a retail store or mail-ordered? I'd be willing to bet it's the latter...
GameSlaveGaz
08-05-2005, 07:51 PM
You lucky bastard! Your mom bought you a NeoGeo for your BIRTHDAY. It's one of the most expensive systems (if not THE most expensive) in video game history!
My parents were always cheap on video games. My grandparents helped out a bit, but I was still always shortchanged. I didn't become aware of video games 'til I was 8, that was '92. I wanted the NES, my dad came home with a used Atari 5200 and 2 games, Pac-Man and Ms Pac-man. I eventually got the NES from my grandparents for my Communion. It was the bundle with the 2 controllers, Super Mario/Duck Hunt and a zapper. I think I had a total of 8 games for it by the time it was untimely retired. Then after much begging I got the Sega Genesis, I don't remember what for and it came with Sonic 2 (aah, the glory days when games prebundled in systems were a standard, not just some holiday shopping season marketing ploy) and I also had very few titles for that. I begged and begged for a SNES. I had a Sega my parents argued, I didn't need another system. I begged for a GameBoy, a Game Gear and a Nomad all to no avail. I eventually got a GameBoy Pocket for X-mas, but a year or two later my sister got the GameBoy Color for her birthday, upstaging me. Then when the Advance came out she got that for her birthday that year leaving me with the Color! (but then I started working at Toys R Us and bought myself the Platinum one when it first came out cuz it came with a free Arm Light) My sister also got the original PlayStation for Christmas one year. We ended up getting a decent amount of PlayStation titles between generous grandparents, GameStop and a little shop that used to be down the block from me that sold used games that's long gone (the owner's original store is in Revere, a couple towns away but I never get to go there) But thanks to my grandparents I did eventually get an N64 with Ocarina of Time for Xmas, albeit in one of the last couple years of the system's run, then a couple years later a PS2 and they got me the Gran Turismo 3 pack for like $350 after I told them they didn't need to get it cuz I didn't care for the game, but they insisted cuz I needed a game to go with it (although my parents already bought me Devil May Cry and Crash Bandicoot). The year after, my very generous boyfriend got me a platinum GameCube and Super Mario Sunshine for Xmas. All my other systems I bought myself with the exception of the Genesis (salvaged from the trash) and the SNES (went halfsies with my sister)
Although nowadays, since it's all I really care about besides DVDs and books, I'll get 2 or 3 video games for Christmas depending on the price of the games I asked for. My boyfriend always buys me a game for Valentine's Day, anniversary, b-day, Xmas or Easter and I do the same for him. Everything else I have to buy myself. So I'm luckier than some poor kids, but far from spoiled. Unlike you and your NeoGeo. If I had known the NeoGeo back then, my parents would've probably slapped me for even suggesting they buy me something that expensive. I mean, at that time I couldn't even own two systems at the same time and it was hard getting new games for my system! Which is probably why I have started collecting games and systems, to fill the void in my childhood.
Damion
08-06-2005, 12:01 AM
When I talked to Japangamesnow.com he said that he had never heard of it. He thought that it might have been a refurbed unit.
The same guy who sells the "ultra-rare green label white boxed Neo control sticks" with nearly the exact same packaging told you that the system you bought (in 1990) was a refurb? :hmm: LOL
Anyways, I'm sure your recollection in this case is correct. Here's my take on the mysterious "white box" US Neo AES systems.
First off, you aren't the first person with this story. I know a couple other people with white box Neos, one of whom purchased it directly from SNK prior to Neos being sold at retail in 1991. It's my belief and opinion that these were available direct from SNK for a short period (late 1990-early 1991) before the Neo hit the retail sector (hence the lame packaging). Keep in mind that during this time, Neos were marketed in Japan as a "rental-only" game machine that, if memory serves, came in almost identical white-box generic packaging. It was after a few months of the rental experiment in Japan that SNK decided to sell the system outright. It was most likely during this time that the white-box Neo's were made available direct from SNK-USA (yes, in 1990). And a handful of games, too.
I'm going to do some more research on this. Do you happen to know if your Neo was bought at a retail store or mail-ordered? I'd be willing to bet it's the latter...
you maybe thinking of the Author of the thread. I bought mine sometime last year and from what I understand My friend and his brother bought it years ago from a rental place.
Oh and I have that green strip Controllor box. Is it really that rare?
Damion
08-06-2005, 12:41 AM
*Double Post*
sharp
08-06-2005, 05:39 PM
I tried to check it by looking in my flyer collection, but it the Neo Geo AES flyer doesn't give any release date. It only gives technical information and some pictures of the system. Oh and it was selected as a great quality export product from Japan. I'm not sure if it was the introduction flyer, but I think so as it doesn't mention a single game (not in the text, but also there are no screenshots).
But I think 1990 is right.