Top 25 Neo-Geo (AES) Games

[digitalpress]

Let's create an "official list" for use on our Rarity Lists page. This topic had started at one time and was lost on our forum crash last September. Housecleaning says we NEED this online, now.

So what are your favorite Neo-Geo (AES) cartridge games? Two nominations get a game on this list - then we'll pare it down to 25 and tweak it over time!

Baseball Stars 2
Blazing Star
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
King of Fighters 2001
King of Fighters '98
Last Blade 2
League Bowling
Magician Lord
Metal Slug
Metal Slug 3
Metal Slug X
Nam '75
Neo Turf Masters
Pulstar
Real Bout Fatal Fury Special
Samurai Shodown 2
Samurai Shodown 4
Shock Troopers 2
Sonic Wings 3
Stakes Winner
Super Baseball 2020
Twinkle Star Sprites
Viewpiont
Windjammers

For the complete list of games (perhaps just to jog your memory), check out the Rarity Lists page here:
http://www.digitpress.com/lists.htm

[thekeepr]

Well....I can only think of one game right now....because.....

1. I just bought my NeoGeo 2 months ago....always wanted one and finally got it at our meet we had a few months back.
2. Seen this game being played at the meet....was the best game I had seen for the system so far, not a fan of "fighters", for which this system is popular for.
3. Have not really checked out all of the games this system has to offer, price excluding said "checking out"...these carts are'nt cheap!!!
4. Should consider the CD version...is cheaper, but slower load rates.
5. Got one game with said above purchase, Magician Lord, so that's my only exposure to gaming on my "Neo" right now...so I guess I could claim that as my second one to Joe's request....the first on being...VIEWPOINT.
What a cool looking game...a blast to play...sorta reminds me of Zaxxon!!!
The Keeper :/

[Gamereviewgod]

You gotta have Samurai Showdown 1 and 2. League Bowling, Nam '75, and Mutation Nation are also personal faves.

[Gamereviewgod]

Oh yeah, Magician Lord too....

[digitalpress]

I'll second all of those except for Mutation Nation which I really didn't enjoy, and I'll also nominate:

Metal Slug
Metal Slug 2
Metal Slug 3

Oh, and incidentally, it's Samurai SHODOWN (no "w" in there). I see a lot of people spell it the other way, just thought I'd lend an assist in future nominations

[thekeepr]

Sorry Joe...what was I thinking!!(I did just wake up)....The Metal Slug series...yes!!!, those are great games on the NeoGeo, I play them on my NeoGeo pocket all the time...geeez, where was my brain at...must be still laying back in bed!!! The Keeper :/

[Gamereviewgod]

Metal Slug...duh!!!!! >.< How about Baseball Stars 2? Has to be one of the best arcade style BB games ever made.

[samuraiX]

Metal Slug X
Neo Turf Masters
Samurai Shodown 2
Last Blade 2
Baseball Stars 2
King of Fighters '98
League Bowling
Viewpoint
Garou, Mark of the Wolves
Stakes Winner
Real Bout Fatal Fury Special
Magician Lord

...those US games

and the following JP games:
Magical Drop 3
Sonic Wings 3
Twinkle Star Sprites
Waku Waku 7

I think that covers most of the good ones

[Kid Fenris]

Nam '75? Seriously? No offense, but that's a pretty mediocre game. The original Cabal is almost better than Nam '75.

Anyway, here are my suggestions:

The King of Fighters '97
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Last Blade 2
Metal Slug X
Metal Slug 3
Super Baseball 2020

And if we're including Japanese releases . . .

Magical Drop 3
Pulstar
Shock Troopers 2nd Squad
Waku Waku 7

[digitalpress]

Nam '75? Seriously? No offense, but that's a pretty mediocre game. The original Cabal is almost better than Nam '75.

The original Cabal isn't on Neo-Geo, though

And I AM quite serious. I LOVE NAM '75. That's the game that almost always gets played (and keep in mind that I'm not a hardcore fighting game fan) when the Neo-Geo is out. I crank up the volume and it's WAR, BABY!

[ManekiNeko]

I'd say replace one of the Metal Slugs or King of Fighters '98 with Twinkle Star Sprites. It's one of the most original games on the system, a vertically scrolling shooter you play against an opponent. Anything you blow up is transported to the other player's side of the screen, and you can set up chain reactions that keep you safe and leave your rival swimming in enemies. You can even sic a boss on them if you're good enough! Twinkle Star Sprites is a fun, overlooked title that's worthy of inclusion on this list.

JR

[ubersaurus]

Yes, replace KOF 97 with twinkle star sprites. KOF 98 did everything 97 did and more. All 97 had was a storyline, and lets face it, storylines are insignifigant in a fighter.

[K3V]

What, no Blazing Star?

[Captain Wrong]

So far, I can't argue with that list too much.

I'd add Sonic Wings 3, Pulstar, and I think you're good to go (that is if we're keeping it just to AES carts )

BTW, warms my heart to see so much support for Twinkle Star Sprites! God, I love that game in all it's fruity Engrish glory!

[jaydubnb]

Oh man, where to begin? So many good N*G games....hmmmm let's see...

King of the Fighters 98
Garou, Mark of the Wolves
Baseball Stars 2
Super Baseball 2020
Metal Slug X
Metal Slug 3
Last Blade
Samurai Shodown 2
ShockTroopers 2

edit: forgot to add Viewpoint!

[buttasuperb]

Replace Real Bout Special with Real Bout 2
Replace Samurai Shodown 1 with Samurai Shodown 4

Blazing Star and Pulstar both need to be on that list. And if we are including MVS only releases, Neo Drift Out as well.

[ubersaurus]

And if you want to get into Japan, Magical Drop 3 is the best puzzle game on the console, bar none.

[samuraiX]

Real Bout Special kicks the shizat outta RB2. Both are good but Special is better.

Oh, and I forgot Blazing Star, that's a must. Pulstar is good but given both I would say BS is better.

The Samurai Shodown series I would say 2 is the best of the bunch, followed closely by 4. The first is a classic but the others improved on the original. The 4th installment was awesome but the computer AI was a little off. Thus 2 gets my vote for the list.

and common people! Stakes Winner is the bomb diggity! Quirky horse racing at it's finest! Uh... yeah, so play that, you'll like it.

[Kid Fenris]

I think we need at least one "real" King of Fighters game on the list, so I suggest '97, 2000, or 2001 in addition to '98.

KoF '98 may have all the fighters and competitively balanced gameplay, but it's lacking in the style, aesthetic cohesion, and, well . . . the soul that made the KoF series great.

Picking '98 and only '98 is like taking a "Greatest Hits" collection of your favorite band and leaving behind their best studio album. Sure, Whitesnake's 20th Century Masters anthology may have all of their most successful songs, but is listening to it really the same as popping in their self-titled 1987 release and losing yourself in "Crying in the Rain"?

Hmm . . . perhaps I should have chosen a better example. But you get the idea.

[samuraiX]

Yeah, if I had to pick another KoF game then I would say either 2001 or 2002. A newer version of the game would be the best compliment to the list.