Wrestle With Gaming History of the Neo-Geo

[Aussie2B]

I was barely, if at all, aware of the existence of SNK and the Neo Geo (MVS or AES) in the '90s. I was introduced to it all after the turn of the century, when I first met my husband. He's a big fan and consolized an MVS himself. I still have never played an AES, but I don't really see a point in doing so. A consolized MVS is cheaper, and so are MVS carts versus AES carts, and I think it's really dumb that they made this high-end home console and yet limited it to composite straight out of the box. We have universal bios for our consolized MVS, so we can play any game in home mode if we want, along with changing the region and such, and you can plug AES and Neo CD controllers into an MVS. And we've bought shockboxes for most of our MVS carts, so they look impressive on a shelf just like CIB AES games do. It's all pretty bulky, though, so we admittedly don't set up the MVS much anymore. It was more worthwhile having in the early '00s, back when Neo Geo emulation was still pretty iffy.

[MagicMajenta]

Wow nice to see a Neo Geo thread here. Haven't posted here on digitpress in eons. I'm THEMAN, the annhialator of worlds over at the neo geo forums. I'm sure there might be some peeps here who are members there as well. Nice vid about the Neo Geo.

[celerystalker]

I remember seeing that video, it was a good look at the system! I still have my MVS cabinet with a bunch of games and my AES with 30 something games. That thing was like a myth to me as a kid, and I finally got my own when I was I think 23 years old... god, that was almost 20 years ago now. I have a lot of stories with that thing, and now I enjoy playing it with my sons. That reminds me... I'm still waiting on my Kraut Buster AES pre-order from, like, 5-6 years ago. I had a whole different career and less kids then, and I'm still waiting. Never again for ngdev for me.