NeoGeo Pocket

[spanks_4]

how can you tell the difference between games from the U.S. and games from Europe?

[Vectorman0]

US Games come in cardboard boxes, European games in English/multilingual Snapcases. And US carts have ESRB Ratings, European do not.

[kaedesdisciple]

US Games come in cardboard boxes, European games in English/multilingual Snapcases. And US carts have ESRB Ratings, European do not.

Man speaks the truth. As a result of being in those snapcases, European variants are somewhat higher in price. Plus, they got additional titles in English (Faselei, Evolution, Reversi) that the US did not, go figure lol.

[esquire]

Also, if you have loose carts, which is common with the NGPC, check out Neo-Geo.com, and go to their pricing index, then to NGPC

http://www.neo-geo.com/

1. The games are listed numerically by the NEOP# part number you will find on the packaging and cart. The specific part numbers for each regional release are as follows:
for example: Fatal Fury 1st Contact
NEOP00110 - Japanese
NEOP0011 - UK
NEOP00111 - US

[snes_collector]

The Euro releases also have a "rainbow" on the top left of the carts.

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

The first generation of Neo Pocket games came in the snaplock cases in the U.S. and Japan as well as Europe. It wasn't until Fall of 1999 that Japanese and North American releases started coming in cardboard boxes.


...word is bondage...

[Vectorman0]

This is the first I have heard of any clamshell game having an ESRB rating on it, other than Bust-a-Move Pocket. Are you 100% sure and can verify this personally, as having owned/seen them? I won't believe it until I see pictures. ESRB rating stickers applied to the English Euro ones don't count, but I doubt that would be those because you mentioned US part numbers.

EDIT - Now that I think about it, I have heard about a couple in the past, but could never get any proof (pictures) of them.

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

Well, I can't prove anything since I sold off my Neo Pocket collection (including U.S. clamshell versions of Bust-A-Move, Baseball Stars, and KoF:R-2) and I've never been into collecting pictures of box variants even though I've seen all the others on eBay at one time or another.

Maybe check at the Neo-Geo.com pocket forum if that's still active, a few years ago when I was posting there, there were a few other members who had some of these U.S. clamshell releases. One guy had all of them, I think.


...word is bondage...

[Vectorman0]

Well, I can't prove anything since I sold off my Neo Pocket collection (including U.S. clamshell versions of Bust-A-Move, Baseball Stars, and KoF:R-2) and I've never been into collecting pictures of box variants even though I've seen all the others on eBay at one time or another.

Maybe check at the Neo-Geo.com pocket forum if that's still active, a few years ago when I was posting there, there were a few other members who had some of these U.S. clamshell releases. One guy had all of them, I think.


...word is bondage...

I belive you, with you having personally owned them. Do you remember if the carts/manuals were US also?