Neo-Geo Question.
At the local laundromat, they have one of those Neo-Geo arcade machines.
Aside from a golf game, it also has a game called "Prehistoric Isle 2" (or "Island"). I was surprised to see the copyright date was only about 7 or 8 years ago.
Are they still making games for that system? If not, when did they stop? I always thought it was the mid-1990s, at the latest.
Last game was in 2005, Samurai Shodown V Special.
Death to Bill and Ted!
actually Samurai Spirits V Special came out in 2004 and was the last officially released Neo Geo Game, but just a few months ago there was a unofficial (yet twice as expensive as regular AES title - $600-$700) homebrew shooter called last hope(which was also ported to Dreamcast).
Pity that Prehistoric Isle 2 never received an official AES release. I have a Japanese version conversion on the way to me at the mo tho
Oops on the year of SSVS.Originally Posted by Princess-Isabela
Nobody really considers Last Hope to be a last game for the Neo though...
...and expensive is an understatement, btw, espcially for a game I don't think is that great.
Death to Bill and Ted!
Samurai Showdown 5 special was the last official release for the neo and there will probebly never be another release since SNKPlaymore moved to the Atomiswave which is now dead also. And I believe Last Hope was $700 only if you sent in a "sac" cart. If not I believe it was $800. But I could be wrong.
There have been MANY game releases in the last8 or so years. Including Rage of the dragons, samurai showdown 5 and 5 special, Matrimelee, KOF 2003, KOF 2002,2001,2000, Pochi and Nyaa and so on.
This is all certainly news to me!
Because the games were so very expensive, it was obvious that the Neo-Geo would never have enjoyed widespread home ownership. Therefore, I'd always figured that its main strength would be in arcades. It actually reminded me of those "conversion" games from the mid-1980s (Bump `N Jump was one, I think), only more advanced.
But this was years ago; surely even home technology has long overtaken the Neo-Geo in any practical sense? How did the Neo-Geo enjoy such a long lifespan?
Good games and a loyal fanbase. That and SNK didn't hastily pull the plug on their system(s) when they still had something to offer, like Sega did.
My local department store, which has since closed, used to have a Neo-Geo cabinet. Fatal Fury 2 and one of the Baseball Stars games were the two I played the most. I can't remember what else was in it.
Man, you're missing out if you haven't played any Neo Geo games since the mid-90s.
Actually, nothing could touch the Neo Geo until around when the Dreamcast came out, and even those ports were kind of iffy. The hardware may not have been designed to produce 3D games, but those huge carts could still hold A LOT and instantly access everything. The PlayStation was really limited but its RAM, so Neo Geo ports on it were a joke. Frames were cut left and right to the point that the games didn't even play the same, and load times were brutal.
When SNK said "The Future is Now" they really meant it. When the MVS was first created, it was as if they had a time machine and snatched technology from the future, and that hardware served them well for many, many years.
Its Samurai Spirits Zero Special for Japan and Samurai Showdown 5 Special for the US. Since your correcting.
JS
I'm pretty sure snk went bankrupt at the end of the 90's and were bought out by playmore or something like that. Kind of like atari it got downsized and has like a small division that still craps out games. They probably might release a $300 cart game once or twice a year usually just another sequel of metal slug or kof.
VF & SF The Originals!
KOF & Tekken The Clones!
The Neo was definatly ahead of its time. It was suppose to be able to only hold 300 megs in a single game. That was what SNK planned anyway in its inital release. To be able to make games up to 300 megs. However that goal was destroyed in 2003 when KOF 03 was released at a unheard of 716 megs. More then double the inital expectations. Not to mention MANY other games around the same meg count. Samurai Showdown 5 special and a few others hitting the 707 mark.
SNK did go bankrupt in the 90's and all of the remeaining stock was sond to Chris Ray and Dion Dakis who took all the games and stamped them with there so called official "Neo Geo Freaks" stamps on the manuals and inserts. That is a entirely different story though.
Here is a good place to start reading up on the neo. Go to the tab entitled Glossery and read up. There are some interesting links in the glossery in the chris and dion areas.
http://www.neo-geo.com/
my Neo Geo arcade is the shit. I always wanted my own arcade machine since I was a little kid, then somebody had a 4 slot MVS for sale for $400 so I couldn't turn it down. Playing Samurai Shodown on the MVS is the only way to do it in my opinion.
Agree. I have a 2 slot MVS. The fighting games are a blast. I have SS1-4 can't afford 5 but I have seen the death scenes on you tube. I do have the xbox version. The voice overs sound like Return of the Living Dead -- aaayyyyooooaaaaaaaeeee (japanese something something) oooeeaalllleeee. I have to turn down the sound to play it!
Metal Slug, any of them, is fantastic too.
I have two basic food groups, fast and frozen.
"Meg." Boy, do I remember that little marketing trick! As in MegaBIT, or 128K- the size of Opcode's upcoming CV Pac-Man Collection, I believe.
What they intended was the fact that we all knew what "Kilobyte," or "K," was- so, instinctively, we would think that "Meg" meant 1,000,000 BYTES, or (roughly) 1000K. It sounded big and macho.
Why they couldn't just stick to "K" until they really did have a "1000K" game is beyond me. Maybe they thought we were too dumb to know the difference?
They haven't released games for their own hardware since 2004 but they still release games for all other platforms basically. They're looking to cash in on all the live arcade/wii downloads.
I own an NGPC still and love it. Looking into getting an MVS cab
Yeah the neo has a cult following and I can understand why. It's a great system and has outstanding 2d fighters and shmups. I'm saving up right now for a supergun...then it's a mv-1cafter that
Forget the supergun. I bought my 2 slot mvs at an arcade auction for 285 out the door. I replaced the joysticks and buttons (about 35 bucks with tax), then had the monitor recapped (70 bucks). So I invested around 500 for the cab and some games gradually.
It came with SS2 and Metal Slug. Not bad. I went out and bought Bust a Move, SS1, 3 and 4. PaceCar here on Digital Press gave me World Heroes and Fatal Fury 2, very nice of him I would add. Here and there buying games, the cab would be much more enjoyable than a supergun that's hooked up to your TV. Especially if you like to play fighting games like I do. Nothing like the true arcade.
I have two basic food groups, fast and frozen.
Well I'm going to be getting other boards besides neo-geo. Like PGM and atomiswave. Maybe a cps2 but doubt it. Anyways yeah there are some other pcb's I want so I'd like a supergun.
I'm a bit foggy on the details, but a year or so after the bankruptcy most of the people who used to work at SNK were back producing games for SNK Playmore. In the meantime games like Metal Slug 4, KOF 2003, and Sengoku 3 were produced by different studios (with slightly lackluster results).
Last edited by J'orfeaux; 05-20-2007 at 01:33 PM.
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