I sincerely hope you enjoy this video, I loved working on it even if it's really hard to find some reliable sources for such an uncommon console! Sorry that my English is not perfect, it's not my native language. Made by Sakharu, voiced over by Brad Ziffer.

@earlusmcdivett

17 күн бұрын

We love it Sakharu! Your videos are amazing!

@LucaS-c1j

17 күн бұрын

I love your videos, @sakaharubaguette. Can you do the chronicles of the SEGA Dreamcast?

@princegroove

17 күн бұрын

The only retro console from this brand that I own is the Neo Geo Pocket Color, but I love it!

@McLovinMods

17 күн бұрын

@@sakharubaguette you absolutely crushed it! Every video you have made has been amazing! Keep up the great work!

@JasonJrake

16 күн бұрын

The only clue I heard that you are not a native speaker: You switched between present tense language and past tense language. A few modern American and British books try to do all present tense, but the standard is to speak in complete past tense, even if you are imagining or representing things as they happened. Examples: Present tense: Sega creatES the Mega Drive, it SELLS well. Past tense: Sega creatED the MD, it SOLD well. It’s still a great video, but changing this in future videos will make it more pleasant/professional sounding to a larger English speaking audience. Also, I grew up during this era, and you did a great job of capturing why we were enchanted by stories of this arcade-at-home system. Again, great job on this video.

I absolutely adore the Neo-Geo. I will always remember my high school graduation night. There was a truck stop a few miles outside of town that had a little cafe in it that sold nasty, greasy burgers and had a small arcade. They had a 4 game Neo cabinet. Me and some friends spent the entire night playing World Heroes 2 and eating those nasty burgers. Damn, damn good times man.

@TheUderfrykte

12 күн бұрын

Wholesome

@onlypvpcaterina-6669

7 күн бұрын

Ah the neo geo mvs, Wish i had the pleasure of playing on one, Although i was fortunate to have played on neo geo arcades at my local arcade place, Such great memories 🥰

@Immorpher

6 күн бұрын

I still love World Heroes! I played it in a small cafe.

@PurpleTeamer

Күн бұрын

those "NASTY BURGERS" and World Heroes 2 (or any Neogeo fighter ) Bliss.

@TheRealJohnHooper

Күн бұрын

Now I want a burger

That was a legitimately interesting video! Thank a for posting. As a teenager in 1990, the neo geo was a world apart from anything we were playing back then. The thought of a $600 console and $200 games may as well have been a million dollars to us, but it was an amazing machine.

@kh7955

13 күн бұрын

Me and my friends were in the same boat but at least we had the MVS arcade machines

@TrangleC

Күн бұрын

Yeah. It was like the video game version of a Lamborghini, or a Ferrari, totally unobtainable to regular kids like I was one too. I think my SEGA Mega Drive console together with a bundle of 4 games cost as much as a single Neo Geo game cartridge. I still vividly remember how I stared longingly at Neo Geo ads and articles in video game magazines. I was so obsessed with this stuff and would have sold my organs or my soul to be able to afford a Neo Geo, or later the first (front-loader) version of the SEGA CD. It was as if my whole life, my identity, my being would somehow depend on what consoles I had. Quite pathetic and embarrassing, looking back. As a little kid in the early to mid-80s, it was all about action figures and other plastic toys and then in the late 80s and early 90s, all about video game consoles. I genuinely got super involved and emotional about this nonsense too. The "16 bit War" between Nintendo and SEGA really mattered to me. I was a SEGA fanboy and hated Nintendo and I was genuinely proud of stuff like that the Mega Drive/Genesis version of Street Fighter 2 was 36 MB big while the SNES version was only 30 MG big. lol As if that meant that the SEGA version was better, 6 MB better to be precise. hehehe Maybe spazzing out like that in my childhood and early teens was a good thing though. Maybe this hyper consumerist part of my brain somehow overheated and burned out or something, because as a adult I relatively early figured out that buying and owning stuff doesn't really make me happy.

I used to work for a mom'n pop's brick and mortar videogame store in the 90's. One day after work I visited a competing toy store to check their pricing. The owner recognized me and we had a chat, he points to an unsold Neogeo box on a shelf collecting dust and asks if I can take it off his hands for a mere 3000kr (roughly 300$/€). Even if we adjust for inflation it was still dirt cheap, so I rushed to the bank and got the money. Returned home with a Neogeo + Cyberlip, Magician Lord, League Bowling, Blue's Journey, Top Player's Golf & Puzzled. I paid less for all that than I paid for King of Fighters 94. Good times.

Neo-Geo will be always a Rolls-Royce of the video consoles. Ahh tthe 80-90s i miss them so much.

@PurpleTeamer

Күн бұрын

I think the console case was designed after the Lamborghini Countach...the absolute super car of the 80s but for some reason, the neogeo was always called the Rolls Royce of consoles.

In school there was one kid whose father bought him a neogeo. I asked my dad and when he found out how much the games cost he just laughed.

@TheCrewExpendable

9 күн бұрын

We had a kid like that on our street. He had every console, including the AES. It was kind of sad because you could tell the dad was trying to buy his kids' love since he was a salesman and never around.

@poindextertunes

9 күн бұрын

fuuuuug my dad wouldn’t even buy me a snes or genesis. He wouldve shxt his pants if i asked for a neogeo 😂

@TomiTapio

Күн бұрын

Amiga/AtariST guys enjoying super low cost games in 1991.

As a kid, I only knew NEO GEO arcade games were simply the best! That NEO GEO startup screen is ingrained in my mind. I never knew they actually made a home console, and by the price of it, I'm actually thankful I wasn't aware of it, I would never be able to afford it. They wanted to make the Rolls-Royce of 16-bit consoles, and they did just that.

@FuzedBox

12 күн бұрын

They were mythical in the '90s. A lot of us wondered if they even existed. One day I was invited to a classmate's birthday party in '96. Her dad was a rich prop provider and had an little mini casino, with a Neo Geo and small library sitting in the corner. I spent a few hours playing Metal Slug and when I asked her dad where he got it, he simply said "don't bother, your parents will kill you if you ask for one". Nowadays you can just buy the console and flash cart or play on a MiSTer FPGA, both of which are pricey options. We really weren't missing out in that much, but it's cool to finally play it again.

@robf

2 күн бұрын

@@FuzedBoxI did this as an adult. Finally got my Neo Geo and flash cart. It was still expensive 😅

The Neo Geo graphics hardware was very weird everything is made up of sprites that are 16 pixels wide and up to 512 pixels high. The hardware is not tile based it uses 16 bit color (5 bits each for RGB + a "dark" bit so the leftover 1 bit doesn't go to waste) with 12 bits per pixel. Basically it works like VGA 256 color mode but on steroids i.e. there are 4096 16-bit pallet entries and the 12-bit pixel values point to a specific entry and will be displayed using the 16-bit color value stored there. There are no graphics tile layers at all only a non scrolling text layer to be used for the HUD. There are 380 sprites with a maximum of 96 per scanline or 1536 sprite pixels per line. The Sega Genesis by comparison had 80 sprites and a maximum of 320 sprite pixels per scanline) Basically the Genesis could display an entire screen width worth of sprite pixels and the Neo Geo could display just shy of five times that (4.8 screen widths). Though that's not as insanely high as it sounds because you had to build your background sets out of sprites too where other contemporary hardware would use multiple tile layers for that purpose. But there were far less restrictions on parallax scrolling for example you could have a cityscape in the background where every building scrolls by at a different rate and overlap with each other.

@DancesRainyStreets

16 күн бұрын

When working with sprites only, there's usually less repetition in scenery and it's easier to make evironments look more active and alive with animations. Also, the Neo Geo's total color palette is 65536. Creating a game for this console requires some serious artistic effort, if the goal is to make it look like a Neo Geo game at least.

@ArneChristianRosenfeldt

16 күн бұрын

Why do Jump’n’Runs and RPGs always use tiles? Neither Amiga, ST, PC ( Keen and Tux ) have tiles. The genesis is genius. It renders sprites in the border back to front. Then on the screen it renders on tile background and on top of this one tile foreground. So a single buffer is enough to keep the renderer occupied. But it needs kinda z values of the sprites. Pure z order as in NeoGeo and Jaguar allows translucency.

@atomicskull6405

16 күн бұрын

@@DancesRainyStreets 65536 is 16-bit color, each pallet entry used 5 bits for red green and blue which is only 15 bit, the leftover 1 bit is used as a "dark" bit. Unlike 16-bit color in the PC world where it was 5-6-5 color with green channel having an extra bit of resolution (green was used for the extra bit because the human eye is most sensitive to green)

@poindextertunes

9 күн бұрын

they knew what they were doing. neogeo games are beautiful

Neo Geo the holy Grail of my childhood. I always loved their cabinets because most often they were never more than a quarter.

@marccaselle8108

7 күн бұрын

I was lucky to grow up in upstate New York. We had loads of arcades in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. Every arcade in the 90s had either a 4 or 6 slot, neo Geo arcade machine. Typically the selection was a sports game (baseball stars or street hoop) a puzzle game (puzzle Bobble) a fighting game (fatal fury or art of fighting or samurai Showdown) and a side scroller like metal slug or cyber lip or magician lord.

Got my first Neogeo back in fall 1994 with Fatal Fury Special and League Bowling in mint condition for only 150$ (of the time). I remember being blowed away by the graphics and the sound. 30 Years later, I own 4 of them, about 20 AES carts of the game I played / I cherish the most. That's the only gaming system I have. everything else is played on PC.

@bigshorty4855

5 күн бұрын

I got 1 as a kid from a friend for cheap as well (200 with 2 joysticks and 2 games). Had to return it in a week after I told my mother what the games cost. This was in 92, I was 11 back then.

@ramrodbldm9876

5 күн бұрын

You sound like a bozo

@PurpleTeamer

Күн бұрын

@@bigshorty4855 real neogeo fans, I mean those who actually play with it or grew up with it, not the youtube retro-hipsters with 2000$ GAROU Cart in their shelf, were all 11 or 12 in 92 ;)

Back in the early 90s Neo Geo was a myth, a creature of legend; the holy "32" gb grail that some kids in the neighborhood claimed to have played when they went to visit their family who just happened to live on the other side of the country. Like claiming to have found a Shaq rookie card in a random Upper Deck pack, or claiming to be able to hack the cable box so that the Spice Channel would come through perfectly clear, claiming to have played with the Neo Geo was a bragging right for us. A way to let all of the other good for nothings in the neighborhood know that you were top dog.

I remember seeing the box for the Neo Geo at Babbages for the first time. I'd read about it in EGM but somehow the enormous box really hit home that this was arcade equipment. Then I saw the price and thought "Oh, well I've never play that" lol

Price was astronomical at the time but dedicated gamers were happy to pay it. The Neo Geo was on another level to anything else.

As Steve Bania says to Seinfeld, ‘That’s gold, Jerry!!’ Great preso OP

The Neo-Geo may have had a short few years at the top - but my god, when some kid told you they had one, it was like dropping an atom bomb on the conversation. It's hard to put it into words today, because the difference between the best console today, and the best PC doesnt feel that vast. But a Neo-Geo felt like a quantum computer from the future by comparison.

The Video Game Crash was USA only, the rest of the world including Japan was thriving. Its well document, just Americans keep on saying a global crash when it was limited to USA

@johnsimon8457

5 күн бұрын

Right. The US console crash didn’t have any effect SNK. There was even an arcade crash around that time when too many operators bought cabinets that didn’t pay off. But SNK was only a minor player in the US.

@palasta

5 күн бұрын

But why was it limited to the US? And... why do we see a similar development in the video game market for several years now today?

I grew up in the 80's and went to arcades often. Neo Geo games cost more to play, and looked great, but weren't so much better than other games that I would spend the money on them.

Neo Geo, Neo Geo. Four bright buttons and two joysticks. Neo Geo, Neo Geo. Cool red cab and a name that sticks. No one quite did 2D fighters like you did. No one quite did runnin' and gunnin' like you did No one quite did Puzzle Bobble like you did I'll always love my four slot model cause I, I... I played that cab for hours on end to the point where that thing was my only friend. With a heavy machine gun in my hand I beat Metal Slug over and over again. You're 32 bits of endless fun. You're a 1990 revolution. You're ahead of the game. You are the best. You're the SNK king of MVS.

THE BEST IS BACK!!!! Can’t wait to watch ANOTHER awesome video game retrospective!! Thank you, Sakharu!

I remember drooling over screenshots of Metal Slug in Babbages catalogs way back in the day. I lived in a very low income area, and never knew anyone with a Neo Geo, but I knew from those screenshots that it had to be something amazing. I didn't actually come across an MVS unit until maybe 2002, and I dumped 5 or 6 bucks into Metal Slug 3. This is a very well researched and informative video, and I appreciate the effort that you put into it. Cheers, Sir!

@cajampa

5 күн бұрын

I hope you played all those great games on emulators for free later when they became avaliable. If you haven't, just download them and check em out.

It’s so nice to see a part of our gaming proto history so well documented. Greetings from a national champion of Sega Virtua Striker from Argentina 🇦🇷!

I remember my brother and I in the early 90s heading to the mall straight to Software Etc with months of money saved up. When brought home we were literally blown away from the difference in graphics and sound for the time. We were also the most popular kids in the neighborhood for some reason! 😁

Around 37:10 it's mentioned that Neo-Geo AES games often had unlimited Continues, but I remember it being different; I'm pretty sure that the AES versions of games usually limited the player to a total of 4 credits. In many games, this could be worked around by using a memory card and simply loading a mid-game save with a fresh set of 4 credits. But the default behavior (thankfully) didn't simply allow credit-feeding every time. Anyway, this video was very entertaining, so thank you very much for producing it =)

I didn't quite realize this came out around the same time as the SNES, thought it was mid to late 90s. Must've been mindblowing.

Thank you Sakharu for another incredible video, you're one of the best to ever do it! ❤️

Wow, this is a very high-quality documentary. Thank you for your hard work.

Another fantastic video! I especially liked how this was a story I never heard before-Neo Geo is a relatively obscure topic but vastly interesting, and it’s great to see someone like you bring it to attention like this. Always a pleasure to watch!

This video is another banger of a history lesson, it's a nice niche as there aren't a ton of videos about this topic, well at least not as many as other launches. Keep up the excellent work!

This is the first video of yours that I've seen. I just want to tell you what an amazing job you've done. Can't wait to see more.

“Back in the day” I would’ve gladly helped Hans Gruber plunder Nakatomi plaza if there was a Neo-Geo console in it for each of us

Even knowing all of this and having lived through it, I still watch these vids. Nowadays, it's hard to grasp just how much the evolution of gaming has been in the past. From huge paper floppy disks and atari to 8 bit, to 16 bit, and 3d with 16 and 32, to actually good looking 3d in the ps2/xb era. The pa3/360 era was the last era where console upgrades were huge. Everything from ps360 onwards is only marginally better looking ganes. The innovation and huge difference from previous generations is gone.

@matamarcianos7596

Күн бұрын

I feel the same. The huge leaps are far behind. I own a ps5 and meh, the games are good but they haven't advanced so much. We have better resolution and reflections, of course. The gameplay is the same as in 360/Ps3.

@bigshorty4855

14 сағат бұрын

@@matamarcianos7596 exactly, it's only marginal nowadays from ps360 onwards.

The story of SNK as a company and the creation of their Neo Geo system is a good one. There are those that only look at sales numbers to determine if something is a succes or failure, and while that holds some truth, it's never the whole story and certainly doesn't guarantee quality. The Neo Geo's library of games is of good quality overall, with only a few really bad ones and a dozen or so that are average. The rest varies from pretty good to excellent. Biggest downsides are that it's library of games is less varied when compared to it's contemporaries, even when compared to the NES, and most offer only arcade style play, which is logical, but can make some sports games less fun in single player mode for example. Still, it's a great system and i really like how every game explains the basics of the controls before starting, and how people kept supporting it with the unibios for example. Feels like a very clean system to use overall. The NES was still the biggest thing going when the Neo Geo was released. If Nintendo never went into the console market to release the famicom/NES, consoles would probably have been a bit more niche for at least a few more years, with Sega probably slowly moving forward with it's SG-1000 and compatible home computers. Consoles overall would probably have lagged behind more in terms of graphics and sound, when compared to home computers and arcades at the time. Not sure if this scenario would have impacted SNK to release the AES console though. The SNES, Mega Drive and PC Engine were all less powerful when compared to the Neo Geo, by a wide margin. Between the first three mentioned, they all had their strengths and weaknesses and one wasn't necessarily more powerful than the other. The SNES had the biggest color palette and all the background/layer modes (including mode 7) to play with, plus was the first console, (along with the Neo Geo), to have a fully dedicated sample-based sound chip. The Mega Drive is the faster console in terms of processing power and can do a lot of the tricks the SNES (and Neo Geo) can do with their hardware through clever software programming. Also, it was the most capable of running primitive 3D games without the help of any extra chips. The Turbo was the first and can be considered less powerful, having an 8-bit cpu, but can display the most colors at the same time and it's cpu is very fast for an 8-bit. Also the first console to introduce CD's. Still, none of them came close to an AES. Even the PS1 and Saturn struggled with the amount of RAM needed to run the games. It remained the best at it's own game for many years. There's one statement you're made that i have to disagree with though. Before Mario 64 only fighting and racing games used 3D space effectively? Well, how about space exploration and combat sims, or flight sims? First-person shooter were doing fine too, or maybe you meant the third-person perspective of Mario? Not sure if it was the first, but sure, it did make it a succes. Still, a nice video overall!

Brilliantly crafted documentary! This was an absolute treat to listen to. Thank you!

The amount of footage and information you found is the best I’ve seen about this console. Excellent work. I’ve subscribed!

I was surprised with the added overall video game history. Subscribed!

I am a veteran of the 16 bit Wars and I remember how I longingly stared at Neo Geo ads in video game magazines. The thing and especially the single game cartridges were just crazy expensive. If I remember correctly, a single game cost like 300 to 400 Deutschmarks (150 to 200 US Dollars), which was about as much as a SEGA Mega Drive (Genesis) bundled with 4 games cost back then.

Great video bro, this really helped pass the time at work, I think I might break out the old neo geo cd when I get home 😊

Let’s goooooooooo I love this channel Can’t wait to see more stuff get translated

Just discovered your channel and watched all the videos, amazing videos with lots of details on the history of the consoles, great work! Totally subscribed

Samurai Showdown was my favorite game at the Pizza restaurant. They had an arcade room with a Neo Geo cabinet.

I have almost no interest in the Neo Geo but all of your other documentaries have been so amazing I just can't pass it up!

@AnthonyRiddle

13 күн бұрын

Have you ever played any Neo Geo games?

I loved my Neo Geo Pocket. Saved and bought it from an import store, and used to take it to secondary school.

Baseball Starts was fricken fantastic. Wow I loved that game.

Amazing video, top notch production. A very enjoyable watch. Thank you.

What an incredible documentary!! It's very well made and kept my attention for the entire time. Great work!

This was a fantastic video. Having a Neo-Geo back in the day was the ultimate flex. I've always wanted one and they are just as expensive today as they were brand new.

@JjJetplan

13 күн бұрын

An MVS (not sure if thats the right acronym) version was the hardware in the actual arcade machine. It also used carts, if im not mistaken i think it can play the home console carts as well? In any regard its the same exact game, for a fraction of the price, i mean like lmao a fraction its the diff between 500+ usd.

@JjJetplan

13 күн бұрын

Im not sure about these days, my buddy had one when i lived in Australia back in 9th 10th grade in 2004-2005. The mvs carts at the time were 50 bucks average for 900 dollar home versions. I cant imagine the prices now, im not even going to google it bcuz my wife would kill me cuz id buy it.

@jan-niklashoffmann4683

12 күн бұрын

If you just want to play and aren't so deep into collecting, a consolized MVS is a cost effective solution. You could get the 161in1 cart, which has most of the games. If you have extra money to spend, you could get a Neo SD Flash cart or Darksoft flash cart.

@gcolombelli

6 күн бұрын

AES and MVS carts are not directly compatible, the electrical connections are the same, but it's mechanically different. To this day, MVS carts are a lot cheaper than AES ones, just because MVS hardware was produced in much larger numbers. Or you can save yourself a ton of money and just get an Analogue Pocket or MiSTer FPGA, both of which run Neo Geo titles perfectly at a fraction of the price.

@cajampa

3 күн бұрын

@@JjJetplan Dude, if you want to play the games just use an emulator. The games are all available to download.

This was an absolutely phenomenal video. I want to sincerely thank you for the effort and dedication to excellence you put in to making this.

A truly excellent retrospective - well done!

Another 5-star console documentary like the Nintendo 64 chronicles. Thanks for the excellent content!!

Subscribed. Thank you. I think this is the best NeoGeo history video uploaded to youtube. Keep up the research.

Man idk how you compile this all but this is some great stuff. If I ran a class of videogame history we'd be watching your videos as precursors

Excellent work! I really enjoyed this one, and learned a lot more of this console. Cheers!

This was an excellently put together documentary of a key piece of video game history. Well done!

Very nice video btw watched the whole way through :)

Awesome video !!! One of the best I have seen !!!

Great video, Neo Geo was an amazing machine, love most of their games like Blues Jouney, 8 Man, King of Monsters 2, Metal Sug, Fatal fury series and The King of Fighters series

Neo Geo had a sort of mythical status among my friend group back then as none of our parents could afford to buy us one.

@poindextertunes

9 күн бұрын

my cousin was older than me and a huge gamer and the fact he had a neogeo cd console was epic. He had a 3DO too which I was obsessed with bcuz of road rash lol

Great documentary! Very well put together and narrated. I've always enjoyed when the less mainstream gaming consoles are given a fair shake. Looking forward to seeing what's next!

A most excellent video. Congrats on the quality of documentary.

Making a small supposition to convey emotion or importance instead of just doing it to fill time is a trap many documentarians fall in into, and you don't at all. This is an excellent job, the source graphics gathered & scaling work to make 'em look good is on point, and I'm going to go and watch the others. Killer stuff.

I have my neo geo... its one of my prized possessions. With the proper cable and upscaler it looks damn good and fun to play. I remember Macy's selling them for $650.

What a great video. Always been a SNK fan. Love all the work you put into this. Thank you. 😁😁

Such a great video about this console! Top stuff.

The Neo Geo was so awesome. It was essentially a "Switch" idea for arcade. Whereas Switch was a home/portable hybrid, Neo Geo was a home/arcade hybrid. It was genius, and honestly only held back by the sheer expensiveness of the realities of bringing this concept home at the time.

@poindextertunes

9 күн бұрын

it was definitely ahead if its time

Neo geo was something I wish for as a kid but the cost of one just a dream.

Yes, sir! Another baguette sandwich of retro gaming goodness. 😎

Excellent video of NEO-GEO's history! Thank you for 1 hour of enjoyment :D

Awesome video. Thoroughly enjoyed it

Thank you profusely for the info. We LOVE you SNK and NEO-GEO!!!!!

Nice video dude

The Sharp X68000 had pixel perfect arcade conversions before the Neo Geo did due to several japanese companies (including Capcom) using it as an arcade development system. But it was also even more expensive than the Neo Geo.

@DancesRainyStreets

16 күн бұрын

From what i've read it seems true that it was used to develop arcade games, even if the (more advanced) games ran better on the dedicated pcb they were designed for.

This was a great video, thanks a lot!

This is an extremely well made doc. Thanks.

I didn't own a Neo Geo but I got all the collections I could in the PS2/Xbox era. KOF is my go to fighting series these days. Street Fighter was really good up through III but after that it just wasn't the same for me.

Great vid. I’m still waiting on those Neo-Geo RPGs they promised. 😆

Ahh such sweet memories. All those people I swindled and buried under grimly circumstances in order to obtain a Neo-Geo with only one hand controller back in the day. Rather noble pursuit mind you - All I can remember is them croaking - Sengoku - Just as I was shovelling the dirt above. Good times.

An absolutely wonderful video. Thanks.

Perhaps the most focused and timeless 2D games/console. The combination of uniqueness, rarity and art style, driven by both the hardwares capabilities as well as its constraints, really created something special.

the first time i saw the neo geo was at e.b electronics. what shocked me was the price. the games were $200 & the system was almost $1000. i couldn't afford that

This 100 yen coin shortage reminds me of a urban legend in 1970s Germany. The most popular nationwide newspaper ("Bild") cost 20 Pfennig. Apparently the German government and the central Bank were seriously thinking about releasing/minting a 20 Pfennig coin because tens of millions of 10 Pfennig coins were used daily by the Germans to buy the "Bild" newspaper on their way to work.

I Love the Neo Geo and my fondness and appreciation for SNK and the quality of it's games and consoles has only grown over the years. I've gone from picking up a £20 Neo Geo CD system in 2016, to owning an AES cartridge system, Neo Geo Pocket color, MVS MV-1C motherboard and even Hyper Neo Geo 64 Motherboard rev 2 (another bargain at £14 back in 2017!!). Honestly, I cannot begin to explain how much pleasure SNK and their games have given me across so many systems and formats over the years - especially the SEGA Saturn, which had some incredible neo geo ports. Thanks for such an entertaining Video - Great to see Vanguard too, as I absolutely loved that in arcades back in the day!!

Outstanding documentary about one of my favourite video game systems of all time. Marvellous job! I own both (MVS and AES) because Neo Geo is too good not to own one and play its legendary master pieces.

About the CD ROM tech this wasn't the expensive part, the RAM chips was.

[An exceptionally magnificent presentation.]

Thanks a lot for this Video. Getting to know the NEO GEO deeper. 🙂👍

I bought a Neo Geo for my Spouse when it was released in the USA.

I was rather astounded by the fact that SNK's Garou - Mark of the Wolves for the long-in-the-tooth Neo Geo MVS/AES was able to match up well against Capcom's Street Fighter 3 on the then state-of-the-art CPS 3!

Neo Geo AES is still a grail for a lot of people, and for us who grew in the 90s, it has a main spot in our gaming memories, even if most didn't even touch one. Great video!

@PurpleTeamer

Күн бұрын

It was really cheap in the early 2000 and until the COVID farce and the retro hype cancer happened. At least in Japan. Now prices are thru the roof.

Great video!

Great video ...well researched !

My favorite fighting game is Samurai Shodown 4. Thanks for making this video. 👍

Great video, thanks.

I'll never forget about going to Rizzo's Pizza in Flint, MI and playing the MVS machine, as a kid. I think they got their machine in 1994 and it had 3 games - one of the Samurai Shodowns, a shmup and run-n-gun. At some point, it had a baseball game, too, but they switched the games, a couple of times over the years. They also had a NARC cabinet.

thx, that was a ride and a half!

amazing video its AWESOME

"...Light years ahead of the competition." Sharp X68000 says, hold my beer

It was considered 24 bit due to the 24 bit graphics data bus, not because it had a 16 bit and 8 bit processors. Also, the cartridges didn’t hold anywhere near the amount of data as CD. 90 vs. 650 MiB.

Bought my neo geo in 94. I worked part-time at dunkin' Donuts, starting in 93 at age 13 to save up for the Neo Geo. Got the system and KOF 94 at the same time. I only had 2 games on it. Kof 94 and 95. After that, the imported JP Saturn ports were good enough with their included ram carts that I stopped buying KOF games for my neo geo.

One of the holy grails. I just took the plunge, have an AES coming in from Japan, can`t wait.

Fascinating and thorough piece of history!