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AuroMarshmallow posted:This thread is good, and it makes me incredibly bummed that I completely missed out on the Neo Geo when it was in production. I didn't even know anybody who owned one. It was horrifically expensive at the time it was contemporary. The only people I knew of who had one - not even knew personally, but knew OF - were incredibly well off. This thing was $650 in 1990 dollars, and each game was $200-300. It was sold as - and was - a literal Arcade system, but for your TV, and the cost was in line with precisely that. The only kids who owned these had parents who threw money at them.
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AuroMarshmallow posted:This thread is good, and it makes me incredibly bummed that I completely missed out on the Neo Geo when it was in production. I didn't even know anybody who owned one. they were in basically every pizza hut in indiana in the 90s, almost always with puzzle bobble and metal slug i've done most of my neo geo playing on a pc. i somewhat recently got a mister and have been playing on that and drat it feels good and nice on a crt
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I've never seen AES hardware personally but MVS cabs are all over the dang place. Samurai Shodown and Metal Slug were monster huge. We took an Olympics/Elden Ring/March Madness break but more updates are coming. Redid my arcade stick as a bit of motivation. Love the Neo Geo!!!
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So excited about the NEO GEO I quoted instead of edited
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I grew up in southeast PA where admittedly there weren't a ton of arcades I had access too, but even at the Jersey shore boardwalk arcades I don't recall ever coming across an MVS. Obviously it could be that I just never noticed one, but as a kid I loved Street Fighter so I imagine if I had seen a machine running King of Fighters or something I'd have gravitated towards it. The arcade machine I remember as being the most prevalent in my area at bars and pizza places, etc, was overwhelmingly Mortal Kombat.
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loopsheloop posted:I've never seen AES hardware personally but MVS cabs are all over the dang place. Samurai Shodown and Metal Slug were monster huge. Yeah I remember seeing samsho around back then as well
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I'm following this thread to solve a mystery from my childhood. This game I saw once on an mvs cab and never again. I don't even remember enough about it to describe it, but I'll know it when I see it again So please keep posting, op. I have a lot emotionally invested in this
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AuroMarshmallow posted:I grew up in southeast PA where admittedly there weren't a ton of arcades I had access too, but even at the Jersey shore boardwalk arcades I don't recall ever coming across an MVS. Yeah I think you just didn't notice them lol I lived in south jersey for the first 20 years or so of my life and I remember seeing MVS cabinets all over the place, especially at the arcades down at the shore, with the top choices being Samurai Shodown, bust a move, metal slug, and wild cards like King of the Monsters or one of the sports titles
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The Allied Leisure 2 and 4 slot MVS cabs are still what my brain pictures when I think "arcade cabinet". 
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AuroMarshmallow posted:I grew up in southeast PA where admittedly there weren't a ton of arcades I had access too, but even at the Jersey shore boardwalk arcades I don't recall ever coming across an MVS. MVS cabs were all over Philly in the 90s, dunno how you missed them all
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I wouldn't say they were uncommon or anything in the early days but it feels like the bigger non-fighting games like Puzzle Bobble, Metal Slug, etc were what really pushed them from being an arcade thing to an everywhere thing.
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I was always sad that there was a cabinet in Wildwood, NJ that had The Super Spy on it and remember not having a chance to play it, and when my family came back the following summer they had swapped it out for one of the baseball games 
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George RR Fartin posted:The only kids who owned these had parents who threw money at them. I don’t even remember seeing the AES advertised in game magazines (I’ll allow I’m probably too young, and too Nintendo focused in 1990) , and every one of these ads I can find only mentions launch era titles. Never saw it in stores, never saw any demos. Really don’t know how the word would get out unless you were a 20-30 something arcade nut in the 80’s. Maybe things are different in Japan.  Makes me want to stuff the cost of a mid-tier gaming PC into an envelope to buy a system sight-unseen
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lmfao at the tiny Nintendo bars rather than quoting the actual stats
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Sprites! (Character Power)
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Nintendo originally made playing cards, so that might be what they're referencing.
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Mode 7 posted:lmfao at the tiny Nintendo bars rather than quoting the actual stats To be fair, it's the NES. Like, a system from 1983 designed to play 1981's Donkey Kong isn't going to compare to a top of the line arcade system.
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Coffee Jones posted:I don’t even remember seeing the AES advertised in game magazines (I’ll allow I’m probably too young, and too Nintendo focused in 1990) , and every one of these ads I can find only mentions launch era titles. Never saw it in stores, never saw any demos. Really don’t know how the word would get out unless you were a 20-30 something arcade nut in the 80’s. Maybe things are different in Japan. I haven't seen it posted here yet, so I'll be the one to share the most notorious Neo Geo ad. https://twitter.com/nbajambook/status/1305218528304418819?t=HCq_npDvdkWSs3_kx1ET3g&s=19 Yes, this actually ran in magazines--computer magazines, since it was too racy for GamePro or EGM.
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Kid Fenris posted:Yes, this actually ran in magazines--computer magazines, since it was too racy for GamePro or EGM. this was pretty common fare in computer mags. everything from spreadsheets to games got the "sexy lady lamenting her nerd bf touching keyboards instead of boobs" ad at some point
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Pic of poking the chick with a body horror  winds up being more embarrassing than risque, IMO. I barely remember this 100 mega shock logo - if I bust out the MAME collection I wind up playing later games https://youtu.be/5REhX33D398
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Sorry to bump but this thread was far too good to let slide! I was lucky enough to pick up an AES for a little over 100$ AU and picked up about a dozen or so games, mainly form Japan as they were reasonably cheap to send to Australia. Sold some of them, but have some gems still! Also picked up a NeoSD when they came out to save digging out the cartridges. Over time I also did a component out mod (but I run RGB now), and put in a UniBIOS. I just think it's so cool that so many years after the NeoGeo was made, there's still projects like UniBIOS and the various multi-cart stuff now. I saw on Twitter the other day a new side-scrolling beat-em-up that looked really impressive, reminded me of the new Streets of Rage games. The best bit however was a guy in the video holding the AES controller like a gamepad driving the stick via his thumb on the top. I've dug about but can't find the new game on twitter again! Edit: https://twitter.com/The_Flying_Kick/status/1736855111417106573
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Don't apologize, this thread is great! I was just wondering how to flex the Neo Geo core on my Analogue Pocket.
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Marx Headroom posted:Don't apologize, this thread is great! I was just wondering how to flex the Neo Geo core on my Analogue Pocket. I used the Pocket core updater myself but there are other options https://github.com/mattpannella/pocket_core_autoupdate_net
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I used the updater too, ran into an issue with the rom set (apparently the Darksoft set on Internet Archive works perfectly) but it's all set now and Sengoku fuckin owns man. I love all the weird rear end stuff and music going on in the background when you teleport to the spirit realm or whatever. I found Magician Lord really hard though, you can only take like 3 hits at first. If anyone else wants to review Neo Geo games in here I'll read it! Noticed the OP hasn't mentioned any Metal Slug games for example.
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They were tackling the games based on release order, so with King of Fighters '94 we were not even in Metal Slug 1's 1996 yet. So when it comes to fighting games we were also still removed from games like The King of Fighters '98 (my favorite classic KoF), Garou: Mark of the Wolves (a Fatal Fury game) and The Last Blade 1 & 2 (the presentation on these games is amazing). Or something different like Twinkle Star Sprites, which is what you'd get if you combine a versus puzzler like Magical Drop with a vertical shoot em up.
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