Hey Mr. Riggs, I’d be interested to hear your opinion on what the best Neo Geo sports games are. Windjammers and Neo Turf Masters are givens, but there are a ton of sports games on the Neo Geo. They all look good but how do they play?
I'm glad to see you mention Kizuna Encounter; Rosa is so cool! I haven't played any Neo Geo games in real depth, but the ones that I tried that I really liked were the Aero Fighters games, Blazing Star, Double Dragon (it's a Fighter, rather than a Brawler), Garou: Mark of the Wolves, Last Blade 2, Mutation Nation, Ninja Commando, Ninja Masters, Pulstar, Real Bout Fatal Fury, the Sengoku games (really out-there), and World Heroes Perfect. Time will tell if I like these enough to stick with them, but at a glance, those seem to be the best of the system to me.
I can honestly see the extra 8 bits compared to the genesis. Neo Geo was advertised as 24 bit, and it did show in the graphics. The graphics chip works on a 24 bit bus. It also helps that Neo Geo games were huge in MEGA POWER!!! Love it!
Other fun ones that I did not see in my local arcades include: "Captain Tomaday" (Cutesy shooter with drugs), "Money Puzzle Exchanger", "Pulstar", and "Kabuki Klash". The reason why "kizuna Encounter" had some of the same characters as "Savage Reign" is because KE is the sequel to SR. There's also a hardware add-on for arcades that turns KE into a 4-player tag-team game.
Magician Lord is awesome. There is even a double jump trick that was discovered 20+ years after the games release. Also Nam-1975 (gallery shooter) was another great early title.
My favorite Neo Geo game is King of the Monsters 2 because it perfectly encapsulates that kaiju combat feeling. Fortunately this one has been ported several times.
Great video. An AES came up locally so I picked it up. Am going to get a flash cart and then I have probably spent my gaming budget for the rest of the year (or more). Will definitely try some of these soon!
Back in the day I was fortunate enough to own a Neogeo I had Robo army and then paid a whopping £220 for art of fighting 2 I later traded the system for a Super Nintendo with a super wild card game back up system seemed like an amazing deal at the time wish I’d have kept the system now :( haha
I'm playing Neo Turf Masters currently. It's so good. More neo geo is always good. I also need that neo geo book from bitmap books. It looks fantastic.
Nightmare in the Dark is my underrated pick. Like Snow Bros, Bubble Bobble, Zuppapa, etc. but it's got a cool, Darkstalkers like vibe. I'd love to buy it on the Switch, but it's not made by SNK so Hamster can't get to it so easily.
Magical Drop 3 is one of my favorites. It’s a cute puzzle game, similar to the Puzzle Bobble games, that starts off simple and then ramps up the difficulty in later levels.
King of the Monsters is pretty awesome, I love the large play area, destructible backgrounds, and it almost seems like it was meant to be a Fighter but feels more like a wrestling game. Also should have some Sengoku😁👍
Magician Lord is Happy Console Gamer's favorite neogeo game as well. A game that wasn't mentioned, Burning Fight is a great beat em up for the NeoGeo. I like how you have separate buttons for punch, kick and jump. Also all games on the Switch can be played with an arcade stick. This is especially great for neogeo fighting games.
I have all of the NeoGeo games on my little custom console that I built. Every cartridge ever released in English on every system ever made, actually - with boxart and synopsis. All carefully curated by yours truly, if you ever want a copy…
I played Magician Lord a bit and Sengoku 1 any time I saw Neo Geo arcade machines available. Growing up in the 80's I played quite a few SNK games at the time, then when the 90's hit I played any fighting game in the arcade that I could get my hands on regardless of the company who made it. Thankfully I played several SNK fighters back then including Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury, The King of Fighters '94 & '95, Savage Reign, and World Heroes.
Uh oh, I've discovered a brand new obsession : collecting Neo Geo games (well, on XBOX) ! Begun with a golf game I've heard good things about, not sure if John recommended it but today's purchase was Turf Masters 😎
0:18 "Tons of great beatemups" Sadly there's only three beatemups on the Neo Geo, and only one of them are worthy of recognition (Sengoku 3). It's kind of a pity if you ask me, since the mighty MVS could have made some real bitchin' good beatemups!
I got a mvs1c that i consolised and then made my own arcade joysticks with about 10ft of cord so i can plug it into the the tv and sit on the couch with arcade style stick and buttons, lots of fun. Edit: Spinmaster is a really fun game too
Got Twinkle Star Sprites from Amazon, what a great little Surprise! And i am hear to find more "obscure" SNK/Neo Geo Games. I am really not such a big Fan of the Fighting Games, but Shock Troopers, Twinkle Star and Sengoku showed me that they have some really nice Games!
Thank you for showing me my past memories of games I was playing these back then for years I played every game you showed I've been playing since 78' you could me the godfather games lol.
Puzzled actually has platforming stages, and to get to the end you have to complete the whole game twice, with each of the characters.... and it's very similar to the puzzle mode of Tetris Plus for the Game Boy... it has some intensely difficult stages, and has some strategy to it with the bomb attack thing that you need to charge up.... you definitely need to try it if you're into puzzle games...
I remember when gamepro magazine used to review Neo Geo games and they would also show the price for some of them they would start at about $250 a game way back when it was a new system way too expensive when you consider Super Nintendo games or Sega Genesis games at the time or like about 50 bucks. So even if you had the system good luck being able to afford more than one game for it because one game was almost the cost of another Super Nintendo brand new in the box or more depending on the game some went for $400 I think if I'm not mistaken.
@@allenwaters2975 My friend from high school I mentioned in this video just wanted Arcade Samurai Showdown at home so he bought that, but in the magazine, it was a neo geo + a free game (from, like, 5 games) for $500 or something. He grabbed World Heroes 2 as his bonus.
@@JohnRiggs that must have been when they lowered the price cuz I thought I remembered them costing something like 600 to 700 back in the day. Also my impression of Neo Geo was that it was mainly a fighting game system. You know where things like King of Fighters and a ton of other one on one Street Fighter like fighting games came out for it. Which unfortunately for me I kind of lost interest in those type of games after Street Fighter 2 which I loved at the time because I felt like with every new fighting game you had to learn a ton of new moves just to even be decent at them. It's nice to see that there was a little more variety on the system but would you say for the most part that Neo Geo is mainly a one-on-one fighting video game system or would you say it has a little more rounded Library than that?
I remember going to a Babbages when the NEO GEO was new to home users, the system was $700 and the games were around $200. I wondered who was actually able to spend that much on games.
As someone growing to LOVE the Neo Geo this list is nice! I will definitely buy SNK’s new NEO GEO console whenever it comes out. I just hope they focus on hi res pixel art like the system was known for. I don’t want them to hop on all 3D all the time.
There was a Game with 3 player One with a sword,There was a girl with a sword and a worrior with An Axe...they can shot super power like the boy can throw wolf head and the girl can shot eagle and the warrior use Rage...There was a Jin Type Boss and those player could take upgrade weapon in the games.
I have Magician Lord. I think it's a cool game. It me a long time but I have 20 cartridge neo geo Mvs games. I wish they were still making games for neo. I have Spin Master and it's fun. I think the Neo showed the other counsels how it's done when it came to graphics and sound.
Top Hunter is gorgeous, try it with xbrz x4 shader. Normally I use scanlines/crt shaders, but neo geo games look amazing with xbrz, it's the only time I use it. It enhances the details rather than muddies them, it looks so crisp. I wonder why the neogeo looks better than any other platform with it. Did the arcades not have scanlines?
Zupapa and Twinkle Star Sprites look like fun game to play with your family (and also Shock Troopers). Twistris is the original Tetris with a twist game btw ;)
There is a good number of Neo Geo AES games that do not allow the player to have unlimited continues. Yes, SNK's fighting games do but most others do not or they have checkpoints that make the games incredibly hard to beat.
These games may be great. 👍 As a honorable mention there was a racing game called Riding Hero, the gameplay was with simple joystick control and it has Story Mode and GP mode.
Just seen Riding Hero on the second video - I had no idea... thank you JohnRiggs. I will forever be puzzled as to why the Neo Geo had absolutely zero into the screen race games. So strange... would have loved to see a Chase HQ type game on the system.
I am dying to know where or how you got your hat! I live in the city where Riggs is located and its awesome to see a local company reach so far. Are you related?
@JohnRiggs Have you ever played the pony racing game for the Neo Geo? I haven't but wasn't sure if it was really worth buying. Stake WInners is the name haha
Frankly I am sick of hearing about fighting games and shoot 'em ups on the Neo Geo (mini/new/whatever). It's nice to see a youtuber who shows at least something more than that. I wouldn't mind an episode for all the racing games and rpgs for it. if they exist. I am sure there are no strategy games or flight simulators so I am not even asking about that. Thanks for the video, I like it.
I'll do a part 2 as they have TONS of great Neo Geo games available in the Switch eShop for cheap (as you probably saw 😉)
Riggs do you remember Road Fighter on the NES .
Hey Mr. Riggs, I’d be interested to hear your opinion on what the best Neo Geo sports games are. Windjammers and Neo Turf Masters are givens, but there are a ton of sports games on the Neo Geo. They all look good but how do they play?
@@JANEMBA9000 We never got Road Fighter in the US.
@@JohnRiggs oh I played it on my cousin's NES back in the day .
@@JANEMBA9000 I think you might mean Road Blasters. Road Fighter was Famicom only.
I don’t know that anyone too young to remember 1990 can appreciate how absolutely amazing Magician Lord looked at the time.
I'm glad to see you mention Kizuna Encounter; Rosa is so cool!
I haven't played any Neo Geo games in real depth, but the ones that I tried that I really liked were the Aero Fighters games, Blazing Star, Double Dragon (it's a Fighter, rather than a Brawler), Garou: Mark of the Wolves, Last Blade 2, Mutation Nation, Ninja Commando, Ninja Masters, Pulstar, Real Bout Fatal Fury, the Sengoku games (really out-there), and World Heroes Perfect. Time will tell if I like these enough to stick with them, but at a glance, those seem to be the best of the system to me.
OH MY GOD Thank you John for doing a vid on my beloved Neo Geo system. Really hope you consider doing more videos on Neo Geo(Please)🤞🏾
Shock Troopers might just be my favorite Neo game. Another early release that is a lot of fun is Ninja Commando.
I can honestly see the extra 8 bits compared to the genesis. Neo Geo was advertised as 24 bit, and it did show in the graphics. The graphics chip works on a 24 bit bus. It also helps that Neo Geo games were huge in MEGA POWER!!! Love it!
Other fun ones that I did not see in my local arcades include: "Captain Tomaday" (Cutesy shooter with drugs), "Money Puzzle Exchanger", "Pulstar", and "Kabuki Klash".
The reason why "kizuna Encounter" had some of the same characters as "Savage Reign" is because KE is the sequel to SR. There's also a hardware add-on for arcades that turns KE into a 4-player tag-team game.
Magician Lord is awesome. There is even a double jump trick that was discovered 20+ years after the games release. Also Nam-1975 (gallery shooter) was another great early title.
Fell in love with scaling/zooming effects on the SNK fighting games back then. Great channel. You deserve waaaayy more subs. Thank you!!!
Loved the video John! Please do more Neo Geo videos!!!!
My favorite Neo Geo game is King of the Monsters 2 because it perfectly encapsulates that kaiju combat feeling. Fortunately this one has been ported several times.
Great video. An AES came up locally so I picked it up. Am going to get a flash cart and then I have probably spent my gaming budget for the rest of the year (or more). Will definitely try some of these soon!
Back in the day I was fortunate enough to own a Neogeo I had Robo army and then paid a whopping £220 for art of fighting 2 I later traded the system for a Super Nintendo with a super wild card game back up system seemed like an amazing deal at the time wish I’d have kept the system now :( haha
I have Waku Waku 7 for the Saturn. It's totally absurd and absolutely awesome at the same time!
LOVE Shock Troopers. It’s like Metal Slug with an over-head view.
good way to describe it.
Rapid playing it right now
I remember games for this system being $250 each, and that was close to 30 years ago. As a teen I dreamed of being rich so I could afford it.
You're really a gem digger, don't you? Great games. Came here from the Metal Jesus Channel and really enjoyed our videos too.
0:01 Does that mean I'm officially a Riggs now?
I'm playing Neo Turf Masters currently. It's so good. More neo geo is always good. I also need that neo geo book from bitmap books. It looks fantastic.
It is a great book for Neo Geo fans. Highly recommended!
Nightmare in the Dark is my underrated pick. Like Snow Bros, Bubble Bobble, Zuppapa, etc. but it's got a cool, Darkstalkers like vibe. I'd love to buy it on the Switch, but it's not made by SNK so Hamster can't get to it so easily.
I absolutely love this series you started keep them coming...
Crossed Swords
Top Hunter
Eightman
Lots of good games, but I know these 3 don't get a lot of love lately.
...now that I think of it, I don't think I've every played eightman. I'll check it out.
Breakers Revenge is another great often-overlooked game
Great list I’ll also add windjammers and Top Hunter Roddy and Cathy in that list
Geez! Those consoles were so damned expensive to get back then -NONE of my friends ever had either version.
Stephen Adams not just the consoles, the cartridges themselves were hundreds of dollars as well.
Magical Drop 3 is one of my favorites. It’s a cute puzzle game, similar to the Puzzle Bobble games, that starts off simple and then ramps up the difficulty in later levels.
King of the Monsters is pretty awesome, I love the large play area, destructible backgrounds, and it almost seems like it was meant to be a Fighter but feels more like a wrestling game. Also should have some Sengoku😁👍
Twinkle Star Sprites is on the fairly recent Neo Geo Mini (but not the Arcade Stick Pro) and has a sequel on the Japanese PS2.
Magician Lord is Happy Console Gamer's favorite neogeo game as well. A game that wasn't mentioned, Burning Fight is a great beat em up for the NeoGeo. I like how you have separate buttons for punch, kick and jump. Also all games on the Switch can be played with an arcade stick. This is especially great for neogeo fighting games.
Spinmasters is a Third party Data East game it’s actually a sequel to Dashin Desparados on the SEGA genesis.
Puzzled is highly underrated! I remember it making me question my relationship with Tetris.
Never heard of Zupapa...looks great.
Is is the best of it's kind
I have all of the NeoGeo games on my little custom console that I built. Every cartridge ever released in English on every system ever made, actually - with boxart and synopsis. All carefully curated by yours truly, if you ever want a copy…
I played Magician Lord a bit and Sengoku 1 any time I saw Neo Geo arcade machines available.
Growing up in the 80's I played quite a few SNK games at the time, then when the 90's hit I played any fighting game in the arcade that I could get my hands on regardless of the company who made it. Thankfully I played several SNK fighters back then including Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury, The King of Fighters '94 & '95, Savage Reign, and World Heroes.
Uh oh, I've discovered a brand new obsession : collecting Neo Geo games (well, on XBOX) !
Begun with a golf game I've heard good things about, not sure if John recommended it but today's purchase was Turf Masters 😎
0:18 "Tons of great beatemups"
Sadly there's only three beatemups on the Neo Geo, and only one of them are worthy of recognition (Sengoku 3). It's kind of a pity if you ask me, since the mighty MVS could have made some real bitchin' good beatemups!
TurboGrafx and NeoGeo games hold up so well today graphically
I got a mvs1c that i consolised and then made my own arcade joysticks with about 10ft of cord so i can plug it into the the tv and sit on the couch with arcade style stick and buttons, lots of fun. Edit: Spinmaster is a really fun game too
Hey Riggs I love your videos
Kizuna Encounter was clearly a sequel broseph! But both that one and Savage Reign are freakin fun as hell!
The Super Spy to me had pretty good Die Hard vibe to it
I really enjoyed Top Hunter on my Neo Geo CD.
OMG, I love Kizuna Encounter
Got Twinkle Star Sprites from Amazon, what a great little Surprise!
And i am hear to find more "obscure" SNK/Neo Geo Games.
I am really not such a big Fan of the Fighting Games, but Shock Troopers, Twinkle Star and Sengoku showed me that they have some really nice Games!
Thank you for showing me my past memories of games I was playing these back then for years I played every game you showed I've been playing since 78' you could me the godfather games lol.
Puzzled actually has platforming stages, and to get to the end you have to complete the whole game twice, with each of the characters....
and it's very similar to the puzzle mode of Tetris Plus for the Game Boy...
it has some intensely difficult stages, and has some strategy to it with the bomb attack thing that you need to charge up....
you definitely need to try it if you're into puzzle games...
Honestly, I see these same games in every Neo Geo video, these days - but not three years ago!
It's like the Lamborghini of games. WAYYY TO EXPENSIVE
I hear ya. Glad they've since rereleased most (all?) on other platforms.
I remember when gamepro magazine used to review Neo Geo games and they would also show the price for some of them they would start at about $250 a game way back when it was a new system way too expensive when you consider Super Nintendo games or Sega Genesis games at the time or like about 50 bucks. So even if you had the system good luck being able to afford more than one game for it because one game was almost the cost of another Super Nintendo brand new in the box or more depending on the game some went for $400 I think if I'm not mistaken.
@@allenwaters2975 My friend from high school I mentioned in this video just wanted Arcade Samurai Showdown at home so he bought that, but in the magazine, it was a neo geo + a free game (from, like, 5 games) for $500 or something. He grabbed World Heroes 2 as his bonus.
@@JohnRiggs that must have been when they lowered the price cuz I thought I remembered them costing something like 600 to 700 back in the day.
Also my impression of Neo Geo was that it was mainly a fighting game system. You know where things like King of Fighters and a ton of other one on one Street Fighter like fighting games came out for it. Which unfortunately for me I kind of lost interest in those type of games after Street Fighter 2 which I loved at the time because I felt like with every new fighting game you had to learn a ton of new moves just to even be decent at them. It's nice to see that there was a little more variety on the system but would you say for the most part that Neo Geo is mainly a one-on-one fighting video game system or would you say it has a little more rounded Library than that?
Love the videos keep it up
👍👍
I remember going to a Babbages when the NEO GEO was new to home users, the system was $700 and the games were around $200. I wondered who was actually able to spend that much on games.
Glad to see you got Waku Waku 7 on that list. Galaxy Fight's another good lesser known Neo Geo title.
Zupapa reminds me alot of Data East's Tumble Pop!
And snow Bros, and Bubble bobble
My favorites from this list is Twinkle Star and Waku Waku 7
Great vid again
As someone growing to LOVE the Neo Geo this list is nice!
I will definitely buy SNK’s new NEO GEO console whenever it comes out. I just hope they focus on hi res pixel art like the system was known for. I don’t want them to hop on all 3D all the time.
There was a Game with 3 player One with a sword,There was a girl with a sword and a worrior with An Axe...they can shot super power like the boy can throw wolf head and the girl can shot eagle and the warrior use Rage...There was a Jin Type Boss and those player could take upgrade weapon in the games.
Kizuna Encounter (Fūun Super Tag Battle) is the sequel to Savage Reign (Fūun Mokushiroku).
I have Magician Lord. I think it's a cool game. It me a long time but I have 20 cartridge neo geo Mvs games. I wish they were still making games for neo. I have Spin Master and it's fun. I think the Neo showed the other counsels how it's done when it came to graphics and sound.
Top Hunter is gorgeous, try it with xbrz x4 shader. Normally I use scanlines/crt shaders, but neo geo games look amazing with xbrz, it's the only time I use it. It enhances the details rather than muddies them, it looks so crisp. I wonder why the neogeo looks better than any other platform with it. Did the arcades not have scanlines?
Zupapa and Twinkle Star Sprites look like fun game to play with your family (and also Shock Troopers). Twistris is the original Tetris with a twist game btw ;)
We all missed every Neo-Geo game.
There is a good number of Neo Geo AES games that do not allow the player to have unlimited continues. Yes, SNK's fighting games do but most others do not or they have checkpoints that make the games incredibly hard to beat.
I have a similar cab, with a few multi carts. Also have some home games, the home system no longer powers up unfortunately.😭
These games may be great. 👍
As a honorable mention there was a racing game called Riding Hero, the gameplay was with simple joystick control and it has Story Mode and GP mode.
Just seen Riding Hero on the second video - I had no idea... thank you JohnRiggs. I will forever be puzzled as to why the Neo Geo had absolutely zero into the screen race games. So strange... would have loved to see a Chase HQ type game on the system.
I am dying to know where or how you got your hat! I live in the city where Riggs is located and its awesome to see a local company reach so far. Are you related?
@JohnRiggs Have you ever played the pony racing game for the Neo Geo? I haven't but wasn't sure if it was really worth buying. Stake WInners is the name haha
Windjammer is really good but probably pretty known.
Windjammer I've heard from other RUclipsrs still has tournaments around that video game
take a minute, Try Crossed Swords.. an RPG Beat em up like The Super Spy
"Now, obviously you're a magician, you can tell by the hat" lol
I appreciate you don’t call underrated games “hidden gems”
Mostly obscure precious stones :P ;P
Nice one, Riggs.
7:00 Dr. Wiley, is that you? ;-)
Crossed Swords was great!
0:33 the SNK collection has 0 Neo Geo games and there is no "Neo Geo collection" it's severely standalone releases called Arcade Archives.
Man I wish they’d just re-release a new HD NEO Geo that takes MVS
2:41 looks like Master Roshi
Everyone knows shock troopers! Both of them are fantastic
Zupapa is Illigaly underated
Robo Army is a great game also Blazing Star!
I want a Neo Geo arcade cabaret with woodgrain
puzzle should have been called "blocked balloon".
Fatal Fury starts the two platforms thing.
Yeah, I guess you're right - the foreground and background.
Zupapa looks fun.
I played those games on a handheld g nine version system.
Spinmasters looks like same designer as in Joe & Mac
Frankly I am sick of hearing about fighting games and shoot 'em ups on the Neo Geo (mini/new/whatever). It's nice to see a youtuber who shows at least something more than that.
I wouldn't mind an episode for all the racing games and rpgs for it. if they exist. I am sure there are no strategy games or flight simulators so I am not even asking about that.
Thanks for the video, I like it.
I'd like to know more side scrolling beat em ups as far as neo geo goes the only one that comes to mind for me is mutation nation
One of my fav game was Super dodge ball
I have a Neo Geo collection for the Wii.
I actually missed every single Neo Geo game
Are they in a collection for the Nintendo switch or are the separate please respond back
Top Hunter, Nitghmare in the dark and Gunlord which is a clone of Turrican on the Amiga.
Snk fighting games are the best. I always preferred fatal fury 2 over Street Fighter 2 growing up.
You mean Underrated Neo Geo games my broke ass couldn’t afford.
I'm so glad these games are $8 now on consoles for everyone to enjoy 😀😀😀
The only thing we miss is the prototypes.
Mister
Neo Geo core
A bunch of Roms
You won’t need much to be happy
Anyone remember the contest ad in gamepro magazine’s?
Please do a review of prehistoric isle 2
What's the best way to play these games outside of it's original console?