In my mid-teens, I remember seeing the NeoGeo on the shelf at Hills. I've never forgot the sticker price. It was $599 for the system and one controller with the additional controller right next to it for $149.
Hills? We had an awesome store called Hills in Dayton, Ohio; was like a Kmart but always had top notch toy displays and seemed to always be waaaay better stocked as far as selection...there was only one that I knew of back then though so I always assumed it was a standalone store but an Internet search showed me that it was just a more sparsely distributed regional chain...it may have been even better than toys r us honestly. I remember walking in and finding one single last Optimus prime on the shelf to buy with my Christmas money and you know you're not finding ANYTHING good right after Christmas and I stumbled onto the very last one, I almost couldn't believe it lol
Always nice to see quality videos on the awesome Neo•Geo. Just a couple minor things I noticed. The Neo•Geo Gold System was released in the USA in December 1990. I actually bought mine back then (ordered exactly 34 years to this day! 12/18/1990). The price at this point was not yet $650, it was $399 for the Silver System (1 arcade stick, no cartridge), and $550 for the Gold System (2 arcade sticks, and one cart, from the choice of Baseball Stars Pro or NAM-1975). It wasn't until Summer 1991 that they raised the prices to $650 for the Gold System. This was so that Babbage's, and EB's could make their 15% - 30% profit margins. Same with the AES carts. Before they hit brick & mortar retail, they were dynamically priced based on their MEG size. Lower sized games, such ad League Bowling, were $120, which larger games, such as the 62Mb Top Player's Golf, were the highest, at $170. This would all be changed to $199.99, despite the ROM size, in 1991, at retailers such as Babbage's/EBs.
Yup, can prove that with emulators, as exact same rom can be often played with either AES of MVS BIOS, difference was in console versions having modes and convenience of home consoles but losing endless continues with coin-op. So for casual players who want to finish Metal Slug or any infamous SNK bosses, better to play arcade version first. BTW, Neo Geo was emulatable on every machine earlier and more convenient than MAME, I remember a time where people used separate emulators for cps1, cps2, and neogeo as MAME was SLOW.
@@KasumiRINA Haha yes, we used NeoRAGE under DOS back then. It was mindblowing. One week after I got an imported Metal Slug for my modded Saturn, the Neo-Geo ROM was dumped. Played them side by side to compare, even with the RAM cart the Saturn version was still missing loads of animation.
I won a NAM 1975 cartridge back in the mid 1990s. I still couldn't get my parents to buy me a $700 Neo Geo system after that , so I traded it in for three Sega Genesis games. I had a local arcade owner try and stuff it into a Neo Geo cabinet, but the carts weren't compatible with the cabinets.
What, no mention of the MVSX? You showed it a couple of times, but failed to mention this Great system that allowed one to play 50 SNK games on a 3/4 arcade machine for only $500. This is a treat option for someone wanting to play the classic games but not wanting to spend the money to collect original hardware
Great video, nice and informative without dragging on. What SNK were capable of doing with decade-old hardware in the late 90s and early 2000s is still impressive. Been a Neo Geo fan for over 15 years now, even if I've been mostly priced out of collecting for it in recent years. Only thing you missed was the CDZ console. SNK made this revised version of the CD console in response to criticism of the CD's slow load times, but this only doubled the speed drive and therefore didn't improve things much!
Neo Geo AES was released by the end of 1990 in Europe. In North America SNK of America thought the console was too expensive to be a good idea. That's why it came out later, in 1991. In general, machines were released about 1 year earlier in the USA than in Europe.
When I was in the 8th grade in 1992 I had a friend that had the AES. It was unreal to experience that at home in 1992. Great channel you have. You earned a sub from me. Keep up the good work.
Street Fighter 2 is NOT a Neo Geo title it runs on the CPS1 and 2 (depending on the editions) don't have videos of people playing it while talking about the Neo Geo.
In the 90s, it was different. Not the same inflation as today, the same apartment from 700$/month to 1400$/month in 2 years hehehe. My older brother back then, an apartment, a new Jeep with a temporary job and school. He could have a Neo Geo, but instead he chose a PC at a higher price 😂
Awesome vid again We always wanted the mad priced neo geo as kids, the mega drive was welcomed instead and many years of happy gaming, still we could only wonder at the price of the carts for the neo geo and how our final fight MD compared to it !!! Great stuff :)
Just coming from your good PC engine video, I didn't find this one as good. The use of heavily processed emulator shots was quite detracting. The fatal fury 2 footage was comically bad. You also lightly glossed over things like the use of sprites and the sound chip, two very unique aspects of the neogeo. The neogeo lacks background layers, instead opting to use its giant sprites as the backgrounds instead, hence the insane dimensions. And the impressive sound capabilities of the neogeo from its sound chip came from 4 different types of sound generators.
This is becoming more popular. I was wondering if I was going insane but apparently it's usually a group of people from other parts of the world that team up to make ai generated content.
In my mid-teens, I remember seeing the NeoGeo on the shelf at Hills. I've never forgot the sticker price. It was $599 for the system and one controller with the additional controller right next to it for $149.
Still cheaper than an arcade PCB and a pad tho. Also completely obsolute when you got almost arcade perfect games on PS1, Saturn and later Dreamcast.
Hills? We had an awesome store called Hills in Dayton, Ohio; was like a Kmart but always had top notch toy displays and seemed to always be waaaay better stocked as far as selection...there was only one that I knew of back then though so I always assumed it was a standalone store but an Internet search showed me that it was just a more sparsely distributed regional chain...it may have been even better than toys r us honestly. I remember walking in and finding one single last Optimus prime on the shelf to buy with my Christmas money and you know you're not finding ANYTHING good right after Christmas and I stumbled onto the very last one, I almost couldn't believe it lol
Damn lol ps5 sounds like a fire sale by comparison, even without inflation and ps plus/controller price hikes (no ps4/vr2 for regular ps5 games)
Always nice to see quality videos on the awesome Neo•Geo. Just a couple minor things I noticed.
The Neo•Geo Gold System was released in the USA in December 1990. I actually bought mine back then (ordered exactly 34 years to this day! 12/18/1990). The price at this point was not yet $650, it was $399 for the Silver System (1 arcade stick, no cartridge), and $550 for the Gold System (2 arcade sticks, and one cart, from the choice of Baseball Stars Pro or NAM-1975).
It wasn't until Summer 1991 that they raised the prices to $650 for the Gold System. This was so that Babbage's, and EB's could make their 15% - 30% profit margins.
Same with the AES carts. Before they hit brick & mortar retail, they were dynamically priced based on their MEG size. Lower sized games, such ad League Bowling, were $120, which larger games, such as the 62Mb Top Player's Golf, were the highest, at $170. This would all be changed to $199.99, despite the ROM size, in 1991, at retailers such as Babbage's/EBs.
Great documentary. Keep it up!!
Dude, your videos are excellent. Keep it up and your channel is gonna grow.
I have the neo geo arcade stick. Home brew has allowed Capcom arcades to it as well relatively easily
The AES home versions weren't 'pixel perfect conversions'; they are the exact same software, although in a few cases there were minor differences.
Yup, can prove that with emulators, as exact same rom can be often played with either AES of MVS BIOS, difference was in console versions having modes and convenience of home consoles but losing endless continues with coin-op. So for casual players who want to finish Metal Slug or any infamous SNK bosses, better to play arcade version first. BTW, Neo Geo was emulatable on every machine earlier and more convenient than MAME, I remember a time where people used separate emulators for cps1, cps2, and neogeo as MAME was SLOW.
@@KasumiRINA Haha yes, we used NeoRAGE under DOS back then. It was mindblowing. One week after I got an imported Metal Slug for my modded Saturn, the Neo-Geo ROM was dumped. Played them side by side to compare, even with the RAM cart the Saturn version was still missing loads of animation.
I won a NAM 1975 cartridge back in the mid 1990s. I still couldn't get my parents to buy me a $700 Neo Geo system after that , so I traded it in for three Sega Genesis games. I had a local arcade owner try and stuff it into a Neo Geo cabinet, but the carts weren't compatible with the cabinets.
What, no mention of the MVSX? You showed it a couple of times, but failed to mention this Great system that allowed one to play 50 SNK games on a 3/4 arcade machine for only $500. This is a treat option for someone wanting to play the classic games but not wanting to spend the money to collect original hardware
Great video, nice and informative without dragging on. What SNK were capable of doing with decade-old hardware in the late 90s and early 2000s is still impressive. Been a Neo Geo fan for over 15 years now, even if I've been mostly priced out of collecting for it in recent years.
Only thing you missed was the CDZ console. SNK made this revised version of the CD console in response to criticism of the CD's slow load times, but this only doubled the speed drive and therefore didn't improve things much!
Glad this came up in my recommended. Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much for the kind words! Will be releasing two more vids in the coming weeks
Great Video Dude, keep going.
Thank you! A lot of work goes into these. These comments make it worth it.
The most desired console ever, given it was out of reach for 99% of us.
Nice video. Quick and no fluff. Well edited. My personal favorite console. Thanks for honoring it
Really appreciate it! More vids to come.
Neo Geo AES was released by the end of 1990 in Europe. In North America SNK of America thought the console was too expensive to be a good idea. That's why it came out later, in 1991. In general, machines were released about 1 year earlier in the USA than in Europe.
When I was in the 8th grade in 1992 I had a friend that had the AES. It was unreal to experience that at home in 1992. Great channel you have. You earned a sub from me. Keep up the good work.
I'd take 2d graphics over 3d anyday of the week!
really enjoying these! were you part of a bigger channel before?
Street Fighter 2 is NOT a Neo Geo title it runs on the CPS1 and 2 (depending on the editions) don't have videos of people playing it while talking about the Neo Geo.
it's a bad representation when you are using footage with smoothing filters D-
In the 90s, it was different. Not the same inflation as today, the same apartment from 700$/month to 1400$/month in 2 years hehehe. My older brother back then, an apartment, a new Jeep with a temporary job and school. He could have a Neo Geo, but instead he chose a PC at a higher price 😂
In my country the neo geo was unknown, even printed game magazines dont mention about this neo consoles 😭🔞
Awesome vid again
We always wanted the mad priced neo geo as kids, the mega drive was welcomed instead and many years of happy gaming, still we could only wonder at the price of the carts for the neo geo and how our final fight MD compared to it !!!
Great stuff :)
No mention at all of the Neo Geo Pocket Color? Disappointed.
Just coming from your good PC engine video, I didn't find this one as good. The use of heavily processed emulator shots was quite detracting. The fatal fury 2 footage was comically bad. You also lightly glossed over things like the use of sprites and the sound chip, two very unique aspects of the neogeo. The neogeo lacks background layers, instead opting to use its giant sprites as the backgrounds instead, hence the insane dimensions. And the impressive sound capabilities of the neogeo from its sound chip came from 4 different types of sound generators.
If this is Ai, this makes me sick.
Damn AI voiceover!
This is becoming more popular. I was wondering if I was going insane but apparently it's usually a group of people from other parts of the world that team up to make ai generated content.