@@DJalem emulec on odroid go super. For about 35 to 50usd you can put all neo geo games on a 34gig SD card. They play and look incredible on this handheld. Total under 200usd for everythunf...below the cost of one neo geo game in the 90s!
i know this video is getting close to being 3 years old, but id love for you to do another one with underrated neo geo titles, could be just 20 games. Youre good at what you do!
What I love about SNK is that they had very tight library of games. Very few stinkers were made for the system. It's like they hired real gamers for quality control.
@@probe26 not really, there are terrible games for the system, and plenty of games that look great the first time you play it, but if you play enough and try 1CC realize the AI literally steals you and ruins the game entirely. That's the Konami arcade syndrome, and many SNK games had it. And don't get me wrong, I love the system.
The Neo Geo was definitely an underdog of the 16-32 bit era. Not only did it give birth to my personal favorite puzzle game franchise (Bust-A-Move/Puzzle Bobble), but it also was the go-to system for games that would ultimately destroy friendships one KoF match at a time. Oh, and Metal Slug was and still is the shit when it comes to run-and-gunners.
Funny story, once I went to an asian arcade on my travels, and sat myself down on a mini cab with KOF98. A young pro who was hogging the game on the cab opposite me challenged me to a battle. 15 minutes several dollars later, he slumped away from the cabinet, utterly defeated. Before he left, I saw him poke his head around the cabinets to get a glimpse of the person who kicked his ass. He was surprised to see me - a gigantic white guy, smiling at him.
This was an outstanding video! Thanks for taking the time to compile it and give rich descriptions of why each game is significant. I just purchased a Neo Geo MVS cabinet and I feel equipped to start collecting carts now! Subscribed.
Excellent list as always Juganawt and when you mentionned that The Last Blade would make a convincing case to show video games as a valid form of art, you just read my mind. The neo geo is what I consider the best "Video games are art" console. The sprite work has yet to be matched by modern developpers, it is simply breathtaking.
That commercial at the beginning was like, “Darn, our rapper called off and we can only film this today!” And one of the production crew guys was like, “Hold my beer.”
2D hand drawn sprites are imperative - arcade replayability is imperative. Treasure on Sega, the PC engine and the Neo-Geo are the ONLY answers here. Neo-Geo may be at the top. Shmups are my favorite. So. YOU DROPPED THE BALL HERE! Pulstar. Pulstar is THE #1 game on Neo-Geo. THE #1 shmup ever. Difficulty to make you pull your hair out and commence to speaking in tongues but you keep coming back because you know it's not being cheap. Give it a few weeks of play. Kevin at Gamestuff back in the 90's called my home at 11pm to let me know he had found something there on the streets of Tokyo that he knew I wanted, he shipped it COD. Pulstar AES. It was just under $1,000 US. That man took SUCH good care of me back in the peak days of gaming. ('93 -'97) - I think he shipped me Soukyugurentai for PSX or Saturn three times, just as a complimentary. Thao Nguyen of Multi Arcade Systems was another good friend back in the day. He made me my arcade cabinet and controllers.
I love this system, the Neo geo was a beast of a machine. My only gripe is that too many Fighting games were made, and not enough 2d side scrollers and shooters. Having said that, I still own about 50 titles for it and they are among my favourite games for replay value. It's even got the best golf game ever made fer chrissakes. Thanks to emulation and the ACA series of re-releases everyone can enjoy these games now.
Nice job putting Neo Turf Masters near the top of the list. That is my favorite Neo Geo game bar none! By the way, there's a Facebook group that hosts quarterly Neo Turf Masters Tournaments if anyone is interested :) Look for the "Neo Turf Masters Clubhouse" group for more details. I'm currently participating in one of the Tournaments as we speak. Check it out!
I know I'm late to the party, but I totally agree that KoF 2003 is underappreciated. It's my favorite to play on my MAME cabinet. They (meaning rom dumpers) really need to release a NeoGeo/SNK exclusive rom pack. That would be great.
as a guy who has played most of these games extensively, there are two things that i have to disagree with, 1: KoF 98' is the best game in the KoF series although 02' is a very close second. 2: King of the monsters should at least be top 20, from pure entertainment value that game is off the roof. Other than those two things, id say you got it spot on. Well done!
Hi Juganawt. Here is my top 54 Neo Geo games. 54. Art of Fighting 2, 53. Over Top, 52. Tengai Makyou: Shin Den, 51. Art of Fighting, 50. Far East of Eden: Kabuki Klash, 49. Art of Fighting 3, 48. Cyber-Lip, 47. Galaxy Fight: Universal Warriors, 46. Fight Fever, 45. Garou: Mark of the wolves, 44. King of Fighters 2001, 43. Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad, 42. Ninja Combat, 41. Ninja Masters: Hao Ninpo Cho, 40. Shock Troopers, 39. Savage Reign, 38. Spinmaster, 37. Sengoku 3, 36. Sengoku 2, 35. Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer, 34. Viewpoint, 33. Top Hunter: Roddy and Cathy, 32. Sengoku, 31. Real Bout Fatal Fury, 30. Real Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers, 29. Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, 28. Ragnagard, 27. Puzzled, 26. Kizuna Encounter, 25. Karnov's Revenge, 24. Breakers, 23. Last Blade, 22. Last Blade 2, 21. Magic Drop 2, 20. King of Fighters 1994, 19. King of Fighters 1995, 18. World Heroes Perfect, 17. SNK vs. Capcom Chaos, 16. King of Fighters 1996, 15. Ironclad, 14. Fatal Fury 3, 13. Fatal Fury 2, 12. Fatal Fury, 11. Mutation Nation, 10. NAM-1975, 9. Eight Man, 8. Burning Fight, 7. Blue's Journey, 6. Prehistoric Isle in 1930, 5. Andro Dunos, 4. Super Baseball 2020, 3. Raging Dragon, 2. Pulstar, and 1. Neo Geo Double Dragon (Not to be confused with the original Double Dragon).
☺My favorite old games😉 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ My favorite Blue's journey King of the monsters 2 Magician lord Metal slug Neo bom bomberman Puzzle bobble Super dodgeball neo Pulstar Blazing star
breakers revenge doesn't get enough love imo, great to see it make the list here. really high quality spritework. Also agree that the Real Bout games are underrated - I think they tend to get unfairly overshadowed by the KOF games (I actually prefer the real bout sprites) and Mark of the Wolves... Something else that just occured to me.. I love Capcom as much as the next guy (used to work for them) but I can promise you if they'd done a crossover game like KOF they would have reused all the sprites from the source games to save costs. Not so SNK, who redrew characters like Yamazaki from fatal fury to match the KOF style. Now that's artistic integrity. Excellent channel btw, just starting to dig in to these list videos :)
Absolutely enjoyed the review, was a pleasure listening to you talk about why you enjoyed each game, what made each game stand out. With that being said, I know the time we're talking about was a Fighter Game orgasm, but christ all mighty. A top 50 Neo Geo Game list and 45 of the games are fighter games. I did enjoy the review though, keep up the good work mate! ----Edit--- Just finished the video. When we got to the honorable mentions portion of the review, I knew, 10000% that number one on your list was going to be a fighting game. Figured since you put this much effort into your list, I'd at least take a look at Fatal Fury 4. You did say 'My personal top 50 games'. Nice list, can't argue with your positioning of the games. Previous comment stands, keep up the good work!
+No No 29 out of the 50 games on my list are fighting games and brawlers, so just over half of the list. This really is reflective of the console library itself - it's filled to the brim with interesting fighters, beat em ups and shooters, but is a little thin in other areas. The system thrived with its fighting games though, and that's what the system is not only what it's best known for, but it's what the system did best of all.
Matt Crane yup, i am a die hard KoF fan who would deludedly say KoF>SF all day and im not even a fan of the FF series. But i would just humbly admit that Mark of the Wolves is one of the most well thought out, beautifully animated and simply one of the best 1on1 fighting game ever made.
Fantastic list! I think you didn't leave a single game that deserved to be here behind, which is quite an accomplishment. Personally I would've chosen some of the honorable mentions over the main 50 (I mean do KOF fans really keep playing 6 different versions to this day???). Nam for example is the only one and possibly the best from its genre on any system, deserved a spot on the top 50 for sure. Also I wouldn't categorize Ninja Commando or Shock Troopers as shmups, more like run 'n gun. But I'm just nitpicking here.
I will have to disagree with Kof 2002 being better ranked than Kof 98. Kof 98 was (to me and I believe to the majority of players) just perfection and fairness of play / balanced characters. You can't do infinite combos in 98 (or at least they're not easy to do if they exist at all which I'm not sure they do). 98 is just raw , tight , fast fighting all across the board. I would definitely place 97' and 2000 right after 98. They're pretty fucking good as well. I think those are the TOP 3 of the King of Fighters Series. Good Neo Geo video nontheless. Always a joy to watch arcade content.
my personal fav is samurai showdown 2 and any metal slug, best fighting game of all time is still street fighter 2 ce with mirror matches and ability to use the bosses and the iconic stages and music no game will ever beat
My Bell-end appreciates your gentle caress. I've yet to acquire a Neo Geo Mini - it's the only system I'm currently missing from my "mini" set. Hoping to get one of those fancy blue translucent ones for Christmas!
The Neo Geo itself is like no other system at the time. The AES system WAS an arcade in your home. With a converter, you can literally buy the arcade versions of games, and play them on your Neo Geo AES console. It was much more expensive than it's competitors, but was leaps and bounds ahead of any other 16-bit system when it launched in 1990.
holy shit. good call on sf3 3rd strike. fav fighter of all time. played it at some awesome arcade at the beach when i was like 14. first game played on my mame cab........
Nice list man. I think AOF2 & KOF '95 AI's are too damn cheap to be fun. In my opinion Real Bout Special should be about 25 places higher! The fluidity of gameplay is nailed and they kept the excellent FF3 music and roster. AOF1 feels like a Van Damme movie and should make the top 20, as should 2020 super baseball for encapsulating the Neo Geo futuristic arcade aesthetic perfectly. KOF '94 and the first Fatal Fury should be in there for solid, tactical one-on-one gameplay and excellent presentation & music too. King of the Monsters 1, Savage Reign, World Heroes 1 & Perfect are a good time as is Sengoku 1...
I didn't realize Neo Geo has so many interesting games I bought a couple of them on the Xbox Live store hopefully these will come on board as well later
I downIoaded Neo Geo Rage on my computer. Where it's basicaIIy a Neo Geo emuIator with over 200 SNK games on it. I've pIayed so many of these games you mentioned and they're aII awesome. If the Neo Geo wasn't so expensive in the states, there's no reason why the NEo Geo couIdn't have competed with consoIes out at the time. Ahead of its time as far as I'm concerned, awesome video by the way homie.
rom carts for 16megs was like $60, now imagine the costs of 100 to 300 meg carts! games priced at 250 to 500 for 1 game was just too much for neo geo to be in every home
I do agree with the baseball game # 14 for the most part. But there were some Japanese exclusives on the super famicom that were outstanding and incredibly fun as well. And let not forget about kg jr
Hi! Im a little bit dissapointed because there is no Aggresors of Dark Kombat game. I think that game deserves to be in this list or at least at honorable mentions ;) greetings!
King of the Monsters, Magician Lord, Ninja Combat, World Heroes, Metal Slug Series, Shock Troopers these I play the most But I’ll tell you Neo Geo they made Fabulous Games For the Arcades even though they didn’t sell well for home use.
It's one of those few systems where nearly every single game on the system is well worth playing. There are only a handful of titles I played that I didn't enjoy during going through the entire catalog during my 25 hour recording session.
Yep, some of the games for the home based system can run you THOUSANDS. However, it's better value to buy the arcade game cartridges and a converter to run them on an AES system. You can also buy an arcade multi cart with pretty much every Neo Geo game in the library included for about £100 / $120.
The Last Blade, Blazing Star Metal Slug and the Last Resord are really excellent game and whoever Akade Games Mag does not miss neo geo. In my opinion the best 16 bit system there is. Just what they got out of the hardware at Blasing Star and then the awesome gameplay, a very nice soundtrack and a beautiful graphics, one of the nicest games I ever played on a console that I owned. I regret to this day, out of financial need to sell my Neo Geo systems.
P.S: Garou: Mark of the Wolves was not better than most of the KOF games, even though it looked amazing and was interesting to see at the time (I remember struggling to actually DOWNLOAD all the .zip files with my 56 k modem and downloading different BIOS files to make it even run on NeoRageX ... I was thrilled to see it running when it did). Garou wouldn't beat most of the Samurai Shodown games either. But oh well, it's your ranking and video. Salute !
+msk33 it surprised me too. I fully expected it to be as fun a game as I remembered it being, but it hasn’t aged well, and I found myself getting bored rather quickly
I love the Neo Geo... The only thing I don't like of this console is that the 80% of the games are beat em ups games. I like games like art of fighting, or kof, but for me there are too many...
Honestly the only Neo Geo stuff I've played was the Metal Slug series, and they were only ports on other systems. Now I have the chance to check out the best games through the power of emulation. There sure are a lot of fighting games! Sheesh! xD I already tried out Art of Fighting 2 and Neo Drift Out. Pretty awesome games I wish I had played back in the day.
Well I'll be starting my Neo Geo emulation this week then! Jug, as you listed a great number of Fatal Fury / King of Fighters games, would you recommend I play them all, or can I skip straight to the later games?
+The Game Show each game has its own overarching style, as well as its own fighting systems and mechanics. If you're a fighting game fan, then it's absolutely worth checking out each version of the games, as they are all different to each other in many ways. If you're not a fighting fan, play Fatal Fury: King Of Fighters, Fatal Fury Special, KOF94, KOF 98, KOF 2002, KOF 2003, and then Garou Mark of the wolves, to get a good overview of the FF/KOF series
Great reply, thanks. I would classify myself as a casual fighting game fan. I can throw hands in any version of Street Fighter and I dabble in a couple of other franchises. I picked up Fatal Fury 3 recently for PC and I've never played anything from this series, despite the acclaim.
I remember a side scrolling zombie beat em up where you could choose to fight as a female ninja who used a scroll to kill zombies, a martial artist who used some kind of crystal and a cyborg with robotic arms to killed zombies with electricity. Does anybody remember the name of this one? I loved playing it.
Holy shit, the last blade 2, metal slug, fatal fury 4... these games look incredible. And that's coming from someone who never really liked Contra and Street Fighter.
I've been extremely fortunate to be able to buy many of these at 10 AUD a pop for my switch. Hamster has done an incredible job with the (emulation)? porting. They also added an extra wide mode.. but it's not a pixel stretching widescreen.. it's just a bit wider than the original 4:3 and adds *back* the original info that was cut out for television screens back then. They really must have a close relationship with SNK. Seeing this list though, there is some stuff I would absolutely love that I don't have access to yet, so I hope hamster gets the OK to port : Eightman, Zed Blade, Drift Out & Ninja Commando basically, which all look awesome to me.. Also just grabbed shock troopers 2, Mutation Nation & 1945 plus. Can't wait to play through them all. This is the era to me when gaming was FUN. PS I found blazing star brutal LOL.
Aside from the 2 very first Hamster conversions (which had slowdown in places where there shouldn't be any), the rest of the ACA Neo Geo emulation packages are fantastic for both the Switch and Xbox One. They're typically pretty easy to get achievements on quite rapidly as well, for the achievement whores amongst us! I've been steadily growing my collection. I have about 20 of them on my Xbox so far, but I'm still waiting for some of the big hitters to get released.
Which ones have slowdown? I noticed my metal slug 3,4,5 and X all have periodic slowdown.. But i did some research and it seems to happen on the real thing too.. This is where I wish Hamster would offer a simple overclock option.. I mean it IS 2019 after all! But which ones have it that shouldn't? So i can avoid the if not too late. I have the SNK arcade collection volume 1 on my PSP so i didn't re buy any of those games as I played through them all anyway and the one on one fighters on that were far from the best the neo geo had to offer. Magician Lord was BRUTAL lol.@@Juganawt
@@teddym2808 The two I had slight issues with slowdown on were Neo Turf Masters (which has been improved with a patch - before the patch, the game would skip frames to keep the speed up), and World Heroes, which suffered bad slowdown before a patch was implemented as well.
Je me souviens de cette console avec une manette de jeu aussi grosse que la console, Et surtout du prix exorbitant des jeux elle était considéré comme une véritable Rolls Royce, Devenue de nos jours une console de collection.
Love my Neo Geo!..............................................emulator.
Which one do you use and for what system mac or windows?
@@DJalem Windows isla better and easy to use
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@@DJalem Mister FPGA is where its at.
@@DJalem emulec on odroid go super. For about 35 to 50usd you can put all neo geo games on a 34gig SD card. They play and look incredible on this handheld. Total under 200usd for everythunf...below the cost of one neo geo game in the 90s!
i know this video is getting close to being 3 years old, but id love for you to do another one with underrated neo geo titles, could be just 20 games. Youre good at what you do!
What I love about SNK is that they had very tight library of games. Very few stinkers were made for the system. It's like they hired real gamers for quality control.
I know. Almost all the games are at least good. Very few bad games.
@@probe26 not really, there are terrible games for the system, and plenty of games that look great the first time you play it, but if you play enough and try 1CC realize the AI literally steals you and ruins the game entirely. That's the Konami arcade syndrome, and many SNK games had it. And don't get me wrong, I love the system.
not "Real "gamers but Hardcore Gamers.
I’ve loved Neo Geo since the arcade days, but I’m still stunned by this reminder of how much fire there was in that lineup. What an amazing run.
The Neo Geo was definitely an underdog of the 16-32 bit era. Not only did it give birth to my personal favorite puzzle game franchise (Bust-A-Move/Puzzle Bobble), but it also was the go-to system for games that would ultimately destroy friendships one KoF match at a time. Oh, and Metal Slug was and still is the shit when it comes to run-and-gunners.
Funny story, once I went to an asian arcade on my travels, and sat myself down on a mini cab with KOF98. A young pro who was hogging the game on the cab opposite me challenged me to a battle. 15 minutes several dollars later, he slumped away from the cabinet, utterly defeated. Before he left, I saw him poke his head around the cabinets to get a glimpse of the person who kicked his ass. He was surprised to see me - a gigantic white guy, smiling at him.
Also, for a long time, I held the top score in the world on Metal Slug 3 on Xbox Live Arcade :D
Bravo on both achievements, my good man. Bravo.
Achievement Unlocked: Slugging it Out!
(Held the Top Score in the world on Metal Slug 3) Cheers ;)
Yeah I have Fightcade. It uses the GGPO framework. It's pretty cool.
This was an outstanding video! Thanks for taking the time to compile it and give rich descriptions of why each game is significant. I just purchased a Neo Geo MVS cabinet and I feel equipped to start collecting carts now! Subscribed.
Excellent list as always Juganawt and when you mentionned that The Last Blade would make a convincing case to show video games as a valid form of art, you just read my mind.
The neo geo is what I consider the best "Video games are art" console. The sprite work has yet to be matched by modern developpers, it is simply breathtaking.
That commercial at the beginning was like, “Darn, our rapper called off and we can only film this today!” And one of the production crew guys was like, “Hold my beer.”
Only now am I catching up on those games. I'm going to give most of those titles a spin. Thanks for the compilation!
Thanks for this video, i remember now other games that i forgot, much love. Thank you!
2D hand drawn sprites are imperative - arcade replayability is imperative. Treasure on Sega, the PC engine and the Neo-Geo are the ONLY answers here. Neo-Geo may be at the top. Shmups are my favorite. So. YOU DROPPED THE BALL HERE! Pulstar. Pulstar is THE #1 game on Neo-Geo. THE #1 shmup ever. Difficulty to make you pull your hair out and commence to speaking in tongues but you keep coming back because you know it's not being cheap. Give it a few weeks of play. Kevin at Gamestuff back in the 90's called my home at 11pm to let me know he had found something there on the streets of Tokyo that he knew I wanted, he shipped it COD. Pulstar AES. It was just under $1,000 US. That man took SUCH good care of me back in the peak days of gaming. ('93 -'97) - I think he shipped me Soukyugurentai for PSX or Saturn three times, just as a complimentary. Thao Nguyen of Multi Arcade Systems was another good friend back in the day. He made me my arcade cabinet and controllers.
I use to play kof 98 97 AND 2002. they still play KOF in mexico and latin amareica
I'm mexican, can confirm we still play kof 2002
Most people in the states playing kof do it on steam
This system is a banger every game has excellent graphics and is fast paced with the coolest music. Nothing here seems boring
"You can pull it out whenever you want, and you can slap people in the face with it" Nuff said lol
definitely bring back my childhood. Good job on making this video. Subscribed!
Mah Gawd!!! that intro hahaha!
"You can pull it out whenever you want & you can slap people in the face with it" HAHAHAHA! oh instant classic XD
I love this system, the Neo geo was a beast of a machine. My only gripe is that too many Fighting games were made, and not enough 2d side scrollers and shooters. Having said that, I still own about 50 titles for it and they are among my favourite games for replay value. It's even got the best golf game ever made fer chrissakes. Thanks to emulation and the ACA series of re-releases everyone can enjoy these games now.
2D fighting games were everywhere in general in the 1990s
Nice job putting Neo Turf Masters near the top of the list. That is my favorite Neo Geo game bar none! By the way, there's a Facebook group that hosts quarterly Neo Turf Masters Tournaments if anyone is interested :) Look for the "Neo Turf Masters Clubhouse" group for more details. I'm currently participating in one of the Tournaments as we speak. Check it out!
I know I'm late to the party, but I totally agree that KoF 2003 is underappreciated. It's my favorite to play on my MAME cabinet.
They (meaning rom dumpers) really need to release a NeoGeo/SNK exclusive rom pack.
That would be great.
NeoGeo is the embodiment of (Future is here), unbelievable console in 2021
as a guy who has played most of these games extensively, there are two things that i have to disagree with,
1: KoF 98' is the best game in the KoF series although 02' is a very close second.
2: King of the monsters should at least be top 20, from pure entertainment value that game is off the roof.
Other than those two things, id say you got it spot on. Well done!
I think KOF02 plays better than 98 but it has drab backgrounds and it's not as nice looking
Excellent video, love the added commentary to each game, short and to the point!
Good video. I did not know there were 50 games for this system. Quality games, quality video.
There were well over 100 games released for the Neo Geo during it's 15 year lifespan, not counting unofficial homebrew games.
Hi Juganawt. Here is my top 54 Neo Geo games. 54. Art of Fighting 2, 53. Over Top, 52. Tengai Makyou: Shin Den, 51. Art of Fighting, 50. Far East of Eden: Kabuki Klash, 49. Art of Fighting 3, 48. Cyber-Lip, 47. Galaxy Fight: Universal Warriors, 46. Fight Fever, 45. Garou: Mark of the wolves, 44. King of Fighters 2001, 43. Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad, 42. Ninja Combat, 41. Ninja Masters: Hao Ninpo Cho, 40. Shock Troopers, 39. Savage Reign, 38. Spinmaster, 37. Sengoku 3, 36. Sengoku 2, 35. Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer, 34. Viewpoint, 33. Top Hunter: Roddy and Cathy, 32. Sengoku, 31. Real Bout Fatal Fury, 30. Real Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers, 29. Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, 28. Ragnagard, 27. Puzzled, 26. Kizuna Encounter, 25. Karnov's Revenge, 24. Breakers, 23. Last Blade, 22. Last Blade 2, 21. Magic Drop 2, 20. King of Fighters 1994, 19. King of Fighters 1995, 18. World Heroes Perfect, 17. SNK vs. Capcom Chaos, 16. King of Fighters 1996, 15. Ironclad, 14. Fatal Fury 3, 13. Fatal Fury 2, 12. Fatal Fury, 11. Mutation Nation, 10. NAM-1975, 9. Eight Man, 8. Burning Fight, 7. Blue's Journey, 6. Prehistoric Isle in 1930, 5. Andro Dunos, 4. Super Baseball 2020, 3. Raging Dragon, 2. Pulstar, and 1. Neo Geo Double Dragon (Not to be confused with the original Double Dragon).
Prehistoric Isle in 1930 is a great game but it's not a Neo Geo game
☺My favorite old games😉
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My favorite
Blue's journey
King of the monsters 2
Magician lord
Metal slug
Neo bom bomberman
Puzzle bobble
Super dodgeball neo
Pulstar
Blazing star
Great recommendations! Playing some of these on MisterFPGA, which feels like playing on original hardware. Very tight.
Ninja commando should be in the top 10,love the video
Top 50 Neo Geo mostly fighting Arcade Games of All Time
breakers revenge doesn't get enough love imo, great to see it make the list here. really high quality spritework. Also agree that the Real Bout games are underrated - I think they tend to get unfairly overshadowed by the KOF games (I actually prefer the real bout sprites) and Mark of the Wolves...
Something else that just occured to me.. I love Capcom as much as the next guy (used to work for them) but I can promise you if they'd done a crossover game like KOF they would have reused all the sprites from the source games to save costs. Not so SNK, who redrew characters like Yamazaki from fatal fury to match the KOF style. Now that's artistic integrity.
Excellent channel btw, just starting to dig in to these list videos :)
Absolutely enjoyed the review, was a pleasure listening to you talk about why you enjoyed each game, what made each game stand out. With that being said, I know the time we're talking about was a Fighter Game orgasm, but christ all mighty. A top 50 Neo Geo Game list and 45 of the games are fighter games. I did enjoy the review though, keep up the good work mate!
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Just finished the video. When we got to the honorable mentions portion of the review, I knew, 10000% that number one on your list was going to be a fighting game. Figured since you put this much effort into your list, I'd at least take a look at Fatal Fury 4. You did say 'My personal top 50 games'. Nice list, can't argue with your positioning of the games. Previous comment stands, keep up the good work!
+No No 29 out of the 50 games on my list are fighting games and brawlers, so just over half of the list. This really is reflective of the console library itself - it's filled to the brim with interesting fighters, beat em ups and shooters, but is a little thin in other areas. The system thrived with its fighting games though, and that's what the system is not only what it's best known for, but it's what the system did best of all.
thanks for the 5 games that weren't shooters or fighters, they're going on the cab!
Great video! Can't argue with Garou, game is incredible!
Matt Crane yup, i am a die hard KoF fan who would deludedly say KoF>SF all day and im not even a fan of the FF series.
But i would just humbly admit that Mark of the Wolves is one of the most well thought out, beautifully animated and simply one of the best 1on1 fighting game ever made.
KOF99 are better than Garou
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Because KOF has more fighters and 3-on-3 team battles?
Fantastic list! I think you didn't leave a single game that deserved to be here behind, which is quite an accomplishment. Personally I would've chosen some of the honorable mentions over the main 50 (I mean do KOF fans really keep playing 6 different versions to this day???). Nam for example is the only one and possibly the best from its genre on any system, deserved a spot on the top 50 for sure. Also I wouldn't categorize Ninja Commando or Shock Troopers as shmups, more like run 'n gun. But I'm just nitpicking here.
I will have to disagree with Kof 2002 being better ranked than Kof 98. Kof 98 was (to me and I believe to the majority of players) just perfection and fairness of play / balanced characters. You can't do infinite combos in 98 (or at least they're not easy to do if they exist at all which I'm not sure they do). 98 is just raw , tight , fast fighting all across the board. I would definitely place 97' and 2000 right after 98. They're pretty fucking good as well. I think those are the TOP 3 of the King of Fighters Series. Good Neo Geo video nontheless. Always a joy to watch arcade content.
Top Notes:
There's a Console called NEO•GEO Advanced Entertainment System
With an Arcade Controller for better experience.
I also love Neo Drift Out and Crossed Swords. Great games as well. Garou is tops tho for sure. BUSTA WOLF!!!!
thx for that video neogeo for life 😀
my personal fav is samurai showdown 2 and any metal slug, best fighting game of all time is still street fighter 2 ce with mirror matches and ability to use the bosses and the iconic stages and music no game will ever beat
Overwhelmed by the choice of games on mini. Great stuff. Metal Slug will become my way of life. Have touched your bellend.
My Bell-end appreciates your gentle caress. I've yet to acquire a Neo Geo Mini - it's the only system I'm currently missing from my "mini" set. Hoping to get one of those fancy blue translucent ones for Christmas!
Awesome, thanks for showing
nice vid, i love the neo geo color but havent gotten into it's stationary family yet. this seems like a good place to start
The Neo Geo itself is like no other system at the time. The AES system WAS an arcade in your home. With a converter, you can literally buy the arcade versions of games, and play them on your Neo Geo AES console. It was much more expensive than it's competitors, but was leaps and bounds ahead of any other 16-bit system when it launched in 1990.
I love SNK so much. With all of these great games with amazing graphics and gameplay to match, I'm surprised they didn't take over the Industry.
this was a pretty good list but where were all the fighting games?
Sorry, I forgot them. I must have drowned them out with all the RPGs I put on the list....
Were the graphics/audio in the NEO GEO console the same as the NEO GEO arcade?
Yeah
Sarcasm detected.
Clearly you didn't watch the video before commenting.
wow man...made my life..
Nice one Subscribed...Keep'em comin....
holy shit. good call on sf3 3rd strike. fav fighter of all time. played it at some awesome arcade at the beach when i was like 14. first game played on my mame cab........
Here we have 35 minutes of fighters and shmups.
And platformers, and run&gunners, and sports, and puzzlers, and racing.
what u spent? this is neogeo not genesis
@@Juganawt These games were relegated to the honourable mentions. In fact I can't even remember if Mutation Nation was mentioned at all.
The baseball game looks so much fun,
I have invested some time into the full collection of neo geo games and have to agree my list is pretty close to yours.
Awesome list, loved it :)
KOF 02 was my second kof game i played (03 was first but it looked not right) but man KOF 2002 was my childhood played it every time i could
Top Hunter and double dragon did not make it to your list I see, but 20 of 400055030123 existing king of fighters gmaes did, waw!!
Magician Lord is up there for me.
WONDERFUL VIDEO!!! I REALLY ENJOYED IT AND LOOK FORWARD TO PLAYING THESE GAMES.
Nice list man. I think AOF2 & KOF '95 AI's are too damn cheap to be fun. In my opinion Real Bout Special should be about 25 places higher! The fluidity of gameplay is nailed and they kept the excellent FF3 music and roster. AOF1 feels like a Van Damme movie and should make the top 20, as should 2020 super baseball for encapsulating the Neo Geo futuristic arcade aesthetic perfectly. KOF '94 and the first Fatal Fury should be in there for solid, tactical one-on-one gameplay and excellent presentation & music too. King of the Monsters 1, Savage Reign, World Heroes 1 & Perfect are a good time as is Sengoku 1...
ravenlondon Correct I was Playing AOF2 AI was Cheating Couldnt pull off moves to slow
I didn't realize Neo Geo has so many interesting games I bought a couple of them on the Xbox Live store hopefully these will come on board as well later
Nothing like the face of WTF? of a friend when you pick Omega rugal and kick ass xD
this probably has one of the coolest libraries in gaming what the heck
I downIoaded Neo Geo Rage on my computer. Where it's basicaIIy a Neo Geo emuIator with over 200 SNK games on it. I've pIayed so many of these games you mentioned and they're aII awesome. If the Neo Geo wasn't so expensive in the states, there's no reason why the NEo Geo couIdn't have competed with consoIes out at the time. Ahead of its time as far as I'm concerned, awesome video by the way homie.
rom carts for 16megs was like $60, now imagine the costs of 100 to 300 meg carts! games priced at 250 to 500 for 1 game was just too much for neo geo to be in every home
Great video. I like that you had Zedblade in there. But sad you didnt like Viewpoint or Last Resort enough to put them in your top 50.
I do agree with the baseball game # 14 for the most part. But there were some Japanese exclusives on the super famicom that were outstanding and incredibly fun as well. And let not forget about kg jr
the best top video on the net
Nice video. The best game on the Neo Geo was never released, but it would have been 'Battle Arena 2Dinden" lol
I swear I’ve watched this video about 50 times now.
Top 50 king of fighters games!
Hey! Like 12 of them were Fatal Fury.
There's only less than 50 KOF games.
garou TOP Mode make your character deal more damage, regen health, faster meter build up and new special move by pressing LK+HP
Hi! Im a little bit dissapointed because there is no Aggresors of Dark Kombat game. I think that game deserves to be in this list or at least at honorable mentions ;) greetings!
Best retro intro
King of the Monsters, Magician Lord, Ninja Combat, World Heroes, Metal Slug Series, Shock Troopers these I play the most But I’ll tell you Neo Geo they made Fabulous Games For the Arcades even though they didn’t sell well for home use.
Alpha Mission 2 my No 1
Just got a pl image you set me straight for NeoGeo thanks!
*Just the into deserves a thumbs up!*
I love the honorable mentions! Did you include every Neo Geo game?
Creative Cat Productions no. There are around 160 games overall for the system, so I covered about half of them.
Juganawt that’s still an amazing percentage! The neo geo seems to have a very high percentage of quality titles for such a small library
Street Hoop, Turf Masters and Fatal Fury Real Bout are my favorites.
It's one of those few systems where nearly every single game on the system is well worth playing. There are only a handful of titles I played that I didn't enjoy during going through the entire catalog during my 25 hour recording session.
i want a neo geo but they are so darn expensive
Yep, some of the games for the home based system can run you THOUSANDS. However, it's better value to buy the arcade game cartridges and a converter to run them on an AES system. You can also buy an arcade multi cart with pretty much every Neo Geo game in the library included for about £100 / $120.
That's a good deal, considering that every Neo Geo cart that was made was worth $50-100 at the time.
SK8VINTAGE you can download an emulator on playstore and download also the rom
Just emulate boy,, even your smarthphone can emulate neo geo this days....
Just buy an snes classic and hack it
Oh gawds my eyes they burn , they burn, they burn it's like staring into the sun , it's to awesome for words
very good video, seen a lot of interesting titles in this list, did you use MAME to play them?
No. Mame isn't fully accurate. It doesn't seem to cope well with some visual effects on several games..
I cant tell the difference between mame and the original neo geo carts/arcade
Best emulator ever: FBNeo
I kinda wish you didn't put Magical Drop as honorable mentions
The Last Blade, Blazing Star Metal Slug and the Last Resord are really excellent game and whoever Akade Games Mag does not miss neo geo. In my opinion the best 16 bit system there is. Just what they got out of the hardware at Blasing Star and then the awesome gameplay, a very nice soundtrack and a beautiful graphics, one of the nicest games I ever played on a console that I owned. I regret to this day, out of financial need to sell my Neo Geo systems.
P.S: Garou: Mark of the Wolves was not better than most of the KOF games, even though it looked amazing and was interesting to see at the time (I remember struggling to actually DOWNLOAD all the .zip files with my 56 k modem and downloading different BIOS files to make it even run on NeoRageX ... I was thrilled to see it running when it did). Garou wouldn't beat most of the Samurai Shodown games either. But oh well, it's your ranking and video. Salute !
Nice list! I am a bit surprise however that you did not mention Mutation Nation, even on the honorable mention.
+msk33 it surprised me too. I fully expected it to be as fun a game as I remembered it being, but it hasn’t aged well, and I found myself getting bored rather quickly
I love the Neo Geo... The only thing I don't like of this console is that the 80% of the games are beat em ups games. I like games like art of fighting, or kof, but for me there are too many...
Art Of Fighting 1 + 2 💛💙💜
AOF1 is boss.
AOF2 is an improvement but the gameplay feels less brutal and more slippery.
Honestly the only Neo Geo stuff I've played was the Metal Slug series, and they were only ports on other systems. Now I have the chance to check out the best games through the power of emulation. There sure are a lot of fighting games! Sheesh! xD I already tried out Art of Fighting 2 and Neo Drift Out. Pretty awesome games I wish I had played back in the day.
The entire Garou Densetsu series is in this list, as it should be.
Well I'll be starting my Neo Geo emulation this week then! Jug, as you listed a great number of Fatal Fury / King of Fighters games, would you recommend I play them all, or can I skip straight to the later games?
+The Game Show each game has its own overarching style, as well as its own fighting systems and mechanics. If you're a fighting game fan, then it's absolutely worth checking out each version of the games, as they are all different to each other in many ways. If you're not a fighting fan, play Fatal Fury: King Of Fighters, Fatal Fury Special, KOF94, KOF 98, KOF 2002, KOF 2003, and then Garou Mark of the wolves, to get a good overview of the FF/KOF series
Great reply, thanks. I would classify myself as a casual fighting game fan. I can throw hands in any version of Street Fighter and I dabble in a couple of other franchises. I picked up Fatal Fury 3 recently for PC and I've never played anything from this series, despite the acclaim.
There's one other thing Nightmare in the Dark has Tumblepop and Diet GoGo! Don't.......hit points. 3 hits and game over!
Hows the intro lol that made my day man!!!!
I love Real Bout 1 and I'm surprised that I don't see any World Heroes on your 1-50 list
That intro was...something to say the least...
Great content was lucky to have played some of these titles.
that was the longest "FEW" mentions lol
The introduction to your video I thought was a little odd and hilarious at the same time
Someone put a full list please
I remember a side scrolling zombie beat em up where you could choose to fight as a female ninja who used a scroll to kill zombies, a martial artist who used some kind of crystal and a cyborg with robotic arms to killed zombies with electricity. Does anybody remember the name of this one? I loved playing it.
Night Slashers
Aaaaah, the seizure inducing memories.
I would like to see a top50 for the Virtual Boy
Very nice games list! + 1 signed up
Holy shit, the last blade 2, metal slug, fatal fury 4... these games look incredible. And that's coming from someone who never really liked Contra and Street Fighter.
I've been extremely fortunate to be able to buy many of these at 10 AUD a pop for my switch. Hamster has done an incredible job with the (emulation)? porting. They also added an extra wide mode.. but it's not a pixel stretching widescreen.. it's just a bit wider than the original 4:3 and adds *back* the original info that was cut out for television screens back then. They really must have a close relationship with SNK.
Seeing this list though, there is some stuff I would absolutely love that I don't have access to yet, so I hope hamster gets the OK to port : Eightman, Zed Blade, Drift Out & Ninja Commando basically, which all look awesome to me.. Also just grabbed shock troopers 2, Mutation Nation & 1945 plus. Can't wait to play through them all. This is the era to me when gaming was FUN. PS I found blazing star brutal LOL.
Aside from the 2 very first Hamster conversions (which had slowdown in places where there shouldn't be any), the rest of the ACA Neo Geo emulation packages are fantastic for both the Switch and Xbox One. They're typically pretty easy to get achievements on quite rapidly as well, for the achievement whores amongst us!
I've been steadily growing my collection. I have about 20 of them on my Xbox so far, but I'm still waiting for some of the big hitters to get released.
Which ones have slowdown? I noticed my metal slug 3,4,5 and X all have periodic slowdown.. But i did some research and it seems to happen on the real thing too.. This is where I wish Hamster would offer a simple overclock option.. I mean it IS 2019 after all! But which ones have it that shouldn't? So i can avoid the if not too late. I have the SNK arcade collection volume 1 on my PSP so i didn't re buy any of those games as I played through them all anyway and the one on one fighters on that were far from the best the neo geo had to offer. Magician Lord was BRUTAL lol.@@Juganawt
@@teddym2808 The two I had slight issues with slowdown on were Neo Turf Masters (which has been improved with a patch - before the patch, the game would skip frames to keep the speed up), and World Heroes, which suffered bad slowdown before a patch was implemented as well.
Je me souviens de cette console avec une manette de jeu aussi grosse que la console,
Et surtout du prix exorbitant des jeux elle était considéré comme une véritable Rolls Royce,
Devenue de nos jours une console de collection.