Making us pick only one? Oh man...for me it's gotta be Garou: Mark of The Wolves simply because that lived in my MVS 2 Slot machine for so long. Second pick would be Neo Turf Masters, the other one that stayed in my machine a long time.
Best games for me: Garou, Neo Turf Masters, KOF 2002, RBFF2, Last Blade 1, Ba-Ba-baseball Baseball Stars 2, probably others, but definitely not Legend of Success Joe.
I'm going to be so depressed if you ever stop Joe. So many days when I felt down or just low I would binge watch episodes. I'll never out grow my love for the pixels and music from my fav 8 and 16 bit games. This channel turned me on to T16 and Neo Geo games. So many game tracks stuck in my head for life. This chan is my fav for reliving those wonderful days.
I love this channel for numerous reason, not the least of wich is the comment section....Joe's built a heck of a community ...don't think I've ever come across any serious arguments here, other than console war related lol...
IronClad was actually originally going to be an MVS/AES game, with prototype roms existing, but said release was cancelled and development shifted to the CD. In fact, the Wii VC release of Ironclad is based on the unreleased prototype!
Because of bad advertising, all friends were blown away when I showed them the actual graphics & games. But it was affordable compared to the Neo Geo. I couldn’t even afford one game back in the days. It was a price of one or two consoles.😅 I still have some old video game magazines with marked price offers inside. A never ending wishlist. ^^
Might not have helped that it was expensive as hell to buy games for it. Luckily emulation exists nowadays and I can just have the entire NEGEO library on my Xbox.
People were only drawn to the NeoGeo because they loved the idea of having literal arcade games in their homes. That's it. Game-wise, the early batch of NeoGeo games were average at best. In 1990 / 1991, people were going wild for SF2, The Simpsons, Turtles, X-Men, and Wrestlefest. People realised that if they did shell out for a NeoGeo then they'd be at the mercy of SNK, and instead of getting to play the massive arcade hits by Capcom, Konami and Sega, we'd be getting unpolished, stiff turds from SNK.
Since you asked, Joe, I did watch this in one sitting but skipped over some fatal fury/samsho/metal slug as I have collections on other platforms. Bravo as always for showing the entire library on actual hardware.
me too. i consider metal slug as the most beautiful and detailed pixel art game ever made. such a shame they went crap on metal slug 6.. the backgrounds looks like a diarrhea
Neo Geo MVS and Capcom CPS-1 games are the pinnacle of 2D arcade goodness. I just love the color and detailed graphics of these games. Some of my favorites Neo Geo games are Shock Troopers, Metal Slug Series, Samurai Shodown II, Crossed Swords II, and Real Bout Fatal Fury Special. I didn't think I would watch this episode in one sitting, but I sat here with a couple cups of coffee on the couch and made it! Great episode!
I really love the 2D graphics of the Neo Geo, and it bums me out that the bulk of the systems games were fighters and beat em ups. I'd love to see a fully fleshed out RPG/Action RPG world using the Neo Geo's hardware because damn, those are some beautiful pixels.
Matrimelee is actually a part of the Power Instinct series, in fact the game is known in Japan as Goketsuji Ichizoku Bonnou Kaihou. Edit: I accidentally put the PS2 port's name, its actually Shin Gouketsuji Ichizoku Toukon on the Neo-Geo.
Ahhh I thought i recognised the old grandma type characters. Isn't it also related to rage of the dragons also on neogeo - yes I know its like a lost double dragon license also as jimmy and 'bimmy' are the main characters.
Funny I just thought I hadn’t seen Sack in awhile, looked it up and checked videos, saw the last one was 13 days ago, thought “I bet he releases one overnight”. That was about 30 seconds ago.
@@QF_Dan72wow. How incredibly needy and lacking foresight of you. Higher quality videos take so much time to edit. But of course you wouldn't understand that. You're a baby and baby wants his ba-ba every 7 days or baby throws a tantrum. Baby angwee. Baby cwy. Boo hoo. Boo hoo hoo. Baby piss in dideys. Den baby mow angwee !
Neo Geo's color palette is incredible...Love the color, impressed by the animation, drooling over pre-rendered graphis---extremely awesome speed in which these games play. This is what I wanted to see from sega cd and sega 32x games. Super fast as well as vibrant. CD Sound along with scaling and rotation--but with this type of flare!
Real Bout Fatal Fury Special is still my fave game on the system. Thanks for covering all the legit Neo Geo games on this episode. So many amazing memories
you know, there's a channel I follow that's been slowly giving more elaborate reviews and ranking each game chronologically, and you go and do it all in one video. what an over-achiever you are, Joe!
Thanks for covering the whole NeoGeo library and updating me on some recommendations! I know most of them have been ported to Switch and Playstation 4 by Hamster Co. under the Arcade Archive series. I think there's just over 100 on the Switch, since they've released one per week over the course of two years. So I think if getting an actual NeoGeo with individual games is too much hassle, then this method is the way to go since it's cheaper, doesn't require old hardware and can be played on the go if you buy them on the Switch.
I miss Dave! Kidnap him if you have to and hold him hostage lol. It’s like cheers after Diane left still great but just not the same. Joes still killing it though.
It is impressive how huge some of these games were for the cartridge format. Some of them were ten to twenty times the capacity of SNES and Sega games of the time. Of course they were crazy expensive so nobody I knew ever had them in the 90s, but oh well.
A truly epic undertaking, sir! I'm in my early 40s and the Neo Geo has always been mysterious in a way, even though I can emulate all of it, it's nice to see this rundown on the catalog. I truly feel like I accomplished something by watching this video. A humbling sense of closure, as stupid as it sounds, it is. Thank you for your hard work!
Neo Turf Masters will forever be one of my favorite Arcade games. My god is that game fun! I still play it to this day & there's a Facebook group dedicated to Tournaments that happen seasonally where you simply have to take a screenshot of your best score each week, with each week being dedicated to one of the four courses. It's super fun & I definitely suggest fans of the game to check it out!
Nice and long video, thanks. Two things : - the first Breakers exist actually on the AES and it is rare. It is the second one which is an MVS exclusive. - The Chibi Maruko Chan Quizz is not an exclusive MVS game but exists also on the AES. It is one of the rarest game of the system with Metal Slug one and can cost something like 15 000 euros if mint condition !!!
This information might be holdovers from when this was a North American-focused episode that I didn't change after I decided to cover all games. Where they released on the AES in North America?
@@GameSack Both games were only released in Japan in small number, which is why they are rare (january 1996 for Chibi and march 1997 for Breakers) It is easily understable for the obscur anime quizz game Chibi Maruko Chan which was not suited for the western audience. For Breakers, it was out pretty late at the end of the machine lifespan, and by this time, most third-party editor games were not released anymore in western countries. Visco rights were bought out since 2017 by Joshprod/PixelHeart/Colombus Circles to released the game again « officially » on AES(technically, it is still a convert thought), Dreamcast and an AES version of Breakers Revenge.
You need to give Sengoku 3 another chance. The combo system is amazing. You need to combine normal attacks with special attacks and you can basically finish enemies without letting them touch the ground. Each character has a lot of different things you can play with.
Blue's Journey/Raguy is a very decent platformer, cheerful music, cute story, maybe the inspiration behind mini mario? I've played through the game's routes multiple times. Magician Lord is a little dragged down by spamming you with bullet shooting enemies and a lot more masochistic hit detection with no hit cooldown whatsoever, meaning a single enemy is capable of hitting you over and over until you die but I can get through a few levels on memory alone. Still, it's so visually impressive and the music is so good I see why it was picked as the pack in title. Out of the two ADK platformers, I'd say play both but expect Magician Lord to kick your butt.
I appreciate how long it must have taken record game play from so many games. Even if you are using footage from previous shows you still needed to save it and and find it for this one. Keep up the good work, if you want to. I got through this in one sitting.
Fantastic episode, Joe! I remember back in the day we all lusted after a Neo Geo AES! We all had Sega Megadrives or SNES; no-one had an AES. I would lust after the games in magazines like Gamesmaster and Edge. I knew they were too expensive for me to ever afford, but the Neo Geo CD was the answer! My parents bought me one for Chrsitmas and I utterly loved it! Sure, some of the loading times were annoying, but it was a small price to pay for me to play Neo Geo. Once I got a job I could afford an AES and bought lots of games; thankfully quite a few of the better games were quite cheap. Which reminds me, since I haven't played it in over a decade, I should check which ones I have and their current prices! Ended up buying a consolized 1-slot MVS as well. There was somethig special about MVS carts - they were often a bit battered, half a label, slightly off-colour and smelt funny, but the fact that they could, or possibly did, get played in an actual arcade made them so special to me! I played games like Metal Slug on MVS since it was waaay cheaper than AES. My favourite games include: Viewpoint (amazing music), World Heroes (played it to death in the arcades when on holiday in North Wales), Samurai Shodown, Top Hunter, Baseball Stars 2, and the Metal Slug games.
I watched it in one sitting Joe. Believe it or not a good number of your fans can get through an entire Console Crunch in one sitting as well. Yes, we have no life and have no friends, but we do have Game Sack.
The Neo Geo blew my mind the first time I came across a two slot cabinet with Magician Lord and Fatal Fury. I found another cab at the mall with Super Spy and Nam 1975. The arcades all closed in my area before the Metal Slugs and later games came out. I have a 2 slot cabinet now with a few original carts and a multi cart. Good times :)
I agree with a few other folks here in the comments section regarding the lack of music in The Last Blade and its sequel. I love the ambient noises because it makes the games feel kinda artsy fartsy. This seems like it was a deliberate choice by the developers rather than a way for them to cut corners. IMO those titles are up their with Mark of the Wolves for best fighting on the Neo Geo.
Joe this is just awesome. You always surpass yourself. I'm a huge fan of neogeo (had one back in the days with mutation nation, samurai spirits and aerofighters 2)and literally consumed it. But I drooled over every single game. The arcade feel was, and still is, totally unmatched. Awesome ride, I enjoyed every bit of it.
Got through this in one viewing; my nostalgic familiarity assisted with that. This console initially had a ton of wow factor but the lack of substance and diversity in genres across the software made it a very poor value proposition for the asking price. Magician Lord and Pulstar are probably my top games for the platform; some of the most absolute top-shelf of the fighting games also stand out. The remainder of the fighting games become very paint-by-numbers, lost in the shuffle, and there were way too many of them to learn and invest meaningful time into. Excellent video overview of the software library.
It's crazy to believe the last Neo-Geo game ever released is Samurai Shodown V Perfect which came out 20 years after the console ceased production. It's fitting and a sweet swan song given that Samurai Shodown started the NeoGeo really
This is possibly the most enjoyable video for the Neo Geo I have watched! Thanks for the effort on this. Long term viewer who loves the humour and the polished editing and writing. Just superb.
I remember seeing a Neo Geo system in a toy store in London when it was released, was blown away by the graphics and sound. I've got all these games on the Super Console X, but it's not the same.... just cheaper!
Meanwhile I'm just emulating em on my Xbox via RetroArch. But with the right shaders, bezel images, and an arcade stick...it's still pretty damn fun. Not the same as real hardware or playing in an arcade, but fun and, ya know, free.
I still have trouble believing Garou Mark of the Wolves and Last Blade 2 run on the same hardware as Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting. Speaking of Garou, I took your advice and went to my local thrift shop to pick up a copy for $5, but they wanted 12 whole dollars for it! And they say thrift stores are cheap, sheesh!
SAME, Also the crazy thing is how huge their fighting game rosters especially as well as K.O.F. would get on that very same system that released in 1990.
I notice you talk about "not knowing how to balance a game" for some of the fighting games (Art of Fighting 2 and Fatal Fury 2). The AI is balanced, but in a way to get money from their players because the AI reads your inputs and performs the best counter every time.
If I was an huge Neo geo fan I would be upset with all the inaccuracies,breakers and chibi quiz(I skipped a lot of the video,I imagine there’s others you got wrong)did came out on aes and the way you talk about some masterpieces like Last Resort as average…uau. …and money puzzle exchange it’s a marvellous game.
You have no idea how excited I was when I found out my Vita could play all Neo Geo games. Thanks for doing this list, I really appreciate it. And if you mean multiple viewings as in I watched the entire thing multiple times, you're right on bro!
I am so glad the algorithm introduced your channel to me. I watched this entire video despite only playing a handful of these games. You have definitely introduced me to many more games I plan to play later!
This whole system and the games just strikes me as mediocre. The impressive graphics and power of the console was the selling point but it’s not a system I’d choose to spend much time with over other consoles.
I just realized how nice the breaks are between groups of games when you give an overview of what was shown and what is coming up. Always liked it but didn't appreciate why. Many game videos can get a bit monotonous when game after game paired with a narrator are shown. Love your stuff.
You will notice that the graphics become better as the MEG size increases. With anything below 50 Megs looking almost similar to a SNES/Genesis game. Having said that, it would probably be better if you showed these games by release date, from oldest to newest.
My friend and I beat Strikers 1945 with three coins in the arcade (I used two, he one). I gave up on shoot em ups after that, I had reached the top and it was lonely up there. These videos are great, it must take forever to make them.
WOW!! This is massive!! I remember when the Neo Geo broke into the videogame market with both the home console and the arcade multigame cabinet. Presented as a next gen gaming machine, it actually was an hi-octane 16 bits one. The early games like Cyber Lip, Sengoku, Burning Fight, Magician Lord, Nam 1975 were kind of cool but it wasn't until later on that we got games really showing the capabilities of the SNK behemoth. Great episode, Joe! Keep up the good work!!
Neo Geo's were super expensive where I live in England, there was only one shop in town who sold one. The artwork on the box with all the sharp colours looked awesome, just a shame I could afford one at the time. It's a highly underrated gaming system that doesn't get enough praise. Glad you're spreading the word.
I remember being 8 or 9 years old and saving money from recycling aluminum cans, pulling weeds, raking grass, baling hay, etc., to buy a NeoGeo after seeing it on Video Power or some show like that. I saved up over $500 and I think that still wasn't enough. I had no idea how much the games would cost, so I kind of dodged a bullet, but I sure wish I had one now!
It’s such a great system with loads of excellent games. Awesome upload as always:) I have a few MVS carts and a CMVS system and really enjoy what I have, too bad prices are risen so much I can’t really justify buying more games but have some choice titles, Windjammers and Shock Troopers being my two favourites.
What's your favorite Neo Geo game? Why do you like that one the most? Do you have a least favorite? What makes it worse than the rest?
Making us pick only one? Oh man...for me it's gotta be Garou: Mark of The Wolves simply because that lived in my MVS 2 Slot machine for so long. Second pick would be Neo Turf Masters, the other one that stayed in my machine a long time.
Best games for me: Garou, Neo Turf Masters, KOF 2002, RBFF2, Last Blade 1, Ba-Ba-baseball Baseball Stars 2, probably others, but definitely not Legend of Success Joe.
Shock Troopers
I like the samurai showdown series, back in the day it was so different from street fighter
Garou Mark of the Wolves is peak SNK.
Neo Geo games are so gorgeous, that they almost have a timeless quality to them.
I agree. Good 2D ages so well.
Always happy to see a new Game Sack release. Keep killing it, man.
Just watched your wow retrospective. Man those N64 games were great. Keep up the good work.
Hey, Ian!
You're a Sacker, too?!
Damn, lol, small world
I’m always sad when it is an “off” weekend with no new Game Sack episode. My Sunday morning is incomplete without a new Game Sack.
@616Entertainment I’m a Dan Dan!
Oh wow, this is going to be a hell of an episode. Neo Geo is a very good system. Over an hour of Game Sack; you've outdone yourself Joe.
I'm going to be so depressed if you ever stop Joe. So many days when I felt down or just low I would binge watch episodes. I'll never out grow my love for the pixels and music from my fav 8 and 16 bit games. This channel turned me on to T16 and Neo Geo games. So many game tracks stuck in my head for life. This chan is my fav for reliving those wonderful days.
Go outside.
@@ih7729 Did that once, sucked because there were people.
@@ih7729 LOL
@@jivesamba7264 More LOL and I agree!! 😆
I love this channel for numerous reason, not the least of wich is the comment section....Joe's built a heck of a community ...don't think I've ever come across any serious arguments here, other than console war related lol...
IronClad was actually originally going to be an MVS/AES game, with prototype roms existing, but said release was cancelled and development shifted to the CD. In fact, the Wii VC release of Ironclad is based on the unreleased prototype!
All four CD exclusives were going to be regular MVS releases.
Ionclit?
@@MagmaMKII Bushido Retsuden being the exception.
Also Crossed Swords 2 exist in MVS form as a bootleg
The Neo Geo was like a Megalodon: an awesome creature that existed in a time we could not really appreciate it for what it was.
Just like the Dreamcast.
Because of bad advertising, all friends were blown away when I showed them the actual graphics & games. But it was affordable compared to the Neo Geo. I couldn’t even afford one game back in the days. It was a price of one or two consoles.😅 I still have some old video game magazines with marked price offers inside. A never ending wishlist. ^^
Might not have helped that it was expensive as hell to buy games for it.
Luckily emulation exists nowadays and I can just have the entire NEGEO library on my Xbox.
People were only drawn to the NeoGeo because they loved the idea of having literal arcade games in their homes. That's it. Game-wise, the early batch of NeoGeo games were average at best. In 1990 / 1991, people were going wild for SF2, The Simpsons, Turtles, X-Men, and Wrestlefest. People realised that if they did shell out for a NeoGeo then they'd be at the mercy of SNK, and instead of getting to play the massive arcade hits by Capcom, Konami and Sega, we'd be getting unpolished, stiff turds from SNK.
I could not appreciate it becus it was sooo expensive and in my home town there literaly was only one single gameshop that sold it
2:45 - "The capitol was destroyed, but hey, what can you do?" Dolphin giving zero craps over international terrorism.
Dolphins, no sense of right or wrong lol
Since you asked, Joe, I did watch this in one sitting but skipped over some fatal fury/samsho/metal slug as I have collections on other platforms. Bravo as always for showing the entire library on actual hardware.
is this on actual hardware? that must have cost tens of thousands of dollars
I'm a big Metal Slug fan.
This must have taken an insane amount of work. Nice job, Joe.
me too. i consider metal slug as the most beautiful and detailed pixel art game ever made. such a shame they went crap on metal slug 6.. the backgrounds looks like a diarrhea
Garou Mark of The Wolves forever
go grab it for $5
Right next to the 200 bulk Pokemon cards listed for $49.99!
Yea
Neo Geo MVS and Capcom CPS-1 games are the pinnacle of 2D arcade goodness. I just love the color and detailed graphics of these games.
Some of my favorites Neo Geo games are Shock Troopers, Metal Slug Series, Samurai Shodown II, Crossed Swords II, and Real Bout Fatal Fury Special.
I didn't think I would watch this episode in one sitting, but I sat here with a couple cups of coffee on the couch and made it! Great episode!
I really love the 2D graphics of the Neo Geo, and it bums me out that the bulk of the systems games were fighters and beat em ups. I'd love to see a fully fleshed out RPG/Action RPG world using the Neo Geo's hardware because damn, those are some beautiful pixels.
The main problem witht hat is that wouldn't do well in an arcade. We got Samurai Shodown RPG on the CD though.
Is there a NeoGeo homebrew scene?
Love seeing a new GameSack video uploaded. Been watching for over a decade and your work always impresses!
Matrimelee is actually a part of the Power Instinct series, in fact the game is known in Japan as Goketsuji Ichizoku Bonnou Kaihou.
Edit: I accidentally put the PS2 port's name, its actually Shin Gouketsuji Ichizoku Toukon on the Neo-Geo.
Yeah, I was surprised Joe didn't mention this. I think it's Power Instinct 4 with Groove On for the Saturn/ST-V being part 3.
Ahhh I thought i recognised the old grandma type characters.
Isn't it also related to rage of the dragons also on neogeo - yes I know its like a lost double dragon license also as jimmy and 'bimmy' are the main characters.
@@orderofmagnitude-TPATP bimmy is the AVGN
@@teen_laqueefa "BEEE 50 2 BOMBERRR"
The system everyone wanted but no one could afford. The graphics still hold up pretty damn well.
I had one. Saved up for an entire summer-Christmas one year to get it.
"The capital was destroyed...but hey, what can ya do?"
~A flying dolphin
Funny I just thought I hadn’t seen Sack in awhile, looked it up and checked videos, saw the last one was 13 days ago, thought “I bet he releases one overnight”. That was about 30 seconds ago.
I remember back when Game Sack upload new episodes each week
@@QF_Dan72wow. How incredibly needy and lacking foresight of you.
Higher quality videos take so much time to edit.
But of course you wouldn't understand that.
You're a baby and baby wants his ba-ba every 7 days or baby throws a tantrum.
Baby angwee. Baby cwy. Boo hoo. Boo hoo hoo. Baby piss in dideys. Den baby mow angwee !
I see sack every time I take a shower, it's nothing special.
Neo Geo's color palette is incredible...Love the color, impressed by the animation, drooling over pre-rendered graphis---extremely awesome speed in which these games play.
This is what I wanted to see from sega cd and sega 32x games. Super fast as well as vibrant. CD Sound along with scaling and rotation--but with this type of flare!
Real Bout Fatal Fury Special is still my fave game on the system.
Thanks for covering all the legit Neo Geo games on this episode. So many amazing memories
It's great and definitely one of the top fighting games on the system!
@@andrewglazier8940agreed! 😊
you know, there's a channel I follow that's been slowly giving more elaborate reviews and ranking each game chronologically, and you go and do it all in one video. what an over-achiever you are, Joe!
Sounds cool, what channel is that?
Are you referring to Basement Brothers by any chance?
Thanks for covering the whole NeoGeo library and updating me on some recommendations! I know most of them have been ported to Switch and Playstation 4 by Hamster Co. under the Arcade Archive series. I think there's just over 100 on the Switch, since they've released one per week over the course of two years. So I think if getting an actual NeoGeo with individual games is too much hassle, then this method is the way to go since it's cheaper, doesn't require old hardware and can be played on the go if you buy them on the Switch.
Zupapa is one of my favorite games for that system. Thanks for doing this Joe. Very much appreciated.
Amazing, your hard work shows. Keep up the good work, love your content
I miss Dave! Kidnap him if you have to and hold him hostage lol. It’s like cheers after Diane left still great but just not the same. Joes still killing it though.
Dave was the Diane Chambers of Game Sack
Been on a NEO GEO binge lately! this is AWESOME!
DUDE!!! SAME HERE!
Love how you showed the amount of MEGA POWER for each game.
It is impressive how huge some of these games were for the cartridge format. Some of them were ten to twenty times the capacity of SNES and Sega games of the time. Of course they were crazy expensive so nobody I knew ever had them in the 90s, but oh well.
Game sack is like a warm cozy blanket on a cold day. Just feels sooooo good.
Started my morning with coffee and Game Sack, went to work, then finished my day with a beer and Game Sack. thanks Joe!
A truly epic undertaking, sir! I'm in my early 40s and the Neo Geo has always been mysterious in a way, even though I can emulate all of it, it's nice to see this rundown on the catalog. I truly feel like I accomplished something by watching this video. A humbling sense of closure, as stupid as it sounds, it is.
Thank you for your hard work!
Watched it all in one sitting, and enjoyed every second! 👍
Neo Turf Masters will forever be one of my favorite Arcade games. My god is that game fun! I still play it to this day & there's a Facebook group dedicated to Tournaments that happen seasonally where you simply have to take a screenshot of your best score each week, with each week being dedicated to one of the four courses. It's super fun & I definitely suggest fans of the game to check it out!
The tongue-in-cheek humor is strong with this one! I enjoyed!
Fun fact. Owning every Neo Geo game new would be more expensive then the GDP of several nations
Thank you for overlaying the MEGA POWER with each game
Nice and long video, thanks.
Two things :
- the first Breakers exist actually on the AES and it is rare. It is the second one which is an MVS exclusive.
- The Chibi Maruko Chan Quizz is not an exclusive MVS game but exists also on the AES. It is one of the rarest game of the system with Metal Slug one and can cost something like 15 000 euros if mint condition !!!
This information might be holdovers from when this was a North American-focused episode that I didn't change after I decided to cover all games. Where they released on the AES in North America?
@@GameSack Breakers also is on Neo Geo CD. Great episode!
@@GameSack
Both games were only released in Japan in small number, which is why they are rare (january 1996 for Chibi and march 1997 for Breakers)
It is easily understable for the obscur anime quizz game Chibi Maruko Chan which was not suited for the western audience.
For Breakers, it was out pretty late at the end of the machine lifespan, and by this time, most third-party editor games were not released anymore in western countries.
Visco rights were bought out since 2017 by Joshprod/PixelHeart/Colombus Circles to released the game again « officially » on AES(technically, it is still a convert thought), Dreamcast and an AES version of Breakers Revenge.
@@Bubblun1 Yes I hadn't planned on covering Neo CD games either. So, my bad on not updating everything.
You need to give Sengoku 3 another chance. The combo system is amazing. You need to combine normal attacks with special attacks and you can basically finish enemies without letting them touch the ground. Each character has a lot of different things you can play with.
Blue's Journey/Raguy is a very decent platformer, cheerful music, cute story, maybe the inspiration behind mini mario? I've played through the game's routes multiple times. Magician Lord is a little dragged down by spamming you with bullet shooting enemies and a lot more masochistic hit detection with no hit cooldown whatsoever, meaning a single enemy is capable of hitting you over and over until you die but I can get through a few levels on memory alone. Still, it's so visually impressive and the music is so good I see why it was picked as the pack in title. Out of the two ADK platformers, I'd say play both but expect Magician Lord to kick your butt.
Easily one of the best gaming channels on youtube. Always glad to watch a new game sack
It’s amazing how Metal Slug is still a graphics king.
I appreciate how long it must have taken record game play from so many games. Even if you are using footage from previous shows you still needed to save it and and find it for this one. Keep up the good work, if you want to. I got through this in one sitting.
I like how you put the "mega POWEEERRR" in the corner
One of the best episodes. Thank you Joe, looked like a lot of work.
Fantastic episode, Joe! I remember back in the day we all lusted after a Neo Geo AES! We all had Sega Megadrives or SNES; no-one had an AES. I would lust after the games in magazines like Gamesmaster and Edge. I knew they were too expensive for me to ever afford, but the Neo Geo CD was the answer! My parents bought me one for Chrsitmas and I utterly loved it! Sure, some of the loading times were annoying, but it was a small price to pay for me to play Neo Geo.
Once I got a job I could afford an AES and bought lots of games; thankfully quite a few of the better games were quite cheap. Which reminds me, since I haven't played it in over a decade, I should check which ones I have and their current prices!
Ended up buying a consolized 1-slot MVS as well. There was somethig special about MVS carts - they were often a bit battered, half a label, slightly off-colour and smelt funny, but the fact that they could, or possibly did, get played in an actual arcade made them so special to me! I played games like Metal Slug on MVS since it was waaay cheaper than AES.
My favourite games include: Viewpoint (amazing music), World Heroes (played it to death in the arcades when on holiday in North Wales), Samurai Shodown, Top Hunter, Baseball Stars 2, and the Metal Slug games.
I watched it in one sitting Joe. Believe it or not a good number of your fans can get through an entire Console Crunch in one sitting as well. Yes, we have no life and have no friends, but we do have Game Sack.
Thank you for your great content and amazing consistency.
The Neo Geo blew my mind the first time I came across a two slot cabinet with Magician Lord and Fatal Fury. I found another cab at the mall with Super Spy and Nam 1975. The arcades all closed in my area before the Metal Slugs and later games came out. I have a 2 slot cabinet now with a few original carts and a multi cart. Good times :)
Hell yeah, more than one hour of quality content!
You know you are a fan when you are excited to watch the new video at 2 am in the morning, after a long work day!
Just the video I needed today!
I was surprised to hear that you like the first Baseball Stars better than the second one.
I agree with a few other folks here in the comments section regarding the lack of music in The Last Blade and its sequel. I love the ambient noises because it makes the games feel kinda artsy fartsy. This seems like it was a deliberate choice by the developers rather than a way for them to cut corners.
IMO those titles are up their with Mark of the Wolves for best fighting on the Neo Geo.
Joe this is just awesome. You always surpass yourself. I'm a huge fan of neogeo (had one back in the days with mutation nation, samurai spirits and aerofighters 2)and literally consumed it. But I drooled over every single game. The arcade feel was, and still is, totally unmatched. Awesome ride, I enjoyed every bit of it.
You ate your Neo Geo!? 😲
@@pitmatix1457 you didn't?
Wow, what a task! Thanks Joe!
Epic episode Joe, the amount of effort in putting this all together is just mind blowing! Fantastic work. Thank you!
Can’t think of a better way to spend my Sunday morning than an hour of Neo Geo reviews.
Joe, you are a gaming & RUclips GOD!
I watched every Game Sack episode. It's my favorite channel by far. I love you Joe
Over an hour long. Thank you Joe. ❤️
Neo Geo was a criminally underrated system
It was never underrated, it was just very very expensive.
@@gfdggdfgdgf I agree it was quite successful on the arcades and some of its franchises are popular today, that's very far from underrated.
Looks like Joe did put his NeoSD Pro MVS cart like he said he would!
As a neo geo enthusiast, this for me if one of the best videos you’ve made.
Got through this in one viewing; my nostalgic familiarity assisted with that. This console initially had a ton of wow factor but the lack of substance and diversity in genres across the software made it a very poor value proposition for the asking price. Magician Lord and Pulstar are probably my top games for the platform; some of the most absolute top-shelf of the fighting games also stand out. The remainder of the fighting games become very paint-by-numbers, lost in the shuffle, and there were way too many of them to learn and invest meaningful time into. Excellent video overview of the software library.
'You're a clown who digs tunnels, collects items and avoids enemies' - the description of the modern man...
Why would I need multiple viewings? It was a pleasure to see the episode was over one hour long and a delight watching it. Keep it up, Joe!
Was always curious about the NG lineup. Great video. 👍🏼😎
It's crazy to believe the last Neo-Geo game ever released is Samurai Shodown V Perfect which came out 20 years after the console ceased production.
It's fitting and a sweet swan song given that Samurai Shodown started the NeoGeo really
My favourite gaming channel. Cheers Joe.
Super Dodge Ball for the neo Geo is criminally underrepresented in official releases.
Thank you so much for every single video you do and the countless hours of entertainment I also love the Neo Geo
Masterfully done, thank you so much Joe.
This is possibly the most enjoyable video for the Neo Geo I have watched! Thanks for the effort on this. Long term viewer who loves the humour and the polished editing and writing. Just superb.
I remember seeing a Neo Geo system in a toy store in London when it was released, was blown away by the graphics and sound.
I've got all these games on the Super Console X, but it's not the same.... just cheaper!
I love my Super Console X Pro. It's like Christmas every time I boot it up.
Meanwhile I'm just emulating em on my Xbox via RetroArch. But with the right shaders, bezel images, and an arcade stick...it's still pretty damn fun. Not the same as real hardware or playing in an arcade, but fun and, ya know, free.
Nice video!
Quiz chibi marukochan Deluxe is also on the AES by the way.
Fetches about the same price as metal slug 🎉
I still have trouble believing Garou Mark of the Wolves and Last Blade 2 run on the same hardware as Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting.
Speaking of Garou, I took your advice and went to my local thrift shop to pick up a copy for $5, but they wanted 12 whole dollars for it! And they say thrift stores are cheap, sheesh!
SAME, Also the crazy thing is how huge their fighting game rosters especially as well as K.O.F. would get on that very same system that released in 1990.
One of the biggest mistakes SNK made with the Neo Geo is not making Crystalis 2 for it.
Ty Joe,the Neo Geo was and is Special console.
I'm still too broke to own one. Thanks for the video guys!
I notice you talk about "not knowing how to balance a game" for some of the fighting games (Art of Fighting 2 and Fatal Fury 2). The AI is balanced, but in a way to get money from their players because the AI reads your inputs and performs the best counter every time.
Yeah, that is why i dislike most Fighting Games, it makes no sense on a Console. Give us an easy Mode and let Noobs have Fun :P
Excellent episode. I love the Neo Geo.
If I was an huge Neo geo fan I would be upset with all the inaccuracies,breakers and chibi quiz(I skipped a lot of the video,I imagine there’s others you got wrong)did came out on aes and the way you talk about some masterpieces like Last Resort as average…uau.
…and money puzzle exchange it’s a marvellous game.
You have no idea how excited I was when I found out my Vita could play all Neo Geo games.
Thanks for doing this list, I really appreciate it.
And if you mean multiple viewings as in I watched the entire thing multiple times, you're right on bro!
Unless the system creates a "new earth" whenever you turn it on, it's false advertising.
I am so glad the algorithm introduced your channel to me. I watched this entire video despite only playing a handful of these games. You have definitely introduced me to many more games I plan to play later!
This whole system and the games just strikes me as mediocre. The impressive graphics and power of the console was the selling point but it’s not a system I’d choose to spend much time with over other consoles.
To be fair, you're probably just not a fighting game fan. Neo Geo was a Mecca for fighting games
@@audiovisual51 true, but I don’t consider a console that’s good for only one genre to really be a success.
I love these long Sack videos.
Money Puzzle Exchanger is so good. I find myself coming back to it over and over.
Such an underrated game
Watched it in 5 sittings. Loved every second!
I just realized how nice the breaks are between groups of games when you give an overview of what was shown and what is coming up. Always liked it but didn't appreciate why.
Many game videos can get a bit monotonous when game after game paired with a narrator are shown. Love your stuff.
You will notice that the graphics become better as the MEG size increases. With anything below 50 Megs looking almost similar to a SNES/Genesis game. Having said that, it would probably be better if you showed these games by release date, from oldest to newest.
Thank you for blessing us with a super long video, now I don’t need to put on a movie before bed.
I love it that you like BASEBALL STARS 1, MAGICIAN LORD, NAM75, CYBERLIP and NEOTURF MASTERS !
This was the most epic gamesack video ever of course I watched it in one go this gave me an appreciation for the system
My friend and I beat Strikers 1945 with three coins in the arcade (I used two, he one). I gave up on shoot em ups after that, I had reached the top and it was lonely up there.
These videos are great, it must take forever to make them.
WOW!! This is massive!! I remember when the Neo Geo broke into the videogame market with both the home console and the arcade multigame cabinet. Presented as a next gen gaming machine, it actually was an hi-octane 16 bits one. The early games like Cyber Lip, Sengoku, Burning Fight, Magician Lord, Nam 1975 were kind of cool but it wasn't until later on that we got games really showing the capabilities of the SNK behemoth. Great episode, Joe! Keep up the good work!!
wow dude thanks for all the work that goes into each episode
Alright, I'm convinced. I'm going straight to my local Babbages to pick up a Neo Geo of my very own
Monumental job to review all those games Joe. You're a beast!
Neo Geo's were super expensive where I live in England, there was only one shop in town who sold one. The artwork on the box with all the sharp colours looked awesome, just a shame I could afford one at the time. It's a highly underrated gaming system that doesn't get enough praise. Glad you're spreading the word.
I remember being 8 or 9 years old and saving money from recycling aluminum cans, pulling weeds, raking grass, baling hay, etc., to buy a NeoGeo after seeing it on Video Power or some show like that. I saved up over $500 and I think that still wasn't enough. I had no idea how much the games would cost, so I kind of dodged a bullet, but I sure wish I had one now!
It’s such a great system with loads of excellent games. Awesome upload as always:) I have a few MVS carts and a CMVS system and really enjoy what I have, too bad prices are risen so much I can’t really justify buying more games but have some choice titles, Windjammers and Shock Troopers being my two favourites.
I too have MVS systems - great way to appreciate the real hardware 👍