Love these articles so much and I just love learning about all these systems that obsessed me as a child.
I remember being obsessed with this system, too. It was more like a legend than a system. Everyone knew someone that knows someone with a Neo Geo. It was never within my reach to play one. A $600 system with $200 games in the 90s? But they were all arcade-level and only the richest kid (or kid whose parents were competing after a messy divorce) had one.