Neo Geo System
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
But again, the art work is amazing, I'm more in love with this style than the latest GTA.
had always read about it, never seen it in motion, quite good!
It also hit at a very weird time in video-game history, the explosion of the fighting game. And SNK tried to completely monopolize and corner that market for years. In the beginning, the system offered much greater variety (and innovation) in gaming, but eventually it just got turned into a platform for yearly updates of one of the half-dozen fighting franchises SNK produced.
Once the main craze was over, some of that variety started to show up again, with a couple shooters and the famous Metal Slug series. By then, technology had moved beyond what the NG could do, and SNK didn't really succeed in making it in the fast-moving world of polygonal arcade games.
Meanwhile, I'm here thinking about getting a Raspberry Pi for on-the-go emulation.
My retro-gamer friend also recently restored my 26-year-old NES, and it was a big hit over the holidays. I used to play a lot of emulators on my Nintendo DS, but that was mostly before iPhones and iPads became my distraction of choice on my daily commute. Open Pandora look pretty nice though. I'll keep an eye on it for sure.
Someone born when the Neo Geo came out is 25 years old today. They've probably graduated college. They might be married. They might have kids. Around here, they might even be CEO of a company.
It was weird for me to realize there were people who practically had an NES in the cradle and have never seen an Atari 2600.
For those youngsters, the Neo Geo is probably a fascinating piece of history. It's a system as old as they are, with capabilities beyond anything else out at the time. But, it's relegated to a footnote in history.
Just wait until they discover the Atari Lynx.
It's true that original sources, when they can be found, are preferable to Wikipedia articles. But that applies to all kinds of posts.
The date (1990) shouldn't have been in the title for the Wikipedia page, though, since obviously it doesn't date from then. We missed that before. I took it out.
To be fair it was actually the very same thing as Arcade, since at the time most arcade games ran on the MVS system which had the very same hardware as the Neo Geo :)