To many gamers in the 90s, The Neo Geo AES was the ultimate home console. While many other consoles claimed to bring an arcade experience home, they did so by downgrading graphics, sound, and other compromises. The Neo Geo on the other hand, brought truly perfect Neo Geo MVS arcade games to the home with ZERO compromises. If you owned a Neo Geo AES console you got to play actual 1:1 arcade games at home. But this level of quality came at a steep cost with the console's Gold Bundle coming in at over $600 for just the console, controllers, and one game. Individual games were also extremely expensive, averaging $200 or more each. This is the story of how SNK brought its highly successful arcade games to the home with one of the most expensive consoles of all time and after becoming one of the biggest names in gaming in the 90s, lost everything and yet somehow rose from its ashes.
#NeoGeo #Retrogaming #SNK #NeoGeoPocket #90s #Gaming
You can check out my guests channels below:
MVG: youtube.com/ModernVintageGamer
Bob: youtube.com/retrorgb & his site www.retroRGB.com
Jenovi: youtube.com/jenovi
Neo-Alec: youtube.com/basementbrothers & his Neo Geo Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_W1EM66_BruhDsODY4WcYolFMxqQn8ng
Special thanks to Ethan Johnson of: The History Of How We Play https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/
Original Music By Drew Night. Other music licensed through Motionarray
Additional assets/footage by:
SF2 Arcade Bezel by 0rions angel - youtube.com/orionsangel
TV stand model by Hidouci [email protected]
Area rug model: Luke gibbs
Coffee table model: SalrunMacaod
Super Famicom model saruedaacevedo
Additional SF 2 gameplay footage: Joe’s Classic Video Games
Fatal fury SNES footage: VCDECIDE
MAME Neo Geo Footage: Niko & Friends
Additional KOF Footage smbhax 2000
Additional KOF 1994 Footage Capt. RiskyBoots
Samurai Spirits 64 footage: Video Game Esoterica
Terry Bogard Reveal At Nintendo NY Footage: KirbyGCN17
Neo Geo Pocket color footage: Expansion Pack
King Of Fighters R1: Arthur D Wolfe
King Of Fighters ’96 (PSX): Jornada Gamer
Additional footage Capcom vs SNK Millennium Fight 2000: Salvatore Forenza
1997 AOU Show Footage: higenekodo
Additional arcade overlay ArsInvictus