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SNK ships the arcade cabinet as a home console. AES and MVS run identical silicon — drop a board, gain a console. The price is operatic (¥58,000), and so are the games.
The NEOGEO Years 1990–2004
NEO·GEO In The Archive
The most expensive home console of its era, sold to people who wanted the arcade in the living room and were willing to pay for the privilege. SNK's Multi-Video System — same hardware in the cab and the cart — meant a Neo Geo at home was an arcade at home. Not like one. One.
Fourteen years on the market. Two-hundred-and-forty MVS releases. The deepest fighting-game catalogue of the 90s, the strangest sports games SNK could engineer, and a mascot — Terry Bogard — who is somehow still showing up to work three decades later. What follows is everything Cartridge Collective has written about the platform so far.
- 1 Player
- 2 Player
- Fighting
- Sports
- Made by
- SNK Osaka, Japan
- Years active
- 1990–2004
- ROM capacity
- up to 716 Mbit
- Defining genre
- 2D Fighting
- In the archive
- 06 pieces
§ A short history
The Neo Geo years, 1990—2004
§ The collection
06 pieces on the platform
Every Cartridge Collective article filed under Neo Geo, ordered by publication date. New entries land here as they ship.
