/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5944514
For fighting games, maybe.

For everything else? Nah.

>>5944514
>4th gen
the vast majority of people played it in the sixth gen

>>5944514
>mfw I love the Neo Geo aesthetic and fightan games but am also bad at fightan games
Seriously, is there a retro console that is even close to looking as good as the Neo Geo? I legit would put some money down for it, but seems like a waste to pay the shekels and only get KoF and Garo. Can't think of anything else I'd want to play on it.

>>5944514
Neogeo was a powerhouse, no argument. it cost too much and all the games were trapped in an arcade quarter-eating style, but it was some quality hardware.

>>5944626
>I couldn't afford it and all the games were games instead of interactive movies, but it was some quality hardware.

>>5944518
Shooting games
Run n' guns
Beat em ups
general action 2D games

It's top 3 best retro system period.

>>5944576
Metal slug
Bust a move

>>5944629
kek perfect.

for me? it's mutation nation, the best fast food sandwich.

>>5944643
Wish this game had more enemy variety, a consistent kick (?) and proper i-frames on wakeup. Otherwise it's really good.

>>5944642
You're a faggot too, take your meta shit back to /vg/ with your retard pals.

>>5944672
seething.

>>5944630
>Shooting games
no way fag

>Run n' guns
top-down, sure
side-scrolling, no way fag

>Beat em ups
haha, no

>general action 2D games
nope

>>5944680
So then what the hell do you even like, anon? Just jarpigs and cartoon platformers?

How do I into Metal Slug? I tried out both 2 and X because I heard they were the best, but I didn't like them

>>5944680
>shooting games, no way fag
What do you mean? Zedblade, Last Resort, Pulstar, Blazing Star, Viewpoint, Andro Dunos, etc...those are shooting games and really good ones too.

>side scrolling no way
Metal Slug series, lmao.

>beat em up, no
Mutation Nation, Eightman, Sengoku (1-3), Ninja Combat, Robo Army, etc

>2d action, no
Top Hunter
Spin Master
Nightmare in the Dark
Magician Lord
Crossed Swords 1-2

>>5944685
You need to play with a goal in mind, like clearing the first couple stages without using a continue. If you just flail around spamming your gun mindlessly and credit feeding they aren't really that fun for more than 10minutes.

>>5944695
I know not to credit feed, my goal was to complete it with only my initial credit. I just got up to the Chinatown stage where you get fat and then I quit

>>5944701
Honestly I'm not a fan of metal slug myself. I prefer something like Shock Troopers 1 way more.

>>5944685
>but I didn't like them
im sorry youre fucking gay anon.

Neo-Geo has the highest ratio of good games to bad games of any console ever made. There's like 200 games or something, and they're almost all at least good.

>>5944725
whata neo geo games have you beated? If they are so fun.

>>5944798
>Beated

>>5944798
u ok m8?

>>5944631
>1k+ for a cart
I'm good

>>5944514
>Don't mind me, just underageposting

>>5944959
>I'm poor

>>5944803
>>5944805
cant answer

>>5944959
I mean you could just not be a faggot and go the MVS route. Metal Slug 3 for the MVS is like $80. Metal Slug 3 for the AES is like $3000. Any one who collects AES shit over MVS shit is a retard. Like do you want to pay $3k for the home version or $80 for the Arcade version. I know they are basically exactly the same any way but lmao.

>>5944680
anon don't forget
>sports
neo turf masters is literally the undisputed GOAT sports videogame, has possible claim to the overall GOAT video game.
super sidekicks series also seems underrated around here.
am thinking the neogeo has its own special spot as king of the consoles

>>5945071
or you could just download the roms poor fag

>>5944959
now you know why flashcarts are equally expensive on this thing (350 up)

>>5945823
that makes you even more poor though

>>5944629
Not him but there was literally only one store in my city of 200,000 people that carried the neo geo when it launched, and the two console boxes sat unsold for like a year along with the original batch of launch tittles ($199 to $250 per cart). Then one day they were gone and replaced with other product that could actually sell.

I have never in my life met a person, aside from a retro gamer collectors who grabbed them a decade later, who ever owned a neo geo console. Lots of arcade MVS owners, but never the console when it was new and relevant. I was at one of the wealthier high schools in my city from 1993-1995, it was not a poorfag thing. One kid at my school had an actual SF2 arcade machine in his basement in 1993, that was a big deal at the time, but even he didn't have a neo geo.

The price was only part of it, it was the lack of retail support and consumer confidence. Everyone assumed it would be gone in 6 months so it wasn't worth the investment.

>>5946194
I don't understand what this has to do with the post you quoted.

>>5944514
Outside of fightan games, Turf Masters and Metal Slug, there's really fuck all worth buying on this thing.

>>5944514
Yeah, well, in the same way Beta was better than VHS.

>>5944576
Neo Turf Masters
Neo Power Drift
Windjammers
Bang Bead

>>5947124
not enough rpgs for your liking? faggot.

>>5944703
Contra III is better

>>5948642
What's wrong with playing rpgs for fun?

>>5948971
Nothing.

>>5945823
Browsing around all the interesting topics on the Neo GEO.com site, i came across quite a few topics on Emulation. Now i am not exagerating about this. I was VERY addicted to emulation. Especially Neo GEO emus. I literally would only sleep 1-2 hours everynight, to feed my Obsession, of greedily downloading ROMS(GAMES)with my broadband connection. It really became a Problem. NO JOKE. Now came in another factor, I went All out and bought Stupid HUGE $350.00 joystick controllers to "enhance the arcade experience" the damn things were the size of my DESK!. As if that werent enough, i bought other versions of the same controller, Then I would buy Really expensive CD-rs. to put the roms on. I mean i was spending $$$$$$$$$$$ on emulation. Then i got wind of some site, "SELLING" the ROMS on cd collections. I was hooked. But that wasnt enough....I still had to have my OWN COPIES OF ROMS ON MY CDS" as "back-up", now was i Pathetic or what? Any now To make the story a little shorter, all this ultimately led to the Purchase of a DVD burner(THAT IS NOW JUST SITTING THERE WITH NO USE!)because i had to have all the NEO GEO roms on ONE disc. I WAS OUT OF CONTROL.
I throwing money away Bigtime on this Emulation CRAP.
NOW I HATE TO BURST CERTAIN "PEOPLES BUBBLES" BUT I CONSIDER MY SELF AN AUTHORITY ON EMULATION, SO THIS IS FOR THOSE WHO SAY THAT EMULATION IS BETTER OR WHO HAS THE NERVE TO SAY IT HAS SURPASSED OF ALL CONSOLES OUR BELOVED NEO GEO. YOU ARE ALL FULL OF S^%@#%$!@$T!!!!!
REASON WHY I LEFT THE "EMULATION COMMUNITY"I MEAN YOU SHOULD GO INTO A EMULATION FORUM, PEOPLE JUST WINE, COMPLAIN, AND BITCH TO THE AUTHORS OF thESE EMULATORS: WHY DOESNT THIS GAME WORK?? OR WHEN WILL THIS GAME BE EMULATED?? THEN I STARTED TO STARE AT THE BLANK, PLANE CD CASES OF MY CDRs WITH ROMS IN THEM, AND STARTED MISSING THE FUN AND THE BEAUTY OF THE ARTWORK, AND THE CASINGS ON "REAL" GAMES, AND SAID TO MY SELF, THIS IS WRONG, THIS IS NOT WHAT GAMING IS ABOUT. ITS REALLY SAD.

>>5948920
kys snesbabby.

>>5948987
The quotes starting a word early on people really sold this. 10/10

>>5944514
Back in like 1999, my Dad's dirtbag friend told me that he was going to give me a Neo Geo home console with 10 games he found while he was an apartment superintendent. Apparently some people up and left and they left behind most of their shit including the Neo Geo. When I asked him about it a few weeks later he said he got in a fight with his girlfriend and she smashed it all. Probably a lie to cover up he sold it for dope money. That was really disappointing..

>>5944514
I dont know about the console but i really like the controllers. I would just buy the controllers and hook them up to my PC somehow.

>tfw SNK didn't make home-market AES exclusives to boost AES sales
>tfw no NeoGeo graphics quality Zelda clone
>tfw no NeoGeo graphics quality Super Mario World clone

>>5944576
SamSho
Metal Slug
Last Blade if you're a GarouMotWfag

>>5944629
oh yeah, i remember all those interactive movies that came out for 4th gen hardware

>>5948987
Unironically based usenet-and-mid/late-90s-forum-poster-style poster.

>>5949305
>Last Blade if you're a GarouMotWfag
what does that mean

>buying a console that doesn't have any console games

>>5949397
>posting as an underage on a board that isn't supposed to have underage

>>5949109
enjoy not being able to shoot upwards :)

>>5950080
based. fuck OOT, fuck MGS, and fuck anyone who contributed to the death of the arcade.

>>5949304
>>5949397
Currently the worst posts on /vr/ right now. Well done.

>>5950080

>>5944674
>shitty /v/ buzzwords
/vr/ is dead.

>>5944693
>Nightmare in the Dark
Absolutely based

>>5950287
Guess it's time for you to leave then haha. :)

>>5949304
NeoGeo needed a Athena sequel that played like Ristar or Rayman, that def would have sold the console.

>>5950272
OK, man, whatever you think.

>>5944514
Ah SNK, misleading the public BEFORE Atari did with their Jaguar regarding both systems' graphical capabilities. Both are 16-bit machines in the generalized sense people were used to, but they both arbitrarily picked the larger bus rates irrespective of their alleged performance enhancing abilities. So SNK claimed they pushed 24-bit games and Atari claimed 64, can you imagine what the claim would be today if companies tried the same tactic?

>>5944514

>>5950465
Shadiest shit ever and made me never want to support another SNK product

>>5950465
QRD? All reverse image search told me was that someone on Twitter had that pic and said that they're doo-dooheads and that it was a scam. My best guess is that SNK destroyed valuable games to increase their value?

>>5950508
they where destroying original SNK inserts and replacing them with their own that they made.
http://neogeoarchives.boards.net/thread/33/legacy-neo-geo-freak

>>5950565
That's some next level bitchassery.

This denial. While the NEOGEO had great arcade games, that was it. It didn't have lengthier platformers and rpgs. Would play Gen/Snes over it almost any day.

>>5950430
>picked the larger bus rates irrespective of their alleged performance enhancing abilities
zoom, tip, zoom

>wanting to play gay ass rpgs and bing bing wahoo rather than balls to the wall action, fighting, shooting games

so glad my parents weren't poor and I grew up with the Neo Geo and I developed into an adult with taste

>>5950758
Maybe one day, you'll be able to fork over the dough and play with the big boys.

>>5950861
You have no idea of what you've read, zoomer.

>>5950565
why?

>>5944693
>Nightmare in the Dark
>Magician Lord
Mah nigga.

>there were people too poor to afford an AES
>there were people who settled for an snes or a genesis
>mfw

>>5950925
I read the diarrhea that dripped from a zoomers fingers onto this board. Zoom back to facebook little zoomer.

>>5951283
>poo poo pee pee
Yeah you sound like someone people need to listen to.

>>5944693
Blazing Star is one of the best shooting games ever, maybe even the best horizontal shooting game ever, but I think the rest of the Neo Geo shooting game library isn't as good as say, PS1 or Saturn.

Nightmare in the Dark kicks ass, Zupapa is even better, fucking love that game.

>>5951290
>you need to listen to the zoomer using words he doesn't understand
Sure thing kiddo

>>5944642
>Gay elf

That's a dig at Zelda games, right

>>5950925
>>5951283
>>5951401
Are you faggots getting paid for this or something? Jesus fucking Christ, I've never seen a buzzword beaten to death this fucking hard, and it's all over the goddamn board.

>t. zoomy zoomerly zoomer!!! ZOOMY ZOOMY ZOOMIES ZOOMLIES ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM

>>5944514
Ha that nobody could afford, I mean did any kid personally have a friend or know a friend of a friend or their friend of a friend that actually owned one?

>>5951442
zoomer

>>5949125
Of course he sold it.

>>5944514
How much longer until the prices crash? I have few Japanese region fighting games for it but I wouldn't mind getting them cheaper.

>>5950279
>God I wish that was me

>>5951450
I think a rich kid I knew had a friend who had one, but if I am recalling correctly it was actually his dad's console and we were sternly warned never to touch it. It could have been another system, but the memory seems to show a Neo Geo. Anyway, that kid was a punk and never had the guts to let us play with it even while his dad was away. That's the NG legacy, someone's someone's someone had one and that they're giant dickheads.

>>5950406
*know

>>5950565
>>5950927

>>5950758
>While the NEOGEO had great arcade games, that was it.
That... what all it needed? You massive faggot?

>>5952760
*was

questions from a zoomer
>who actually owned a neo geo?
>who actually owned a neo geo CD?
>how long did neo geo games show up in stores before switching to mail order?

>>5952961
>>who actually owned a neo geo?
>>who actually owned a neo geo CD?
>>how long did neo geo games show up in stores before switching to mail order?
Almost no one in the U.S.
Virtually no one outside of Japan.
Immediately.

>>5948642
No way, and guess what? You like a babyconsole for FAGS! That means you are GAY!

Meanwhile I'm straight and I have a big penis that I let girls touch when it gets big. FUCK YOU!!!

>>5952961
>>who actually owned a neo geo?
Older enthusiasts.
>>who actually owned a neo geo CD?
I don't know.
>>how long did neo geo games show up in stores before switching to mail order?
afaik they were never sold outside of specialty shops.

>>5952980
Surprisingly based reply, but you're opinion is still wrong.

>>5952983
*your opinion

>>5952983
>My are opinion is still wrong.

Go back to language arts class tomorrow and good luck explaining to your teacher why that test with "see me" in red ink on the top still wasn't signed by your mom.

>>5952995
>>5952989
Beat you to it lad. Would've been a sick burn though if you weren't such a slow typist.

>>5951442
Only zoomers get triggered by the word zoomer, zoomer.

>>5950565
> Their involvement with SNK, their practices and their business skills are all quite engaging
>This is not a bashing thread, this is a history thread in the same ideology that assemblergames.com attempted in the past, but Neo Geo "supporters" as usual guided the conversation down a negative path.
I wouldn't piss on this guy if he was on fire

>>5944518
I would actually include sports game in that mix.

>Be SNK
>Create awesome arcade hardware
>Release quarter munching games for it
>People want it at home
>Release same hardware in console form
>25 years later people moan that it didn't get Final Fantasy

They would have LOST money if they had created non arcade games for it, AES was always just a side thing for the few gamers with deep pockets.

>>5944514
How much did that thing cost when it first came out? I seem to remember it being like $700 or some shit like that.

>>5954126
Also some pretty good shumps like Last Resort, Pulstar or Blazing Star, run 'n guns like Metal Slug or Shock Troopers and puzzles like Puzzle Bobble, Magical Drop or Twinkle Star Sprites.

>>5950465
>Dion
I'm gonna have myself a giggle when this twat dies.

>>5949304
The AES was only ever meant to be a rental console, until enough people wrote in asking to buy one that they marketed it as such. But SNK knew that basically nobody could afford them. Even a "system-seller" like Zelda isn't going to shift more units.

>>5951450
I owned one, though I was a teenager with a job during its heyday.

I would not put the system above SNES or Genesis by any stretch, though.

>>5954169
Thought it was like $649.99 or something, but could be totally wrong on that.

>>5954293
Maybe lowlifes like you couldn't afford one, the system was geared more towards us high-rollers.

>>5955408
based arcade chad.

>>5944514
That isn't a system. It's a home version of the neogeo board.

>>5950430
>bus rates
Bus sizes.
You're retarded.

>>5944725
no they are fucking not, you liar.

i was around when this fucker came out, bout 150 a game and 70% of them were shit and poorly reviewed. nostalgia is blinding you son

>>5956034
>muh reviews
retard.

>>5955494
it’s not literally an arcade board but it’s close

>>5955596
It's not about how big they are, I meant "rates" as in how many signals are going "down" the busses. So 16 bits coming from the CPU down the bus is supposed to be the old measure how how many bits something was. Are you trolling?

>>5955494
Both are systems, Sherlock.

>>5956285
sega systems

>>5956279
>meant "rates" as in what the voices in my head tell me the word means
It's time to give up and zoom away little zoomer. You're just embarrassing yourself.

>>5956034
>poor reviews
post proof

Hey I have emulator now and played some dinosaurs and cadillac, IMO it's a great game for 3 players beat em up. What platformer do you recomend for this console? I like it more than SNES(which has kind shit music except chrono trigger, too much same sounding bass, even famicom was more varied to me), dunno about genesis.

>>5956778
You sure are a dumb bastard.

>>5957868
what the fuck are you rambling about? Please write a coherent thought.

>>5952713
Me too

>>5957879
Is so then what would that make someone who thinks "bits" are "rates"? zoom zoom