The 40th Anniversary collection has non-NEOGEO SNK titles from arcade and console (NES). The size of the NEOGEO mini fits perfectly in the palm of your hand（W108mm×D135mm×H162mm）, and its weight will be only about 390g! It is pretty crazy how much stuff there is. Guess if King of Fighters is your thing, yay?Nintendo mini wide game selection this is not. Obviously the games are very basic LCD style things but the big liscences make them interesting to me from a collectors standpoint, especially as I collect Daytona stuff and you can get a Daytona branded console pack. Thing is, if you were really so against having games installed on a device you wouldn't be interested in this item in the first place. If it can't be hacked for adding new games both versions will definitely be lacking a lot of interesting games. The greatest handheld games consoles – ranked! Twinkle Star Sprites, Mini International Exclusive: I'm just a sucker for physically owning stuff, downloads really turn me off (what if the device dies, memory gets wiped etc in the future once servers are down and I can't redownload it?) Cyber-Lip Other than Metal slug series, does it have anything that isn't just a lot of fighting games and a few sports games? @th3r3ds0x Ikari Warriors is not a Neo Geo game. Burning Fight Despite having a sub-phone sized display, the chassis is bulky and oddly shaped and, while that might be an asset when it’s sitting quietly on your desk, it’s decidedly a liability over long play sessions. I would like to see turbografx 16 mini and neo geo mini support added to hackhi to add more games to those systems, modmyclassics mods adds too much stuff, i prefer hackchi because it keeps it basic. Kinda stupid, of all the Art of Fighting game they only give us part one which was the worst one, could had just give us Art of Fighting 2 and 3 or replace that with other hits like Rage of the Dragon or Savage Reign instead. Many would pay top dollar for that (I'd happily pay £100 for a PS4/Switch game with every title, or maybe £200 for a mini AES console with them all). While the games look crisp enough displayed on the unit’s tiny 3.5 inch screen, when displayed on a modern television they're blurry and unappealing. @JayJ Yeah I've recently seen some Youtube reviews of Gizondo games, they are surprisingly good. I've got the majority of those games on my Switch, and a Hori arcade stick. Speaking of the games, there’s a definite bias towards 2D fighting games. Last Resort I always wanted a Neo Geo collection, pretty cool how you actually went for it. Instead, my friends and I only knew of Neo Geo from magazine articles and ads listing the home console for close to $600, with individual games coming in at $200 or so. The Neo Geo Mini … Add a handful of games to that version and there is hardly any reason for the international version to exist. Save the progress of your games … The King of Fighters ’98 Sengoku 3 I love my old 90's tech game consoles but 80's tech was a bit before my time so I never really invested in any of that. I’m kinda surprised it wasn’t on NeoGeo. That seems to be the problem with old handhelds that were reliant on built-in rechargeable batteries, but somehow the GBA SP had seemed to prove reliable after all these years. Great, we get green blood in SSII and sweat in all the Metal Slugs (amongst other edits) because they're making it run like a US home machine. Each game is capable of being saved and continued like the original system. I just mention this because of your avatar, obviously! Here are the games broken down by verison: Mini Exclusive: A mini AES would have had much more mainstream appeal. It's not that bad. Puzzled There’s no shortage of ways to play classic Neo Geo games in 2020. KOF WORLD. I don't think SNK had the money to invest in paying for licensing just to have an old crossover fighting game included for their product. Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers And after they made Metal Slug and Neo Turf Masters SNK bought them anyway, so there really is no reason for them to leave Neo Turf Masters off. I would prefer physical but lets be realistic here, I have never bought them for a good reason. @JayJ Sure, I've bought quite a few of the ACA releases, and I like the way they present them. PC stuff I mostly started with Dos games in 93/4, some amazing titles but awkward to get many of them running now. Included are series like King of Fighters, Samurai Showdown, Metal Slug and The Last Blade as well as plenty of other classics to keep you entertained for a very long time. Garou: Mark of the Wolves Puzzled I feel thoroughly ripped off because I know that at some point in the future it'll happen again and I won't be able to download the games again. Art of Fighting Fatal Fury Special Art of Fighting Mega CD, 32X, 3DO, Jaguar and CDi are some of my favourites to collect for. The system itself is an interesting, unusual design. Another thing I liked to collect was handhelds, I got myself a Game Boy Light and some odd stuff like a Gizmondo. The King of Fighters ’95 On the Neo Geo Mini the optional controllers are also missing the microswitches (more on this below). Neo Geo World Tour. King of the Monsters 2 At the end of the day video game collecting is a hobby, and it can quickly become a very expensive hobby if you have a money is no object classic gaming approach. The fact that the keep putting off talking about the price make me think it won’t be as cheap as I’d hope it would be either, although that’s just a guess. Real Bout: Fatal Fury I have a nice modded backlit and biverted DMG to play original Gameboy games. Once you have the game downloaded and installed it is just like owning anything physical as even the old hardware can get lost over time. If I decide to buy one, it won't be the International one. SOUND The sound is not anything that will blow your socks off, but it is adequate for the small system. The Japan version definitely has the better lineup. The King of Fighters 2002 Forgot account? Super Sidekicks At least the Jaguar and 3DO have some great games to redeem their value for collectors. Thank you for signing up to GamesRadar+. I honestly think the Gizmondo was ahead of it's time. Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle Thankfully most of the "must play" pc games of that era have been updated for new hardware and put on GoG, or at the very least can be played with Dos box. Log In. The King of Fighters ’98 Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy Ghost Pilots Of the 40 games packed into the Mini, 16 of them are fighters, SNK’s bread and butter genre and what the Neo Geo was largely known for (though I would’ve been happier had Windjammers or a Bomberman made the cut). NEOGEO Mini Christmas Limited Edition (RED) Someone called Paon owns the rights to Windjammers since Data East went bust. The "lost" 24-32bit era is one that fascinates me, so many failed systems which I remember reading about and lusting over previews of in magazines . I'll import the Asian neo mini because I like the colour of the unit better then slap a load of roms on myself , it's bound to be easily hackable. But here are the 10 top Neo Geo games of all time as far as we can tell: 10. I also have a big interest in that lost era of odd 32-bit consoles, and for similar reasons as I remember reading about it but never knew anyone who had the stuff. Mutation Nation Games/Toys. I contacted Nintendo and they tested the 3DS and said it must be the card. Shock Troopers Puzzle De Pon! Metal Slug 5 Sengoku 3 The Neo Geo logos on the blue hood are screen-printed on, not labels. The international has all the games I'd want to play. I recently got the screens in my Game Gear and Lynx II modded with the McWill screens and have a whole new found appreciation for the systems now, they are incredible. The King of Fighters ’96 Super Sidekicks @samuelvictor Yeah there is this youtube channel LGR that seems to cover a lot of the old PC stuff from the past that I had an interest in. Metal Slug 4 King of the Monsters It was released in three different iterations; a 24-bit cartridge-based arcade system board called the Multi Video System (MVS), a cartridge-based home video game console called the Advanced Entertainment System (AES), and a CD-based home console called the Neo Geo CD. The King of Fighters ’99 Easily the biggest handheld game console ever made, and quite possibly one of the worst, but a very interesting piece of handheld gaming history at the same time. Many games in the Neo Geo took inspiration from the classic shoot-em-up R-Type and tried to re-create its space-monster-fighting charm. Never heard of a Neo-Geo game called CYBER-UP??? In general, the library of games draws heavily on series and sequels; as well as the ten King of Fighter titles and three Samurai Shodowns, there are a total of five Metal Slug games and a pair of games from The King of Monsters. StealthRUSH's Top 100 Favorite Neo Geo Games. I just bought a Japanese neo geo mini and wanted to expand the games but had issues looking for a good and compact writeup and step for step. There were always going to be missing games, but Art of Fighting over AoF3 and Top Players Golf over Turf Masters are bizarre decisions. Neo Geo Mini is a dedicated miniature home arcade console developed by SNK as part of the … It is nice to know that no matter what happens with current and next gen tech, I will always be able to play my favorite old games with this stuff. Magician Lord It is why finding a backlit Game.com was such a big deal to me when I was looking for them. That said, day one for me if <= US$100, maybe $150. It also had a recent ACA NeoGeo release. The Neo Geo Mini is an adorable little package, and if you’re mostly looking for an attractive display piece for your shelf or desk, the Mini’s got charm to spare. @samuelvictor Yeah I never collected much in the way of Turbo Grafx stuff either myself, but I did get a lot of the games on virtual console for my Wii. The Jaguar and 3do are probably the ones with the best exclusives, you're right. ", Ma Rainey's Black Bottom review: "Chadwick Boseman is astonishing in his final film performance", WandaVision episode 2 review: "Marvel's remarkably bizarre new show", WandaVision episode 1 review: "Shows just how experimental Marvel can be with these Disney Plus shows", Star Trek: Discovery season 3, episode 13 review: "An anti-climax", Doctor Who Revolution Of The Daleks review: "The meat ‘n’ veg version of Who", Star Trek: Discovery season 3, episode 12 review: "A spectacular run of episodes continues". His favourite Nintendo character used to be a guitar-playing dog, but nowadays he prefers to hang out with Judd the cat. But I get it. If this is supposed to have widespread appeal, that doesn't seem like a sensible move, especially as there are other great Neo Geo games which could have been included instead. Metal Slug X Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, grr. You will receive a verification email shortly. Also, there's no octagonal gate (or gate of any kind) on the analog stick, so while it rotates smoothly and feels reactive, it’s less than ideal for most of the games included with the Mini, which call for crisp eight-directional movement. The Last Blade 2 Aggressors of Dark Kombat Classic hardware can be nice, I have a lot of it as a collector for many years, but it is just kind of ridiculous to suggest spending many times more on the old stuff when you can save tremendous amounts of money and have a lot more convenience with the new stuff. Just assume I'm old and grumpy. Never owned, but plan to own, SNK Neo・Geo - games played though emulation or various ports of release. Ninja Master’s: Haou Ninpou Chou I recently bought a New 3DS XL and tried to go download only, as I thought it'd be convenient to have all my games one one system. All rights reserved. It’s too late to ever live up to those adolescent fantasies, and too poorly designed to live up to modern standards of retro consoles and professional emulation. Its a shame the X was such a bodge job. I also had the NES version but it wasn’t really anything compared to the arcade. Metal Slug. @th3r3ds0x I thought that perhaps you were getting confused with one of the shock troppers games. The controls represent another serious flaw, particularly if you don’t invest in the sold-separately $25 gamepads. Ninja Master’s: Haou Ninpou Chou The previously mentioned Neo Geo X from a few years ago used microswitches on both the portable system and the optional controllers. The King of Fighters ’97 This is nice and everything, but i already have the majority of these games on the Wii VC, Wii collections and Switch arcade archives. I never feel like I "own" downloads, its more like renting them. @samuelvictor Oh wow you are very retro lol. @moroboshi SvC: SNK vs. Capcom Chaos was great but I feel they can't include that even though they originally made the game for NeoGeo due to Capcom owning half that character roster. I just think modern convenience is too worthwhile to brush off and dismiss. I've already lived long enough to be told I can no longer redownload certain books I bought on Kindle as the rights only lasted for a certain amount of years for that distribution deal. @samuelvictor I am pretty sure my entire collection of nearly every ACA Neo Geo game on the Switch cost me less than a single MVS/AES title would have on Ebay. Metal Slug Twinkle Star should have been in both versions for sure. Narrowing it down to just 10 games for the Neo Geo was tough – there are so many amazing titles for this strange, beautiful system. A product they are still not sure if it'll sell successfully. I bet it could have had some amazing shoot-em-ups considering it's vertical screen, but like you said most of it's games were ports originally designed for 4:3 or wider. Each game is based on its home console counterpart, rather than the arcade entries, allowing players to access extra features and characters. Metal Slug 2 I'm a bit gutted. Devastated there’s no Windjammers or Neo Turf Masters. Above and below are direct captures from SNK's presentation, with the full list of games for both systems down further. Last Resort and we followed the same hardware and software upgrades over the years so its interesting to follow down memory lane. Magician Lord Now it just seems like some odd middle period console kinda like the 3DO, lots of good stuff going on for it's time but people weren't quite ready for it and then better stuff eventually came out. Odd. Edit: Always thought Turf Masters was developed by SNK, but it looks like it was developed by Nazca and published by SNK. It's the novelty. Still would vastly prefer a physical release I can properly own though, whether as a compilation or mini console. King of the Monsters 2 I've been mildly frustrated by the drip speed and random appearing order. Please refresh the page and try again. Sengoku 3 CDi is one of those consoles that I feel like is almost better seen on youtube as they are very unusual, everything you would want seems to be quite expensive and rare, and none of it is apparently any good. 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Blazing Star As the Neo Geo was best known for its 1vs1 fighting games I figured it would lie towards those. It's bad enough that ML was included in SNK Arcade Classics Vol 1. I'm no stranger to firing up an ancient game and giving it a spin but these sessions are too few and far between to warrant a purchase of a dedicated device. Feature: What’s The Sexiest Nintendo Console Ever? I pretty much gave up on that, same with what I did with an old Gamegear and 32X, those just proved to be very unreliable devices. Twinkle Star Sprites @samuelvictor Yeah the N-Gage is just a terribly designed piece of hardware as far as portable game consoles go IMO. I bought a big memory card, brand new, decent brand, researched compatibility first. The Neo Geo Mini channels the spirit of 90s SNK, but it falls short of the luxury you might expect of the brand. 3 times so far its become corrupted and none of the games would load, twice whilst away travelling, annoying as I specifically got the device and games to play on those exact trips. Now a veritable gaming series, this classic side-scrolling shooter was first released for the Neo Geo back in 1996. I had to get 2 replacement Wiis, and 1 replacement WiiU for example, so I don't imagine that my current consoles will last forever - and when I replace them (or in many years source parts if no direct replacements are available) I'm reliant on Nintendo having their servers up and still having the rights to the games. The Neo Geo Mini is out now in Japan for 12,240 yen (~$110). 530 talking about this. The game plays similarly to Taito’s own Puzzle… 5. Games/Toys. Joe or Mai ? For more retro, here's our C64 Mini review. I have an MVS 7 AES already but these are kinda cool. 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