What are the games that made you into the Neo gamer you are?

Verbatum

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What are the ones that really "Do it For ya"? Here are mine:

1. The Metal Slug Series
2. The Samurai Spirits series (including the RPG)
3. Last Blade 1&2
4. Most of the Shooter in the system

How about you guys?
 

Laserblast

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-Magician Lord.
-Nam 75'.
-Alpha Mission II.
-Then I started getting into the fighters, SS,FF,LB,KOF.
-PULSTAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Metal Slugs.
-Whatever I can get my hands on now!
 
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TheRealNeoGeoMan

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I have never heard of Metal Slug and Kof games before so don`t laugh when I say why I started to play neogeo.

It was beucause of Sengoku! This game is the best! I love it! The best game ever! <IMG SRC="smilies/drool2.gif" border="0">
 
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Lockheed

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Fatal Fury Special and Samurai Shodown 2 were the ones that *convinced* me to buy a system, although it was much later when it actually happened. The big reason I originally bought a PSX was because I read there'd be a conversion of SS2 for it in a gaming mag-although I'm still happy I have one for games like SaGa Frontier 2, Suikodens, Grandia, etc.
 

Tiptonium

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Well, for me the games that turned me to the Neo*Geo were titles like:

Baseball Stars 1 and 2
Samurai Shodown II
Fatal Fury 2
Magician Lord
Ghost Pilots

I've been Neo Geo Happy for a long time. <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">
 

mvsholic

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-Metal Slug
-Samurai Spirits
-Waku Waku 7
-King of Fighters

I have a friend who owns a couple game stores down in Phoenix. Most of my neogeo fanaticism comes from him.
 
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Well essentially the originals. Like Sengoku, League Bowling, Nam 1975, Baseball Stars, Super Baseball 2020, King of Monsters... and the list goes on...
 
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donkeyman

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For me its Shock Troopers and Metal Slug, I am so in love with them! I got SS2 on home System and it was a big dissapointment for me, but SS3 kicks your ass!
Need to get some (King of) fighters for my CAB. only got shooters at the moment.
 

Todd

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Well games like Magician Lord, Nam-75, and crossed swords turned me onto the neo but it wasnt until i saw Fatal Fury Special, King of Fighters 94 and Samurai 2 that i went out and bought one!!!
 

Tom

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The First 4 games that got me wanting a nea were: Fatal Fury, Samurai Shodown,Mutant Nation and League Bowling. Once SS2 was released I new I wanted one.
 

Fox1

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Metal Slug 1...was the first neo game I ever played...and I played it forever :-)
 

steveold

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My gaming passion started with King of the Monsters... and I got hooked onto Fatal Fury for a while.

BUT.... the crown jewel of it all IMO... and as Samuel L. Jackson would say, was the World fucking Heroes franchise... <IMG SRC="smilies/cool.gif" border="0">
 

Ghost-Dog

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Originally posted by Verbatum:
<STRONG>What are the ones that really "Do it For ya"? Here are mine:

1. The Metal Slug Series
2. The Samurai Spirits series (including the RPG)
3. Last Blade 1&2
4. Most of the Shooter in the system

How about you guys?</STRONG>

I started back in the Street Fighter days, so for me it was initially Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting.

I LOVED any kind of martial arts game, and the Neo always provided those..

Then Samurai Spirits grabbed my attention big-time, and it was all downhill from there. Later on I discovered Metal Slug, which is one of my other favorite series.

But overall, it was the early first generation Neo games that got me hooked. Too bad I was just a punk kid back then who couldn't buy a Neo... and had to make do with "regular" consoles.. <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">
 

kouki01

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I would have to say the first time I played basball stars and fatal fury I was hooked. and the games have only gotten better since
 

NeoGML

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Metal Slug 1. that hit it. oh yeah! <IMG SRC="smilies/drool.gif" border="0">
 

THEMAN

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For me it was the fact that the Neo Geo was exactly like the arcade and no system at that time 10 years ago existed.
 

GregN

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Super Spy
King of Fighters
Crossed Swords
Samurai Shodown
Metal Slug
 

ZeroMJ

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MS1, played it at my uncle's house, he owned the actual arcade cabinet. (MVS) He made me go home because I played it for 4 and a half hours streight. It got me hooked.
 

HagureMetal

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Fatal Fury Special and King of Fighters 94..

When I was in Junior school, these mighty games came out,

At that time,FFS defeated capcom's SSF ,and
KOF 94 totally killed SSFT in most game centers near my hometown...

I still remember it..and these two games made me to support snk and neo
instead of capcom and cps.

kj
 

nick_th_fury

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Crossed Swords & Nam-75 is what made me a neoholic.
When Fatal Fury Special came out, I was addicited.
 

BakuretsuMutekiSid

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The Metal Slug series FORCED me to get the Neo Geo home system <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> I always loved that line and was waiting for it to hit the domestic shores. But it just took too long for MSX to come (just got here a month ago for the PSX) and that's why I invested in a Neo Geo last fall. I bought MS3 and KoF 99 and had them sitting on the shelf for 2 days before my beloved console arrived. Now that is how you newbies are supposed to start a Neo Geo collection - METAL SLUG!! Do like I did. Make sure you have a chapter of Metal Slug in your possession when you get a Neo geo <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

If I was a spoiled rich brat 10 years ago, I would have bought the system for Samurai Shodown 1 and 2, hands down.
 

Corbie

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The first Neo Geo game I ever played was actually World Heroes. I liked it but it wasn't until I saw Samurai Shodown in a magazine and then a few months later played it for the first time that I knew I had to have a Neo Geo plain and simple. But the Last Blade series are the games that keep me coming back for more!!!

Corbie
 

Yagyu Jubei

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Magicial Lord, Nam 75 and Top Player Golf convinced me to be one of the first people to drop 8 bills for a Neo System and a cart back in the days.

Then came AOF, Fatal Fury and Last Resort.

When Samurai Shodown came out, I never played Street Fighter again. That was the turning point of my Neo Passion.

Then the Metal Slugs, Neo Turf Masters and the Last Blades...nuff said!
 

evil wasabi

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I would say samuri shodown is what finaly made me decide i had to have snk games in the home,that and king of the fighter games
i was first introduced to kof 96.

I would say my first introduction to snk was when i played fatal fury games on the mega drive,it kinda shifted from there, i hated streetfighter 2 though for some reason i could never get into capcom games.
 
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