Mattitude
Mega Shock!!
- Joined
- Oct 24, 2003
- Posts
- 100
It's been quite some time since I posted here as life happened to me and I've been out of it for some years. Back when I was somewhat active here, there was a local get together at a local arcade, that is no longer there, and I remember a Samurai Showdown 5 tournament there and that was the last time I met local Neo Geo connoisseurs. Not long after that I was deployed overseas and came home just short of in a body bag and I'm now disabled.
I bought a Dynamo cabinet that had a single slot MVS board with Metal Slug 3 in it from a local auction as my first arcade game and at the height of my collection I had 12 machines. After getting married, moving and having a family I had to sell just about everything but I kept my Neo Geo and a Virtua Fighter 4. I upgraded my single slot to a 6 slot and was happy for a few years...until the power supply for one reason or another got angry at me and self destructed and in the process gave my 6 slot board fits. It will power up but displays random garbage. I don't know what to do anymore, but if I don't figure something out then I'll have to liquidate my MVS carts and look for something else.
I bought a number of loose carts and some incomplete/mismatched kits from ebay back in the day when they were practically giving them away and I bought the "newer" kits right here from the Neo Store back when they were getting them new and would give away posters & marquees for free when buying the kits. The last ones that I picked up was the KoF 2002, SvC Chaos, Metal Slug 5 & Samurai Showdown 5 and the kits are all mint w/matching serials and even includes the English, Spanish & Japanese stickers & fliers. The posters came with the kits and I used to have them hanging in my game room.
All of the carts are legit except for the Metal Slug 4 that I got off ebay but it's still playable. I bought the shock boxes when they were getting made new and I printed the inserts off a web site that used to make custom inserts...I forgot the name of the site and I don't know if they are even around anymore. Some of the inserts are pretty cool, and some are even a little risqué. I bought extra shock boxes as I was hoping that my cart collection would grow, but I still have 9 extra empty boxes that I put inserts in just because I thought they looked cool.
I'm not much of a collector anymore but I still love my Neo Geo games and I hope that I can get a working board so that I can play some of my games again. I remember the first time that I saw a Neo Geo game in an arcade and that was back in 1991 at Lowery Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado. I played the crap out of Super Spy & Magician Lord and when I heard that they made a home system I just had to have one. That's a story for another day as this is a collector's gallery. I hope everyone enjoys!!
I bought a Dynamo cabinet that had a single slot MVS board with Metal Slug 3 in it from a local auction as my first arcade game and at the height of my collection I had 12 machines. After getting married, moving and having a family I had to sell just about everything but I kept my Neo Geo and a Virtua Fighter 4. I upgraded my single slot to a 6 slot and was happy for a few years...until the power supply for one reason or another got angry at me and self destructed and in the process gave my 6 slot board fits. It will power up but displays random garbage. I don't know what to do anymore, but if I don't figure something out then I'll have to liquidate my MVS carts and look for something else.
I bought a number of loose carts and some incomplete/mismatched kits from ebay back in the day when they were practically giving them away and I bought the "newer" kits right here from the Neo Store back when they were getting them new and would give away posters & marquees for free when buying the kits. The last ones that I picked up was the KoF 2002, SvC Chaos, Metal Slug 5 & Samurai Showdown 5 and the kits are all mint w/matching serials and even includes the English, Spanish & Japanese stickers & fliers. The posters came with the kits and I used to have them hanging in my game room.
All of the carts are legit except for the Metal Slug 4 that I got off ebay but it's still playable. I bought the shock boxes when they were getting made new and I printed the inserts off a web site that used to make custom inserts...I forgot the name of the site and I don't know if they are even around anymore. Some of the inserts are pretty cool, and some are even a little risqué. I bought extra shock boxes as I was hoping that my cart collection would grow, but I still have 9 extra empty boxes that I put inserts in just because I thought they looked cool.
I'm not much of a collector anymore but I still love my Neo Geo games and I hope that I can get a working board so that I can play some of my games again. I remember the first time that I saw a Neo Geo game in an arcade and that was back in 1991 at Lowery Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado. I played the crap out of Super Spy & Magician Lord and when I heard that they made a home system I just had to have one. That's a story for another day as this is a collector's gallery. I hope everyone enjoys!!
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