is this true

ThePunisher · Dec 4, 2001

i was talking to a kid in school today and he told me these are about his exact words "the original neo geo before nes was on cassate tapes but it never worked out" I said snk made it? he said "whoever makes neo geo. it was never released but they were going to make it." I just said I never heard of it.

Does anyone know if this is true?

ZeroMJ · Dec 4, 2001

Hm. That would be cool.

However, I dont think its true because how could you play a game from a Cassete Tape? I don't think thats possible.

Nice Idea though.

peterr928 · Dec 4, 2001

maybe he was confused because the mvs carts are callled cassettes

16-bit · Dec 4, 2001

Kids say the darndest things...

Liquid Snake · Dec 4, 2001

"the original neo geo before nes was on cassate tapes"

Huh? Before NES? Neo was out in 1990.....

He has no idea what he's talking about.....

Daisuke Jigen · Dec 4, 2001

Originally posted by ZeroMJ:
Hm. That would be cool.

However, I dont think its true because how could you play a game from a Cassete Tape? I don't think thats possible.

Nice Idea though.

Says the kid who never had a commodore 64. Or Atari computers, or amigas, or any computer from the late 70's mid-80's. <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

I think someone is confused with the term "casettes" on eBay.

NeoGeoHybrid · Dec 4, 2001

it is possible, sega had many systems and computers and prototypes before the sega master system and genesis. Many computers used tape cassettes to store data including games, im not sure but i think that a few home consoles may have used this technology also. I had a texas instuments pc back in the early 80's and it used cassettes.

ThePunisher · Dec 4, 2001

Huh? Before NES? Neo was out in 1990.....

He has no idea what he's talking about.....

thats exactly what i told him and he was like oh no it was the original neo geo

Yeah i didnt think it was true. Good now I dont have to feel stupid tommorow in school.

Metal Slug · Dec 4, 2001

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

No, it wasn't!
Fun idea though!

It could have been called the
SiNKlair ZX330 pro! <IMG SRC="smilies/spock.gif" border="0">
<IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">
No its crapolla!
SNK was Only producing arcade Video games at that stage (pre-floppy drive days)
Lets face it, their idea of a home system, was a boxed version of their arcade harware!
They're hardly gonna try and put the stuff on cassette!

OK, I'm imagining "Mechanised Attack" on cassette!
On 4 c90s!
Did anyone have a Spectrum, or C64?
Remember the 5+ min loading times?
Imagine like 5 hours to load a game! <IMG SRC="smilies/eek2.gif" border="0">
and it crashes half way through!
The machine would last the weekend, before being cut up with a chainsaw in a blind rage!

OK, I'm talking crap now!

KaedesDisciple · Dec 4, 2001

Yea man, old C=64 cassette days. It was yet another device that you could start loading a game, go upstairs, make a cheese sandwich, balance your checkbook, come back and it'll be almost finished. Twas a bit slow but hey it worked, until the tape snapped of course lol <IMG SRC="smilies/ohno.gif" border="0">

Spike Spiegel · Dec 4, 2001

The guy's an idiot. I mean, somehow he was blessed with the knowledge that they were on cassets, but he just couldn't seem to remember that Neo Geo was made by SNK!? Yeah, he's full of shit.

Spike

Willeh · Dec 4, 2001

I have a friend who said he owned a KoF 99 cab. <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/ohno.gif" border="0">

Giga Power · Dec 4, 2001

*laughs*

jbeedham · Dec 4, 2001

It's BS. Just think about it, no arcade system would work using cassette tapes. It would be too slow and unreliable.

John · Dec 4, 2001

Originally posted by ZeroMJ:
Hm. That would be cool.

However, I dont think its true because how could you play a game from a Cassete Tape? I don't think thats possible.

Nice Idea though.

The original Apple I did this--played software from cassettes, I mean. I remember reading about it in a book that came with an Apple IIc... memories ^_^

Caris Nautilus · Dec 4, 2001

Originally posted by Metal Slug:
ROTFLMAO!!!!!

No, it wasn't!
Fun idea though!

It could have been called the
SiNKlair ZX330 pro! <IMG SRC="smilies/spock.gif" border="0">
<IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">
No its crapolla!
SNK was Only producing arcade Video games at that stage (pre-floppy drive days)
Lets face it, their idea of a home system, was a boxed version of their arcade harware!
They're hardly gonna try and put the stuff on cassette!

OK, I'm imagining "Mechanised Attack" on cassette!
On 4 c90s!
Did anyone have a Spectrum, or C64?
Remember the 5+ min loading times?
Imagine like 5 hours to load a game! <IMG SRC="smilies/eek2.gif" border="0">
and it crashes half way through!
The machine would last the weekend, before being cut up with a chainsaw in a blind rage!

OK, I'm talking crap now!

lol I knew a kid with a Spectrum when I was in England in the late 80s early 90's, and the games were on mini cassette tapes, like the kind your answering machine uses. I remember this game called "Mutants", it took like 7 minutes for the game to load up just to start, and it would always crash when you were halfway thru a level!

[ December 04, 2001: Message edited by: Drift King EX ]

the_move · Dec 5, 2001

Originally posted by Kaede's Disciple:
[QB]Yea man, old C=64 cassette days.
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That´s not cassette. It´s DATASETTE!!!
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ZeroMJ · Dec 5, 2001

Originally posted by John:
The original Apple I did this--played software from cassettes, I mean. I remember reading about it in a book that came with an Apple IIc... memories ^_^

Well, I was thinking like Tapes like you play music from. I guess I am retarted. Anyway, the kids retarted as well.

deathboy · Dec 5, 2001

Originally posted by NeoGeoHybrid:
it is possible, sega had many systems and computers and prototypes before the sega master system and genesis. Many computers used tape cassettes to store data including games, im not sure but i think that a few home consoles may have used this technology also. I had a texas instuments pc back in the early 80's and it used cassettes.

TI/994A? I had one and man do I regret not keeping it! I loved that thing! Had some great games, could program stuff in basic! Awesome! Ya ever play Parsec? One kick ass shooter! <IMG SRC="smilies/glee.gif" border="0">

Arakon · Dec 5, 2001

Parsec OWNED.
I literally spent hours every day playing it.
TI 99/4A was my first computer.. it had this gigantic expansion box that contained the floppy drive and huge addon cards (which were more like carts, in a metal case and all).

aria · Dec 6, 2001

My English cousin had a cassette-based system (I think it was a gaming computer like the ol' C=64 -I had a disk based c=64). We played video games on it all the time.

The cassette systems seemed to take off in Europe, but never here in the US. Probably because we would have done something stupid like that infamouse CD-tray/cup-holder incident <IMG SRC="smilies/loco.gif" border="0">

One-Eyed Willy · Dec 6, 2001

Drift King, were you in the military? My dad was stationed from '88 to '91 at RAF Lakenheath and I went to middle school/high school at Mildenhall/Lakenheath.

I used to have fun in BASIC...don't know smack about programming these days. I used to create programs that were text adventures like the "Choose Your Own Adventure" book series...back when dual 5-1/4" disk drives were the shiznit.

SPINMASTER X · Dec 6, 2001

yeah it was the first neo geo called the "proto geo" it had one game called Final Fury with Jerry and Randy Fogard and their friend Moe Takashi. I think the boss was Gesse Hovard, the drug lord of Southcity. The second game was supposed to have Johaan Strauser as the boss but was never released cuz of the Neo Geo.

[ December 06, 2001: Message edited by: SPINMASTER X ]

Tapper · Dec 9, 2001

How old is the average user of these boards?! 13? I feel old here...

Anyway... No, there was no cassette based arcade hardware from SNK. But...

Someone wrote "It's BS. Just think about it, no arcade system would work using cassette tapes. It would be too slow and unreliable."

Wrong. (mostly - history lesson coming up...)

There was a cassette tape based arcade system from the very early '80s (81-84) made by DECO. Some examples of games on the system were Burgertime (just like the PCB version) & Rootin Tootin. While the system allowed arcades to very inexpensively change games, it WAS unreliable and tapes did indeed break and suffer from wear and tear. As a result, the system failed eventually since arcade owners cared far more about reliability than price - if the machines weren't running, they could lose far more than the price of a brand new PCB kit.

Now, here's where the anti-emulation nitwits can shut up and suck their thumbs. Luckily, due to the efforts of MAME team, you can still see what many of those DECO cassette games were like, even the slow inital loading from tape to memory is emulated. This was one of MAME's most amazing feats of preservation during the past year, since many of those tape games were thought to be forever lost already, but thankfully an expert dumper (yeah, an "evil" dumper) managed to save some of these games. The emulation aspect was simple since the hardware was basically identical to the already emulated DECO hardware for Burgertime & Bumpn'Jump. For anyone interested in videogame history and nostalgia, it's well worth a look. Some of the games are also fun in a super-retro sort of way. Just don't expect NeoGeo graphics. <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">

playboycougar · Dec 9, 2001

i dont think that that would be possible. i mean if a game had to load it woudl have to do it from one point foward unless it would have to rewind the casset. the only thing i know that is like that woudl be for mass data storage, a cassete drive (holds about 800mb-4gb of data per) <IMG SRC="smilies/tickled.gif" border="0">

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