First Game You Bought At Release Time?

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Mike

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I feel a little akward about it but, KOF 2002 will be the first neo geo game that I have ever purchased at release.

You'd think that I would have had plenty of chances since 2000, but I just never did.

Kind of an exciting time....might be one of the last too <img src="graemlins/ohno.gif" border="0" alt="[Oh No]" />
 
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The first game I ever bought for the NEO GEO was Samurai Showdown 2 for the NGH. I remember going to Knight Video Games (local game store) and putting down $325.00 for it and just in awe by how clean and nice it looked. I played that game to the ground. Ahh..those were the days.

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Originally posted by Mike:
<strong>I feel a little akward about it but, KOF 2002 will be the first neo geo game that I have ever purchased at release.

You'd think that I would have had plenty of chances since 2000, but I just never did.

Kind of an exciting time....might be one of the last too <img src="graemlins/ohno.gif" border="0" alt="[Oh No]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>

i'm actually not that far ahead of you mate

had a neo for 7ish years and my first cart on the release date was rage of the dragons

:)
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King Of Fighters 2001.
Technically speaking, it was preordered for me as part of my 21st birthday present (the rest of it consisted of a trip to Las Vegas).
 
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Never have.

I just don't have the cash for KOF2002 which is annoying. I want it BAD!

Jesus, I wish these games were a little cheaper. <img src="graemlins/crying.gif" border="0" alt="[Crying]" />
 
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I generally don't...

I did preorder Metal Slug 2, Last Blade and FFRB2 for NeoCD from NCSX back in the day. ;) Do those count?

The first game I bought on release day was umm... SFII for the SNES... Or maybe it was Golden Axe for the SMS?
 
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For some reason I remember spending around $85 for my SNES Street Fighter II on release day... it was from EB. Man, I'll never forget that day... :D
 
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Chrono Cross. If I can recall, the game came out on Madonna's b-day (Aug. 16) I traded in a shitload of PSX, SNES, Genesis and a couple of peripherals plus a little bit of my friend's Funcoland store credit, so I didn't pay a dime for it. Several items I kick myself for trading for CC nowadays: Einhander and Rival Schools.
 
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My first game i got on release was fatal fury 2 but had to wait a month extra after pre ordering it as it was delayed,like so many neo games as shodown when they decided to make the blood white!
 
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Thge First NGH I bought on release was World Hero's 2 jet. Then I bought Samurai Shodown 2 when it came out soon after ;)

Both from Game Dude. Both came preopened ;(

Guess they liked to preopen the games when they got them in, probably was played by a few employees before they mailed it out to me.

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chris1

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Too many..
It's become a monthly ritual.
I will buy 1 to 3 games per month.(depends)

There are just too many games coming out.
I'm pretty particular about what games I buy on release now.(to many crappy games)

First game was an Atari 2600 game.
Last game was Steel Battalion.
Before that GTA Vice City.

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The first Neo game I snagged at release was Mark of the Wolves...

...let's see...the first GAME I snagged at release...I want to say Super Mario Bros. 2. Yeah, that sounds right. Mario 1, Zelda, I got them later than release. Mario 2 was at release, if I recall correctly. Mario 3 was next.

But if you want to count a game I practically got on preorder, the first game I ever really pushed to get at the VERY earliest...well, that's definitely Final Fantasy 3 US.

I was at the Babbage's the day before release. They had gotten the shipment, and they sold me one. I played until I had to go to sleep for school tomorrow (back when staying up all night was a foreign concept to me), then spent the whole day at school telling everyone about it, much to their excited interest, and drawing pictures and plans for what I was to do next in the game. I was a psychotic child.

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pokémon - blue edition (game boy)
i really loved playing that game, but the tv show sucks. imo.
 
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They wern't quite on the day of release, but I bought MS3 and KoF2000 when they were new, as in a fiew months after they came out.

Does that count?
 
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For me, it was KoF 96 from Japan Video Games' mail order division. By the time I got into the Neo scene, no retail stores near me still dealt in home carts.
 
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Originally posted by DolphinLord:
<strong>For me, it was KoF 96 from Japan Video Games' mail order division. By the time I got into the Neo scene, no retail stores near me still dealt in home carts.</strong><hr></blockquote>

I remember JVG from back in the day. I bought my jap SS2 from them. Are they still in Bizz?
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Bought Metal Slug 2nd Mission and Sonic Pocket Adventure for the NGPC on their respective launch dates.

None Neo- Resident Evil 2, Vigilante 8, Sonic & Knuckles, Rocky, Daytona 2001.
 
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As far as Neo home carts go, mine was KOF '95. I remember playing '94 in the arcades and thinking that it was time to get a neo home system at last-there were finally neo games I simply HAD to own at home.

I managed to pick up a neo home system for 30 bucks from a friend who worked at Comp USA. The thing had been sitting in the back room, neglected forever. Only the console and a controller. No power supply, no video cables. I ordered a power supply from Die Hard, World Heroes and Sega Genesis cables for the video. The system worked like a charm. Then I was like 'Okay, time to order KOF '94'. From KOF '95 on I purchased every single NEO GEO release I wanted on the day of release. That encompasses every game in the Southtown universe of games-all KOFs, AOFs (which I had to go back and buy) and FFs. The games I've bought on release:

KOF '95, '96, '97, '98, '99', 2K, 2K1, 2K2 (forthcoming)
RBFF, RBS, RB2

Games I went back and bought after release:

KOF '94
FF, FF2, FFS, FF3
AOF, AOF2, AOF3
SS, SS2
 
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