how long have you been into the neo geo

As the topic says, how many years have you been playing the neo geo for ?

how did you first hear about it ?

if you are new to it what made you decide to get into it with all these next gen consoles on the market ?

I have been into the neo geo since the end of 1992 when i saw art of fighting and world heroes in the arcades and i got my first system in 1993 when fatal fury 2 came out. i still think the system is great even in todays technological terms

[ May 12, 2002: Message edited by: Lee Gray ]</p>

stumpled upon garou densetsu in 1990.... been a Neo fan and gamer ever sence then.

I've been palying my Neo for about 5 months.

Where did I first heard about it? Of course here, at this ng.com forums.

What makes me decide to get into it? Simple reason, to get a perfect arcade port of some great 2D games, and to play them straight away (not waiting for ports to other console).

Knew about Neo because of the arcade halls around Hamilton (outside Glasgow) and i loved the games especially Beat 'em ups

My first game was Samurai Shodown and i cant remember where i got it from, but it cost me £185 when i was on deployment around the Falklands - the year was 1993

I got back home and bought a system with Soccer Brawl for £300. Solid gold (importer - now out of business) could get the games for me but i don't think i bought any more than 3 at the time. Fatal Fury Special was out around that time and i was amazed with Tung's stage - couldn't get over the intro graphics

I had to sell it because of money problems and now i'm on my 3rd system and hopefully i can keep this one.

Basically Beat em ups got me into Neo and i havent looked back

Whenever Samurai Shodown came out in the arcades, that's when I started playing the Neo Geo. I must admit though, I wasn't much of a fan of Fatal Fury or AOF at the time though. But yea, Samurai Shodown was it for me. I also played some Crossed Swords and Cyber-Lip from time to time, but not too much.

I remember drooling over neo games that I saw in electronic gaming monthly in the early 90s. Those were the days.

First games I really got into were Super Spy, King of Monsters and Crossed Swords in the arcade. Couldn't afford the home system then.

Later on, Samurai Shodown really got my attention, and was the clincher that made me buy a used Neo Geo in 1995.

Was out of the Neo from 1996-1998.

Got back into it in 1998, and have been playing it ever since then.

[ May 12, 2002: Message edited by: GregN. ]</p>

I have been into the neo geo since of 1990 when i saw ninja combat and 8man sengoku magician lord
in the arcades and a video game show name video power The game show was co-hosted by Johnny Arcade and a guy named Terry Lee Torok anyone remember that show and electronic gaming monthly
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Yeah I remember that show!

I first read about the Neo Geo AES in an Playboy Article in the Cool Toys section. Yeah, some of us actually get that far in the magazine.

I saw my first Neo Geo AES back at an Electronics Boutique in '91 if memory serves.

I bought my first AES in '94.

I stated playing Neo Geo MVS arcade games in the early '90s.

1990! A friend of mine told me about this game at our local NCO club (Fatal Fury). He said it was a game like Street Fighter 2 (which we were both fans of). I liked the game, but SF2 was still my main game. Then Fatal Fury 2 came out. The world was never the same for me..

1991 i´ve came into the Neo-Scene, but i´ve heard of the Neo-Geo a bit earlier, when it came to the Arcade in 1990!!!

My first Games were:
King of Monsters *oh my god... *
Magician Lord *brilliant*
Nam75 *brilliant*
a little bit later "Art of Fighting" and then the AWESOME "Samurai Showdown!!!"

So, looks like i´m not a NEWBEE anymore...

Technically, I've owned a Neo-Geo system since Christmas 2001 (I got it on my birthday, but didn't hook it up until a couple days after I returned from my Las Vegas birthday bash), but I've played the games in arcades since early 1993 (with numerous long, extended breaks in-between). The first time I saw a Neo-Geo system was in an ad for Gamepro back in early 1991. The first time I saw an MVS in real life was in August 1992, at a massive arcade in Delaware. The first time I actually played a Neo-Geo game was when I saw a four-slot MVS at a local hotel near home; it had World Heroes, Fatal Fury 2, Magician Lord, and Nam 1975 [I played the first two mentioned].

Believe it or not, what made me get a Neo-Geo console was not emulation or word of mouth, but, in fact, Capcom vs. SNK for the Sega Dreamcast (yup, you heard right). Playing that game brought back memories of when I first played King of Fighters '94 at Claredon Kalidescope in northern Virginia back in June 1995, and from there, I bought King of Fighters: Dream Match 1999 for the Dreamcast in April 2001 (and King of Fighters '99 Evolution one month later). After that, I continued my nostalgic trip by discovering KOF Online, which gave me a lot of background knowledge on the KOF series (up until then, I didn't know there was a KOF game for every year, much less one for 2000).

After buying King of Fighters '95 for the PSX in July of last year, I decided to get a Neo-Geo cart, just to see what one looked like (I had a lot of money saved up from my successful auctions). Naturally, I chose to get King of Fighters 2000, since it was the one KOF game I had never heard of, and because I thought that it would be the last cart ever produced by SNK. One month later (after being bowled over by the sheer size of the cart), I went to Otakon 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland, where I got to not only play on an actual AES system, I also got to play KOF 2000 for the first time EVER! After that, I knew that I had to get an AES, but I would have to do some research before taking on such an endeavor. In October 2001 (one month after I had returned to college to start my sophmore year), I came to a website called Neo-Geo.com. The people there seemed very knowledgeable, and two months later, I not only removed neogeofreak.com and orochinagi.com from my watched sites list, but I also got myself a KOF '98 AES cart (at a great price), a system (also at a great price), and a converter (to play the numerous MVS carts I'd be getting for my birthday). Since then, I've had nothing but good times with my Neo-Geo home system (aside from a few curse words after my younger brother creamed me in Magical Drop 3; it was his first time no less), and I look forward to many more good times to come.

I first got into it almost 8 years ago. I just HAD to have Samurai Shodown II!! So, I got a new Neo and Sam Sho II. I was still in high school then, so I couldn't really afford new games. I managed to collect a handful of games, but since I couldn't afford to regularly get new ones I kind of fell out of touch with my Neo. I just rediscovered the joy of the Neo 4 or 5 months ago . And I've fallen in love again .

First Neo game I ever saw was Baseball Stars Pro back in '90 at an arcade close to the University I was attending at the time. I marveled at the graphics but I had no idea a home system existed yet. Heck, I wasn't even aware that it was a Neo Geo game I was looking at because I paid no attention to the system intro, I was too busy marveling at the graphics.

I then saw a home system for sale at a local computer store for $699 CDN and realized that it was the same company, although my limited knowledge of the Neo failed to point out that the home system was the arcade system, not simply the companies home system.

After not paying too much attention to the Neo or it's arcade games for a long while, my friend showed me his home system back in '94. First game I saw was Baseball Stars 2 and knew that everything I knew about games was wrong. With his many connections, my friend found a used system with two controllers and a copy of Baseball Stars 2. I then bought a few games (8 in total) and owned the system until '99, before selling it to buy a DVD player that I wanted.

After not missing the Neo for long, two months ago I started loggong on to ebay and found listings for Neo products. Needless to say, the magical Neo Geo bug bit me again and I won a hard-fought auction for a japanese system with four games. I now own 14 games for the system since I bought it and don't think I'll make the same mistake again.

The good news is I still own that wonderful DVD player (Pioneer DV606-D), since I sacrificed my previous system for it.

I was intrigued by the Neo when I first read about its upcoming debut as a rental system in Japan in a VERY old issue of EGM (issue 8 I believe, had Castlevania 3 on the cover.) Some time later I popped into my fave 7-11 near the University Of Arizona (I was 15 at the time), and lo and behold, a mighty 4-slot Neo cab with the original heavies, Magician Lord, Top Players Golf, Nam'75 and Baseball Stars Professional.
Five dollars later, I knew I'd eventually own one....one and a half years later, during the summer after graduation from high school, I got one from a friend in lieu of money I was owed....spent the next two months hating Sengoku and wanting another game....

From February 1992...

I stumbeled upon the NEO AES in a fantastic store that no longer exists , " Incredible Universe " it was like Best Buy on crack and it even had a Mc Donalds inside you could play just about every system available including Pioneer Laseractive
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Its when Samurai Shodown was first released I spent 3 hours playing , I kept getting my ass whupped by the employees that worked there . I went every weekend Just to play Samurai Shodown , It was like a Drug , Until finally Incredible Universe closed . I hear when they finally had their last weekend sale they were selling the AES for 100$ ....50$ for the used floor model . Too bad I was young and Jobless

Totally enjoyed SamSho II and WH 2 in the arcade back in the day, but I don't count that as it was a part of the arcade days for me. I only count the amount of time that I've had my AES...which is almost seven months now. Up until the last Mid-West gathering I had no idea such games as Slugs, LB, MOTW, MD, and others even existed These past seven months have presented me with some exceptional game'n that I never experienced before. SNK = quality game'n goodness

Oh yah...Lee...awesome sig brother

I discovered the neo-geo by an article in egm that my friends showed to me when the AES came out. Little while after i played some neo-geo games in my fave arcade, then my friends rented an AES. That was probably around 1991 or 1992. Since then, i've wanted a neo-geo.

When i saw new games were still coming out for it a year ago, i knew i had to get one. My mvs board is in the mail now Only a few more days without neo-geo...

Thanks to various neo-geo emulators, i discovered a lot of great games that i missed. Now i want them all !

At first game mags , where I saw Magician lord ,

Its was too expensive so I just played it at the arcades ,

Then I didn't buy a Neo system till 99 ,

Wow some nice long responses there. keep em coming

this site got me back into the neo geo last year after leaving the scene for a couple of years and im starting to get my interest back again