Is the Neo-Geo the longest running system?

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I know the GameBoy lasted ages, but with evermore games on the horizon for the Neo-Geo (be it home / MVS), wouldn't the Neo-Geo be the longest running system in history? Twelve and a half years odd? loco

Aint it amazing when you think back to 1990, and were still gettin new games!!!!!

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as long as people aren't stupid and sayPC or Gameboy, then yes.

Same goes for the Amiga, though it aint exactly a 500 anymore, much like PC n Gameboy have transmogrofied.
 
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Yes it is to my knowledge.

Gameboy, Pc, nor Amiga count because they all went through changes/upgrades and are basically backwards compatible.

Neo-Geo is still the same system as it was all those years ago.
 
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If you think of system value in terms of longevity, had you bought a Neo Geo back in 1990 and still had it today, you'd actually have gotten your moneys worth out of it. To think of how much money I've spent on games since 1990, ugh oh_no .
 
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Its mad sometimes when you think......

My interest in Neo started in 1993 with Fatl Fury Special, and through all these years Ive gone off it for a couple of years here and there, and got bored with it and sold stuff etc. But when I check out the scene after a two or three year gap, Im constantly astounded to discover the Bloody thing is still going!!

Considering the slagging it gets from all the ps2 groupies etc. how can you possibly mock the Neo when its survived this long, even through bankruptcy for gods sake!!

Its a Legend! loco
 
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To be honest, I would rule out Gameboy. The reason is that you can't play GBA carts in the original GB.... so the systems have gone through a number of changes to stay viable. Whereas, the neogeo of 1990 = the neogeo 2003.

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Lastblade:
To be honest, I would rule out Gameboy. The reason is that you can't play GBA carts in the original GB.... so the systems have gone through a number of changes to stay viable. Whereas, the neogeo of 1990 = the neogeo 2003.
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The same could be said of the PC, as obviously Doom 3 won't be played on a 486 anytime soon. wink

I would say that the Neo Geo is the longest running system where professionally-made games are still being created. There are a number of older systems that people still create homebrew games on (Atari 2600, Vectrex, Intellivision for example).
 
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Long live the neo geo:)
I must admit my fav system of all time was the genesis as i love platform games but you got to hand it to the neo geo as no other machine has lasted this long and the fact that brand new titles are in the making for the next couple of years means its longevity will be hard to match, i mean u cant exactly imagine games being made for the X-box in 5 years time let alone 15!
 
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Phoenix Down:
I would say that the Neo Geo is the longest running system where professionally-made games are still being created. There are a number of older systems that people still create homebrew games on (Atari 2600, Vectrex, Intellivision for example).
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One system that people have forgotten to mention is the PC-Engine. Unlike the US counterpart, the Turbo-Grafx 16 (which had an untimely death thanks to some very bad marketing decisions), the PC-Engine had a very long shelf life. I'm not sure exactly when the system made its debut in Japan, but I think it was sometime around the release of the Famicon back in the 80s. The system lasted well into the 90s, and even had an official release in the late 90s with "Dead Of The Brain" soon after the system was considered dead. I'd say that the Neo Geo and the PC-Engine are about neck and neck right now... but the way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if the Neo Geo broke that record soon. :)
 
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The MSX home computer had an official release in Dec 2001.
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But consider the gap of time and if the games are home brew, CGE has a few releases on really old systems. Back to:

PC-Engine - It started in 1987, but the last game made in early 1999, Dead of the Brain 1 & 2, requires Super CD-Rom, which is basicly the hardware upgrade released back in 1992, so you'd have to count from that point.

Game Boy - Count the last Game Boy Color game, which you can still play on the very first Game Boy unit the end of Game Boy run, once they stop making GBC games, the streak is over.

So there you have it, Neo-Geo, 13 yrs and still going. You still use the same system bought back in 1990. Back in 1994 when I bought first AES system in Funcoland, a store clerk told me why I wanted Neo-Geo instead of Sega CD, NG would be dead soon, he said.

This is first time we get a really good thread and discussion.
 
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ForeverSublime:
The MSX home computer had an official release in Dec 2001.
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What game would that be, and is it for MSX, MSX2, MSX2+ or Turbo R? Difference because this is like the amiga/gameboy/pc story, with each new msx standard they upgraded its hardware but stayed backwards compatible.
 
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You can still buy brand new Famicom (NES) computers in Japan, I see 'em all the time, although I highly suspect that they are leftover stock and not anything that is being produced.

Obviously no new Famicom or Super Famicom games are still in production.

There is one game, however, that Nintendo has had in production since 1889

Anyone care to guess what it is?
 
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had in production since 1889[/b]

Anyone care to guess what it is? [/QB][/QUOTE]


Maybe we should ask to Kaede :p
 
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VinylBoy:
The system lasted well into the 90s, and even had an official release in the late 90s with "Dead Of The Brain" soon after the system was considered dead.
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Dead of the Brain 1&2 was the last game published in 1999.
It's mixed of Snatcher/Resident Evil/Night of living dead type game. Very special game IMO.

Game theme involves rape, violence, and other adult materials.

Fortunately I have two copies but sold one two years ago :)
 
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What does Nintendo, Coleco, and Tandy have in common?

They all started out in leather goods-

Nintendo, 1889- Leather playing cards
Coleco (Conneticut Leather Company)- Uh leather items
David Tandy, early 20th century- Leather goods. His son, Charles would use his father's leather scraps and sell them to JC Penney and other stores for a quarter. Many years later, he had one of the largest retail chains in the world, Radio Shack
 
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Electroman:
What does Nintendo, Coleco, and Tandy have in common?

They all started out in leather goods-

Nintendo, 1889- Leather playing cards
Coleco (Conneticut Leather Company)- Uh leather items
David Tandy, early 20th century- Leather goods. His son, Charles would use his father's leather scraps and sell them to JC Penney and other stores for a quarter. Many years later, he had one of the largest retail chains in the world, Radio Shack
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spock leather playing cards?
 
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I agree that the NG is the longest running system of all time.

Of course, it won by weird twist of fate: that the MVS arcade systems (which were developed as a way of advertising the home system, like Nintendo's Playchoice machines) ended up being the success that pulled the home system(s) along.

If the MVS hadn't been such a tremendously successful system, the AES would've died a looong time ago.
 
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Thats nothing, I've been running around outside with a stick going 'pitoo pitoo' shooting imaginary aliens since 1979. smirk
 
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Hmm, even last year they made some GBC game that will work on a regular gameboy. But they weren't very good, so we will go two years back to when there were real GBC games being released that would work on the original GB. Now the Gameboy came out a couple years before the Neo Geo, so I'd say they're about tied for first right now.
 
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I believe the Sega Master System was 1988 and the last release was 1998 which was a good 10 years but the Neo has lasted the longest I believe. Although TG16 and atari Jaguar are notable mentions Jag has games planned for 2004 eek! so does lynx eek!
 
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NOPE! I thought the Neo:Geo was the oldest at 13 years but it's not... The PCE DUO also still as support (i.e. games released) by Mindrec on the Super CD-Rom format, and the PCE (well not counting the Duo version but the PCE overall) came out in 88-89. Also there are a few unofficial Mega Drive games floating around that were released sometime in the early 2000s. So while yeah, Neo:Geo is in the limelight due to it having official support all these years later, some other consoles still are in the running as well. Heck, Elevator Action was just released a year or two back for the Atari 2600 of all systems.

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