First Neo Geo game you ever saw/played?

[neo-geo-mvs]

First game I remember playing was KOF 94 in the Canaries (probably Majorca) in an arcade.

Used to see AES carts in HMV Oxford Street, London and remember seeing View Point - so wanted that game but £200 was way off my budget back then!

 

[hsriner1984]

I was waiting in line for the SF2 cabinet n saw a few people playing World Heroes, played KoF95 first tho a few weeks later

 

[krautcroissant]

Mallorca is not in the Canary Islands

For me it was Robo Army and World Heroes in a local video game shop. I was tiny and had no chance to get a shot of the games... but watching was enough! I was hooked!

Turtles in Time, Batman Returns, and eventually Street Fighter 2 on the SNES helped me to get over it...back then

 

[ROBO2011]

Art of Fighting on the AES. I was very impressed by the big characters!. They still look very big!

 

[neo-geo-mvs]

Mallorca is not in the Canary Islands

oops, meant Gran Canaria.

I always found the Spanish Islands always had the best Neo Geo games

 

[SNKorSWM]

The first time I saw the homecarts was in Software etc in the local mall. Though most of the games they stocked were the older ones and dropped in value over time.

 

[neoman]

First game played was KOF 94 followed by Samurai 1
For me KOF 94 with those cool combos seemed to kick street fighter on it's butt.
good memories.

 

[Ozmiander]

Definitely Magician Lord. the only supermarket in a small town and we were lucky enough to have an MVS cab.

 

[SkeletonDog666]

I'm fairly certain it was one of the Metal Slug games. I've no idea which one. My memory is terrible...

 

[ggallegos1]

I recall a laundromat a few blocks from my apartment when I was very young had a 4 slot MVS. I dont recall most of the games (all fighters that looked the same to my ignorant child mind), but I do remember Aero Fighters 2 as one of the games vividly. I played that game over and over, amazed that a dolphin could cause so much carnage.

Soon after one of the fighter games was replaced with Metal Slug. That was it.

 

[o.pwuaioc]

For me, it was Nam 1975 on an AES (for the first time just a few years ago!), and various (Bust-a-Move maybe first, but also Metal Slug maybe) in arcades for years.

 

[Blondin]

Ninja Combat. It was my very first game on the system, back in December 1990. I had the Neo Geo for Christmas and chosen Ninja Combat for my first game. I played it countless times, it was really fantastic... Graphics, sounds, animation.... i had only this one for two months, but i never felt bored with it. Next came Magician Lord, but that's another story...

 

[geise]

First Neo game for me was Sengoku. The atmosphere, sound, and graphics at the time just blew me away. Then I played Magician Lord.

 

[trenog]

First game was NAM 1975 for me. Seeing a somewhat Contra-like game play out on the screen in front of me with high quality assets was great as a first time Neo-player.

 

[SkeletonDog666]

My son played his first Neo-Geo game today! SNK vs Capcom. Makes a father proud.

 

[Liquid Snake]

First game to play: Ninja combat
First game to buy: Ninja combat

 

[Massive Urethra Chode]

I'm not sure what my first neo experience was, honestly. I think it was either a metal slug game at an arcade when i was a wee child, or a neo-geo pocket color at a friends house. I didn't own an AES or NGCD till 2013 though.

 

[K1ngArth3r]

Fatal Fury when it was first released, I remember seeing it in CV&G magazine

AT&T he same time I saw Robo Army, great memories... Always wanted the system!

 

[ballzdeepx]

My son played his first Neo-Geo game today! SNK vs Capcom. Makes a father proud.

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Man, you are like the best dad ever.

Great stories though everyone, glad to hear em!

 

[Geddon_jt]

Mine would have to be the "Super Spy". It was at Adventure Island theme park in Tampa probably 1992. Blew me away.

 

[Neorebel]

When I was a child my parents took me to the Jersey shore each summer - specifically, Wildwood. There's a long boardwalk, and at the time in the early 90s, there were at least a half dozen BIG arcades there containing all the latest and classic games. It was then that I started noticing that these 'Neo Geo' games looked more impressive and played more fluidly than a lot of the others. I believe the very first game I played back then had to be the original Samurai Shodown. That game will always be one of my favorites of all time.

 

[Arcademan]

I worked in a game room when the original 4 slot Neo-Geo MVS came out and while I was impressed with Magician Lord, Ninja Combat and Nam 75, so some reason I got into Baseball Stars quite a bit. Used to sit there and play complete games on all 4 of them without paying for them...the advantages of owning the cabinet

 

[Pretty Amy]

Never seen the word "lastability". I'm going to throw that one into my lexicon.

 

[tcfkae]

Super Sidekicks 2, in a big sit down cabinet at Cain's amusements, Herne Bay, Kent (UK), around 1995.I used to pour money in trying to win the cup as England. The big colourful screen and booming speakers had me hooked. I finally managed to win the cup, cheered on by a bunch of local kids who congregated around the cabinet to watch - still one of my proudest achievements (and probably the only time the England football team will win anything in my lifetime...)

 

[Rot]

Metal Slug .. I still remember how awesome it seemed to me.