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I got my first AES in 1992. I'd read about the neo in various video game magazines and really wanted one. I was at school at the time and started working for a screen printing company at weekends and in the holidays. I was saving as much as I could to buy a neo even to the point of thinking about buying just the console and then saving for a game. Must have driven my parents mad going on about the neo-geo all the time. Anyhow, one day my dad picked me up from the screen printing place and instead of going home we drove off into town 'to run an errand'. Turns out my dad spotted a neo-geo for sale in the local paper and arranged to go a look at it. He knew how much I wanted it so he put the rest of the cash in and we bought the pal machine for 」300.00 with two controllers, memory card and best of all - Fatal Fury and Robo Army - the two games I most wanted. I think at the time just the neo was 」299 and those two games were 」120.00 each.
At school there were only 3 of us with a neo-geo so we bought/sold/shared games between us. I briefly owned two for a while after a convoluted trade which saw an Amiga CD32 being traded for the neo geo and then for an Super Famicom with a stack of games.
I ultimately sold that PAL system in 1994/5 when the CD machine was coming out as I expected prices to dive. It was sold to a company in Leeds for about 」900 (9 games in total).
I ended up buying another neo-geo in 1997 from Loaded Consoles. The owner took the cash and then took forever to deliver on the goods (suspect he sourced one after taking the order). Anyhow it turned out to be a gold boxed system which I still have to this day. I do have another neo which is a Japanese modified machine that was acquired from Rot in 2009/10.
Frazer
At school there were only 3 of us with a neo-geo so we bought/sold/shared games between us. I briefly owned two for a while after a convoluted trade which saw an Amiga CD32 being traded for the neo geo and then for an Super Famicom with a stack of games.
I ultimately sold that PAL system in 1994/5 when the CD machine was coming out as I expected prices to dive. It was sold to a company in Leeds for about 」900 (9 games in total).
I ended up buying another neo-geo in 1997 from Loaded Consoles. The owner took the cash and then took forever to deliver on the goods (suspect he sourced one after taking the order). Anyhow it turned out to be a gold boxed system which I still have to this day. I do have another neo which is a Japanese modified machine that was acquired from Rot in 2009/10.
Frazer