Digmac
Leona's Therapist
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I've been thinking about this for a little while now, having looked through Japanese Neo Geo magazines from 1995 to 2000. When you look at the magazines published on the Neo, the decline of SNK becomes immediately apparent around mid 1998 to early 1999. Neo Geo Freak started covering Neo Geo ports to the Playstation and Saturn due to the lack of releases on the Neo Geo and Hyper Neo 64. The magazine became dominated by the Neo Geo Pocket, ports, and SNK games for the Playstation like Athena: Awakening from the Ordinary Life and Koudelka.
That made me think: What were the "glory days" of the platform? To me personally, I think it was between 1993-1997. I feel that everything the Neo Geo has to offer genre wise was fully shown in this time period, as well as the hardware being utilized to a high degree. You have a wide variety of fighting games, great shmups, excellent puzzlers, Metal Slug and Shock Troopers, Sengoku 2, OverTop and Neo Drift Out, Neo Turf Masters, Quest of Jongmaster and the list goes on. I think that the decline of the Neo Geo was already happening by 1997, and it's not like there wasn't excellent games released before 93 and after 97, but that's just my two cents.
What do you guys think? What were the "glory days" of the Neo to you?
That made me think: What were the "glory days" of the platform? To me personally, I think it was between 1993-1997. I feel that everything the Neo Geo has to offer genre wise was fully shown in this time period, as well as the hardware being utilized to a high degree. You have a wide variety of fighting games, great shmups, excellent puzzlers, Metal Slug and Shock Troopers, Sengoku 2, OverTop and Neo Drift Out, Neo Turf Masters, Quest of Jongmaster and the list goes on. I think that the decline of the Neo Geo was already happening by 1997, and it's not like there wasn't excellent games released before 93 and after 97, but that's just my two cents.
What do you guys think? What were the "glory days" of the Neo to you?