Hmmm My personal glory days so to speak Would probably be only a few years ago in 2018 when I picked up my first real bit of hardware (NGCD) and a few games some of which I had never heard of or played before getting the NGCD.
I was aware of Neo Geo long before that but never had the money to indulge.
In the 90's my family was not exactly rich (shit still aint) and lived out in the countryside so MVS was an occasional excitement when we would visit bowling alleys or Cinemas etc that had one, And the AES was just a Myth I had read about in magazines and talked about in the playground but nobody had ever seen.
I remember going on holiday to Blackpool one year and feeding money into a machine with Puzzle Bobble in which I love and one of the KOF's I think 95 or 96?
And the first time I got to play Metal Slug I near Jizzed my pants.
Fast forward back to now and I have the NGCD, MVS and a CMVS.
I have the entire library on a Neo SD and a pretty good collection of games for the NGCD.
Dont have many titles for the MVS but the ones I do are all ones I like and when I find some more at a agreeable price I will expand it
Its a cruel kind of joke really that back then I didnt have the money, Now I have the money the prices are higher now than they were then and cant really be justified