The first samurai shodown without a doubt. It wasn't the first neo geo game I played, but when it came out was when I fell in love with the neo. I still think it has to be one of the top 10 best games of all time.
The first game for me was world heroes. The one that got me hooked was metal slug and puzzle bobble. Every laundromat around town had an mvs cabinet. I put so many quarters into them machines. Lol. I bet if I would have saved up all them quarters I would have been able to just buy an AES and all the games I was playing lmao and probly be able to put a down payment on a house.
The first Neogeo game I played was for the Super Famicom at a friend's house, Garou Densetsu, or "King of Fighters" like he used to call it since that was the only readable text on the cart front cover, I thought the music and FX was amazing for the time,
But he first time I played on an actual Neo Geo hardware was in a bar near my uncle house, the game was Blues Journey, great graphics and amazing sound, but I didn't like its insane difficulty.
The first Neogeo game I played was Fatal Fury 2 in a restaurant. Gotta love Mai, Terry and that incredible train scenario. Simple game but a classic one.
I really dont know if it was the first game or maybe it was World Heroes but I have good memories about Fatal Fury 2
I remember riding my bike to Ducks Pizza on NAS Pensacola to waste quarters on Metal Slug and Aero Fighters when I was kid. I used to always be impressed when the pilots would show up after work and absolutely dominate the games.
I can't remember if I posted in this thread before or not
Back in the day when I was a kid, it was Blue's Journey that was my first real Neo game that made me want more. As an adult, KoF2000 brought me back to Neo.
Blue's Journey back when it first came out in the arcades. Remember playing it at an arcade under a Godfather's Pizza. The arcade is long gone but the pizza joint it still there
Fatal Fury 2. First time I pulled off Kim's desperation move gave me a tingle all over. I enjoyed magician lord, b b stars 2, Nam 75 and what not but it was ff2 that hooked me forever.