Do you have a NGPC now? Did you 15 years ago?
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I got mine shortly after release when I was living in Holland. I bought most of my games during that same time period.
Match of the Millennium
Sonic
Metal Slug 1 and 2
Puzzle Bobble
Biomotor Unitron
That's about it. Love the system and still play it.
Match of the Millennium
Sonic
Metal Slug 1 and 2
Puzzle Bobble
Biomotor Unitron
That's about it. Love the system and still play it.
Danthor
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It can be! The last few fights always give me a ton of grief. Especially the Geese/Bison team. Orochi Ryu is also a pain, and a special kind of hell on any difficulty above normal.
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Bought one in 2002 from the Neo Store and joined the forums a few months later.
When it first dropped, I had no idea what it was and never saw it. But a buddy had one in blue camo and I loved it.
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When it first dropped, I had no idea what it was and never saw it. But a buddy had one in blue camo and I loved it.
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Kidgorilla
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I just bought one last week with a loose Sonic. Got an ok deal on Card Fighters boxed and a UK Faselei, so now I'm thinking of really get into collecting (at least the NA releases)
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The boxes are cool, but the American cardboard boxes do not hold up well. It's more like a firm cardstock. This is one reason people gravitate towards the UK clamshells, but the prices are fairly high.
I'm never sure which model is a slim vs regular for the color models.
I'm never sure which model is a slim vs regular for the color models.
The slimline is the one with the word "Color" above the righthand corner of the screen in script (handwriting style) rather than printing.
Kidgorilla
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It's one of the blue American ones. I like the clamshells, but I kind of like how the cardboard NA boxes look on my shelf so far. It's going to be a long road to get them all for prices I'm willing to pay, but I've been lucky so far
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I really should get one tbh... I never got to play those games in all their glory back in the day. I was so jealous of people playing SvC MotM on NGPC...
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A system and MotM is a much better purchase than SVC Chaos. Cheaper, too.
Hellfromabove
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You're right 100%. I also never played the card battle games, always wanted to try those as well.
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I got a silver console with Metal Slug and Samurai Shodown 2 shortly after release..... but it died after about six weeks so I took it back and exchanged it for a PlayStation with, I think, Alundra.
Since then I've completed the UK/Euro full set of 39 colour games, plus the two cover variations, and the five B&W titles.
I think it's an absolutely fantastic system, such a shame to see how many unreleased titles were supposedly in development. Windjammers Pocket would have been awesome.
Since then I've completed the UK/Euro full set of 39 colour games, plus the two cover variations, and the five B&W titles.
I think it's an absolutely fantastic system, such a shame to see how many unreleased titles were supposedly in development. Windjammers Pocket would have been awesome.
Colorado Rockie
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What are the two cover variants? I think Metal Slug 1st Mission is one, but what is the other? And yeah I agree that there were many cool games on the horizon. High School Baseball, Ikari Warriors, Magician Lord, SNK Racing, Sakura Taisen, plus many others were rumored at the time. Would have been nice to see the system supported for at least a year or two longer.
Colorado Rockie
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Ah gotcha. I have the Metal Slug ones, wasn't aware of SS having a variant. I'll keep an eye out for it. I still need the black and white games as well but I sort of gave up on looking for those.
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Which Metal Slug variations are you speaking of?
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You won't regret it. It's a great little system.
Colorado Rockie
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The U.K. version has two back covers. Here is a pic of mine. The front and spine are identical, just the back cover is different.
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Sorry, should have been clearer. There are a couple of variants of the back covers where the lower section differs, but I was on about front cover variations. Samurai Shodown 2 is the most obvious as the white and orange artwork is completely different. The other is Pocket Tennis which has subtle colour differences and probably isn't even noticeable unless you're looking.
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Thanks for the info. I'll keep my eye out for those.
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The U.K. version has two back covers. Here is a pic of mine. The front and spine are identical, just the back cover is different.
The left one is the original worldwide release, and the right is an updated European release. There are at least two more multilingual European releases. They have descriptions in multiple languages on the back and include separate manuals for each language.
A good number of the earlier titles have three separate language variants.
Except for Samurai Shodown (that got the later cover also used on the US release), it's only the back that is changed on these versions.
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this. Wish there was a more active homebrew scene for the NGPC...