Niko
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Matrimelee is a fantastic fighter and seriously overlooked. One of my favourites in general.
Most underrated Neo game
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Matrimelee is a fantastic fighter and seriously overlooked. One of my favourites in general.
oliverclaude
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SSII marked the rare occasion where the opinion of press & fans was one. Rare, because arcade games, at least in Germany, were often misunderstood by mag critics, who regarded them with their consolized eyes only, thus, what a surprise, ending their review with a derogatory assessment.
So even seen from that angle, SSII was a huge success. All the way, so to speak. To think of it as underrated is only possible, if video gaming started for you with the introduction of DLCs.
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Das burn.
BladeDancer314
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Matrimele is really good, kabuki is not bad either.
oliverclaude
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You're right, I played that ol' slacker's privilege card one too many times... yet, the 70's are hidden in a mist that hopefully never clears.
AlexKidd86
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My first thought was Blue's Journey but quite a few of you mentioned it so perhaps it's not that underrated. Baseball Stars Professional seems to be underrated because of the 2nd one. The sequel is certainly more technically impressive but doesn't render the first one useless as far as I'm concerned. They each have their own feel and I have fun with both of them. Alpha Mission is another one I enjoy that doesn't seem to get much love.
Gyrian
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It's going to have to be League Bowling for me.
I don't see a whole lot said about it, but it hasn't ever failed to put a smile on my face since discovering it somewhere in the 90's. It's got that earnest cheerfulness and personality that feels unique to arcade games from back then, and it's a total blast to run through quickly in good company!
I'd love to try this linked with 8 players someday.
I don't see a whole lot said about it, but it hasn't ever failed to put a smile on my face since discovering it somewhere in the 90's. It's got that earnest cheerfulness and personality that feels unique to arcade games from back then, and it's a total blast to run through quickly in good company!
I'd love to try this linked with 8 players someday.
Vinylblaster
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It's going to have to be League Bowling for me.
I don't see a whole lot said about it, but it hasn't ever failed to put a smile on my face since discovering it somewhere in the 90's. It's got that earnest cheerfulness and personality that feels unique to arcade games from back then, and it's a total blast to run through quickly in good company!
I'd love to try this linked with 8 players someday.
Yeah I'm with you on that one. It's just a good enjoyable simple game and i'd also like to try the 8 player sometime.
TopTierArcade
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League Bowling,appreciated by neo-geo owners i've never seen the game as underrated.Outside of it yes to non ones that see the system for metal slug and kof.It's going to have to be League Bowling for me.
I don't see a whole lot said about it, but it hasn't ever failed to put a smile on my face since discovering it somewhere in the 90's. It's got that earnest cheerfulness and personality that feels unique to arcade games from back then, and it's a total blast to run through quickly in good company!
I'd love to try this linked with 8 players someday.
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More ports? BR and the original Breakers didn't receive any ports. What does this arbitrary "love" term mean. I'd imagine the first Breakers earned enough in Japanese arcades to warrant a sequel like BR, it's not like the series was completely irrelevant. I don't think a BR homecart release would have made the game any more popular either.
I guess the first part of your post made sense.
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TopTierArcade
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More ports as in porting the game to SNES, PS1, Saturn, Virtual Console, Neo_geo/snk collection, ect. I have to disagree that it wouldn't have been more popular if the western world got the release for home console. Yes, Japan knows about it, but unless you're a niche gamer, you won't know about it. It would be better for the masses to play the game. It wasn't an arbitrary statement, it's drenched in validity and fact. Yes, first part was sweet
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Your use of "more" implies that the game received at least one port. There were no ports. I don't need you to explain to me what a port is.
Tanooki
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I just acquired League Bowling earlier this month, but was away for a bit and just missed its arrival. Fantastic game. Loved it when it was new, and sure while it's about as basic and SNES like as you can get, who f'n cares, it's awesome. I think it's non-niche underrated. We being the niche of SNK MVS/AES owners who know of it and appreciate it, but leave that small circle into the wide world of SNK ROM releases on disc or download, and it's excluded so much. SNK = Metal Slug, KOF, Samurai Shodown, Baseball Stars (also in part to the NES x 2), and not much else to so many people limited to that junk and the dotemu android/ios releases.
grimmythereaper
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i would say, league bowling or magician lord. Man the ost for magician lord is so good
NEO G-TRON
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One of my most favorite games for the Neo Geo which happens to be very much underrated is Breakers Revenge. I absolutely love everything about it!
Bad ass geese
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Always loved playing street hoops
RumbleBumble
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Neo Geo Cup 98 because it's the best game on the system.
Or on any gaming device ever in fact.
Or on any gaming device ever in fact.
BigDeadFreak
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I always thought Street Hoop was fine when you were just starting out with it but as soon as you got good you realised that it was impossible to defend and then it just became a game of "I score, you score". Maybe there was something I was missing but there seemed to be no depth to it whatsoever.
garou-densetsu
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Breakers, Art of Fighting 3 and King of Fighters 2k3.
oliverclaude
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Loved for it's adio-visual presentation (graphics rival MotW, easily), yet to give AoF3 a wide berth is in many gamers blood. The most known unplayed game on the Neo?
