Hi, thanks everybody! sorry for the late reply! (working on the book! fortunately it is 99% finished!)
BlackaneseNiNja said:
That is really interesting massi. Is it possible to ballpark when this change occurred? Thank you for sharing!
Humm... I guess somewhere in 1991? Need to crosscheck the phone number advertised in price lists (if the same of the hot line..probably not), so the last game title reported will give you an idea of the date (the games have been re-printed so that's kinda hard to say from them)
totoro said:
Very impressive collection as mentioned...
Did you have to move all that from Italy to USA???
I shipped a lot of stuff and sold the cabinets, while I kept some other things in Italy...never again!
FAT$TACKS said:
That's an awesome collection. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Also, I never realized that your avatar pic was your actual picture of you, until now.
hahaha!! you got me indeed..
SIMIONI said:
Super collection Massimiliano!!! What history about this bag? I have one too, came with gold system dogtag. Thx!!
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/attach...1&d=1487279308
This is the JPN carry bag offered to rental customers or often as a prize for the first persons buying the console after July 1st 1991 relaunch or participating in magazine contests.
K1ngArth3r said:
So much great stuff here!
I love the NEO-GEO KIOSK! That's great!! Also love the shelving and the way you've covered up the AES games with that NEO-GEO cover!
Someone noticed it! Thanks a lot...got the vector, which was cut to compensate the shelf doors space, made by a member here..can't remember his name but he did a great job!
I knew this one would be amazing and yes it lived up to it and beyond. Thanks for sharing your treasures with us!
By the way, that's the nicest Hotel Unit I've ever seen. Still has all those various stickers on it. Did you get it as NOS?
Thanks, not a NOS no,it definitively was used before, few scratches here and there, nothign bad though. Story behind it is that I won the yahoo auction (I guess 2008ish) and got it shipped to a friend's house close to Osaka, where it stayed for 4 months, until I went there and carefully dismounted it, so I could ship it *safely* to Italy...here you can read about when I mounted it back cleaning it a bit further...(and dumping the bios now available in MAME!) :
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?194023-Neo-Geo-Deck-(Hotel-Unit)-bios-dumped