What an over the top story. You let some friends play your games.
Yeah, well ... I could have told the one about me and my obscenely rich friends going to a shady club to watch naked girls crush tarantulas with their high heel stilettos, but that wouldn't have had anything to do with Neo Geo, now would it.
I was genuinely excited to see people, who are just trying out this new thing called "console gaming", digging Neo games. Pretty much anyone can get into Wii Sports immediately, but how often do you see a "non-gamer" try out KoF 9X and say they want more? This is literally the first time I've seen it happen. My friends don't care about Neo games. Today's kids couldn't give two shits about them. All they can talk about are CoD, CS:GO and all the paid skins you can pimp out the same damn weapons with. It's 2017, and kids are crazy about paying for actual textures. How messed up is that?
BlackaneseNiNjA said:
It would be nice to see the neo geo talked about on gaming sites more for SNK's game catalog legacy, hardware design advances & missteps, and their three pillar approach to an industry that was quickly moving away from coin-op distribution; as opposed to just the price tag focus most SNK articles tend to be saddled with.
This is exactly the kind of real arcade talk I miss offline. There's so much more to arcade history than the pointless top ten lists, hidden gems and articles written by MAME users. I remember listening to one episode of Retronauts, or some other 1UP related gaming podcast in which the topic was arcade memories. One of the guys started telling the story of how he and his friends used to mess with a Street Fighter 2 machine in one of the arcades, "converting it" to Rainbow Edition, by crawling behind the cabinet or wherever and crossing some random wires. Crossing different wires was causing different effects in game, supposedly. This was the last time I've listened to a gaming podcast. And to think they do this for a living.
andsuchisdeath said:
I had zero interest in the saturn when it was current. It ended up becoming my favorite console, more or less.
Saturn was a major contributing factor to me being low on cash back in the day. Importing some of the later releases wasn't cheap, but they were never coming to Europe, and I really wanted to play them. Back then, I wouldn't play SF Zero 3 any other way. Paying for a relatively new CPS2 game was out of the question, of course.
Famicommander said:
Maybe if Sonic Xtreme or another mainline 3D Sonic made it to Saturn it could habe made a difference.
Looking at the titles which made the PlayStation fly off the shelves, I doubt it. Though I did always think it was a damn shame that the 3D section of Sonic Jam was merely a hub for movies, art and all that jazz. Oh well.
acampero said:
The Switch actually got him into fighters since he's been playing KOF all the time on it and figuring out all the special moves.
Ha! Looks like the Switch is a gateway drug leading the uninitiated masses back to arcade roots. Two documented cases and counting.