Neo Geo / Game.com

[ussexplorer]

Can somebody tell me or point me to the reason Neo Geo or the Game.com system died asap. I remeber wanting to get a Neo Geo just find out by the time I save up the money for the system. It was gone. It seemed to me like an over night thing.

 

Thanks,

 

Josh

[Miqorz]

The NEO GEO is still going strong new games are being released for it all the time....well.....kinda..

 

And well the Game.com sucked....alot.

 

By the time it released it was useing really old hardware.

[ussexplorer]

Didn't the neo geo plug into the dream cast via a cable?

 

 

Also, I live in Idaho and here you have a few things. If the item is really big we will get it. If the item is not. We might never see it. In fact I find alot of things still selling strong outside of Idaho. But, I'll maybe only see it once. When I saw the neo geo it was win it hit big. I guess I could say it is the situation in Idaho. Business owners have to be carefull.

 

 

Laters,

 

Josh

[cryptik76]

Can somebody tell me or point me to the reason Neo Geo or the Game.com system died asap. I remeber wanting to get a Neo Geo just find out by the time I save up the money for the system. It was gone. It seemed to me like an over night thing.

 

Thanks,

 

Josh

 

The Neo Geo pocket is a very cool system, and it didn't die for lack of quality. The Game.com, however...

[Ze_ro]

Do you mean the Neo Geo Pocket or the Neo Geo arcade/home console system?

 

The NeoGeo Pocket probably died because of poor distribution. I think I saw it at Toys R Us for about a week before they canned it, but I never once saw it anywhere else. You can't beat Nintendo when no one knows you exist.

 

As for the NeoGeo, the price killed it for most people. The system was about $500, and the games were about $200... this when the SNES was doing stuff of almost the same quality. I always liked the NeoGeo, but the prices are just astronomical, regardless of perfect arcade versions.

 

As for the Game.com, it was basically just a bad idea. I actually have one, and it's a nifty device, but I'm sure glad I didn't buy it when it was new! Plus, most of the fast games like Sonic Jam, and Indy 500 blur hard on the screen making them unplayable... meanwhile games like Mortal Kombat Trilogy had awful animation. They had some good titles, but most of them weren't done well at all.

 

--Zero

[ubersaurus]

The Neo Geo Pocket died because the company that basically owned SNK wanted them to pull out of the american market. The sales of the Pocket, though pretty small compared to the GB, were rising.

Game.com died because it sucked, and hard. Poor refresh rate for the screen, black and white graphics, means that system couldn't do jack shit.

The Neo Geo home system "died" because of the high price. Most people couldn't justify paying 100+ for a game. However, even though they cut hardware production in...98 I think, they still make software. SNK vs Capcom comes out later this year, as does Metal Slug 5, Power Instinct Matrimelee, King of Fighters 2003, and a couple others. The day they stop using the Neo Geo arcade system is the day they stop making games for the home system.

[shep]

NeoGeo definetly because you never saw it anywhere. I would rarely see any ads for it, or maybe a couple boxes for some games at all the game stores I went to.

As for the game.com, Tiger could have had something really good since they had all the licenses from their LCD games, but they made rushed, craptacular games, and practically every game had horrendus blurring. Though it was fun to play solitaire on.

[sdstuff64]

Didn't the neo geo plug into the dream cast via a cable?

 

 

 

Yes the Neo Geo Pocket could hook up to the DC via a cable,you could trade data between KOF 99 and Capcom vs SNK to unlock various things.

 

 

Why did the Pocket die?One word.Nintendo.Which really sucked because it had some great games and the system specs were good too.I still love my NGPC,more so than my GBA.

[chrisbid]

if you want to know why the game.com died, pick one up and play it for ten minutes

[ussexplorer]

Thanks for all the information.

 

Up until recently I didn't even know Neo Geo had something other than an arcade cabinet or portable system. I didn't realize they had a full size game system. But yea for $500.00 I would stay with something else. My mark for game systems new is $100.00. That is why I'm having such a hard time getting a PS/2. Since I'm married I need at least two controllers. Plus a few memory cards. Games don't figure into my equation because they are everywhere. That reminds me of a good post. Who waits for the systems in all to hit a standard $100.00 Price? New or Used/Refubished/Renewed/etc/etc.

 

As for the Game Boy. After looking at the Game Gear. I was luckly I didn't spend money on a peice of crap. No, I'm not talking about the Game Gear.

 

Laters,

 

Josh

[Hydian]

Neo Geo pockets were everywhere here. Toys R Us, EB, Babbages, etc. It 'died' because SNK pulled out of the US market across the boards and recalled the product IIRC. It wasn't out for long enough to really develop a market share.

[ultravi0let]

the NEO GEO was the only system i realy, realy wonted. but at the time i was simply unable to pay the asking price; the games where great, but more inportantly at the time, the console design realy shouted out "F*CK YOU!"

[AtariDude]

The Neo Geo was just too expensive for most people to get into. Buy 5 games and it cost you $1,000. That was simply too much. Granted they were the exact same games as the arcade but few people could justify the cost.

 

It is possible to play Neo Geo games through emulators and you can get Neo Geo through Ebay but I don't think you can get them cheaply like say Atari 2600 games.

[Cassidy Nolen]

As for pricing:

 

Just sold a Neo Geo AES system and 5 games for someone on this board. The system, controls, cables and 5 games was still over 500 bucks. They are not cheap, but I personally think they are still some of the best old-school fighter games out there. Ghost Pilots still rocks, Samurai Shodown 2 with the big fighter pad controls is insane. I own a few MVS machines too (the big arcades), but the sports games are the ones to play in those. As common as Baseball AllStars is, its still a blast, and I myself have dumped money into Super Sidekicks.

 

I have a Neo pocket, too. Has anyone here ever used theirs on their DC? I would be interested to know if its worth getting the cable?

 

Cassidy

[Tempest]

Just sold a Neo Geo AES system and 5 games for someone on this board.

 

That would be me! Ironically I invested most of the money in building a MVS Supergun setup (and a nice 5200 prototype).

 

the sports games are the ones to play in those

 

Yeah me too. I love the Neo Geo sports games for the main reason most people hate them, they're not complex! Baseball Stars and Football Frenzy are easy and fun to just pick up without having to learn 800 plays. Realistic? No. Fun? Hell yes!

 

 

Tempest

[ventrra]

if you want to know why the game.com died, pick one up and play it for ten minutes

Funny that you should say that. People have been doing that around me and then wanting a Game.com of their own. A steady stream of Game.coms have been going from eBay, to me, to them.

[Ze_ro]

Funny you should mention that... I bought my Game.com off eBay as well. Although the system really does suck, it was so cheap that I couldn't pass it up. I think I paid $25 for the system and 8 games. Even a crappy system is worth that much.

 

And even despite it's crappiness, there's still some redeeming factors for the system. The novelty of having a touch screen handheld system alone is worth it. Plus, you get a decent version of Solitaire (without any cartridges even), and Wheel of Fortune is pretty decent.

 

Actually, I highly recommend getting one of these things. Of course, a system can hardly be called successful when it's only success is after the company stopped making them.

 

--Zero

[ventrra]

Actually, it seems that all of the boardgame type games (Henry, Jeopardy, Lights Out, MonopolyQuiz Wiz, Scabble, and the Wheel of Fortunes) play (and look) quite well on the Game.com. (Truthfully, Frogger isn't that bad.) It's the action/arcade translations that suffer. I really think that if Tiger had stuck with with board/puzzle games, no one would have any real complaints about it.

 

I think part of Tiger's lack of sucess with the Game.com had to do with the terrible marketing and distribution they gave it. I mean, at one point they tried to market it as a "Game Boy Killer" which it certainly wasn't. Plus, at least here in Muncie, it was only availiable at a couple of stores.

 

I tend to think that people who think that it's a "terrible" system either haven't played the games that it's good for or they're comparing it to some other system rather than trying to view it on it's own merits. I personally don't think that it's a "great" system, but it's not really all that bad for what it is.