Johnny Arcade introduces SNKs Neo Geo

only the 2-slot board had the memory card reader built in. The other versions of the board had support for a memory card reader.
I think the main idea of the memory cards was to tie the coin-op MVS games with the home AES system they sold at the same time. I believe the idea was that you can play a game at home, save it to your memory card and then start at that same level either at home or at the local arcade.
 
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eh, no biggie, kinda an under-breath chuckle..






Just thinking the home system may have done fine with the longest console life to date

1990~2004 (rip)....
 
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I use to love that video game show when I was a kid. I remember at the end the winner got to run through the isles of video games with a velcro suit on. They would have a mystery game in the "mall" and if picked that game you would win an awesome prize. One time it was a Neo Geo AES system. I thought that was the coolest thing ever. The Neo Geo AES got very little action in any of the video game mags at the the time. I had "heard" of the Neo Geo AES but never saw one. All I knew at the time was it played arcade games and the carts were super ass expensive.

I would dream about sticking tens of games to my suit. I use to yell at the TV as a kid. I always wondered why people didnt grab them and hold on to them with there hands. Maybe it was a rule you had to stick them to the suit or something. Seems like they would always fall off and you would make it out of there with only half of what you grabbed.

What a great Saturday morning show...
 
wow, flashing back on that one....I can picture it now......thanks for that
 
eh, no biggie, kinda an under-breath chuckle..






Just thinking the home system may have done fine with the longest console life to date

1990~2004 (rip)....


I know ! People diss Neo Geo Home system like it didn't do well but it lasted waaaaaay longer than I think any other console .
 
I used to see them at the babbage's and electronic boutiques in the malls...
 
THe home system did pretty well in Japan... Or at least better than it did in the USA.

The home system was also planned to be a rental system. So the Memory card would be rather intergral... Buy a memory card, rent a system, return the system, then have the ability to continue your game by going to the arcade or renting a system again.

The plan to rent the system fell through.

In japan there was also a hotel system. I think it took coins but worked on the hotel TV. I don't think it took memory cards.
 
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I chose the wrong words. Maybe its not that the home system didnt do well. It just wasnt one of the more well known systems like Nintendo or Sega.
though thats not say it wasnt as good.
 
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