POLL POLL: Did You Ever Play The Neo-Geo In The Arcade Back In The Day?

PuzZle bobble a ton.

I couldn't figure out the fighters for this system and still not great at them....

Also remember coining up puzzle bobble for the various girlfriends BITD so I could continue playing snooker or 9 ball.
 
Never saw one, never played one and never even heard of one until I went on my second arcade road-trip ever back in 2004. I was picking up a vs. Dr. Mario for my wife just outside of Milwaukee. It was an eBay auction I'd won while I was vacationing in Hawaii. I was so stoked because the seller had a pic of a PC-10 conversion in a DK cab in the auction listing. I was new to the hobby so after staring at the pic for a while I decided to research the PC-10 a little. When I found out you could have 10 games in the machine at one time I almost shit my pants. I get there and the dude leads me to the upstairs of an old dilapidated stand-alone garage. In fact, as far as I remember, it was the only thing on the lot, there wasn't even a house. Anyway, we get up there and I stood there in disbelief. I looked around and all I could see was garbage everywhere, dirty clothes and rags all over, and on and around 2 or 3 rat infested couches lay hundreds if not thousands of porno mags as far as the eye could see. After my eyes re-adjusted and I stopped shooting loads into my pants I was finally able to see several beat up arcade machines sitting against the wall around the room. There was a Hang-on, the Dr. Mario and a few other conversions. I walked up to my new Dr. Mario and said, "WTF is this? I thought I bought a PC-10?" "Oh no, this is just a regular old Dr. Mario," he says. "But the pic" I said, "The pic in your auction was of a PC-10." "Oh yeah," he says "I forgot. I was just trying to give the buyer an idea of what he was getting." I'm like, "huh? That pic looks nothing like what I am getting" Then I take a closer look at the machine. The bottom was rotten, the cab sides were rotten about 12" up and the machine needed a serious cap kit. No wonder he didn't take pics of the actual machine for the auction. Oh, did I mention that the auction had a BIN price of $350? Yeah, cuz that's the price I agreed to pay, before I knew what I was actual buying. Anyhoo, we started talking a little about the merits of the PC-10 system when he says "Oh, but you know the NEO GEO was a much better multi game system." I was like "OK, W-T-F is a Neo Geo?" He then keeps making exclamations and comments like: "You seriously never played a NEO GEO?!" "Seriously, who never heard of the NEO GEO?" "Come on, you played one, right?" "Please tell me you're kidding?" "What moron has never heard of the NEO GEO?" So when I told him "this moron", he then tried to explain the system to me. I didn't get it then, I don't get it now. I never played one, don't own one and because of that one incident, I will never have one and will forever hate the "NEO GEO."
 
I am SHOCKED that a lot of people on here don't remember seeing them or playing them...they were everywhere around here. Arcades, party stores and grocery stores. Fatal fury and samurai showdown were my faves. Even if you didn't see them you paid attention to he neo geo, even if it was the home console because they were far superior to anything on the home console market at the time. The future is Now/ SNK
 
I played many Neo Geo games back then...

Cyber Lip
Magician Lord
World Heroes 1 & 2
King of Fighters
Puzzle Bobble
Nam 75

Most of the Neo Geo's I encountered were dedicated four slot machines, or Dynamo cut corner cabs with 2 slot NG kit's installed.

However, there was a comic book store I often visited that had a 4 slot Neo Geo kit in a converted REACTOR cab, of all things!

Kyle :cool:





I'm just curious what the ratio is on this, as I never played the Neo-Geo in the arcade back in the day.

Did you?

What games do you remember playing?

:D
 
and on and around 2 or 3 rat infested couches lay hundreds if not thousands of porno mags as far as the eye could see.

After my eyes re-adjusted and I stopped shooting loads into my pants...

Are these two statements related?

:D

Great story! Did you take the cab?
 
Are these two statements related?

:D

Great story! Did you take the cab?

Yes and yes. Oh, I forgot about the black laminate front and the sweet Atari coindoor complete with temporary blocking that had been installed:

NintendoCab1.jpg
 
Seen a lot of these in 7-11's in SoCal and I did play the hell outta Puzzle Bobble. There was a last gasp
of Multi-game Neo Geo cabinets (Mostly 2-4 game) as they started to fade from places like restaurants
and laundromats.

Would love a Neo Geo 6 populated with all the Metal Slugs!
 
I played arcade games mostly from '84 to '89, which predates the Neo-Geo. In '91, during high school, I worked in a laundromat on the weekends, and there was a small arcade in the same plaza, where I discovered Street Fighter II. That started my second stint with arcade games, but pretty much only SFII series games. I got my driver's license around that time, and I started going to Bangor (Space Port at the Bangor Mall) a lot to play the latest and greatest SFII games, as well as to find some good competition.

It was around that time that I first saw a Neo-Geo machine, but it didn't interest me because it looked cheap, with its generic cabinet and artwork (if you can call it that), along with multiple games that made it seem more like a console than an arcade machine. I was never interested in the PlayChoice-10 for the same reason. Also, the fighting games on it all looked like knocks-offs of SFII.

I believe I only ever played a Neo-Geo machine once, at Dysart's truck stop in Hermon, ME in the late 1990s. I don't even remember what game it was. They had a Cruis'n USA cockpit there that I usually played.
 
I played a 2 slot big red at a local pizza joint often as a kiddo. Also played metal slug at a campground whenever I was there. The NeoGeo handheld was always a dream of mine after that.
 
Personally, I think they're ugly.

Fighting words! Haha

They had them both Alladin's Castle and Putt-Putt in the early 90s around here. Alladin's would sometimes have more than one. I really liked it ever since playing one with Magician's Lord, Nam '75, and Top Players Golf the first time and got hooked.

That's the reason why when I finally had the opportunity to get into this hobby, I got a nice MVS-2 first then started looking for older games.
 
My local arcade I went to had a single slot that was always puzzle bobble and either a 2 slot or 4 slot that they switched the games up on once in a while. The only ones I distinctly remember are samurai showdown, metal slug and windjammers
 
Played metal slug and kof in a corner store when I was in Mexico . Unfortunately I couldn't exchange money to play a ton since I was too young and grandma would have taken my cash.
 
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