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Neo Geo AES System - Video Game Console | 
 enlarge | From: SNK
Category: Video Games
Buy Used: $450.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 18886
Media: Video Game
UPC: 048001050402
EAN: 0048001050402
ASIN: B001375P22
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
The Neo-Geo is a cartridge-based arcade and home video game system released in 1990 by Japanese game company SNK. The system offered comparatively colorful 2D graphics and high-quality sound. A major platform for arcade games at the time, the system was also available as a costly home console. The two versions of the system were known as the AES (Advanced Entertainment System, the home version) and the MVS (Multi Video System, the arcade version). The Neo Geo was marketed as 24-bit, though it was technically an 8/16/32-bit multiprocessing system.
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The Old-School Enthusiast's choice February 14, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Being a veteran gamer, both home and arcade, of the 80's and 90's, I remember looking at the Neo-Geo system with awe when it was released for the home market in 1990.
Back in the day, the 16-Bit Genesis was the gamer's choice. Sega managed to muscle its way into many a household. The system was way ahead of the 8-Bit NES in terms of technology. However, even the mighty Genesis was no match for SNK's arcade muscles.
Touted as a "24-Bit" system, the Neo-Geo actually contained 16 and 8-Bit processors working in parallel. Nevertheless, in terms of graphical power, the Neo-Geo outdid anything on the home circuit.
Being identical to its arcade counterpart, the home carts were about the size of a hardcover dictionary. While the Genesis boasted of having 8 megabit carts, the Neo-Geo was pumping out carts that contained 50-plus megabits of graphical power.
Of course you paid for that power. The standard price for a new cart was roughly $200, in addition to the system itself costing about $500. Later on, the price got steeper. I paid $300 for a brand-new Metal-Slug X cart in 1999.
Nowadays, SNK's Neo-Geo home cart system has attained cult status. A handful of the system's rarer games can clock in at over $1000 each on the collector circuit.
Obviously, the Neo-Geo is a technological relic compared to todays gaming systems. But the beauty of the Neo-Geo relys in its unique path thru the gaming landscape. Long live 2D!
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