I would visit SNK in Torrance, CA once a month, hang out with Chad "The Gamelord" okata, look around in their warehouse, most of the space was for the MVS, Carlos would be in the back repair console and listing to 80s Thrash metal, once saw a VHS tape of a 4 player Multi-Link version of World Heroes, a custom cart of Last Resort with no slow down, Chad had a 32" Sony PVM in his office with RGB cable connection and custom sticks, front desk had a MVS mini and framed SNK posters on the wall, got a SNK Christmas Card with Samurai Showdown characters trimming the tree, good times
I remember going down there with a friend to get his Neo CD repaired. I think what was supposed to be a quick drop off and go trip ended up being an all day event.
@@bondosho They through away MVS marque signs and move stickers in their trash, I would always dig through and come home with cool stuff. Got to know Chad "The Gamelord" Okata petty well, he came over my house, we played Fatal Fury Special in my living room, we also went down to arcades that SNK was test marketing new games, just stand back and what peoples reaction for research, Stanton Arcade in Stanton, CA and Aladdin's Arcade in Del Amo Mall, Del Amo, CA, we both watched a kid use Cheng Sinzan on FFS, beat everyone, unreal!
@@javierruizleon I live in Yorba Linda. My friends and I would hit up Stanton Golfland every weekend. We'd go see Alex rip through every challenger on Street Fighter variant there was. Good times.
I would take my memory card with a save from the home console and take it to the arcades, the look on peoples faces when I started the game on the last level of Magician Lord. I had a score of 999, 960 on Magician Lord, sent a pic to EGM
My wife and I just flew in from WI to Texas yesterday with our daily trip today to the NVM. We play the metal slug anthology all the time on the ps2, and now we finally got to play metal slug 2 together on a real mvs there. Absolutely wonderful time!!!
Thanks for the video man ! I was born in 86 and never had and probably never will have NeoGeo console , however I played all of afore mentioned when I was a kid back in the 90s and can 100% confirm that they are quality titles. Great content as usual :)
I've personally only ever seen one Neo Geo in a store down here in the South West of England. Its a very scarce system over here. Although I have played alot of great Neo Geo games like Shock Troopers, Metal Slug and Windjammers from releases on other systems! Those games are great!
Wouldn't say scarce. They were around in all the import shops back in the day. My local one had it at launch on import the same as every other console. You can buy them easily on Ebay surely now.
My only experience with the Neo Geo is through the arcade cabinets. Even then, I only played one game: Samurai Shodown. Where I lived as a kid, you were either a Sega kid or a Nintendo kid. Nobody I knew was rich enough to afford a Neo Geo. But I have always wanted to play Metal Slug.
My favorite game on Neo Geo was Magician Lord. I used to live in Coney Island. Faber's arcade used to have a Neo Geo cabinet (If you remember you were able to continue the game on the cabinet using a storage card). The sound on the system was the best on all the game consoles at the time. I used to _love_ the music.
Magician lord rocks big time great game and one of the firsts out for the system probably a launch title. Too bad it never got a sequel...an one hit wonder!
Great video i was a kid bk in the day so i never got to have a neo growing up. Despite of that songs were sung of how great a console it was and when i played metal slug 1 on an MVS...man i learned why! Years passed i got my hands on MAME and later on a Neo geo x gold (not the same as the original) but for those of us with not thousands of dough in our pockets it seemed a good deal. I would ve loved it more if it had done better as a project..it didn't. Anyway i wish i could play some matches of windjammer with you or Samurai showdown 2 its different when you play with someone that appreciates and knows what hes playing!
As a brazillian dude, I was only able to play NeoGeo via emulador in the late 90s. But I totally agree that MetalSlug 3 is the Swan song together with Garou Mark of the wolves. Kof 98 , the last blade 2, sengoku 3... Even Street slam is super Fun. Great video as always. Thanks buddy
The Last Blade 2 is my favourite fighting game on the Neo Geo (closely followed by Garou: Mark of the Wolf). I loved playing Windjammers in the arcade as a kid. Soccer Brawl is fun, and Baseball Stars 2. So many great games on the Neo Geo!
This is a great top 5. Its a hallmark of the neo geo u could make another 10 equally convincing 5s. Eg last resort,metal slug 1,art of fighting 1, puzzle bobble 1, league bowling
Great video John! I’m not a collector of Neo Geo but I will purchase their games on PSN or eShop. I’m surprised 3 Count Bout didn’t break into your top 5
The Neo Geo is one of those systems where you could ask 15 people what they're top 5 games are and you might not hear the same game twice. Having said that...Metal Slug 3 and Blazing Star would probably be on my list ; )
Metal slug a lot, when my dad would drag me to his soccer matches he would hand me a 20 dollar bill and tell me go to the arcade till my game over. And of all the arcade games that sound of the metal and guns drew me to the neo geo cabinet, it was metal slug 1,2, puzzle bobble, metal slug got me hooked and I have been porting it to every console I buy soon I want to get the stand up cabinet
Thank you for the journey from worst to first with the Jag & Neo Geo game reviews. I wish I had picked up a Neo Geo back in the day, they were just so damn expensive. Keep the awesome reviews coming.
As long time gamer and collector for the Neo Geo. I’d have to say my top 5 that are absolute timeless masterpieces in ranking order: 1- Neo Turf Masters 2- Metal Slug X 3- King of Fighters 98 4- Blazing Star 5- Garou Mark of the Wolves
Great list! I had actually never heard of it before but my friend from KC and I were in the underground hole at Harvey Mudd College before it was redone and a new dining hall built, and they had a windjammers cabinet, and my Midwestern friend said how much he loved it and ran to it to play … love the bright and bold in your face and great Neo Geo stuff.
Hi john im a long time fan of you and the Seattle retro gamers. Here in Australia I never had the neo geo when new and still dont but the console is awesome. It was mega pricey back then but so worth it. Wish i did buy one.
I wish they never stopped with the neo geo... it was so ahead of its time. Never found a neo geo game that didnt impress me in some way. I like to imagine sometimes how modern games would be if we never advanced past neo geo... like, imagine smash bros or something on neo geo. That would be so cool!
Samurai Shodown is awesome and still holds up! I had brought my Neo Geo with me to my college dorm and used to have a blast with floormates playing on the common area.
Only 5!?!?! That's a hard choice yo make but your picks are great. Definitely had a few of my favs in there. The neo geo is just stacked with great games, I say it's harder to find bad games on it then great games.
I love you game decisions on the top 5. I have a Neo Geo AES system. I do have a cartridge of all the Neo Geo games all in one. I do own about 20 titles of AES games and some MVS games. For the MVS one of my favorite games is Nightmare in The Dark
Top Hunter, Neo Drift Out, and Andro Dunos are some of my favorites. I am looking forward to the new releases: Kraut Buster, Xeno Crisis and Project Neon as well.
Super Sidekicks, Fatal Fury 2, Real Bout Fatal Fury, Neo Turf Masters, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special are the games I go to the most, especially RBFFS. So many good games, and as a fan of fighting games, the Neo-Geo is a dream come true!
Oh God, I'm so happy to see Shock Troopers made the cut. Underrated, yet understandably overshadowed by Metal Slug. And Windjammers of course, still looking forward to the new one when it's going to release
Living in Mexico, some of these games weren't known here as much (except Metal Slug 3, one of the most popular titles for the NG in the arcades). Neo Geo was synonymous of fighting games (specially KOF lol) here.
A nice list. Shock Troopers is a great time, and with multiple routes, it's even better (but I also can't deal with the graphics on the sequel). Although I love MS3, I think (due to the epic length of those final stages) I would personally put X as my favourite MS game (or maybe even the first one). Right now I'm trying to get 1CC's on Last Resort and MSX. My favourites on the MVS would go something like: Last Resort, Metal Slug (X>3>1>2), Last Blade, Garou MotW, KOF '98, Turf Masters, Twinkle Star Sprites, SS4, Windjammers, Magical Drop III (easier to pick 10 than 5).
Pretty great list, I wouldn't have gone with Blazing Star but I have to agree with the other four in terms of time spent. Always thought those early SamSho games were the WOW!!!! fighting games from NeoGeo. Not that KoF isn't great, but at the time Samurai Showdown was a game that could make me forget about Street Fighter II series for a while.
Strangely the corner store where I lived in Montreal had a 2 cart MVS in a corner that had King of Monsters and WakuWaku 7, very weird selection and I never saw the owner change them, at least not while I was living there. So both those became favorites of mine and my friends, maybe more so because of nostalgia than for how good they were. Although I do own both carts today and still play them.
Great video. My favorite game on the Neo Geo would probably be Super Dodge Ball. The way the game incorporates fighting game specials with dodge ball combat was extremely addictive to me. Definately my favorite versus game on the system. Windjammers is great too but Super Dodge Ball feels like it has alot more depth and things going on with multiple players to take out. The first Shocktroopers and first 3 Metal Slug games are probably the best action games on the system for me as well. Blazing Star was great. The great thing about Neo Geo is that most of the games are super high quality since they were mostly arcade games. There are some I dont like but for the most part the games were atleast very well made technically.
My go to for Neo Geo is King of the Monsters 2. I'm a big kaiju fan and this one was more fun than dozens of other Godzilla games. There have been ports to other systems but as usual the AES/MVS fidelity reigns supreme.
Blazing star, Metal Slug 3 are in my top 5 as well. But I must add King of Fighters 96, Trash Rally and Double Dragon! Although Windjammers and Ultimate 11 have a special spot in my heart!
My dad bought a Neo Geo cab back in the 90's, but it was pre-internet for us and we didn't know how to get more games for it so we ended up getting rid of it. I cry sometimes thinking about how rad it would be to still have it.
Blue’s Journey is severely underrated and one of my very favs. Shock Troopers, Metal Slug 3, and Windjammers are definitely top tier. I’m not a huge 1 on 1 fighting game fan..but I always enjoyed the colorful oddness of Savage Reign.
Neo Geo was also really good for beat 'em ups. I think the console is severely overlooked and underrated when it comes to that genre. Mutation Nation and Robo Army are great and I play those on mine often. A Neo Geo beat 'em up video would be a great idea because so many people love the genre and have skipped these ones.
I gonna have to disagree with you on that I was disappointed with there offerings. Especially when you compare them to all the great beat em ups on the 16 bit systems.
I love NeoGeo cause it's arcade. Infinite continues. Sometimes I want a tough challenge, but sometimes I just want to sit down and blow up buildings in KotM or blow up everything in Metal Slug. It's the best system for sit down and have fun in 30 seconds.
Samurai Shodown 2 is brilliant, but so is the Neo Geo. I bought the AES cart when it came out, which I still have, yet the blood code eluded me so I got the bios chip. The MVS entered my collection when I bought a one-slot and hooked it up to my supergun. Games were cheap so I went that route until I picked up a consolized MVS about four years ago.
Never had a Neo Geo and I was planning on getting one at some point, then I got into my senses when I saw the prices of the consoles and especially those of the games. So whenever I played Neo Geo games, these were ports on other consoles or I played them via emulation. Favorite games: anything from.KoF series beyond KoF 94 and 95, Mark of the Wolves, all Metal Slugs but primarily the first one because I have fond memories with it, Samurai Shodown and very recently I discovered Kizuna Encounters which was pretty much love at first sight 🙂. I can't say there are bad games on the Neo Geo, so pretty much whatever you would choose, it wouldn't be wrong.
I love Neo-Geo! Never had one as a kid, but am fascinated with it now in my 30’s! I love you’re picks and I love King of Fighters. My favorite is 2002, I’m guessing that’s your favorite too John?
I have the Neo Geo aes... But only have 6 games, all fighting, of course, so I recently purchased a neo geo cdz.... But let me tell you, I'm so in love with it, I have like 30 games in each and every one are amazing 🥰
Have decided to reduce my console & game collection. Now just have a Switch, Dreamcast, NEO GEO AES and have started collecting for my Neo Geo AES and MVS , MVS mainly due to prices! I have many NEO GEO games on my Switch which are great, but there is nothing cooler than having a physical copy of a NEO GEO game in your collection! recently picked up Last Blade (MVS) Metal Slug (MVS), and Shock Troopers (MVS) good times!
Way back in the 90s. I was at the mall where i found a Neo Geo and game's clearance for 59$ machine,20$ a game. I bought them instead of a 3do. The funny thing? The 3do and PlayStation was the reason why they were clearing out the Neo geo. Best score of my life. Sega sending me a Dreamcast and all its game's was the second.
good Friday afternoon John. I bet its raining in Longview because it's raining in Centraila. Never did have a Neo Geo. who made that system and what system would you compare it to ? Thanks for all the videos work hard on, and maybe I will see you at Portland Convention Center at the game show.
All of those games look awesome and right up my alley. Unfortunately I had a bad combination of being broke and not having any friends with one at the time.
the best thing about samurai shodown 2 is that sometimes you can get a 2 second kill. no other fighting game has ever done that. the best fighting game on neo geo and my all time favorite fighter.
For some reason I always go back to Art Of Fighting 3, I think it's the best fighter for the casual. I also like to go do a full round of Magical Drop 3 up to the final boss. That game is super addicting, fast and awesome music.
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Another top five video here th-cam.com/video/cXH3auJxu9M/w-d-xo.html
ON THE GLEENN!!! Been playing the best golf game ever made.
Love metal slug 3. I got it on xbox.
Don't you mean,"ON THE GREEEEEEN"?!!!
@@gjergjaurelius9798 I got MS 3 on the Vita and it's still DOPE AS HELL
I was talking About Neo Turf Masters.
I love Turf Masters
I would visit SNK in Torrance, CA once a month, hang out with Chad "The Gamelord" okata, look around in their warehouse, most of the space was for the MVS, Carlos would be in the back repair console and listing to 80s Thrash metal, once saw a VHS tape of a 4 player Multi-Link version of World Heroes, a custom cart of Last Resort with no slow down, Chad had a 32" Sony PVM in his office with RGB cable connection and custom sticks, front desk had a MVS mini and framed SNK posters on the wall, got a SNK Christmas Card with Samurai Showdown characters trimming the tree, good times
I remember going down there with a friend to get his Neo CD repaired. I think what was supposed to be a quick drop off and go trip ended up being an all day event.
@@bondosho They through away MVS marque signs and move stickers in their trash, I would always dig through and come home with cool stuff. Got to know Chad "The Gamelord" Okata petty well, he came over my house, we played Fatal Fury Special in my living room, we also went down to arcades that SNK was test marketing new games, just stand back and what peoples reaction for research, Stanton Arcade in Stanton, CA and Aladdin's Arcade in Del Amo Mall, Del Amo, CA, we both watched a kid use Cheng Sinzan on FFS, beat everyone, unreal!
@@javierruizleon I live in Yorba Linda. My friends and I would hit up Stanton Golfland every weekend. We'd go see Alex rip through every challenger on Street Fighter variant there was. Good times.
My favorites:
Metal Slug series.
Blazing Star.
Shock Troopers.
Windjammers.
Sengoku 3.
Neo Geo graphics are so beautiful even in 2023.
Last Blade 2 the settings and music is amazing.
Samurai Showdown 2 and King of Fighters 95 were my go to fighting games. Loved this video, and love the NeoGeo!
I would take my memory card with a save from the home console and take it to the arcades, the look on peoples faces when I started the game on the last level of Magician Lord. I had a score of 999, 960 on Magician Lord, sent a pic to EGM
Cool dude 👍
I was born at Mercy hospital in Redding haha always love your childhood stories
Twinkle Star Sprites is an addicting unique shooter puzzle game that is also quite addicting.
So happy to see you do this list!! One of the first times I saw you was with Jason, you and your NeoGeo collection. Great list
Love Samurai Showdown & Metal Slug!
My wife and I just flew in from WI to Texas yesterday with our daily trip today to the NVM. We play the metal slug anthology all the time on the ps2, and now we finally got to play metal slug 2 together on a real mvs there. Absolutely wonderful time!!!
Thanks for the video man ! I was born in 86 and never had and probably never will have NeoGeo console , however I played all of afore mentioned when I was a kid back in the 90s and can 100% confirm that they are quality titles. Great content as usual :)
Definitely great picks here!
I would add Spin Master and Baseball Stars 2!
I've personally only ever seen one Neo Geo in a store down here in the South West of England. Its a very scarce system over here. Although I have played alot of great Neo Geo games like Shock Troopers, Metal Slug and Windjammers from releases on other systems! Those games are great!
Wouldn't say scarce. They were around in all the import shops back in the day. My local one had it at launch on import the same as every other console. You can buy them easily on Ebay surely now.
My only experience with the Neo Geo is through the arcade cabinets. Even then, I only played one game: Samurai Shodown. Where I lived as a kid, you were either a Sega kid or a Nintendo kid. Nobody I knew was rich enough to afford a Neo Geo. But I have always wanted to play Metal Slug.
Awesome list , gotta a raspberry Pi with all Neo Geo games. Gonna go back and hit these up. Great video as always.
Have fun!
My favorite game on Neo Geo was Magician Lord. I used to live in Coney Island. Faber's arcade used to have a Neo Geo cabinet (If you remember you were able to continue the game on the cabinet using a storage card). The sound on the system was the best on all the game consoles at the time. I used to _love_ the music.
Magician lord rocks big time great game and one of the firsts out for the system probably a launch title. Too bad it never got a sequel...an one hit wonder!
Great video i was a kid bk in the day so i never got to have a neo growing up. Despite of that songs were sung of how great a console it was and when i played metal slug 1 on an MVS...man i learned why! Years passed i got my hands on MAME and later on a Neo geo x gold (not the same as the original) but for those of us with not thousands of dough in our pockets it seemed a good deal. I would ve loved it more if it had done better as a project..it didn't. Anyway i wish i could play some matches of windjammer with you or Samurai showdown 2 its different when you play with someone that appreciates and knows what hes playing!
You nailed it with these 5 choices. I would have to agree with this top 5 pic 100%...
As a brazillian dude, I was only able to play NeoGeo via emulador in the late 90s. But I totally agree that MetalSlug 3 is the Swan song together with Garou Mark of the wolves. Kof 98 , the last blade 2, sengoku 3...
Even Street slam is super Fun.
Great video as always. Thanks buddy
The Last Blade 2 is my favourite fighting game on the Neo Geo (closely followed by Garou: Mark of the Wolf). I loved playing Windjammers in the arcade as a kid. Soccer Brawl is fun, and Baseball Stars 2. So many great games on the Neo Geo!
Always love playing my neo geo aes. So many great titles, magician lord, windjammers, Garou, shock troopers to name a few.
Good list. Love the variety
Thanks!
This is a great top 5.
Its a hallmark of the neo geo u could make another 10 equally convincing 5s.
Eg last resort,metal slug 1,art of fighting 1, puzzle bobble 1, league bowling
Sports games for the NG tend to be a lot more thoughtful in design than other consoles that cares too much about roster and team.
Great video John! I’m not a collector of Neo Geo but I will purchase their games on PSN or eShop. I’m surprised 3 Count Bout didn’t break into your top 5
The Neo Geo is one of those systems where you could ask 15 people what they're top 5 games are and you might not hear the same game twice. Having said that...Metal Slug 3 and Blazing Star would probably be on my list ; )
Great list! The Neo Geo just needs more attention in general. Theres so many great games, choosing 5 games is just about impossible.
Neo turf masters is soooi addicting
Metal slug a lot, when my dad would drag me to his soccer matches he would hand me a 20 dollar bill and tell me go to the arcade till my game over. And of all the arcade games that sound of the metal and guns drew me to the neo geo cabinet, it was metal slug 1,2, puzzle bobble, metal slug got me hooked and I have been porting it to every console I buy soon I want to get the stand up cabinet
Thank you for the journey from worst to first with the Jag & Neo Geo game reviews. I wish I had picked up a Neo Geo back in the day, they were just so damn expensive. Keep the awesome reviews coming.
Pulstar! Or Mark of the wolves, and Neo Turf Master, and and puzzle bobble.
I've bought just under 50 neo geo mvs carts over the last year and I love the platform so much. Your top 5 is very close to mine.
As long time gamer and collector for the Neo Geo. I’d have to say my top 5 that are absolute timeless masterpieces in ranking order:
1- Neo Turf Masters
2- Metal Slug X
3- King of Fighters 98
4- Blazing Star
5- Garou Mark of the Wolves
Great list! I had actually never heard of it before but my friend from KC and I were in the underground hole at Harvey Mudd College before it was redone and a new dining hall built, and they had a windjammers cabinet, and my Midwestern friend said how much he loved it and ran to it to play … love the bright and bold in your face and great Neo Geo stuff.
Jaguar, now Neo Geo. I like where this best/worst series is headed.
Hi john im a long time fan of you and the Seattle retro gamers. Here in Australia I never had the neo geo when new and still dont but the console is awesome. It was mega pricey back then but so worth it. Wish i did buy one.
Love me some: Magician Lord, Cyber Lip, Neo Turf Masters, Metal Slug, Spin Masters, Blazing Star, Viewpoint, Ninja Commando & League Bowling!
I wish they never stopped with the neo geo... it was so ahead of its time. Never found a neo geo game that didnt impress me in some way. I like to imagine sometimes how modern games would be if we never advanced past neo geo... like, imagine smash bros or something on neo geo. That would be so cool!
They still hold up today visually so well
@@ChairmanMeow1 for sure. Hell lots of snes games hold up pretty well. Some still get ported such as crono trigger.
I bought a Neo Geo cdz recently and went crazy with games. The AoF series is amazing and I sunk a ton of time into the KOF series as well.
Nam 75.... Man, the sound and the music of that game will stick with me until I die. ..
Samurai Shodown is awesome and still holds up! I had brought my Neo Geo with me to my college dorm and used to have a blast with floormates playing on the common area.
Snk vs capcom and neo geo battle coliseum are underrated gems
Only 5!?!?! That's a hard choice yo make but your picks are great. Definitely had a few of my favs in there. The neo geo is just stacked with great games, I say it's harder to find bad games on it then great games.
I love you game decisions on the top 5. I have a Neo Geo AES system. I do have a cartridge of all the Neo Geo games all in one. I do own about 20 titles of AES games and some MVS games. For the MVS one of my favorite games is Nightmare in The Dark
I agree with you on samurai shodown 2, it’s one of my favourite one on one fighters, it’s excellent 👍
Top Hunter, Neo Drift Out, and Andro Dunos are some of my favorites. I am looking forward to the new releases: Kraut Buster, Xeno Crisis and Project Neon as well.
Garou - Mark of the wolves 1 of my favourites , the gameplay is so tight , a special game by the masters at SNK
Great choice ! (So glad I got ’em all and that way can avoid getting myself into a pricey MVS buying frenzy again.)
Super Sidekicks, Fatal Fury 2, Real Bout Fatal Fury, Neo Turf Masters, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special are the games I go to the most, especially RBFFS. So many good games, and as a fan of fighting games, the Neo-Geo is a dream come true!
VICTOLY! Love the list John. Definitely agree Sam Sho 2 is the best
I’m glad to see I’m not the only one just feeling Storm Troopers 1 is much better than the second and very fun!
I have loved Baseball Stars 2 ever since I played it at Super Just Games/ Nickel City in Deerfield, IL. Still fun.
shock troopers is one of my favorite games of all time!
Oh God, I'm so happy to see Shock Troopers made the cut. Underrated, yet understandably overshadowed by Metal Slug.
And Windjammers of course, still looking forward to the new one when it's going to release
Living in Mexico, some of these games weren't known here as much (except Metal Slug 3, one of the most popular titles for the NG in the arcades). Neo Geo was synonymous of fighting games (specially KOF lol) here.
A nice list. Shock Troopers is a great time, and with multiple routes, it's even better (but I also can't deal with the graphics on the sequel). Although I love MS3, I think (due to the epic length of those final stages) I would personally put X as my favourite MS game (or maybe even the first one). Right now I'm trying to get 1CC's on Last Resort and MSX.
My favourites on the MVS would go something like:
Last Resort, Metal Slug (X>3>1>2), Last Blade, Garou MotW, KOF '98, Turf Masters, Twinkle Star Sprites, SS4, Windjammers, Magical Drop III (easier to pick 10 than 5).
Pretty great list, I wouldn't have gone with Blazing Star but I have to agree with the other four in terms of time spent. Always thought those early SamSho games were the WOW!!!! fighting games from NeoGeo. Not that KoF isn't great, but at the time Samurai Showdown was a game that could make me forget about Street Fighter II series for a while.
Amazing selection!
One that I came across recently that I really got into is "Nightmare in the Dark" Reminds me a little of Bubble Bobble with a horror theme
Shock Troopers is probably my singular favorite Neo Geo title. Its the love child of Ikari and Metal Slug.
Strangely the corner store where I lived in Montreal had a 2 cart MVS in a corner that had King of Monsters and WakuWaku 7, very weird selection and I never saw the owner change them, at least not while I was living there. So both those became favorites of mine and my friends, maybe more so because of nostalgia than for how good they were. Although I do own both carts today and still play them.
Great video. My favorite game on the Neo Geo would probably be Super Dodge Ball. The way the game incorporates fighting game specials with dodge ball combat was extremely addictive to me. Definately my favorite versus game on the system. Windjammers is great too but Super Dodge Ball feels like it has alot more depth and things going on with multiple players to take out.
The first Shocktroopers and first 3 Metal Slug games are probably the best action games on the system for me as well. Blazing Star was great. The great thing about Neo Geo is that most of the games are super high quality since they were mostly arcade games. There are some I dont like but for the most part the games were atleast very well made technically.
My go to for Neo Geo is King of the Monsters 2. I'm a big kaiju fan and this one was more fun than dozens of other Godzilla games. There have been ports to other systems but as usual the AES/MVS fidelity reigns supreme.
We have a Windjammer's duel cabinet at my local arcade. Love that game.
I really really REALLY enjoy Spin Master! The graphics, gameplay and just the overall cartoon vibe make it so much fun imo.
Blazing star, Metal Slug 3 are in my top 5 as well. But I must add King of Fighters 96, Trash Rally and Double Dragon!
Although Windjammers and Ultimate 11 have a special spot in my heart!
Great video, John. Thanks. I know you're a baseball guy; what do you think about Baseball Stars for the Neo Geo?
Love it and it’s sequel
I haven't played too many Neogeo games, but my favorite one that I have played on emulator was Waku Waku 7. I love that game, so fun to play.
My dad bought a Neo Geo cab back in the 90's, but it was pre-internet for us and we didn't know how to get more games for it so we ended up getting rid of it. I cry sometimes thinking about how rad it would be to still have it.
Exactly, I once compared the Samurai Showdown series, and I agree -- part 2 is the best!
Blue’s Journey is severely underrated and one of my very favs. Shock Troopers, Metal Slug 3, and Windjammers are definitely top tier. I’m not a huge 1 on 1 fighting game fan..but I always enjoyed the colorful oddness of Savage Reign.
Neo Geo was also really good for beat 'em ups. I think the console is severely overlooked and underrated when it comes to that genre. Mutation Nation and Robo Army are great and I play those on mine often. A Neo Geo beat 'em up video would be a great idea because so many people love the genre and have skipped these ones.
I gonna have to disagree with you on that I was disappointed with there offerings. Especially when you compare them to all the great beat em ups on the 16 bit systems.
I'm quite a fan of spin master, money puzzle, puzzle bobble 2x among others.
Metal Slug 3 is my favorite, but I'm also very nostalgic for the first Fatal Fury and World Heroes. Also check out Spin Master its really fun.
Really Great Top 5 if you ask me and I agree with your number 1.
Windjammer was cool did not play it much.
Would swap it out with Art of Fighting 3 😅
AOF 3 and World Heroes Perfect are ones that I need to play more. Good, but not my go to games. KOF 98 was my sixth pick.
I love NeoGeo cause it's arcade. Infinite continues. Sometimes I want a tough challenge, but sometimes I just want to sit down and blow up buildings in KotM or blow up everything in Metal Slug. It's the best system for sit down and have fun in 30 seconds.
Mutant Nation ! And Robo army are may Favorites
Samurai Shodown 2 is brilliant, but so is the Neo Geo. I bought the AES cart when it came out, which I still have, yet the blood code eluded me so I got the bios chip. The MVS entered my collection when I bought a one-slot and hooked it up to my supergun. Games were cheap so I went that route until I picked up a consolized MVS about four years ago.
I love the Fatal Fury and World Heroes series!
Never had a Neo Geo and I was planning on getting one at some point, then I got into my senses when I saw the prices of the consoles and especially those of the games.
So whenever I played Neo Geo games, these were ports on other consoles or I played them via emulation.
Favorite games: anything from.KoF series beyond KoF 94 and 95, Mark of the Wolves, all Metal Slugs but primarily the first one because I have fond memories with it, Samurai Shodown and very recently I discovered Kizuna Encounters which was pretty much love at first sight 🙂. I can't say there are bad games on the Neo Geo, so pretty much whatever you would choose, it wouldn't be wrong.
My Top 5 Neo Geo Games. SNK vs. Capcom - SVC Chaos Plus, Kizuna Encounter, Waku Waku 7, Ironclad & Prehistoric Isle 2.
I love Neo-Geo! Never had one as a kid, but am fascinated with it now in my 30’s! I love you’re picks and I love King of Fighters. My favorite is 2002, I’m guessing that’s your favorite too John?
That sports game is digitized air hockey. I can dig it.
I really don’t know how you sleep, you work and have this hobby. I am trying to keep up collecting as well even though I work 77hrs/week
Metal Slug 3 and Blazing star are my favourites. Can't split them.
I have the Neo Geo aes... But only have 6 games, all fighting, of course, so I recently purchased a neo geo cdz.... But let me tell you, I'm so in love with it, I have like 30 games in each and every one are amazing 🥰
Good choice of games 👍
Have decided to reduce my console & game collection. Now just have a Switch, Dreamcast, NEO GEO AES and have started collecting for my Neo Geo AES and MVS , MVS mainly due to prices! I have many NEO GEO games on my Switch which are great, but there is nothing cooler than having a physical copy of a NEO GEO game in your collection! recently picked up Last Blade (MVS) Metal Slug (MVS), and Shock Troopers (MVS) good times!
Way back in the 90s. I was at the mall where i found a Neo Geo and game's clearance for 59$ machine,20$ a game. I bought them instead of a 3do. The funny thing? The 3do and PlayStation was the reason why they were clearing out the Neo geo. Best score of my life. Sega sending me a Dreamcast and all its game's was the second.
Love it when you review the less common systems.
Can't argue with any of them John. I do like Garou. Mark of the Wolves
good Friday afternoon John. I bet its raining in Longview because it's raining in Centraila. Never did have a Neo Geo. who made that system and what system would you compare it to ? Thanks for all the videos work hard on, and maybe I will see you at Portland Convention Center at the game show.
Neo Geo was everything right about arcade gaming in the 90s. Here is some basic info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_(system)
All of those games look awesome and right up my alley. Unfortunately I had a bad combination of being broke and not having any friends with one at the time.
SamSho II
Windjammers
Neo Turf Masters
Mark of the Wolves
Blazing Star
the best thing about samurai shodown 2 is that sometimes you can get a 2 second kill. no other fighting game has ever done that. the best fighting game on neo geo and my all time favorite fighter.
Top Hunter and Viewpoint were unique games, I had about 90 carts back in the 90s
For some reason I always go back to Art Of Fighting 3, I think it's the best fighter for the casual. I also like to go do a full round of Magical Drop 3 up to the final boss. That game is super addicting, fast and awesome music.