NEO-GEO games used the same carts at home and at the arcade. They were the only system that could really bring the arcade experience home. They also had arcade style controllers.
The only system until Dreamcast, which was basically just a consolization of the Naomi arcade board. Both are legendary for bringing arcade classics into the home with no sacrifices.
...Perhaps? Very big difference in the quality of the graphics though:
Neo Geo was so expensive because, for a 2D machine, it offered unparallelled richness of color, animation and detail compared to the other game consoles of its day (The SNES, Genesis and Turbo GrafX 16) If by "original Nintendo games" you actually meant SNES, there's still quite a large gulf in visual quality:
SNES was a fantastic system, but Neo Geo was just on a whole other level.
Nope, I meant the first Nintendo console... there is a big difference though! I didn't even know that existed... even now until I read your post. Thanks for the education :)
NEO-GEO games used the same carts at home and at the arcade. They were the only system that could really bring the arcade experience home. They also had arcade style controllers.
The only system until Dreamcast, which was basically just a consolization of the Naomi arcade board. Both are legendary for bringing arcade classics into the home with no sacrifices.
And both, sadly, are legendary for being commercial flops here.
Popularity and greatness only rarely coincide, and even then it's mostly by chance.
...Perhaps? Very big difference in the quality of the graphics though:
Neo Geo was so expensive because, for a 2D machine, it offered unparallelled richness of color, animation and detail compared to the other game consoles of its day (The SNES, Genesis and Turbo GrafX 16) If by "original Nintendo games" you actually meant SNES, there's still quite a large gulf in visual quality:
SNES was a fantastic system, but Neo Geo was just on a whole other level.
Nope, I meant the first Nintendo console... there is a big difference though! I didn't even know that existed... even now until I read your post. Thanks for the education :)
Just imagine the delight of the few privileged kids who received a Neo Geo for Christmas...