Retroware TV - History of SNK/Neo Geo - Pt 1 of 3 - Ep 11

[dnlhern2]

I could hear it in my mind...

599 US Dollars.... 599 US Dollars.... 599 US Dollars....

[SeventhSun]

And Final Fight > Burning Fight

[SeventhSun]

Neo Geo games are nice, some of them classics even (like Samurai Shodown and King of Fighters), but if Capcom did a home console CPS with all their arcade hits beginning from the 80s (like Ghosts n' Goblins, Street Fighter, Magic Sword, Warriors of Fate) you know who the winner will be, even with same elite pricing.

[NielsShoe]

hes really messed up his research he said the NEO geo has aone CPU it actually had 2 it was marketed as computing power of a 24bit console as it had a 16bit processor and a 8 bit processor. What really made it special was it had extra huge graphics processors.

[NielsShoe]

The Neo Geo could do real sound samples same quality as the SNES but 15 of them at same time where the SNES only had 3 real sound sample channels the rest where for sound effects. The Neo geo sound chip is far better thwn the SNES one and is controled by a 8BIT CPU the sound chip and sound controler processor are two seperate processors. The snes sound had to go theough the main processor first then to the sound chip slowing the res of the game down.

[chaq686]

The arcade and the home console had the same almost hardware. That's that why was so expensive?

[VanillaFejz]

Growing up in Sweden, this was extremely rare to have. It was like having the ferrari of video game consoles. I had a friend who got this system at the time it was new. (Yes, he was spoild.) I remember going to his house one day and saw him playing Metal Slug. At that time, that was mind blowing. So going home later and playing my Snes wasn't that cool. But id had to notice that i could never aford one.

[frradrian]

it was expensive but it was worth it, Real Arcade at Home not low down ports

[SeventhSun]

Certain ports of games have glitches or some features that are unexpected and endearing too.

Don't be so singular-minded.

[nastynas9000]

I need to buy one of these things.

[WebVMan]

I had a Neo Geo CD and sold it. What a waste of time. Slow games and it cost $250. I now have a PS2 with almost every Neo Geo Game ever for WAY less $.

[SeventhSun]

Oh yes, the irony is, you can play almost all the Neo Geo CD fighters on the PS2 as well, with improved graphics and art (like KOF '94 rebout, '98 Ultimate Match and 2002 Unlimited Match) and much shorter loading times (no Neo monkey juggling coconuts) too.

[nastynas9000]

What is the music in the background playing?I remeber it from a game!

[morgangamer22]

COOL

[dikkie1983]

I am 25 yrs old and grew up with these kind of games (Sonic the hedgehog mad back then) . I play my Neo Geo AES console and Sega Megadrive/Genesis more than my PS3! Metal Slug 4 is my fave game at the momnent. :-)

[Xehanor]

Lol same! I've only had a Neo Geo about a month and Metal Slug 4 is by far my favourite game for it =)

[zedrein18]

I love the fact that there are still retro gamers out there.

[morgangamer22]

COOL

[viperxeon]

i think that console would still stand up even today, the graphics are amazing.

[Sbanchamek]

Hey Guys, I need your help, it's been a long time I've been trying to remember the name of an arcade game in about 1995. the style of the game is like alien vs predator but the scene takes place in the middle age. there are 4 characters (knight) and when you start playing it was saying : welcome to the "indy" or "bb" world. can you give me the name of that game please. ps : it's not golden axe because the gameplay is much better.. Thanks

[RetrowareTV]

Knights of The Round??? If that's it, it was made by capcom and is available on the PS2/Xbox on Capcom Classics Collection. Vol 1 or Vol 2 I forget.

[emilereynaud]

Le jeu que tu recherches est / the game you're searching for is :

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS

2 jeux ont été édités / have been edited :

D&D Tower Of Doom (~1993)

D&D Shadows over Mystara (~1996)

J'y ai joué dans les années 93 à 96. I played it in the 93-96 years.

Je me rappelle de tous les jeux auxquels j'ai joué en arcade, même ceux il y a plus de 25 ans !

I remember myself all the games I've played in arcade, even those...more than 25 years...

[godoftakedown]

snes sound better than neo geo? hmmmmm, Snes has 8 digi channels with limited rom space on cartridge and the neo geo has 15 sound channels with a lot more rom space. the person that edited this video made a big mistake during research...Neo Geo´s sound blows the snes away like a piece of dust

[ryu3324]

Going to have to go with the reviewer on this one. The Neo geo Sound chip was an 8bit chip while the Super Nintendo had a 16bit chip. Neo may of had a few more channels but.... Regardless he says that the Neo Geo system dwarfed SNES's capabilities.

[electricityfan]

the snes sound chip is 8-bit but capable of 16-bit sound output

[geddoezz]

Never saw one person use a memory card in the arcade. Probably stemming from the $600 price tag for the system and $200-$300 for the games. The games were awesome though.

[shelikesit]

Daaaamn Crystalis! Gud post.

[brpadington]

The Carts for Neo-geo were not only expensive due to the rom size. The real reason they were expensive is because the Neo-Geo system did not contain any ram. This meant that every game had to have ram built in.

[SupremeJudge]

The Neo Geo does have RAM both video and working RAM.

[shiranui]

damn man, the neo geo was pretty much the ps3 of its time. or something like that...

[brpadington]

No i'm pretty sure the Neo-Geo had good games....

[shiranui]

ohhh nice one. LOL!

[ACTORnSCREENWRITER]

I love it

[sharkey360]

Great video there, Retroware!

I would suggest something - how about a video about the history behind the 3DO company and console?

[videogameobsession]

Nice job guys

[mgbenz]

Love the retrospective! Anyway could you tell your narrator to be a little more...not bored?

[songoku350]

Dude sorry if he isn't screaming like a douche bag like the AVGN or some other latest wanna-be internet celeb gamer. He's actually trying to be professional and treat the subject with respect. Its refreshing to see that for a change instead of some tool making gamers look like morons.

[mgbenz]

Do you people just love to bash at someone who makes fair suggestions? All of a sudden you think I hated this video just because of one single criticism I made?

You disregard my first sentence where I said I loved the retrospective and focused on the other. Wat to take things out of context.

[Greeneagle86]

Uh, what do u mean not bored. He did a nice job of explaining the history of SNK. I agree with songoku350, he was real professional and spoke well. What r u complaining about?

[Progearspec]

The neo geo sure was ahead of it's time.Just what,it could do in terms graphically.Beside the power the system command.Being a mvs owner myself it is some thing to play on it's own hardware and not settling for ports.

[songoku350]

emuholic is a spaz

[conradojavier]

Why can't SNK Playmore Released the before Neo-Geo Games?

[playsnkmore]

neogeo is still the best videogame ever for me and some ppl who r like me. thanks for the video

[jamstrat]

Great vid, keep em coming quicker!!

[barlog20]

He said: "games cost upward of 200.00 per game"

I payed $250.00 for metal slug 3.

[TwighlightMist]

I think the MVS carts run much cheaper than the AES carts

[barlog20]

They are much cheaper.But i like having the picture and the frame also the Neo Geo AES has a nice sleek design,while the mvs look like someone found it in the junk yard unless you buy the arcade cabinet also.that`s why i mess with the AES.

[oraichu]

I have it myself, and I love it!! ;DD

Got MVS converter also <3

[GamecubeIsGreat]

japan is called nihon?

[JPPT1974]

Video games are now more popular these days. As they were in the 80s!

[conradojavier]

$599 on Neo Geo reminds me of a Kaz Harai Joke.

[Mozgus]

I learned quite a bit. So glad you corrected the megabytes comment.

[THEsquirrel3d]

You forgot Sega's Dreamcast console and Naomi Arcade units. You could use their VMU on both hardwares and transfer game saves.

But I didn't know the Neo Geo home system was the first console to have a slot for memory cards.

[RetrowareTV]

hey i just accidentally removed a couple comments by accident - anyhow, you can find the other two parts as part of a playlist over on our channel or you can watch it all as on video over at our website - thanks for watching! and i added an annotation for the megaBIT error made in the narration

[emuholic]

if i didn't point it out you would have likely tried to get away with it by pretending you were right in the first place

[emuholic]

YOU FUCKED UP!

neo geo carts aren't megabytes you clown, they're measured in megabits, and they were nowhere near the capacity of a CD, the biggest titles AT 716Mbit.

8 mbits = 1mbyte

after doing the math you will realise at best they were approx 100 mega byte cartridges at largest, which is less than 1/7th the size of a CD.

[emuholic]

you ★★ stars for presentation and clarity

you get another ★ for length of content

you lose ★★ stars for misinformation of cart sizes - for a retroholic this is very sloppy

overall rating of the first part of this episode: ★★★

[RetrowareTV]

damn, that's rough. yeah we knew about the mis-pronunciation and error - it was a mistake that was too late to fix in the release. And the length is due to this simply being our full ep. 11. It's part of our DVD coming out next week

[SatoshiMatrix1]

Everyone makes mistakes - give them some props for another awesome retrospective. I always do. Go retroware!

[ryu3324]

Emuholic is a COMPLETE tool box. Grow up you 14 year old punk haha. Great job with this video guys. Don't listen to this immature jerk.

[emuholic]

do as little ryu says, don't listen to the facts, just say a load of false crap, like the neo-geo carts are 700Megabytes ...

that is a massive oversight

[Parluxgrounds]

megabits not megabytes

[emuholic]

read the full thread idiot

[Parluxgrounds]

Suck a dick

[emuholic]

sycophant

[puppetmaster983]

fuck yeah! crystalis is one of my favorite nes games! Also first game i bought myself and beat myself!

[songoku350]

Awesome use of Kim Kaphwan's Real Bout 1 music guys.

[Yomommalinkmugen]

FOURTH!..... srry.great episode u guys fuckin rule!

[THE7thHAND]

did you emulate those games for this episode?

[RetrowareTV]

there is a mix bag of stuff used to make this. We have access to an rgb to composite video converter that we hooked up to an MVS pcb, a buddy let us borrow his MVS to AES converter and his aes system. Some game footage was also taken from the Wii version of SNK Arcade Classics and other compilations for the PS2. Emulation unfortunatley had to be used to showcase the neo pocket games however we only chose games that we actually own to be showcased.

[THE7thHAND]

cool! ^^

[TwighlightMist]

I feel the same way about emulation, I don't feel right playing the games I don't own, however I'll use an emulator to play an import or games I'm interested in buying, but I'd never substitute emulation for the actual thing, theres nothing like sitting in front of a TV with a controller.

[Atomduck]

Retroware tv FTW.

[LeeMan00]

I love watching these kinds of vids.