I remember wanting a NeoGeo console back in the early 90s. It was the TRUE port of arcades into homes. Of course the steep cost of the system, not to mention the obscene cost of the cartridges @ $200 EACH, made that completely impossible :o But I do have sweet memories playing Magician Lord and Metal Slug in the arcades, and the SNES kept me happy for a long time :)
LOL, the games were the size of my laptop I'm typing this on!! I never really played one, just seen videos. Back then though it did't really seem wroth the money for one, I mean sure the games looked alittle better but not $150 more per game better. I thought only spoiled rich kids had one
LOL, the games were the size of my laptop I'm typing this on!! I never really played one, just seen videos. Back then though it did't really seem wroth the money for one, I mean sure the games looked alittle better but not $150 more per game better. I thought only spoiled rich kids had one
gregbmil
Actually, there was a substantial difference in the graphical level between NeoGeo and SNES/Genesis, of the the 2D pixel based type. But you would probably be correct that only the rich had one. Especially when each game cost $200 (CDN), on top of the system price tag.
Neo Geo is 24 bit, Genesis/SNES are 16 bit. Although the 3DO I think was more expensive then all of them, and was 32 bitkingunderground
I don't think it would be possible to have a "24bit" CPU, since bit count always doubled - from 8bot, to 16bit, to 32bit, to 64bit... and after that the bit count stopped being relevant.
And I can't be completely sure if the 3DO was more expensive than NeoGeo on a unit to unit cost. Maybe it was, but one thing's for sure. Their CD games wouldn't even cost anywhere close to what NeoGeo's massive cartridges did, which was a major factor in overall costs between the two systems.
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