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I remeber in the Megadrive days seeing the price of a NeoGeo game they were sometimes something insane like £200 each. :eek:

As a fan of Retro games is it worth getting one now and ho much cheaper ar they these days?

I'd love to own some of the Metal Slug series.
 
They arent really that much cheaper now...especially the Metal Slug Series, think last time I looked they were still going for over £100 for the early one's

I sold my last console for £175 boxed with one controller & all the leads.

My games went for between £30-£90 depending on the title...my most pricey games were the King of Fighters & Last Blade (Samurai Showdown) series.
Cheapest one's were Sidekicks, Nam '65 & World Heroes
Only had 8 games because it was so pricey.

I sold my one because I finally got my hands on a consolized one Slot MVS, which is by far the cheapest way to get into Neo Geo stuff, just have to watch out for a lot of fake carts doing the rounds.

Other than that could look at a Neo Geo CDZ.
They can be had around the £100 mark for the machine & games dont go for much more than about £30.

Neil
 
I had a neo geo for about 6 months when it first came out, it was a damn cool console to have at the time, but games were expensive and I had to buy them mostly second hand (even then they were £50 - £100).

Ended up swapping it with 2 games for a usa snes with 15 games. Tbh the snes games were better, the neo geo games wern't that bad i suppose but it was all very arcade orientated 10p eating stuff.
 
Sutters said:
I had a neo geo for about 6 months when it first came out, it was a damn cool console to have at the time, but games were expensive and I had to buy them mostly second hand (even then they were £50 - £100).

Ended up swapping it with 2 games for a usa snes with 15 games. Tbh the snes games were better, the neo geo games wern't that bad i suppose but it was all very arcade orientated 10p eating stuff.
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Except it was cheaper to go to the Arcades and let the machines eat your 10p's :).
 
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Unfortunatley that stuff is rife on there :(

just have a look under other retro machines & the same are available for them (PC Engine, SNES etc)

Nothing like having the original big boxed cartridge version though :D

If you do buy one & can find them Waku Waku 7 & Garou Mark of the Wolves are both fantastic games (Got Waku on my Saturn & Garou for my Dreamcast) besides the obvious choices in that list anyway ;)

Neil
 
soundwave said:
especially the Metal Slug Series, think last time I looked they were still going for over £100 for the early one's
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A Metal Slug AES cartridge goes for £800-£1k
 
the neo geo has become the ultimate retro collectors hardware, with prices in the £100's for the the rarest ganes in mint condition!!!! there is still a massive fanbase for SNK related games and the prices reflect this.

games to look out for:

metal slug 1 AES european release £1000
pulstar £500
Garou, mark of the wolves £350
Blazing star £400
Fatal Fury Real Bout 2 £100
Last Blade 2 £200
Kizuna Encounter £400
King of fighters 2003 £200
Ninja Masters european £800


modded console with vga out and red power light mint £800

for some more info look here:

http://www.neostore.com/

http://www.cyberfanatix.com/index.php

http://www.neogeoforlife.com/
 
Always wanted 1 when i was a kid, but i had trouble convincing my parents to pay a couple of hundred quid for 1 game.

These days i'm having trouble convincing myself to do the same thing :p
 
wait till you get a wife, its very hard to convince someone that £200 on a new game is a good idea for some reason :p
 
Are all games that expensive I enjoyed aggressors of dark combat on NeoRage how much would that beatem cost? I may look around carboots and auctions to see if I can a sweet deal not only are NeoGeo games great fun they look a great investment if you cn pick the games up cheap enought.

Is there problems with playing games from diferent regions with the Neo Geo I see many from Japan on ebay?
 
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some games sell for £5, the majority for £50 - £100. its also a region free console:)
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But for some reason US Games & machines are locked so you dont get any blood in the games???

Although there is a mod to get around this.

One other thing if your deffiniltey looking at buying one is trying to get one with a low serial number as for some strange reason these output the best RGB signal...no idea why it should be like that but it is & as such these machines carry something of a premium.

Neil
 
Talking of expensive stuff I was watching this auction the other day for the virtual boy game Gundam SD Dimension War the guy had basically every virtual boy game and this bad boy went for 350 squid. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8288464420&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MEWA:IT&rd=1

Pretty good considering how crappy the virtual boy was meant to be. Makes you wonder what the next thing to go to crazy prices will be? gizmondo? that wierd console rip off of the wii(not ps3:p)?
 
AES was the home Console version

MVS were the carts supplied to the Arcades for use in the Neo Geo Cabinets.

MVS carts cant be used in a home machines unless you can find an adaptor to use (Cant remember what they are called but they arent cheap)

MVS carts are generally loads cheaper then their home versions.
MVS boards can be had reasonably cheaply as well but generally require a supergun to run unless you can find one of the homemade consolized versions.

Neil

EDIT: You can get a convertor (called a Super MVS Convertor 2) for about $280 but they arent gauranteed to run all MVS carts

EDIT 2: I have just seen the most daft price EVER for a game...Ninja Masters US AES version...$1450 :eek: :eek:
 
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theyre actually a worth while investment, youll easy make your money back if you ever sell up. -theres no depriciation.
 
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