Site History

An article by Riko

Neo Geo Forever is the new home for the community from the legendary NeoGeoForLife website (of which now only the popular Facebook group still exists). The site went down in early 2020, initially due to technical issues but sadly never came back online. Kazuya_UK (Stuart Reynolds) the creator of NeoGeoForLife still hopes one day to get it back up and running but he is too busy to do so for the foreseeable future. He suspects the site may have been hacked because the software it ran on was very old.

NeoGeoForLife (or NG4L for short), started life in 2001 as the forum linked to Kazuya's NeoGeo Game Review and FAQs website. At this time the forum was run on Proboards.

The website in 2001. Kazuya is Stuart Reynolds, the creator of the original site and the author of many of the excellent reviews on neogeoforlife.com

2006. The site is now called neogeoforlife.com and has a new design for both the site and forums

NeoGeoForLife.com in 2017 with the latest and final website design by Shiny

By 2007 the forum and review site were all integrated into a single website (seen above) at neogeoforlife.com. NeoGeoForLife went through a few design changes over the years. This last one is my personal favourite and was designed by NG4L member Shiny.

Over time the site built up an excellent resource of Neo Geo game reviews, magazine and manual scans and became a well visited and respected website for all things Neo Geo. The biggest draw though was the excellent forum which was home to a large and friendly community of Neo Geo owners and enthusiasts. You knew if you signed up there, you would receive a warm welcome and could ask for knowledgeable advice.

Now it's 2021 and NG4L has sadly gone but the original NeoGeoForLife Proboards forum site still exists. If you visit there, you can see us meeting in late 2020 to discuss the genesis of this site. And so.... neogeoforever.com was born - the NG4L community lives on and we still have some of the members from the early Proboard days here too. The history of this new site is yet to be written but let's hope it will be as rich and deep as our illustrious forebear - neogeoforlife.com.

A big thank you to Kazuya/Stu for creating it! 😊

Shoutbox

Miky: My Superior at my job quit so i'm quite literally by myself... excellent. Apr 25, 2024 20:16:16 GMT

tuxedomarty: Phew, I may have just dodged a bullet earlier on Discord! Apr 20, 2024 20:19:16 GMT

tuxedomarty: The boredom today is real.

Apr 14, 2024 20:14:15 GMT

iswy: thank you, thank you! Riko Apr 11, 2024 11:42:41 GMT

Riko: Get well soon iswy! and congrats on getting that authentic CRT experience! Miky NGFL_clap

Apr 10, 2024 16:54:52 GMT

Miky: Ty! boogiepop It has some issues like the color red and flickering but it almost adds to the charm. Apr 10, 2024 13:10:14 GMT

iswy: hope to get back to neogeo/retrogaming talk and what not soon haha Apr 10, 2024 10:51:20 GMT

iswy: thank you much, boogiepop Apr 10, 2024 10:50:58 GMT

boogiepop: Sorry to hear about the surgery, iswy. I hope you're feeling okay now! Apr 10, 2024 1:12:27 GMT

pimsbury: Looks GREAT Miky! I'm jealous, I only have an lcd to play on 🥲. Apr 10, 2024 0:28:09 GMT

neogeofreak2004: Hey guys, I'm going to get a new replacement neo CD pad in the mail, why? Well it was supposed to be a birthday gift for me, also happy birthday to me btw. And it didn't work so im getting a new one! Also happy I got kof 99 for my birthday and it works! Apr 9, 2024 16:23:51 GMT

iswy: i'm back after yet another surgery! :C it's the 2nd time this year, could you imagine that?!