Post by Riko on Jan 27, 2021 16:53:17 GMT
Hi everyone, finally got round to making an intro thread
I am also from the old NG4L site, and missed it a lot when it went down. I have become a bit of a Neo Geo obsessive in the last few years so really missed talking about it. I now think Neo Geo is the best 2D home system *and* the best 2D arcade system (with CPS1 in 2nd place). Sorry to any SNES, Megadrive or Capcom fans! I have also got into Neo Geo coding - mainly just in C with a little assembler. I am not an expert and have to learn everything as I go along. My most recent project was to try and recreate the first level of arcade R-Type on the Neo Geo, which I might post about in future but it's fair to say I haven't got very far!
Back in 1993-96 when I was at university, I used to play pool with some friends at a cafe on campus. And round the pool table were 2 arcade machines - a Neo Geo MVS (with League Bowling, Art of Fighting and Samurai Shodown) and Rad Mobile. I would watch the attract modes play on the games while waiting for my turn and was blown away by how good the Neo Geo fighting games looked with the scaling - and couldn't work out why the characters never got blocky when the camera zoomed in. So that was my first real-life experience of Neo Geo but I only ever played a few games in my 3 years because I never had time inbetween pool turns.
I already knew about Neo Geo before that, thanks to a magazine article in an Amiga magazine about the AES and it was actually the Nam-1975 screenshot(!) that made me want one really bad. Seeing Waku Waku 7 in an Edge magazine Neo Geo article many years later in the early 2000s was the event that pushed me to actually splash the money.
So I finally got my Neo Geo, and it was maybe the best time to get one because all the prices had recently fallen thanks to emulators now being able to play Neo Geo games perfectly. Even so, I did start with buying most of my games on MVS (using a convertor to play them) - Waku Waku 7 was literally the first game I bought on MVS on a beautiful white cart. My favourite games are Blazing Star, Metal Slug and Breakers Revenge. But there are so many great games on the system and there's a lot I haven't actually played still. I just don't tend to play games on my laptop so buying a cart is usually the first time I play a game.
BTW going back to my earlier story - Rad Mobile blew me away the first time I saw it too - but 3 years later in my final year - it was looking pretty ordinary while the Neo Geo MVS games still looked good. Interesting how good 2D graphics age so well!
Very pleased to see you all back here and looking forward to chatting on the site
I am also from the old NG4L site, and missed it a lot when it went down. I have become a bit of a Neo Geo obsessive in the last few years so really missed talking about it. I now think Neo Geo is the best 2D home system *and* the best 2D arcade system (with CPS1 in 2nd place). Sorry to any SNES, Megadrive or Capcom fans! I have also got into Neo Geo coding - mainly just in C with a little assembler. I am not an expert and have to learn everything as I go along. My most recent project was to try and recreate the first level of arcade R-Type on the Neo Geo, which I might post about in future but it's fair to say I haven't got very far!
Back in 1993-96 when I was at university, I used to play pool with some friends at a cafe on campus. And round the pool table were 2 arcade machines - a Neo Geo MVS (with League Bowling, Art of Fighting and Samurai Shodown) and Rad Mobile. I would watch the attract modes play on the games while waiting for my turn and was blown away by how good the Neo Geo fighting games looked with the scaling - and couldn't work out why the characters never got blocky when the camera zoomed in. So that was my first real-life experience of Neo Geo but I only ever played a few games in my 3 years because I never had time inbetween pool turns.
I already knew about Neo Geo before that, thanks to a magazine article in an Amiga magazine about the AES and it was actually the Nam-1975 screenshot(!) that made me want one really bad. Seeing Waku Waku 7 in an Edge magazine Neo Geo article many years later in the early 2000s was the event that pushed me to actually splash the money.
So I finally got my Neo Geo, and it was maybe the best time to get one because all the prices had recently fallen thanks to emulators now being able to play Neo Geo games perfectly. Even so, I did start with buying most of my games on MVS (using a convertor to play them) - Waku Waku 7 was literally the first game I bought on MVS on a beautiful white cart. My favourite games are Blazing Star, Metal Slug and Breakers Revenge. But there are so many great games on the system and there's a lot I haven't actually played still. I just don't tend to play games on my laptop so buying a cart is usually the first time I play a game.
BTW going back to my earlier story - Rad Mobile blew me away the first time I saw it too - but 3 years later in my final year - it was looking pretty ordinary while the Neo Geo MVS games still looked good. Interesting how good 2D graphics age so well!
Very pleased to see you all back here and looking forward to chatting on the site
) It was for the PC, but I did use Esaka '96 as the music for part of it (Neo Geo connection!) 
hope you are ok dude
