Collecting vs. My Wife

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Sun Jul 15 11:50:32 2001

>There have been several. The most recent ones were the Pocket units. I
>>don't think those had much in common with the original, though.

As far as I can tell, nothing other than having a couple Metal Slug games
and a King of Fighters game (as far as I know none of them are ports of the
full sized games).

>In the early nineties, the Neo Geo was the Rolls-Royce amongst game >consoles.

In some ways it still is, a Cartridge system can still cost you as much as
a Playstation 2! The thing to remember is some of those carts are pushing
1 Gig! With the oldest ones still being in the 50 meg range.

>There have been CD add-ons as well, and in the mid-nineties, there was some
>new 64-bit unit IIRC.

It looks like the 64-bit unit is arcade only, and has only been used on
about 5 games.

>I'd really like a cabinet with Puzzle Bobble/Bust a Move. I'm spending too
>much money on that game.

As of yesterday my wife is officially addicted to that game!

>The Neo Geo is the only real alternative if you're into sprite-based games.

It's great as it's got gorgous 2D graphics (at least on the newer games),
and if you're like me you don't have to worry about motion sickness while
playing any of the games (thankfully 3D fighters don't bother me). Games
like Quake make me so sick it isn't even funny!

                        Zane
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