Zane H. Healy skrev:
>>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).
I wonder what kind of processor it might use. The sound strikes me as quite
bleepy. The "joystick", OTOH, is top-notch.
>>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.
It's really absurd...
>>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!
Thankfully, last week, my favourite pool hall modified its cabinet, so that it
is now a bill-op in addition to a coin-op. =)
>>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!
Modern games just fail to attract me. I was raised on sprite games, then it
all died out in the course of a year. I'm sitll wondering why.
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Received on Mon Jul 16 2001 - 08:24:39 BST