My first Neo-Geo game that got me hooked was Magician Lord. I also remember it like yesterday, then when the right time hit, about 1 month after it was released on AES, I had my uncle find the Japanese AES for me, and get that, plus a JPN AES Controller so I had 2 joysticks along with my Silver AES, and a JPN Magician Lord! Holy shit was I happy when he told me it was in the trunk of his car the day he found it. Oooooh shit, it was on! I hooked that fucker up so damn fast, and I turned on the system and I played Magician Lord for at least an hour before my mom said we were going back home, and I was begging her to hurry up and get my ass home to play that damn thing, and I still remember peering over my left shoulder at it as we drove all the way back home, even as we went though the drive though of Jack n the Box, I didn't even want to eat! I just wanted to get home and play the AES!
When we got home, I hooked it up to my tv and I used the stereo headphone jack on the front to get stereo sound, and I was in 7th heaven! Wow, those were some awesome times! I invited a good friend over back then, and we must have played that game for like 20 hours straight. That is how my Neo-Geo addiction began... and it never ended. I took a small haitus from the Neo from the end of '99 until around '02. Then I just could not stand it anymore... had to get back into it. Been playin' Neo ever since.