Hi Chris,
I've had nothing but good businness and good communication with you, thus I can't but say you're an honest dealer and seller.
As a die-hard European NeoGeo fan, very much into the Japanese NeoGeo scene and world, please just allow me to express my humble opinion on the whole 'NFG-issue'. This is something I never did, and I just feel now to do in front of you.
Well, it's a fact that you have been pretty much some anticipators of the 'retro-craze' of the NeoGeo. It's a fact that you were pretty much ahead your country (US) in general, and by quite a bit.
You also had the chance, and the money, to enter the businness in a very unlucky but lucky moment, the original SNK first big trouble period. And you did. And all was good for you and for everybody till then.
And then you screwed-up royally.
You seriously had your chance to stay as a serious distributor of SNK merchandise in the West, you know. And you trashed it out of some absurd boast of egotism.
You, I mean your company, were that aeger to taint the NeoGeo merchandise and world with your own name that starded altering, ruining, trashing original merchandise.
Man, of course you can do whatever you want with your stuff. I could pretty much write 'Shito r0x' on the back of the insert of all the carts in my collection, you know. But doing just the same while playing the role of an 'official distributor' is another story completely.
You were ahead, guys. You had your chance. And you ruined all the thing just by yourselfs, out of your egotism and elitist agenda. I seriously don't know what were you thinking, trying to get 'normal fans' angry shredding official insert just for fun, boasting all the time here and there about everything and still playing the mysterious ones, producing home-made coverts, inserts and stuff and yet labelling those things as official items. All that shit.
This is a very pitiful story of two guys who really had the pole position and just crushed out of the desire of boasting egos, dramas and stuff.
Just think about it. It's just a big big shame.
That being said, I still respect you as an honest seller to any extent. Seems same could not been said for mr. Dion Dakis, and I still feel all the worst of NGF came not from you, but from him. And again, I feel a great sense of pity for all this wasteful and shameful fiasco. Too bad, guys.