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My whole life I never saw Neo-Geo in a store.
I have a very, very faint memory of seeing Splatterhouse for the TG16 at a store, once. That's exotic as it got.
I bought one or two Japanese Saturn games at Babbage's even before I owned a Saturn. One of them was Outlaws of the Lost Dynasty by Data East. Must have been 2004?
Yeah, internet made the world smaller, that's an understatement.
Back when it was current and relevant, I remember the Babbages being one of the few places that had a Neo in stock, but it was kinda like the porn section of the video store. They had a home system in a glass case to let you know they had it, but nothing else was on display and you had to ask about the games and such. And being broke teenagers, the conversation didn't go further than "The system is $700 and the games are $200+ each."
With my current knowledge or retail operations, it seems like Neo would be a bad deal for a common retailer. It takes a lot of space for inventory, and sales are low even if it had a decent markup, and the inventory was expensive and not guaranteed to sell. The space would be better used for Genesis sports games that would actually sell.