Does anybody still own their childhood AES games that were bought way back in the 90s?

[Jonny l3lanka]

Thought this might be an interesting topic, just seeing who still owns the neo games that their parents bought you.. maybe some metal slugs or kizunas that you got for under 300 bucks?

 

[-D-]

Might as well just be asking who grew up as a spoiled rich kid.

 

[Takumaji]

Well, I wasn't a child anymore in the 90s (I was born in 1970) but yeah, I still have all my original hardware, homecart games and NGCDs from back in the day. Haven't bought a new Neo game since 2003/04 and probably won't because I have all I ever wanted either on homecart, CD or as ports, that's good enough for me.

Needless to say that I started working in the late 80s and paid it all myself. No rich parents or anything.

 

[6tusBeckmesser]

Might as well just be asking who grew up as a spoiled rich kid.

Why do people always assume that…

 

[-D-]

Why do people always assume that…

Okay sorry, we can include spoiled only child in the generalizations.

 

[Takumaji]

Why do people always assume that…

My parents wouldn't have been able (let alone willing) to support my Neo love anyway.

 

[-D-]

Most parents even in the middle class range typically bought only one console per generation for their kids, but a $600 console? Hell no. $250 games? Double hell no. It was just completely out of the affordability range for even most middle class families.

 

[Tehcno]

Nope the only Neo-Geo games I got in the 90's was NGPC. I didn't get AES games until 2001.

 

[Lord_Tibor]

i was about 15/16 years old when I got my neo, and i have kept all my games since that

only now i'm going to sell some titles, i payed aes prices just to play (u had no choice at the time), now i feel stupid at keeping so pricey carts not even playing them anymore... maybe i wil get some MVSs in the future

i payed my neo addiction saving every single penny for months, it was PAINFUL; but yet intriguing lol

 

[wyndcrosser]

Why do people always assume that…

Because it's a fact. Sorry man. Based on the economy and the average pay scale for a married couple in the mid to late 90s those systems were a pipe dream. Occasionally you'd have a lucky few who had money or parents with money, but in the end very rarely would a normal kid or teenager be able to purchase a system. I recall seeing those ads in game pro, tips n tricks and Nintendo power about solving the suduko like puzzle on the bottom of the ad and mailing it in for a chance to win a wow room full of electronic games and accessories.... Chance to win one was one to 5.1 million lol

 

[Danthor]

Same as many, when I was young the only NeoGeo experience I could afford was bringing whatever change I could muster and pouring it into the Big Red at my local arcade. The only Neo system I had at any point of my youth was buying myself my NGPC when I was 18. Still have it and play it! Like Wynd mentioned, I entered those contests every single time wanting to win one very badly. Even if I would only ever have 1 game at the prices they went for, if it was Samurai Shodown, I would be complete. It wasn't till around 2003 I would get myself an NGCD and build a moderate collection for it. Only recently have I gotten on board with carts!

 

[evil wasabi]

My system along with SS1 and SS2 were purchased in the '90s from an ad on the Carnegie Mellon misc market for $200, also came with Last Resort and Viewpoint which I later sold.

 

[FTL]

I still own my original fatal fury home cart bought back in the days.

 

[The King Prawn]

I was working age when it was available and I saved my money and purchased my Japanese AES and games with my own money (from Die Hard in Arlington Heights, IL, or Buffalo Grove- can't recall where it was). Granted I only had 2 games, but I bought it all my self. So fuck all you haters.

But to answer the OP, nope. Unfortunately I got rid of it.

 

[ChiefofSB]

I could barely get the regular consoles talk about having a NeoGeo but remember them for sale in the EGM magz and said i will have it one day now i have all versions of it

 

[StevenK]

I once saw a few games for sale at a market in bradford, will have been mid 90's. That was the closest I got to the neo's original run.

 

[CraftyMech]

I was in college, but the console was an item I seriously thought about saving for. Earning $3.35/hr though, the price tag for the carts was just to high.

 

[SNKorSWM]

My neo experience was in the local arcades. So obviously there is no AES carts involved.

 

[Dr. Jigglin]

I found out about the neo in 2001. Nuff said.

 

[Jonny l3lanka]

Interesting to get everyone's comments on this matter, but I guess it comes down to being too bloody expensive for pretty much everyone.

My first experience with the neo was in the arcades and when the whole scene started dying I rediscovered them on mame. Here in Cyprus nobody even dared bring something that expensive so it was strictly MVS We didn'e even get ngcd or even pocket games..

 

[GoosehanX]

I still have my SNES/Saturn ports of the Neo games I bought back in the day before I could afford a real system, although I haven't played the ports in years. I got my first system and games in 2001, but sadly I sold them after I "got out" of the home system. I ended up diving right back in a little while later.

 

[Loris Biaggi]

I still have my Samurai Shodown port for SNES
I had no money for AES.
The first AES game i've bought was a complete Soccer Brawl in 1998 for about 15$... but i didn't have a Neo-Geo to play it
I still have it and love it!

 

[wyndcrosser]

The AD I mentioned earlier, I had actually won the package in 1995 I believe, My parents finally got rid of that big screen tv in 2003. However the company was not able to give me the AES console, so they instead gave me the two sega saturn's, which I still had up until ebay became big in 2003, and I sold them on there.

 

[lamoemoe]

I traded my AES and games for a Jaguar and a couple of games when it came out.

Club Drive ftw.

 

[Danthor]

I still have my Samurai Shodown port for SNES
I had no money for AES.

Same! Ports are how I got my fix. It wasn't the same, but it had to do!