![]() ![]() What you will find, if you look back at alot of consoles before Nintendo, Microsoft & Sony became pretty much the only game in town as far as the home entertainment market is concerned, is that "biting off more than you can chew" was literally the name of the game. I have one now and it cost me a little over 300$ although I bought it over 2 decades after it came out. When the AES console was released it was nearly 700$ and the games would run you about 200-250$, that's a tough sell when there are so many other options. It would seem that, that success would lead to SNK trying to bring that same arcade experience to the home console market and while they made a really good go at it, still producing games for the console 14 years after it's initial release, the price tag of both the console itself and it's games among other things was probably a big turn off for the North American market. It was easy for Arcade owners to just swap out the carts and offer different games within the same machine. Most of them allowed you to play 3 or 4 different titles which the company that distributed the machine SNK, saw alot of success with for that very reason. If you ever heard of Neo-Geo at all it was probably in the Arcade where you may have played those big red MVS machines. While Neo-Geo's hardware was far more impressive than any of those, it just didn't have the variety of game selection and it was expensive as hell. Top 3 Video Game Consoles, You’ve Never Heard of.ĭescription: This list will highlight some of the lesser known pieces of home entertainment technology that you can find today.ģ.Neo-Geo AES & Neo-Geo CD-Alot of people in the United States never heard of the Neo-Geo game systems because it came out during the 3rd generation of gaming where we already had the NES, Sega Master System & Sega Genesis with the Super Famicom already existing in Japan and the Super Nintendo hitting the US a year later.
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