Nothing super-special about seeing the MVS here. It just reminded me that I’ve been seeing fewer and fewer of these. This is also one of the machines I’d like to have one day. I’m not 100% set on which cartridges to use, but the ones seen here are good picks.
Virtual On (Sega)
A pretty fun head-to-head arena fighter featuring mechs that behave more like people than giant robots (you still control them with twin flight-sticks, though). You can’t really tell from the angle of the photo, but the machines actually have a built-in partition to prevent screen-looking.
Fix-It Felix (Disney?)
I had no idea that they actually made a real machine based on the game from the movie! The cabinet does a great job of imitating the Donkey Kong artwork. The game itself isn’t anything too special, but I felt a pretty strong sense of novelty from the fact that someone actually made this machine.
Fun fact: although the concept for this game was obviously inspired by Donkey Kong, the characters, level design, and gameplay more closely resemble those of Beauty and the Beast, a Donkey Kong ripoff that was released for the Intellivision:
Ice Cold Beer (Taito)
Not a video game, sure, but this was unusual enough that I wanted to include it. Basically, you have to control a ball bearing that’s tucked between a metal rod and a vertical playing field. You can control the slant on either side of the metal rod, and your goal is to navigate the ball bearing into one of the designated goals. It’s ridiculously challenging, but the idea is really cool.
Tonight’s reading! Cannot tell you how well this is made. Absolutely stunning art and photography. Bitmap books knocked it out of the park! Capcom will always be my first love…. But SNK had a pretty stellar run there for a while. #bitmapbooks #neogeo #snk
Picked up this NOS Hyper Neo Geo 64 board recently, for no other reason really than… why not? It was cheap and someday I might throw it in a cabinet.
If you’re looking at the expensive NOS ones on eBay right now, know that those are likely coming from the same guy I got this one from for a lot less. Check the well known arcade Facebook groups instead.
I don’t know much about these really but I’m guessing it’s either a revision 1 Fighting board or the Korean board (based on photos I’ve seen and various threads I’ve read).
I’m not sure I’ll ever have any games for this thing so… to the arcade PCB storage bin you go for now
It took almost a year but this showed up from @limitedrungames today
It’s well known that the NGPC is perhaps my favorite handheld of all time…for whatever reason…so this was a no brainer.
I was shocked when they started rolling out the individual ports and completely missed the Samurai Shodown! 2 release as a pre-order bonus with the new Samurai Shodown game a couple of years ago. Who would have thought that we’d have these available again after more or less just being bargain binned in 4 packs what seems like yesterday?
While modern analog sticks can’t compare to the classic clicky stick of an actual NGPC, you can’t go wrong with this collection or any of the individual releases.
The included book is perhaps the highlight here. I haven’t dug too far into it yet but there seems to be a decent amount of content on each game in the collection as well their arcade or series counterparts.
