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On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 18:47:43 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
https://pixhost.to/show/89/297876495_snk-neogeo-ad2.jpg
Well... okay. I don't see anything remarkable about that particular
advert, but it's a fun trip down nostalgia-road nonetheless.
Back in the day - being a computer master race person* - I didn't
really pay too much attention to the consoles... not after the heyday
of the Atari 2600 at least. It didn't help that there were so many of
them on the market: the NES, the SNES, the Master System, the
MegaDrive (or was it the Genesis), the Jaguar, the TurboGrafx, the
7800, the GameBoy, and - yes - the NeoGeo.** It was mostly just noise,
as a new console seemed to be released every other month and I had a
hard time telling them all apart, if I even bothered.
In fact, for the longest time, I confused the NeoGeo with Sega's
"Genesis" (better known as the MegaDrive) machines. "Geo"...
"Genesis"... if you're not following that market, it's an
understandable mistake. Their marketing - as indicated in the example
above - also shared similar audaciously cool themes.
I only encountered a NeoGeo many years later (sometime in the 2010s I
think). By then I'd long since corrected my misunderstanding about its origins, but I'd never actually played around with the machine until
then. Even though the hardware and games were twenty years old at the
time, I was quite impressed with the device.
On Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 10:05:04 AM UTC-7, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 18:47:43 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
https://pixhost.to/show/89/297876495_snk-neogeo-ad2.jpg
Well... okay. I don't see anything remarkable about that particular
advert, but it's a fun trip down nostalgia-road nonetheless.
All I got was some NSFW pics, not very good ones either.
Back in the day - being a computer master race person* - I didn't
really pay too much attention to the consoles... not after the heyday
of the Atari 2600 at least. It didn't help that there were so many of
them on the market: the NES, the SNES, the Master System, the
MegaDrive (or was it the Genesis), the Jaguar, the TurboGrafx, the
7800, the GameBoy, and - yes - the NeoGeo.** It was mostly just noise,
as a new console seemed to be released every other month and I had a
hard time telling them all apart, if I even bothered.
I first played on friends Atari 2600s, but not often, and never got one.
Another more distant friend got a Colecovision and I was far
more impressed with that. Space Fury was the one I really
liked, basically asteroids with powerups and enemies, but
it sure seemed impressive at the time.
My first console was some time after that, an Intellivision.
I did get a PS2 and had a lot of fun with that, and then got another
one when that one died. I just got rid of it last year when moving
as I couldn't justify the space for it.
Next was a gamecube, but I inherited that when I got married.
Played a few games, but nothing great on that.
A used Wii, nothing that really grabbed me on that.
Then the kids... and they got an Xbox 360, and now a switch.
The Xbox 360 was more my stuff, and played a few games on
that. Mostly Minecraft splitscreen with the kids though, for
some reason that versions I found far better than the PC,
or the later switch versions.
In fact, for the longest time, I confused the NeoGeo with Sega's
"Genesis" (better known as the MegaDrive) machines. "Geo"...
"Genesis"... if you're not following that market, it's an
understandable mistake. Their marketing - as indicated in the example
above - also shared similar audaciously cool themes.
I only encountered a NeoGeo many years later (sometime in the 2010s I
think). By then I'd long since corrected my misunderstanding about its
origins, but I'd never actually played around with the machine until
then. Even though the hardware and games were twenty years old at the
time, I was quite impressed with the device.
They had them in the arcades in an arcade cabinet, and I played those
once in awhile as they had a number of fun games, and I was quite an
arcade player in the 80's-90's. Today I learned they were a console too.
- Justisaur
On Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 10:05:04 AM UTC-7, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 18:47:43 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
https://pixhost.to/show/89/297876495_snk-neogeo-ad2.jpg
Well... okay. I don't see anything remarkable about that particular
advert, but it's a fun trip down nostalgia-road nonetheless.
All I got was some NSFW pics, not very good ones either.
I first played on friends Atari 2600s, but not often, and never got one.
Another more distant friend got a Colecovision and I was far
more impressed with that. Space Fury was the one I really
liked, basically asteroids with powerups and enemies, but
it sure seemed impressive at the time.
My first console was some time after that, an Intellivision.
They had them in the arcades in an arcade cabinet, and I played those
once in awhile as they had a number of fun games, and I was quite an
arcade player in the 80's-90's. Today I learned they were a console too.
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