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A friend of mine has a Neo Geo cabinet, and he's got a few original cartridges, but he also got one with 100 or so games. He thinks his cabinet was originally a
by freshyill 12y ago
A friend of mine has a Neo Geo cabinet, and he's got a few original cartridges, but he also got one with 100 or so games. He thinks his cabinet was originally a Contra cabinet. It's all really neat, but as someone who never spent too much time in arcades back in the day, I think a lot of it is lost on me. Give me an NES or SNES any day.
- ekianjo 12y agoThere are still shops in Akihabara, in Japan, selling Neo Geo cartridges and full systems, but they cost a fortune these days... :) It's still awesome to venture in such shops though.
- freshyill 12y agoMy buddy with the Neo Geo is starting to get me hooked on retro gaming a little more seriously. He's got a couple hundred NES games, and he's even been picking up the more obscure/less popular systems like a Turbografix 16 and an Atari Jaguar. It was actually pretty cool to hold the Turbografix controller in my hand because I've only ever seen pictures of it in Gamepro or EGM back in the day. He's even got a modded top-loading NES with an RGB connection, and he plays it on a 27" CRT. He's pretty serious. Meanwhile, I'm here thinking about getting a Raspberry Pi for on-the-go emulation.
- ekianjo 12y agoif you like on the go emulation I'd rather suggest an Open Pandora over a Raspberry Pi.
- freshyill 12y agoWell, when I say on the go, I mainly mean "take it to my parents' house and plug in at Christmas and Thanksgiving", or maybe to a hotel. My retro-gamer friend also recently restored my 26-year-old NES, and it was a big hit over the holidays. I used to play a lot of emulators on my Nintendo DS, but that was mostly before iPhones and iPads became my distraction of choice on my daily commute. Open Pandora look pretty nice though. I'll keep an eye on it for sure.