Let's talk about your NEO GEO collecting + PRICE GUIDES

[Tanooki]

Nightmare is alright, have it on my multicart but I find I enjoy Zupapa more and it's the same style of game.

Super Dodgeball is a gaming vice of mine. If I have a system that supports it, I got to have it, though I can't explain why I don't have it currently on SFC or GBA but I have in the past. I do have the badass hard old GB release though along with the NES.

Currently I'd like to make a play at stuff I don't have on the multicart more than those I do with some exceptions like Neo Turf Master, both the bomberman titles and super dodgeball. My memory isn't great of what's lacking on the 161in1 but I know NAM is missing as was League Bowling and Ninja Combat which I did pick up for those two.

[KalessinDB]

Things that aren't on the multi are, understandably (to me at least), in high demand and tend to be pricier. Windjammers is another one that I remember off the top of my head as not being on there.

Nightmare... I've got a couple games that play that way, but I just love Nightmare for the aesthetic. I'm still a goth teen at heart

[Tanooki]

It's got a nice ghosts and goblins type feel to it but the other has a more bubble bobble/parasol stars style which I like plus the mechanics are a bit nicer to me too.

I do agree some of those on the multicart do cost more, not sure it's as related to that or by the fact the games tend to be some of the better which are oddly absent on it. It's not like the NG had some special booster chips like NES/SNES carts did that would block them from running on your average multi-cart, so it had to be some odd conscious choice.

I mean you get stuff like Sengoku 1 and 3 but not 2? NAM1975 is hardly a weird game or unpopular so it gets left out? It's not huge either, neither are the absent League Bowling
and Ninja Combat I've picked up.


By the way is it me or does Andro Dunos seem to be like a blatant Gradius ripoff? Speaking of there's one on ebay, the guy won't come off $120 as a best offer + shipping. Problem is he won't open it up, the label is water damaged, and real balls he has the mini marquee in a cabinet he's selling too and won't put it with the game which at least for me seems stupid. I declined it which is a shame.

[the7k]

Been looking for Garou for the past six months now on mvs. Been out sniped or get to a thread too late every time. There's a guy on ebay selling just above what i've seen bids go for, but he refuses to open it up or accept returns which just screams bootleg. At this point i'd take a bootleg, I just sure as hell won't pay $220 for one.

Pulling my hair out. Gotta get one before CEO at the end of June.

[Tanooki]

I obviously haven't been in it that long but I feel the same way. There's a couple of sellers I've bumped into on ebay that won't open stuff up, but they still price it at the rate of the usual sales levels, but they put OBO yet won't take more than like $10 off. Seems kind of stupid to me really. NeoGeo due to expense isn't like the NES/SNES fraud going on, it won't be as easy to dupe a much smaller and more intelligent base of people who know what these things go for based on the shape/completeness with the other pieces or the box (full kit.) The one upping the next dude game from me watching it fails pretty hard in comparison to the wide spread acceptance of impatient people with Nintendo stuff.

Right now I'm biding my time on Magician Lord, Cyber Lip and NAM1975. I just want the cart, while I'd love hte mini marquee I can be just fine without or buy one of those >$10 repros that one dude makes using like for like materials on ebay.


Since I made this post I figured I'd ask if someone here is more schooled in such matters. Neo Geo X from Tommo. Is it really as bad as they say it is after the firmware upgrade from the company? I know you can get a pre-set SD cart kit for $50 on ebay now too so you can fire up any of the NG library on the thing. I'm kind of wondering if in that case if it is worth having or not? If not the full X gold kit, just the stand alone device for on the go.

[ElkinFencer10]

I lucked out and got my AES copy of NAM 1975 CIB for dirt cheap (about $25 or $30). It's still the only AES game I've got, but it's a really good one IMO (thought that seems to be a minority opinion).

[Tanooki]

Well I'm not a huge fan but it's not bad. The problem is getting used to the style as it's a full on high end intentional quarter muncher. Without putting probably hundreds of dollars in quarters into it to learn it as a memory game you're going to get your ass shot off, lots, and fast. It's just what it is trying to run and jump away from lots of bullets and grenades while at the same time trying to also move that crosshair to shoot the other guy out there on the screen and there's lots of them moving too. It's not as easy as say Operation Wolf as you're not aiming a gun alone, it's more like Wild Guns on SNES which is a pain in the ass. All the more worse on AES with limited credits, on the MVS you can just set it to free play and not rage out running out of quarters.

[ElkinFencer10]

That's true. I may end up picking up for my MVS as well down the line. I'd like to have what AES games I can afford just to have them in my collection, but since all of like three AES games are affordable, it's entirely possible that NAM-1975 will remain my only AES game.

[Tanooki]

I'm aware, that's why it was a good grab. I'd never buy an AES if someone threw it at me cheap unless I did it to flip because of the game prices. It's insane what people will pay for the same thing on MVS where the pinout on the board is different just to lock you out. Well that and a shiny box and a color sticker on the cart. It's like the NES insanity on roids since even the more garbage stuff is up.

[KalessinDB]

I'm aware, that's why it was a good grab. I'd never buy an AES if someone threw it at me cheap unless I did it to flip because of the game prices. It's insane what people will pay for the same thing on MVS where the pinout on the board is different just to lock you out. Well that and a shiny box and a color sticker on the cart. It's like the NES insanity on roids since even the more garbage stuff is up.

People collect for different reasons. Some people don't collect purely to play, some people like to collect purely for the collection aspect of it - and for rare/collectable, you don't get much better than AES.

And with the number of people moving to CMVS boards because of the price of AES, even that's edging up there.

I lucked out and got my AES copy of NAM 1975 CIB for dirt cheap (about $25 or $30). It's still the only AES game I've got, but it's a really good one IMO (thought that seems to be a minority opinion).

Incidentally, I have a couple other cheap/semi-cheap games for sale considering I've sold off my AES... Off the top of my head I think I have JP KoF94, US Sengoku, and US Eightman (cart and blank slipcover)... and I think one other.