Man when I talk to people it seems like there was ALWAYS this one dude in the neighborhood that said he had a Neo-Geo
One time I went over this dude's house HOPING to play Neo-Geo; and I was standing outside of his door. He told me to stand outside so he can go hook it up and clean his room up.
So he leaves me outside and I break into the house; I see NOTHING; then this fool tells me he lied because he was ashamed that he didn't have a system.
But yea I know I can't be the only one that has NEVER seen a Neo-Geo in my life
Much to my eternal shame I have never seen a Neo geo up close. I've considered going down the ebay route becuase I want to try it out. But nobody has ever lied about owning a console to me which is a little stupid because the obvious next step is that you'd want to play it.
JT wrote:Yeah, like vampire aliens invade and hit us all with a ray beam that paralyzes all of our arms. The only way to deactivate the ray beam and fight back the vampire alien threat is with a complicated series of foot patterns on the device's control board that looks remarkably like a DDR pad. We will all praise this man for saving our lives and buy him a mountain of stuffed animals.
seen one, watched a 'friend' play one, never got to touch.
He was that kinda kid in town who boasted about owning a Neo-Geo, let everyone know, loved bringing people over to see it... but was SUCH a dick he wouldn't let a single person play it. He even had two joysticks for it and would freakin' play Samurai Showdown against the computer just to freakin' taunt his guests.
so yeah... 'friend' is probably not even sarcastic enough.
Only Neo-Geo ever to see with my own eyes (and not in a store or pawn shop... I don't count that... oh and FL pawn shops DO know the value of the little bastards.)
Remember those competitions they used to have with the word puzzle and a chance to win this amazing home game set up. TV, sound system, consoles and games up the wazzoo... and right down in front on its own pedistal shining in all its glory like it was some holy grail or some shit was a Neo-Geo that you "could" win. My God I hated those ads... I just wanted to vomit everytime I saw it. I mean shit, who REALLY ever won that scam shit anyways?
pre-interwebs SPAM info harvesting is what I call that.
Yeah there was this kid at school that claimed he had a 3DO and an Amiga CD32 for christmas but before anyone could see them he sold them both and got a neo geo, but no-one ever saw that either. The only one I saw with my own eyes was in Gamestations window. A place where you will always see me wistfully gazing
One of my friends who was really spoiled by his grandparents got a TurboDuo ($300), f'd it up. He also got a 3D0 ($700), f'd it up. He had a Neo-Geo ($500) as well but traded it to buy the Super Famicom for about $400 from our local (now defunct) import store.
Sure I got to play them 'cause we hung out a lot but most of our friends thought he was a liar because they never played them because he treated all his stuff like crap and ditched the "dead bodies".
I've owned a Neo Geo CD-Z since '96 and eventually I'll get an AES or home system... Just with Mame, NeoRage, and Kawaks I just don't have the need or desire.
So um yeah, I don't know anyone persay that lied about that but I've known plenty of selfish gamer jerks like lordofduct wrote about...
i see a boxed gold system everytime i go into my favorite game shop here in indy. lots of games in big boxes too. expensive.
this guy i kinda know (he was in a band that my old band used to play shows with) apparently has an awesome neo-geo arcade setup and tons of carts. i haven't verified this though.
Curlypaul wrote:Yeah there was this kid at school that claimed he had a 3DO and an Amiga CD32 for christmas but before anyone could see them he sold them both and got a neo geo, but no-one ever saw that either. The only one I saw with my own eyes was in Gamestations window. A place where you will always see me wistfully gazing
There was a game shop growing up that had one like behind glass with a cutout piece of plastic just big enough to fit your hand in to swap the carts that where loaded into the machine, but not big enough to pull the carts out. Luckily people are generally smarter than monkeys otherwise there might still be some kids that have their hands stuck in there clutching a cart.
So I played that one a few times when I went in there.
Then 15 years later I saw my second home unit I knew a guy in college who had a bunch of AES and MVS carts, he also has a MVS system with a super gun he played on his tv. For those who don't know a super gun is something that allows you to hook arcade boards and stuff to tv's and portable joysticks.
Oddly enough just seeing those 2 machines makes me feel like I've had a lot of experience with them, but in reality probably at most 3 hours total of time. (not counting pay arcade machines)
I have had several friends lie to me about this aswell. I have almost dropped the money for one in the past, but an MVS is an easier purchase for me. Or atleast an MVS guts and a supergun.
I have a Samurai Shodown MVS cart, $20 at a convention, and could easily have alot more if I cared to part out dead cabs at auction.
