Something you always wanted but turned out disappointing

[Stokers]

That’s a cool looking setup you had there, Those speakers look awesome ❤️

It’s quite a similar story for me re the rgb output. My first was a later model with terrible video output. I started looking into why after I got it and then ended up hunting down a low serial model to replace it with. Kept em both for a while in the end but the early one had a much better RGB output. It still wasn’t as crisp as an MVS through a supergun tho. Controller wise I prefer the Kidney sticks to the original versions, Still use them now.

Nobody in my school had one that I knew of, It was truly a mystic console when I was a kid. Hahaha if they had would probably have remembered their name same as yourself. I retain no useful info at all but ask me where a certain machine was located in 1988 Blackpool/Skegness and I’ll reel em off.

Yeah it was good, although it's somewhat painful to look at now. I took that big Sony (which was fully working) to the tip. I can still remember being excited to drop it into the massive container of TVs. This was at the time when CRTs were worth nothing and everyone wanted rid of them...

Also it's a bit painful to look at the AES, I had a really nice little collection of 11 games - which would be worth a small fortune now. As you said, once I realised MVS looked better and was much cheaper, I came up with a master plan to sell it alll and buy a Super Neo 29 with an MVS. Another member of neogeo.com (Rottphuge) bought the lot from me in one go, I imported the cab from some place in Germany and paid about £600 all in I think.

When it tunred up but I couldn't get it up the ridiculous spiral staircase in my house. I could have taken it apart obviously, my Dad was also (correctly) telling me not to mess with the CRT so solid it on (actually making a profit). Anyway so I go back to the chap on neogeo.com who I thought was my mate, explained the situation and politely asked If he would sell me my games back - he flatly refused. Not sure why to this day, I was on good terms with him, I had been to his house a couple of times but he was very much 'all sales are final'

*I should add that this chap owned a post office and the upstairs housed quite a collection of Neo Geo AES games, everything I sold him he already had at least one copy of. In fact some were purchased from him, including MOTW. His house was something, It's the only place I've seen an origianl Metal Slug, Rage of the Dragons, Matrimelee etc he had the lot.

 

[Del Griffith]

Yeah it was good, although it's somewhat painful to look at now. I took that big Sony (which was fully working) to the tip. I can still remember being excited to drop it into the massive container of TVs. This was at the time when CRTs were worth nothing and everyone wanted rid of them...

Also it's a bit painful to look at the AES, I had a really nice little collection of 11 games - which would be worth a small fortune now. As you said, once I realised MVS looked better and was much cheaper, I came up with a master plan to sell it alll and buy a Super Neo 29 with an MVS. Another member of neogeo.com (Rottphuge) bought the lot from me in one go, I imported the cab from some place in Germany and paid about £600 all in I think.

When it tunred up but I couldn't get it up the ridiculous spiral staircase in my house. I could have taken it apart obviously, my Dad was also (correctly) telling me not to mess with the CRT so solid it on (actually making a profit). Anyway so I go back to the chap on neogeo.com who I thought was my mate, explained the situation and politely asked If he would sell me my games back - he flatly refused. Not sure why to this day, I was on good terms with him, I had been to his house a couple of times but he was very much 'all sales are final'

*I should add that this chap owned a post office and the upstairs housed quite a collection of Neo Geo AES games, everything I sold him he already had at least one copy of. In fact some were purchased from him, including MOTW. His house was something, It's the only place I've seen an origianl Metal Slug, Rage of the Dragons, Matrimelee etc he had the lot.

Ouch!! That is a bit rough. Some folk are terribly cut throat. Perhaps the only postmaster in the uk that deserved to be using the horizon system!

Took a few CRT’s to the tip myself, If only we’d known 😬

 

[Bods]

This was another disappointment, they had them for sale in my local Asda in the 80's and I so so wanted one, in what 1984/5 what more could you want, portable with Turntable, Tape, Radio and Graphic Equalizer, Turntable is motorised too. They had a compilation tape in the demo one on display and I thought at the time it sounded good on Billy Idol - Rebel Yell, it was £249.99 and at the time I got for Christmas the Questar Turbo for £79.99

One of our pass times in the 80's was going Asda, used to write the pokes down from Zzap magazines to save buying it as didn't have the money and switching off the Hi-Fi systems, turning the Volume up full and then waiting further down the store for the next victim to switch it on and panic trying to turn it down quick

When I joined ebay in 2001 after first buying Op Wolf, I thought what else can i look for and this was first ghetto blaster I looked for, after a while one listed and I won it. still looks just as good as it did but didn't sound how I remembered it, there is so much mid range you have to turn the mid sliders right down, the bass is woeful
When I took the speakers apart to clean them cases, the next shocker was there are no Tweeters, there actually the bass ports, not that it's worth it and the Full Range single speakers them self are the stiffest to move I've ever known which I assume is reason for the crap bass

I guess it's difficult to build portable Turntable system, if you have lots of bass it's going to make the needle jump but with Detachable Speakers you could have more bass when not being used in portable mode, some things may come down to cost like no tweeters as it's got a lot there already

Really sad thing is, this is one of the more powerful Ghetto Blasters with a genuine 12 watts per channel RMS but you wouldn't know it with these awful speakers. one day I connected up some Sony ones I had lying about and WOW this system really has impressive bass and quality sound and is goes nice n loud

It's the same story with many of the old portable systems, I have the earlier Technics which is supposed to be 30w RMS per Channel but like the Sony's doesn't take batteries so not a true Ghetto Blaster again Speakers really are let down

 

[MarkGrossi]

Neo Geo AES. I’m not knocking the games or the operational side because i love lots of snk games. It’s just I spent a lot of my childhood drooling over the AES console as this tough heavy duty arcade system that I could only ever dream of affording/owning. When I was about 20, earning my own money I thought fuck it I’m importing one. When it arrived like most Jap products it felt cheapo, weighed nothing and left me feeling totally deflated and disappointed not what I’d dreamt about all those years. I still ended up with another as a spare tho 😂

That was the great irony of the NeoGeo - it came out right at the time when every kid wanted arcade perfection at home... the problem was that none of the arcade games they wanted at home were by SNK or on the NeoGeo. Then when StreetFighter 2 came out, it added another level of annoyance.

Once the initial excitement of seeing the huge Art of Fighting sprites had dissipated after 10mins, the SNES and SF2 were brought back out. And the NeoGeo didn't even have one single scrolling beat em up that came anywhere near the quality and hype of Streets of Rage (1 or 2).

If we're being brutally honest, the only reason the NeoGeo was so praised so much was purely because of arcade perfection. Even all the reviews back in the day focused on "arcade perfection", with 90% of the games being very, very average at best.

Hypocritically, I would have jumped at the chance to have an AES with Nam 1975 and Super Sidekicks, though.

 

[FrancoB]

Yeh Sex ........

Dave.

I always fancied a bit of bum fun with the Mrs...... didn't realise I would need to sit on a cushion for a week after 😖

 

[John Bennett]

I remember lots of 5/10-ish reviews for Neo Geo AES games around 1990.
The general gist - looks and sounds nice, if not amazing.
£180 - sod off.

 

[Del Griffith]

That was the great irony of the NeoGeo - it came out right at the time when every kid wanted arcade perfection at home... the problem was that none of the arcade games they wanted at home were by SNK or on the NeoGeo. Then when StreetFighter 2 came out, it added another level of annoyance.

Once the initial excitement of seeing the huge Art of Fighting sprites had dissipated after 10mins, the SNES and SF2 were brought back out. And the NeoGeo didn't even have one single scrolling beat em up that came anywhere near the quality and hype of Streets of Rage (1 or 2).

If we're being brutally honest, the only reason the NeoGeo was so praised so much was purely because of arcade perfection. Even all the reviews back in the day focused on "arcade perfection", with 90% of the games being very, very average at best.

Hypocritically, I would have jumped at the chance to have an AES with Nam 1975 and Super Sidekicks, though.

Yeah to be a fair a lot of the better snk games came later down the road. The early stuff was a bit second rate. That’s what happens when you hire the guy who did Street Fighter 1 haha. I shouldn’t laugh tho because I still love Sf1 to bits for my own personal and nostalgic reasons.

 

[Stokers]

I'd agree on the quality of some early Neo Geo titles being lacking. Sengoku, Burning Fight, Mutation Nation and Robo Army for example all pale in comparison to Final Fight which came out a couple of years before them. Same goes for AOF 1&2 which I never enjoyed, It wasn't until 96 onwards perhaps with Metal Slug, Last Blade, KOF98 MOTW and AOF3 where SNK really hit their stride.

 

[kingtreelo]

This, it was bad enough that it was so damn slow, but my track came with a kink in it and it was basically worthless from day one

 

[griffo83x]

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[Bods]

This, it was bad enough that it was so damn slow, but my track came with a kink in it and it was basically worthless from day one

That's soooo slooooowwww The Ideal Slot Car Set was better, Cut Off Challenge one, got that, Dukes of Hazzard and Automan sets

 

[Bods]

When I was at Junior School, one of the lad was telling me in class about his Spider-Man web maker, oh boy I was so excited to see this at playtime, was expecting something you fitted on ya wrist and a string of web flies out and was it like I imagined... er NO he had this tube of what was like glue that you had to dab a bit on to something then go over to something else so it stretched across and make you own web like that, i was so disappointed

 

[Retroman839]

Don’t get me wrong
Zelda 64 is great


Early mock ups of ULTRA Zelda


When these alpha screen shots where released my excitement levels peaked !

The res
The light sourcing
The reflections,
The clarity of the image.,
When it looks that good flat Gouraud shading .. glowing with lighting effects


Having jap n64 from launch
Rgb scart ..

Then seeing average uk gamer playing n64 through A V ! With boarders. I felt sorry for Nintendo
The Reality of making a great looking photo type, then the general release
Falling some way short on quality
Must be disappointing.



Tut tut …. A long fall for something that started life on such a high.

I guess those silicone work stations
Had some serious graphical grunt .
Still looks wonderfully plastic even today . Shiguru miyamoto . Nintendo
Always hyped the toy like nature of these games, This looked like a plastic link on screen ..

When will we get a zelda where combat is more that button bashing.

Like wouldn’t it be cool to be able to fix
Link to the spot ..
One analogue stick swing his sword
The other control his Sheild,

2 thumb sticks either side of the pad ..

Left side
Analogue Movement & sword
Right side , head movement & shield ,

Large main analogue stick for movements smaller like c stick on game cube .. for weapons ..

All combat fluid ..

 

[L_____E_____T]

Try going back to Zelda Twilight Princess on Gamecube - I originally played through it on Wii at launch in full waggle, but it's better on Gamecube, and I still think the best Zelda of them all.

 

[pooman2084]

My boy just played through Minish Cap on the GBA on the MiSTer in my Jamma cab as it was the only one he hasn’t finished (apart from that weird CD-I one).

The GBA looks fab on a CRT, a non backlit screen really hurt that console.

 

[Retroman839]

My boy just played through Minish Cap on the GBA on the MiSTer in my Jamma cab as it was the only one he hasn’t finished (apart from that weird CD-I one).

The GBA looks fab on a CRT, a non backlit screen really hurt that console.

2 on cdi ..
I had wand of gamalion,
Not played snu Zelda since ocarina

 

[Retroman839]

Try going back to Zelda Twilight Princess on Gamecube - I originally played through it on Wii at launch in full waggle, but it's better on Gamecube, and I still think the best Zelda of them all.

I want to play majouras mask next,
I watched my brother play twilight

 

[kingtreelo]

My boy just played through Minish Cap on the GBA on the MiSTer in my Jamma cab as it was the only one he hasn’t finished (apart from that weird CD-I one).

The GBA looks fab on a CRT, a non backlit screen really hurt that console.

i didnt have one at the time, but i have had a few discussions with people who have claimed the console was perfectly fine, it may be the worst screen i have ever seen on a handheld(even worse than the gamegear..and thats saying something). Put a good screen in a GBA though and its a cracking machine with some great games(which Nintendo are now trying to bend us over with remakes for the switch)

 

[benimaru7]

What’s all this SNK bashing! Unbelievable !! I really like the early games as they had more variety than the later games which were all fighting. SNK also had that dark/cool vibe to their pixel art which I really liked. Art of Fighting was impressive, one of the first games using the zoom effect and bruising too.

 

[patloz]

I have been in love with cars all my life and have been lucky enough to drive pretty much every 80's / 90's childhood dream car we had on our walls and a lot more since.

Some big bubble busters': ( always the bigger the hype the bigger the real world disappointment )

Magnums Ferrari- Slower than a Capri, No power steering and a clutch you needed both feet to press down.

Lambo Countach- Might as well be driving a van it was that fat and had no rear view at all, engine overheated if you sat at traffic lights for more than 30 seconds and the dash gauges did their own little dance and gave you no information at all.

Aston Martin DB9-Ford / X type ignition key, Volvo crappy sat nav screen, push button gear change you had to reach for and an engine management light that came on weekly, saving grace was its looks and the noise.

But there were some that did blow me away back then and still do today but they aren't in the same dream league as the above

Sierra Cosworth-What a machine have nothing bad to say about this weapon then or now.

Lancia Delta Integrale-I actually took a job at Lancia just to get near the brand- Might have all been LHD but I didn't care.

Sunbeam Lotus- Uncontrollable power in a light tiny package and taught a 20 year old me everything I know about driving.