25 Most Valuable SNK Neo Geo AES Games (From 2004 to 2024)

[@maritimemetaldoc6812]

Damn those prices, 14k for a golf game. lol this system is one of those consoles i only ever saw in video game mags in the 90s. I still have never seen one in person and probably never will at those prices.

[@teknohed]

i was in high school when the AES came out, there was one kid I knew who had it and his dad was a heart surgeon and his mom was a dentist. I think having two parents who are doctors was only way you could have had one as a kid.

[@gumdeo]

Ah, the legendary AES. The gold standard for videogame collecting.

[@Chompingbits]

A system I only rented once. The dream of winning one while filling out that crappy fill in the blank trivia sweepstakes in every 90s gaming magazine.

[@teknohed]

we all had that dream wonder if anyone won one.

[@jayesun3420]

I was right there with you dude, did anyone anywhere Ever Win one of those NG consoles for free? I call BS if you know what I'm saying, we all entered and nobody on earth has ever heard of, or definitely knows, somebody whom had won one. Classic

[@dwightdixon8508]

I passed on the AES back in the early 90’s feeling the Genesis & Super Nintendo had comparable titles so I didn’t need the NeoGeo. A couple decades later I would purchase the NeoGeo CMVS Slim from Analogue which started my NeoGeo adventure which ultimately led me to buying a CIB AES (North America) console now a much appreciated part of my collection. My favorite titles I physically own are: Viewpoint, Last Resort, Ninja Commando, Top Hunter, Spinmaster & Metal Slug 4

[@teknohed]

wow, that's a nice collection of games. Back in the day I didn't get an AES because it was way to expsensive for me as a high school kid. I have an OMVS now, but the only cart i have is bust a move. I have a NEO SD. I'd like to get some more recently released homebrew games like Xenocrisis and Kraut Buster on MVS cart if I could find them. I think most of the other MVS carts I would want are going to be out of my price range.

[@jorgito21st]

Your prices are way off bro…. Those AES games go for way more …..

[@teknohed]

These aren’t “my” prices, I needed a source of truth for this video so i used the price guides from game dude. they have been selling games in LA for 30 years, think if they could get more for these games they would. So I think that what may happen is if Game Dude doesn’t have something in stock they don’t update the price, so might be a bit out of date. But that’s the metric I chose, Game Dude in 2004 vs Today: gamedude.com/neogeo.html

[@ogcib]

Yeah the prices are wayyyyy off. First off AES games rarely sell loose and price charting doesn’t track AES games well. Game Dude works for a 2024 reference but only eBay sold listings could do current prices.

[@teknohed]

@@ogcib so what you’re telling me is that i should be checking game dude for good deals on AES carts. These videos are so hard to settle on a correct price for, If I use ebay, I get people telling me that only Yahoo Japan is accurate. If I use Price Charting I get people telling me to use ebay. I figured that game dude would be close as it would be in their best interest to be as acurate and make as much of their inventory as they could. But maybe I was wrong. Anyway, for this video specfiically the info comes from Game Dude. In the future maybe I'll make a "top 5 most expensive accourding to ebay" or something.

[@ogcib]

Apologies, they are good for a 2004 price reference since they were one of the major sellers of AES carts at the time. Look at prices on the Neo Geo Store or even some price list on Neo Kult from a couple years back and that will give you a solid reference point. Neo Geo AES is the hardest system to track in all of retro gaming. I use to track the prices myself for years and use to help out on Game Value Now when it was around with AES prices.

[@teknohed]

@@ogcib thanks dude. i appreciate the insights. i have an MVS and the carts i have are picked up at flea markets and stuff. before making this video i never paid much attention to AES as I don’t have that system. But I appreciate you sharing this with me.

[@DNASlotCars]

The Metal Slug prices are nowhere near that low. Definitely way off. A Metal Slug sold recently for 17k Euro in Switzerland.

[@teknohed]

@@DNASlotCars well, as i explained in the video there are a lot of places you can take pricing data from, i wanted to compare apples to apples to i took the price lists from a game dude which is one of LA’s oldest game shops. They have been posting prices online since the late 90s so it’s a good place to see the price trends. I compared their price lists from 2004 to a current price list. Why isn’t their price the same as a sale in switzerland? That’s a question for Game Dude’s price guide author. I am just reporting on the data as I see it.

[@SegaCDUniverse]

I look forward to your 3DO video, I love that system. Sadly I never owned a Neo Geo, but the Pocket Color is my favorite handheld and I have a Neo Geo X for fun.

[@teknohed]

i am eventually going to do pocket color as well that is a fantastic system. i am a sega fan boi so gene gear will always be my number 1, but NGPC is #2. 3DO is going to be interesting, a lot of the expensive “games” are just adult VCDs, so i will likely just group all those together so i can highlight other oddities like johnny bazookatone and cyberdillo!

[@medmuscle]

I am nearly finished collecting for the Sega Saturn (which I am very proud of accomplishing) and have some of the really big heavy hitters for the TurboGrafx/PC Engine CD, but I won't ever collect for the AES. It's just too much. I will probably get a handful of Neo Geo CD games for my PolyMega and call it a day.

[@teknohed]

@@medmuscle yeah neo geo cd is a good alternative, but boy those games are getting pricy too.

[@kayokango]

I'm surprised that the English version of "Kizuna Encounter" wasn't on this list. I remember hearing from numerous sources back in the early and mid 2000's that it was the single hardest Neo Geo Aes cartridge to find, and also the most expensive by far. I wonder what changed to make it not even place on the list.

[@teknohed]

@@kayokango I was using the price guide from a local retro game store. these guides go back nearly 30 years so it makes it easy to compare buy and sell prices over the years. My guess is that Kizuna Encounter was never traded into the store and as such was not included on the price guide. I am not sure how rare this game was in the US, but i know it was very rare in Europe.

[@titanas123]

where do you see those prices? it's veru unaccurate if you check ebay sales for example.

[@teknohed]

These prices are all taken from price lists published by game dude (a local game store in LA). I did a previous series that used price charting and ebay for prices and was told over and over that THAT was inaccurate so this time i used price lists of an actual store currently selling games. i have linked the historical price lists in the description and you can see current guides at gamedude.com.

[@jayesun3420]

Game prices fluctuate greatly depending upon where you go buying games, persay like one country to another, good point tho

[@Jerome-C]

Lucky we are, we can buy some NCI and Atomik repro for about 250$ each games... and there are excellent copy !! Original games is too high for any purchase right now, it's not serious ..

[@teknohed]

i bought a terraonion neomvs sd, which is also not cheap, but gives me access to all the games.

[@Jerome-C]

@@teknohed yes NeoSd Pro is fine... i choose MVS shockbox for my favorite one + Orthors and 161in1 for the rest

[@11Eighty6]

Glad i shelled out the cost of the neo sd pro. Essentially pays for itself 100 times over looking at those prices 😳

[@teknohed]

@@11Eighty6 I have the MVS version. It isn’t cheap, but it’s waaaaay cheaper than buying these carts one at a time.

[@faust650]

Please tell me where I can get get Metal Slug 1 AES for $3400 and I'll buy it today. These prices are waaaay off.

[@teknohed]

all taken from the price guide of game dude in LA, so i would start there. ;)

[@saltysaltytears]

Was this "the greatest system for fighting games" before the Dreamcast ate its lunch 10 years later?

[@teknohed]

It is arguable that Saturn took the crown as far as fighting games are concerned. But hard to argue against the Neo Geo’s dominance in that respect,

[@JanvanRosmalen-lc2vm]

Previous year I sold a Sengoku 3 aes brandnew for $2200 dollars :) strange that you did not mentioned Matrimelee ?

[@teknohed]

Oooo that is a good question. I was going off of the Game Dude price guide from early 2004. Martimelee was not included on it likely because that game was only a year or so old by then and had not ever been resold by Game Dude. I bet that one goes for a lot, i will have to look it up. also, sengoku games are so great. 2K is a small price to pay to own a true classic!

[@Papernails]

Why does Metal Slug continue to be so expensive? As you said, it's not really especially rare. I imagine you could get an arcade cabinet for Metal Slug for cheaper....

[@teknohed]

I makes no sense to me, I guess it is just the fact that there is a lot of demand for it and a lot of sluppy???

[@neogees4719]

@@teknohed US version of Metal Slug 1 AES was produced in very low quantity. Ex-employee of SNK USA once stated in an interview something around 150 pieces. This is the reason why its that expensive, because its really rare!

[@saltysaltytears]

What's the best version of Metal Slug on Neo Geo?

[@teknohed]

i would probably go with X which is an update to 2 that fixed the slowdown.

[@Jerome-C]

The best version is separate in 3 way : The more fun and fast to play is the original : METAL SLUG The more complex and beautiful is METAL SLUG 3 and for me, the last one on NEOGEO is METAL SLUG 5 and it's my personal choice :)

[@grgmj1980]

Is that Game Dude located in LA? Thank God for emulation

[@teknohed]

yeah after doing a few of these videos i am kinda left thinking that emulation might be the best solution for a lot of people who just want to play these games.

[@johndoe-vx3kf]

prices now are ridiculous

[@Papernails]

Lol, I can tell you aren't much of a sports fan with that Street Hoops description...

[@teknohed]

ha! i actually like street hoops as a video game, but it is true i am not much of a a sports fan.

[@Foodang]

Its a great baseball game

[@fuzzbear677]

Kuzna encounter its about 50k quote unquote but if you go to the Neo store this dude named Sean has it for $300,000 which I think is insane 🕹🎮😀👍🏾😂🤣

[@teknohed]

that is truly nuts. like you could buy a house, or a video game!

[@Jerome-C]

@@teknohed this is for the US version only, the Jap version could be found for less than 10.000$

[@CEEPMDEE]

Same graphics, sound and game play but with some added slowdown. Neo Geo was a scam then and collecting for Neo Geo is a scam now. You can literally get most of these games on consoles, arcade perfect for less than $9.00 U.S.D. each or you can get the entire collection free via emulator. Most Neo Geo games were pretty lame gameplay & design wise.

[@teknohed]

more neo geo games for me i guess. what system do you like?

[@RedArremer]

There's not been a single 'arcade perfect' port of Neo Geo games on any of those old consoles (and emulation isn't a port, so that doesn't count anyway). I remember people claiming that nonsense about Fatal Fury Special on the PC Engine, so I reviewed it myself and it wasn't anywhere near perfect.

[@CEEPMDEE]

@@teknohed Switch, NES, PS1, Saturn. Those were the consoles I liked. The Neo Geo had more power to display more sprites, better colors and better sound but it was NOT like playing games made for the arcade. The games were very limited outside of better colors and graphics when compared to other home consoles. The SNES was a lot weaker but the games were made a lot better than most Neo Geo games. Not to mention Neo Geo games get boring and old extremely fast. That shows how poorly they were designed. Most Neo Geo games get boring within 30 minutes or less.

[@CEEPMDEE]

@@RedArremer PS1 & PS2 are old consoles and Metal Slug 1 & X for ps1 was very close to arcade perfect for $39.99. Cheaper if you bought it used. Even better on the Sega Saturn. Most have all of those games via emulation. Emulation could be considered a close enough port .

[@teknohed]

@@CEEPMDEE i don’t think anyone spending thousands of dallers is looking for “good enough”. the fact that you can have the same game at home with no compromises is very unique. I agree there are lots of ways to play these games for less, but for collectors it isn’t always about saving money. so to each their own i guess.

[@fuzzbear677]

You must be talking about mvs games cuz the aes games are fighting 3 English is about 1500 maybe more you must be talking about all mvs games not AES games cuz AES games are in the thousands of dollars range depending on what title it is🤦🏾🎮🕹😀👍🏾

[@teknohed]

game dude’s price guide doesn’t specify but i assume it was aes as i am not sure a retail store can buy and sell mvs, but you are right those price guides are under priced

[@fuzzbear677]

Is some of the mvs games are high now I've seen one for 1800 a couple of thousand is crazy with the whole kit🤦🏾🕹🎮😀👍🏾

[@fuzzbear677]

Did you say game dude that's one of my favorite stores always go to but don't nobody sell no games to game dude no more because of eBay and other apps that sells the games outrageously for the high prices 🎮🕹😀👍🏾