The Story of the Unreleased Hyper Neo Geo 64 Console

[@dragokills6990]

Such a shame this never made it out, it would have been a beast and no doubt killed the competition for fighting games.

[@Sinn0100]

This is going to sound crazy but I paused your video to read the Medlantic Hi Tech LTD advert @ time stamp 4:59. I was particularly interested in the Neo Geo section, especially as the very small list of games seemed off. The first two (Cyber Lip and The Super Spy) ganes are definitely AES titles. On a side note, this advert had to have been made between late 1990 or early 1991 but I digress... Moving beyond the two definite AES titles you see a bunch of names that don't really fit. I just had to look them up and what I found did prove interesting. Well...Joy Joy Kid not so much as it is just another name for Puzzled on the AES. From this point forward the list gets very strange... Ikari III, Wonder Boy, and Asuka vs. Asuka. Apparently there is or was a Wonder Boy something for the AES. I am definitely going to have to do some more research on the matter. Ikari III or Ikari Warriors III was never an AES game. Asuka vs. Asuka does appear to be a real AES game under a different name. I just thought you might find all of that interesting at the very least.

[@Sinn0100]

I know I already posted, but there is something that has always bothered me. This video is a good segway... Okay, so we know that around the time of the Hyper Neo Geo 64 arcades weren't doing well. We had consoles that could easily match or come damn close to the arcades in the home. The excuse we hear is that the cost to keep up at the arcades was astronomical and growing, but it didn't have to be that way. There was a way they could have had their cake and ate it too. Unfortunately, the Japanese game developers refused to look beyond the custom-built RISC machines that once carried the industry. While arcades were dying on the vine, there was another tech based market that was exploding. I'm talking of course about the PC market. By 1999, you could buy an 800MHz Pentium 3 setup that would eat the very best custom-built arcade cabs on the market for a fraction of a fraction of the cost. Had the big arcade names shifted to custom PC bulds for their arcade titles, I believe it possible that they might even still exist today.

[@TheLairdsLair]

Some arcade companies did move into using PC, particularly Midway, but the Japanese companies, especially Sega were still obsessed with using the latest tech to build custom cabs around the game and they survived, not the likes of Midway and Atari Games who transitioned to using PC based hardware, so go figure.

[@Sinn0100]

@@TheLairdsLair I didn't know that.

[@SamMcDonald83]

Supposedly the processor in the hyper Neo Geo 64 was similar to that in the N64. Shame Nintendo and SNK didn't make a deal at this time. Clearly SNK wasn't going anywhere with the hype Neo Geo as a home system and the N64 was sorely lacking fighting and racing games, both of which were available on the hyper 64

[@RetroGameBasement]

I am in desperate search of any of the hyper neo arcade machines working any clue where to start looking?

[@TheLairdsLair]

Depends what country you are in, but aside from auction sites like eBay and Yahoo Auctions (Japan) I would be looking on groups like UK VAC and Twin Galaxies.