Top 25 Neo Geo Pocket Color Games of All Time

The Neo Geo Pocket Color was an incredible 16-Bit handheld. The graphics were actually pretty awesome. And the games play remarkably just like their console counterparts. But like all handhelds that took on Nintendo, it eventually failed to make a real dent in the market.
Regardless, the NGPC like the Neo Geo AES, holds a special place in gaming history! So let's count down 25 of the best Neo Geo Pocket Color games!
Thank you in advance! #neogeo #neogeopocketcolor #snk #retrogaming #handheldgaming #retrogames #oldschoolgaming #retrohandhelds #top25 #retrogamingcapsule
ALSO KNOWN AS
NGPC
DEVELOPER
SNK
MANUFACTURER
SNK Corporation
TYPE
Handheld game console
GENERATION
Sixth generation
RELEASE DATE
JP March 16, 1999
NA August 6, 1999
EU October 1, 1999
DISCONTINUED
JP 2001
INT June 13, 2000
CPU
Toshiba TLCS900H core (16-bit) clocked at 6.144MHz, Zilog Z80 clocked at 3.072MHz for sound
MEMORY
12 KiB RAM for 900H, 4 KiB RAM for Z80, 64 KiB ROM
MEDIA
ROM cartridge
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• Top 25 Game Boy Color ...
DISPLAY
2.7", 160x152 resolution, 146 colors on screen out of a palette of 4096
POWER
2 AA batteries for 40 hours of play, Lithium CR2032 for backup memory and clock

[@gabejva6071]

So many great games on this little thing, and that music never ages.

[@RetroGamingCapsule]

Thank you for checking out my video!

[@OtakuDeju]

I want to have a bigger library of games for that little handheld. A few more titles popped up and I had no idea that Megaman Fighters was on this system. I didn't know that they made expansion edition of Card Fighters either. I am utterly addicted to the first two games. I think that this little system makes the best handheld Fighting games of all time. So smooth and impossibly responsive for a handheld. Seriously there's no comparison to any other handheld system out there.

[@RetroGamingCapsule]

Awesome! Thank you for watching my video! I'm glad you got to see some more of the gems the NGPC has to offer. It's definitely an underrated system.

[@stevesteve0521]

Quality of fighting games is the psp but if you’re talking about playing then then yeah I rather play the fighting games with the ngpc control stick then the horrible d pad on the psp. Gba also had some quality fighting games as well but again d pad isn’t the greatest for fighting games

[@warehousedave7937]

The one game that is a must own and must play for the NGPC is Card Fighters Clash. It has aged better than any other game.

[@RetroGamingCapsule]

Thank you for watching my video! It plays very well too!

[@graymars1097]

Thanks for the video And people wonder why this great console failed. ..dude it's a handheld and half if it's games are vs. fighting games 🤦‍♂️

[@RetroGamingCapsule]

Thank you for watching! The NGPC was trying to be a heavily scaled down AES. And like the AES, it used fighting games as its bread and butter. Or at least it tried to. Regardless, it did an admirable job of translating the gameplay of those bigger carts onto a handheld.

[@dinosauriojacinto]

At that time gameboy was still hard with pokemon and several arcade conversions similar like KOF95, Samurai Spirits III or Toshinden. In the second year of life of neogeo color it came gameboy advance, way more powerfull with a huge cataloge of exclusive good games.

[@RetroGamingCapsule]

Thank you for checking out the video!

[@grandevirtude9830]

Neo Geo Pocket color was actually really popular on it's first year, then Aruse, a company that bought SNK, said that games weren't the focus anymore, and no more games were made for the handheld, making it a flop in the next years.

[@grandevirtude9830]

Also fighting games were trend at this time, so these games were meant to boost the sales. Neo Geo Pocket Color had the boost for being a handheld that wasn't focused in family friend games. So this could atrract a more mature audience

[@stevesteve0521]

Great list

[@RetroGamingCapsule]

Thank you! I appreciate that!