Neo Geo and variants
The Neo Geo (ネオジオ Neo Jio?) is a cartridge-based arcade system board and home video game console released on January 31, 1990 by SNK Playmore. Being in the fourth generation of video game consoles, it was the first system in the Neo Geo family, which ran throughout the 1990s.
The MVS (Multi Video System), as the Neo Geo was known to the coin-operated arcade game industry, offered arcade operators the ability to put up to six different arcade titles into a single cabinet, a key economic consideration for operators with limited floorspace. With its games stored on self-contained cartridges, a game-cabinet could be exchanged for a different game-title by swapping the game's ROM-cartridge and cabinet artwork.
The Neo Geo system was also marketed as a very costly home console, commonly referred to today as the AES (Advanced Entertainment System). The Neo Geo was marketed as 24-bit, though it was technically a parallel processing 16 bit system with an 8-bit Zilog Z80 as coprocessor. The coprocessor was used as a CPU, and for sound processing.
Production of the system was discontinued in 1997, but official production of game cartridges lasted until 2004;[5]
Emulators
| Name | Operating System(s) | Latest Version | # of systems emulated | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAME | Windows, Linux, OS X | 0.149 | ? | ✓ |
| Final Burn Alpha | Windows | 0.2.97.29 | ? | ✓ |
| RetroArch (Final Burn Alpha) | Multi-platform | 0.2.97.28 | ? | ✓ |
