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 Japanese game company SNK. Being in the Fourth generation of Gaming, it was the first system in the former Neo Geo family, which only lived through the 1990s. The hardware featured comparatively colourful 2D graphics.
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.
Several popular franchise-series, including Fatal Fury, The King of Fighters, Metal Slug and Samurai Shodown, were released for the platform.
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 ranked 19th out of the 25 best video game consoles of all time by the video game website IGN in 2009.[1] In 2012, SNK Playmore announced the release of the Neo Geo X, a handheld and home console based on the original AES.[2][3][4]
SNK Playmore Corporation (also known as SNK or Playmore) is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. SNK is an acronym of Shin Nihon Kikaku (新日本企画, lit. "New Japan Project"), which was SNK's original name. The company's legal and trading name became SNK in 1986.
SNK is most notable for creating the Neo Geo family in 1990, which contained many game consoles and arcade systems throughout the 1990s. Their most popular and successful console was the handheld Neo Geo Pocket Color
from 1999, which was the last console of the Neo Geo family, which
ended in 2001.
There was also the NeoGeoWorld theme park (Tokyo, Japan), based on the
Neo Geo brand.[2]
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