re: Was cleaning out a closet and came across these today

I was best friends with a guy who had older bothers who were big into japanese games in the early 90s. That's where I learned of Neo Geo (AES) and got good at fighting games (Fatal Fury, Samurai Shodown, KOF, etc.) Was so cool to have a home arcade that was legit quality. That blew me away.

I had the heads up on the Playstation 1 before the American release. I easily got one when they came out as there was no competition..kids didn't know what they were. Price of it was my biggest issue and hurdle lol.

For a long time I was the only one around with one in my area, I played that demo disc till it broke. Mortal kombat 3, Battle Arena Toshinden and twisted metal were in my dreams at one point.

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Speaking of neo geo, the cd version always cracked me up with how they transcribe their titles into English. This is samurai shodown 2 and 3