If you turn your nose up at the cost of video gaming in the modern era, with its rising software prices, expensive accessories and exploitative mid-cycle system upgrades, then it’s almost certain that you never owned SNK’s wallet-busting early ’90s console, the Neo Geo.
Launched alongside the likes of the Sega Mega Drive and Super Nintendo, it was quickly dubbed ‘The Rolls Royce of gaming systems’ by the specialist press of the period – a fitting monicker given the incredible specs and outlandish cost of ownership associated with what was then the most powerful home console available.
SNK – short for Shin Nihon Kikaku Corporation – was one of many Japanese companies that had benefitted from the arcade explosion of the 1980s, but it had grander plans than simply pumping out a series of coin-op hits and licensing them for console conversions.
The aim was to conquer both amusement centres and the home market, and to achieve the first of those goals SNK created its own arcade standard, known as MVS, or Multi Video System.
Offering cutting-edge power and robust, easily interchangeable cartridges, MVS quickly found favour with …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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