Top 5 WORST Neo Geo Games! 

I've never hated any Neo Geo game honestly. I enjoy them all.

Nah man, King of Monsters was bad ass.

On many occasions I think nostalgia interferes with how good a game is. I remember playing King of Monsters at the corner store when it came out in the two slot cabinet that had that and Wakuwaku 7, and they never changed them. So me and my friends played those games to no end. So, yes KOM was not the best, but to me it's the memories of friendship.

I disagree about powerspikes and King of monsters but definitely agree about the others. It's a shame we never got sprite scalers on the Neo other than the pathetic attempt with Riding Hero.

Calling it now before I even watch... Legend of Success Joe at number 1! 😂

I have tried soooo hard to make it through King of Monsters on multiple occasions... but sheer boredom prevents this from happening every single time.

Dude that Fatal Fury hat is awesome 🔥

As someone who can 1 credit clear King of the Monsters I can say there is a little more to it than just button mashing :). I loved the game as a kid as it was one of the only games i could 1CC. Basically to do it, i would pick Beetlemania and the trick is to nail the running attack. Once you get good at it you can connect the running attack (which flips the opponent into the air) every time. Then you walk over and do the neck choke thing that gives you a power up ball. Once you get enough of them your special charge up attack levels up, which you can then use to complete matches faster. Rinse, repeat, game beaten on 1 credit.

I dig the longer hair with the Fatal Fury hat! And thank you for a refreshing topic!

Oof, I had totally forgotten about Fight Fever. It reminds me of one of those weird-ass DOS fighting games from the mid-90s. Really thought The Super Spy was gonna be on this list, though!

Of course, there are MANY worse or pointless games on the Neo Geo, just like on every other system. A high price doesn't mean a good game - "Riding Hero"is a great example, the racing track is so narrow, it's almost impossible to mess around with the other drivers...

As someone who became a big Neo Geo fan last year, I agree with a lot of this list. King of the Monsters is a boring slog to play without a friend and Riding Hero is an interesting idea with lackluster execution, though I can at least see why others would find them appealing. But Fight Fever, Legend of Success Joe and Power Spikes II are simply embarrassing by Neo Geo standards (aside from the cool intros for the latter two)--they would barely pass as Genesis launch titles, much less titles for the gold standard of 2D arcade game hardware!

Always love the Neo Geo vids! This is exactly why I curate my MVS collection... well that and money! Not every cart is gold... And for the record I love SVC Chaos!

That’s an accurate list! What I should say about my least favorite Neo-Geo games: I hated all of the SNES and Genesis ports of the classics, they belong on the PSX and Saturn despite their loading screens.

The downsides of a complete set lol

Great video, I grew up watching Neo Geo being played competitively on GamesMaster TV show (UK) in the early 90’s, I was in awe of the games, namely King Of Monsters, years later I finally got to play it. Totally agree with you.

King of Monsters can be amazing...but only with another person. The CPU AI on that game is way too easy and makes such stupid decisions that it's not even fun. The controls/mechanics could go MUCH farther (with the insane effects possible on the NG, why tf can't I shoot the nuke beam??!?) , but PVP it's a RIOT with a couple friends over and a couple beers down.

I both hate and love King of the Monsters. I pop it in every now and then and love it for about 10 minutes until I get really bored lol.

New upload just as I was revisiting your past NEO GEO videos. Can't beat that! :D

Riding Hero doesn't even come off the shelf for me anymore. I tried but it just doesn't workout because if the tedious gameplay. It's almost impossible not to crash and when you're faced with road obstacles you have to slow down to a point that basically stops the bike. The real problem is turning in curves. You immediately go off the track when you reach high speeds. I get the real life physics but this is a game and the fun in games is being able to do things you normally can't do in real life so it fails miserably in that department. Legend of Success Joe on the other hand I play that strictly for comedy reasons. The game literally keeps me laughing from start to finish. The fight animations inside the ring are beyond hilarious. The gameplay physics are so over the top inside the ring it becomes purely comical how you get punched particularly taking uppercuts and you will find yourself flying backwards into the ropes which is nothing unusual but it's particularly what happens after you hit the ropes. Now instead of just falling to the canvas you end up actually going straight up back first with your body laying out horizontally flying vertically into the air almost 8 feet high then you come crashing down into the canvas face first bouncing twice off the canvas.😳🤣😭😂😭🤣 What this game lacks in gameplay it makes up for it in comedy. If you look at it from that perspective you will have a good time with it. It's great for a laugh every once in a while so in that sense I find entertainment in it.👍😎👌 Now to be totally truthful here King Of The Monsters 1 should be scratched from this list and the game that should be put in its place is without question "Ganryu"!!!!! Ganryu is not a Neo Geo game. It's a Nintendo game masquerading as a Genesis game on the Neo Geo platform. It wouldn't even make a good Nintendo game that's how disappointing it is in all honesty. It could of been special if the developers had spent the necessary time to actually finish it but it's clear they gave up and scrapped that project before it even had a chance to become what it should of been. Even Neotropolis agreed when I discussed it with them regarding this game so don't be fooled. I'm a Neo collector and I had to let this one go once I got it. It wasn't worthy of being in any type of collection. I'd rather have Superman 64 than that game that should tell you something in itself. I repeat Do Not Buy this game because if you do you'll be truly sorry you did, You've Been Officially Warned!!!!!🙏

King of the monsters...bad.....*Eye twitch*........

Before the video: Bad Neo Geo games!? Wait a minute... After the video: Oh right, those exist. I guess I just dont pay much attention to those few bad ones. Also, never heard about Fight Fever, but it looks extremely generic.

You got that Terry Bogard look going with the hat and hair. Lol. Nice vid!

Legend of Success Joe is a piss poor representation of the iconic Ashita no Joe manga and anime

As my psychiatrist friend would say, "But how does this REALLY make you feel?" WEREN'T YOU LISTENING?! Yeah, there were some stinkers in this list for sure and I know there are a couple more that could have made it in, maybe another video when you can risk more of your sanity and rage.

This is important: Where can I get a Fatal Fury hat like yours?

King Of Monsters is a bad game ? You can't be serious !! 🤣😂😅

Neo Bomberman, after playing the 4 player arcade bomberman world and the excellent snes versions (superbomberman 3 is the best btw) it was a massive letdown.

Magician Lord belongs here.

I personally like KOM, but I haven't played it in years.

I remember when garou densetsu first came 1991and everybody try how to learn bulling diagonal for fireball

That viewpoint for the volleyball game Power Spikes is horrible. The only interesting thing is how it looks like it evolves into a futuristic version, at least cosmetically.

@05:14 - girl tickles boxers feet - boxer loses energy. man, that's a game i gotta check out sometime 😂

Take a look at what SNK made in the years PRIOR TO the Neo Geo… the vast majority of their arcade games were just astoundingly awful…

King of the Monsters 2 I liked... I guess I didn't play enough of the first one and always played the sequel instead.

😂🤣🤣 This list is soooo on point! And to me this is just the beginning.

Honorable mentions Ninja Combat, Burning Fight & Gan Gan

I'm surprised you didn't mention that you can barely see the ball sometimes in Power Spike 2 lol

Great list. My list mirrors yours pretty much - although, I'd drop King of the Monsters to slot six and put 3-Count-Bout in its place. I feel much the same way about it as you do with KOM. Funny that they're the two "wrestling" games.

For every bad game I have found in the library there is many more hidden gems. Nightmare in the Dark was a real treat I never knew about until I played it in my own cabinet.

Be honest, you'd still buy these games to complete your collection.

Power spikes 2? I actually dig that game. Agree with the rest of the list though!

Whats the difference between big tournament golf and top players golf? Which is better?

*The Angry Video Game Nerd NEEDS to play these!*

I'm not agree with Riding Hero. The story mode is BETTER that same option found on the Sega Genesis "Super Hang-on". I suggest try story mode in Riding Hero, but you have to be be very patience and must have memory card working; the end will surprise you.

Glad to say I’ve never heard of most of these games!

As a kid, before I knew what Neo Geo or an MVS was (to me it was just some multi-cade)... seeing King of Monsters was a trip. I was probably 13 or 14 years old and Street Fighter 2 was all the rage. New fighting games were popping on the market every day. A trip to the arcade after a month would net you 2-3 net new games NOBODY saw coming and only few heard about before seeing in person for the firs ttime. I remember seeing a crowd around King of Monsters and it looked AWESOME! We all loved wrestling, so we saw this game as a new take on a fighting game... where you played as monsters, and you could hurt the other monster with the environment. Concept? 10/10... Now... I would have been a TON less critical of this game back then. I don't think I actually ever played it then come to think of it, but I probably watched people playing it for over an hour (thats what broke kids did in arcades, they watched older kids with pockets full of quarters play games... kinda like today watching people play games on RU-vid). Anyway... I happen to own this one and it's sequel on the AES and it did NOT age well. While still cool in concept, the game play is super frustrating. Playing against a friend is far more enjoyable than the computer, but I wouldn't put a dime in this machine today if I saw it out in the wild. It's very disappointing. As far as guesses on other disappointing launch titles, there are so many. Neo Geo had a pretty weak launch... but I would have to guess Super Spy. Another one I happen to own, and I probably would have thought this was really cool as a 14 year old kid, but never ran into it... its a bear to play now. The amount of quarters you would have to pump into this game just to wrap your head around it... it would be cheaper to buy it. The strongest launch titles for me would have had to have been Sengoku/Ninja Combat (Didn't age particularly well... but again... beat um-ups were all the rage, and these had weapons galore and made Double Dragon look like an NES title from the evolution of graphics), NAM 1975 and Baseball Stars which at the time was the most impressive baseball game released to date. The concept of having a stand alone sports game in an arcade was something seldom attempted and rarely done well, and this one REALLY put the "arcade" into it. While it's not NBA Jam ground breaking... they made baseball something exciting to play in the arcade.

This guy is basically The Angry Game Berd but not angry.

Personally, I think that Ninja Combat is worse than King of The Monsters. I personally didn’t mind King of The Monsters-especially considering that it can be fun with other players (Team-Up ala what would be used in Fatal Fury, and even Player Vs. Player)-its better than the SNES and Genesis versions THAT much is for certain... its more complete. The music is... okay with the sole exception being Astro Guy’s theme; but in the end, I don’t think King of the Monsters is THAT bad... but I’d be lying if I said that the game doesn’t drag toward the end where you have to fight the monsters again. Ninja Combat is just painful. It’s really a flawed game-the worst of ADK’s initial first-three games; no question about it. Magician Lord may be brutally difficult, yet it showcased the hardware at the time to introduce players to what the system was all about. Blue’s Journey is WAY too easy... but it had SOMETHING with the different routes you can take to spice things up. Ninja Combat on the other hand, no. This game isn’t EVEN the remote definition of the word “Fun”. Doesn’t matter if you’re Joe, Hyabusa, Musashi, Kagerow, or Gembu... the best part of the game? The Final Boss, and the ending itself-not because of “the game being almost over” but Genyosai’s final form is AT LEAST the closest to what the game could have and SHOULD have been. Talk about too little, too late. Throughout playing that stupid game, it felt like winning the lotto after being shot repeatedly to death. And the ending song is not that bad, either... its just baffling how this game made it past Arcade Playtesting at all. What is most intriguing about this game is the unused sounds. It uses Magician Lord’s Amphibitron (Frog Warrior) croaks in the game’s files, alongside MANY unused voice samples. It’s like they took Magician Lord’s source code, and had little-to-no idea of how to make a Beat-Em-Up. Ninja Combat IS a waste of a good engine.

I love SVC Chaos 😂 Some characters have cheap moves I’ll give you that

I love King of Monsters so much!!!

I wouldn't say King of Monsters is a "good game".. but top 5 worst? Nah, no way. It was at least polular enough to warrant a sequel. Again.. not saying it blows my socks off but if you like wrestling or "classic" Godzilla or Gamera movies .. it's worth a go. I'd certainly play it any damn day over Blues Journey.

Watched to make sure Riding Hero was well represented on this list. That game is extra nefarious due to it actually looking like it could be a somehat enjoyable experience from the box art and image screenshots. How did they make motorcycles so boring?

The only redeeming part of legend of success Joe is when the screen pans up to show the look on your trainer's face when you lose. That's about it.

I love all the NeoGeo games, except Crossed Swords. This is more like Shit Swords.

this top 5 is spot on. Riding Hero is clearly the worst game on the system for me

Got a little worried at first when you mentioned svc but then it all made sense and completely agreed with everything you said including the order. Btw, any chance you can do a more modern video on emulating the neo geo ?

A bought king of the monsters MVS just because it’s worth decent money

I’m devastated that the universally known worst neogeo game is forever gonna be Legend of Success Joe. That game was the gateway for me watching the source material (Ashita no joe) and it became my favourite anime of all time. It’s only redeeming qualities in my opinion are the few nods it makes to the Anime in the sense that some enemies will fight the same way they do in the show. I can’t excuse anything else however, as much I love the show I can write essays on what’s wrong with this game.

Even the worst game looks ok to me. Every single Neo Geo game was designed for arcade play so a baseline of quality is always there. I could have sworn there were some questionable puzzle games. But there are less than 100 games in the new geo anyway iirc. So every single game had care and attention.

This may (or may not?) be a controversial opinion, but Art of Fighting does absolutely nothing for me. Everything from the generic characters to the constant panning the game does is just off putting. I respect it is a early title in the MVS series, but nonetheless there are too many other better fighting games out there you could spend your time playing.

So much love and passion put onto the Ashita no Joe anime, why couldn't they do the same with the game? Lol

I actually bought the console in the summer of '92, and I was rarely disappointed with the games I bought (which, fwiw, were mostly used and/or trade-ins). I dodged some bullets by sampling a good many NG titles at the local arcade. For example, I thought the first World Heroes game was pure garbage. The sequel was still quite weak, but the 2.5 version turned out to be great fun...World Heroes Perfect, I think? Yes, that's it. Good game.

RIDING HERO has a narrow track .... which I dislike : }--

i cant believe you put power spike on no1. power spikes is really good. specially if you master this game. its challenging. i can finish this game with 1 coin back on the day (plus there is special move)

The worst of the Neo Geo games is by far... Legend of Success Joe. At least in my case.

Visco laid an egg with Power Spikes II. Fight Fever & Legend of Success Joe were the cream of the CRAP. 💩

This is an advertisment for why you shouldn't go for a full collection of anything, I love most of the consoles fighting games and as good as metal slug is I wouldn't be buying a copy let alone have a copy of King of Monsters. You my friend are clearly a masochist.

Never heard of most of these titles

How your vids don't have more views is beyond me. Great calls, all. I thought I was alone on my lack of appreciation for King of the Monsters. Fight Fever flew under my radar. I have a majority of the SNK fighters but somehow I never encountered that one. Though provoking stuff like always.

3 Count Bout is prolly right up there as one of the WORST GAMES EVER...

Before this video I never heard about shitty Neo Geo game

Totally agree with your list, I’d consider football frenzy and 3 count blunt for much of the disdain you have for power spikes ii. Great concept, graphics even but the gameplay/camera is ridiculous and makes them almost unplayable

I didn't know there was an Ashita no Joe game on the Neo Geo. For it to look and play so bad should be criminal, given the reputation of the Ashita no Joe series (I've never watched it all the way through, but I know it was at least very popular during its time)

KOTM definitely shouldn't even come close to a Bottom 5 list. You must have very peculiar standards.

The Worst NG Games for me : - 1 - Legend of Succes Joe - 2 - Top Player Golf - 3 - all the Majong games - 4 - All the Quiz games - 5 - Stake Winners i personnaly love SNK vs CAPCOM, i don"t understand your choice... seriously ! it's a really good fighting games with a lot of fighters, and it's very fun in 2 players mod !! for the other, it's difficult for me to believe you prefere play a Quiz games in japanese, or a Majong, or even a Top Player compare to a NeoTurf Master... my favorite game on the platforme.

success Joe is still a 5/10 ^^

Scarlet, thank u for trashing King of the Monsters. I also like the concept but the execution and the gameplay is very bland and not fun. If the game was focused on wrestling or felt like a fighting game, KOTM could have been a really solid title, it's not. Speaking of frustrating NEO GEO games, I would also think Art of Fighting is awful too. It just felt like Street Fighter 1 but with huge character sprites.

That Power Spike game reminds me a lot of Super Volleyball on the Genesis. Same developers, same flat playfield, same camera perspective that makes the position of the ball a mystery until it's already past your players. Crap, crap, megacrap!

Man I love SVC chaos. What's wrong with people? I also like Power spikes but only on the TG16 at a $20 price point(super volleyball). So yeah, definitely not a neogeo caliber game.

So, Power Spikes II is a slightly modified port of Super Volley II on the Super Famicom. Video System took the lazy road and brought one of their home titles to the arcade for some quick bucks. It did pretty poorly in the arcade, so remaining Power Spikes II carts were used as factory conversions for Puzzle Bobble. Legitimate Puz Bob MVS carts still have some ROMs left over from Power Spikes II. It’s by far my least favorite Neo title. At least Success Joe has a tie to one of the largest early anime franchises.

Sorry but this is wrong. All these games are good and fully playable. Worse 5 Neogeo games are the mahjong and quiz ones and we are fine.

I didn't realize that "Legend of Success Joe" was ever released! I remember seeing it in an old magazine (maybe an EGM?) but I didn't remember hearing any more about it after that.

No problem Scarlet. Always enjoying your content as usual bro. Thank you for sharing this with us. 8^) Anthony..

On your list I only got to play King of the Monsters actually in the Arcades back when the Neo Geo was new, and yeah, I think I only actually played it once, concluding "I won't be needing to play this ever again". There were certainly a few of the early titles I considered stinkers at the time that I've never really gone back to play, the games that practically every 4 or 6 slot cab had, like Crossed Swords, Top Players Golf and World Heroes. Not awful just not.... great. My local Neo cab ended up with Mslug, Soccer Brawl, Andro Dunos and Fatal Fury 2 so it weren't too bad in the end haha!

Any chance someone can help me with my Arcade Stick Pro? I hacked it with Hylostick 1.3i, had some fun, then put it away for a while. I found the flash drive for it but I'm getting nothing out of the stick itself. So, does anyone have a copy of the Hylostick 1.3i stuff? I can't find it anywhere and I'm hoping it can bring this thing back from the dead

ITS BIKE SHOP gotta love 1990 english translation by snk.

Even though SvChoas isn't my favorite because of the bad ai, the underwhelming game play, and the weird sound effects. The rest of the game is good. The roster, the music, levels, the arcade mode, and the multi-player were all good. I also didn't love CvS2 as much as the average consumer but still enjoyed it enough.

Worst games = the puzzle ones

Yeah most of the games are skipable. King of monsters is good for a few minutes. Sequel is more interesting aside from it being unfair with the final boss

Totally agree to your choice 👍

I have to go with Art of Fighting 2 and 3 count bout due to the difficulty being so extreme that neither games is remotely fun.

guess then Gururin isn't as a bad as i'd heard?

Great spot on episode. Very funny. I think King of the Monsters and 2 didn't age well. In the early 90s it looked cool especially seeing it on Nick Arcade. Looked better from a far.

You had me till the enya hate

Chibi need to be on this list.. games that cost $$$$$ but are shit

This video was great!

Nice power spike rant! Had to be said.

I am not shocked by your list. I only have a problem with your #1, Power Spikes II. And I agree with many of your arguments (the camera, the fact that it doesn't look too much like a Neo Geo game, etc.) - It's just that the full story is a little bit more complicated than that. Volleyball has always been a problem to adapt in videogames. Most developpers chose to represent the field in an isometric view but it only made the experience painfull... You had to focus so much on not missing the ball that any strategy was secondary, which sucks in volleyball. Super Volleyball changed that and was a revolution when it first came out in arcade. It was the first volleyball game where you could focus on a strategy that mimic a real volleyball game. That game had many adaptations and many sequels. It has problems and it aged poorly, yes, but it doesn't desserve to be the worst Neo Geo games... Any of the 4 others desserve that honor... Legend of Success Joe is probably a good candidate to #1 as the game was so hyped...

Power spike 2:was unexpected.. but I agree on your list ;)