@@LoadingGeek - Very good. You seem to have a fondness for fighting game females (for the most part). Can't say I blame you. Which leads me to this. Do you happen to play Role-Playing Games? I happen to have a friend who requests someone to upload a playthrough of one such RPG where you can design your own characters, and his roster is all female. Two of them are from fighting games. Respond to me if interested and I'll give you more details. PS - Before you ask, no. My friend does not have the equipment nor knows how to record from the system this game comes from. And I'm not much of a gamer. That's why he's been asking around via me since his RU-vid account got shut down because RU-vid are bleeps.
@@EightOne01 - Sunsoft is one of the few third parties that was willing to make games for the money waster known as the Neo Geo. I know Sunsoft wasn't Electronic Arts (imagine if Madden was on the Neo Geo), but they weren't no name Video Systems Up either. Makes me wonder why a well respected company Iike Sunsoft would make games for SNK's "too expensive for it's own good" system. $200 games (let alone the $700 system) is the reason why Street Fighter 2, Contra 3, Final Fantasy 4 and John Madden never appeared on that system.
@@psychopathyoutubeemployees280 The closest you’ll get to Madden on Neo Geo is Touchdown Fever-though it was _before_ the Neo Geo. Too complex for it to be viable there. The third party games are what made the Neo Geo’s library so diverse and robust. There were a lot big name developers involved such as Taito, Tecmo, Visco, Data East, and of course ADK.
@@EightOne01 - Who cares about Touchdown Fever? My point is, not having companies that people give a bleep about really hurt the Neo Geo. Capcom, Konami, Electronic Arts, Square, heck even Enix and ACCLAIM weren't making games for that money waster, and we all know how "good" Acclaim was! As for the ones that made games for the Neo Geo, Sunsoft - Decent company that always seems to get lost in the shuffle amongst the mega powers. Video Systems Up - Other than Aero Fighters (which was no Salamander/Life Force), nobody gave a damn about them. Taito - How the mighty have fallen. I remember how big Bubble Bobble/Bust-A-Move was. I also know that Taito's North American offices went BANKRUPT before they could personally release the great Lufia 2, not for the Neo Geo, but the SNES (needing other companies to release their stuff outside Japan until getting "absorbed" by Square). Lufia 2 is another big name game the Neo Geo missed out on, and before you mention "not arcade material", who said it had to be an arcade game? Tecmo - Poor man's Konami that made a soccer game nobody cared about for the Neo Geo. No Ninja Gaiden, no Tecmo Bowl. Even the critically panned Secret of the Stars didn't appear there. Visco - Who the bleep is this company? Exactly my point. Data East - Poor man's Capcom (though Capcom were hypocritical wipes for trying to take down Fighter's History) that always seemed to be playing "follow the leader". Like Taito, they pretty much fell apart in the mid-1990's. Alpha Denshi - The company that was so similar to SNK, that you'd think this was SNK's "Ultra Games" and "Flying Edge" if you know what I mean. Looking at their overall content tells me how much more similar they were to a Visco and Video Systems Up rather than (at least) a Taito and Data East. Now ADK and SNK are unified as one company which makes it a pretty appropriate end for such a lackluster company. So what we have is 3 companies nobody cared for anymore, 3 companies nobody knew existed or gave a damn, and one company that has survived long enough to "merge" with overrated hack company Koei, and yet the Neo Geo still couldn't get anything noteworthy enough from those companies to appear on their system (no, Bust-A-Move doesn't count)! Once again, if the price tag wasn't a "king's ransom" (I would have waited till 1995 before going first-party), then the big name I.P.'s from the big name third-parties would have appeared on the Neo Geo, and thus SNK wouldn't have turned into the fighting game and Metal Slug company.
TL;dr It’s a “money waster” because you can’t afford it (even though many games were ported to more mainstream consoles). Just because you don’t give a damn about those companies that made software for the Neo, doesn’t mean that they so failed. They were making games on other platforms too. Your disdain for the Neo Geo is a you problem, and frankly, none of my business.
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