The FAILED SNK Hyper Neo Geo 64 ! - Gaming History Documentary

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In today's video, we look at the story of the SNK Hyper Neo Geo 64 - the failed sequel to the Neo Geo AES and MVS. #SNK #neogeo #gaminghistory
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@dyscotopia 2 жыл бұрын

Pausing on the specs screen, it appears that had SNK spent more time making 2.5d games that drew on their development strengths with 2d while incorporating 3d elements, this would have been uniquely up to the task of uniquely dazzling games, instead of delivering lackluster me too 3d efforts. In a way it reminds me of a supercharged Saturn.

@gaylordfocker7990 2 жыл бұрын

And how well did the Saturn do?

@dyscotopia 2 жыл бұрын

@@gaylordfocker7990 well... It was the only thing still available when I went to blockbuster to rent a PS1, so I'm assuming that means it was insanely popular.

@djbneozen Жыл бұрын

You stole my reply. They should have not worried about the 3d games and instead made stunning 2.5 games which would have continued the impressive graphics they already knew how to do and ignored the gimmicky 3d which in a lot of games on other systems was also poorly done. This would have given them time and resources to make only AAA 3d titles when they did release any full 3d. They let the market hype control them. Big mistake.

@grinbrothers 2 жыл бұрын

I knew of the Hyper Neo Geo 64 arcade unit but I didn't know they had even considered making a console out of it. Interesting to learn those additional bits of trivia. The thing I ultimately don't understand about SNK scrapping the multi-cartridge feature in order to better tailor the cabinet for each game is that a concern for the arcade scene was the continuing success of console games, which with it's controllers manages to adapt to a far larger variety of genres. Perhaps to go along with the multi-cartridge concept they could have evolved it with some form of multi-control concept for their arcade machines.

@slamtilt01 2 жыл бұрын

When I worked in arcades back in the 90’s. The SNK Neo Geo cabinets were my favourite. They didn’t always have the popularity of Namco or Capcom games. Mainly due to the amazing artwork that attract players to them.

@rodneyabrett 2 жыл бұрын

It was the beautiful artwork on both the cabinets and the games themselves that really sucked me in. I remember going to the arcade in the early 90s to specifically play some Street Fighter II with my brother and the sounds and music from a Fatal Fury attract demo playing on an MVS machine got me to take a detour and see what that was about. Neo Geo, eh? From there I was hooked. Samurai Showdown completely blew me away and when the home console was released, me and my brother made it our mission to work as many hours as we needed to in order to afford one.. which we eventually got!

@dirtomega 2 жыл бұрын

My local arcade had an MVS 6 slot cabinet back in those days. I remember putting an ungodly amount of quarters into that thing over the years, and now I have a lot of those games downloaded. Great times!

@liamconverse8950 Жыл бұрын

It seems like NeoGeo games were pretty well-designed at getting your quarters like metal slug you die in one hit and you get infinite continues if you just keep on putting them in

@petercroasdell 2 жыл бұрын

An excellent video. I purchased a Neo Geo AES back in the day. It was very expensive but the feeling of having the Arcade at home was priceless. I had Samurai Showdown and Fatal Fury.

@bubbythebear6891 2 жыл бұрын

Who needs food or running water, am I right?

@flash_channel2161 2 жыл бұрын

Neo geo console have 14 years life time support from early 1990s to mid 2000s impressive, in 2003 they released svc chaos on the neo geo console. A 2003 game in a early 1990 system impressive.

@dazealex 2 жыл бұрын

Finally, those honkers are no longer distracting me.

@snkfightfan0187 2 жыл бұрын

I really like the Hyper Neo Geo 64 and enjoy videos convering the hardware, it's history and the games. Thanks for the shout out in the description. Awesome content.

@TexasHollowEarth 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Never knew SamSho: Warrior's Rage on PS1 was NOT a port of SamSho 64: Warrior's Rage. Thanks for that 👍.

@ChrisDM7285 2 жыл бұрын

Your videos are so informative and so enjoyable. Love them, great quality content as usual.

@AcornElectron 2 жыл бұрын

Keep up the good work lass and, as always, stay safe! Always interesting and always informative!

@brichan1851 2 жыл бұрын

I love your vids, but must admit, I miss the old school vhs intros you used in your older vids. Great aesthetic for classic nostalgia gamers like me. You rock!

@mrfreeze2446 2 жыл бұрын

Being waiting for this, one of my all time favorite KZfaqrs who just strolled into the big league I love it! Mr TopHat is a very lucky man 👍

@Ayixlia 2 жыл бұрын

I love watching you and your husband's videos you guys have such great content about gaming, but for some odd satisfying reason, I keep imagining you having green skin wearing a wicked witch costume.

@joedent3323 2 жыл бұрын

It's konk + hair.

@DavidElg 2 жыл бұрын

Hope this doesn't sound nitpicky, but I find that I'm constantly adjusting the volume depending on whether I'm watching the voiceover parts of the video and when Lady Decade speaks directly to the camera.

@eric12bee 2 жыл бұрын

Bonus points for holding a piece of that rare hardware in-hand during the video.

@Charlie-Cat. 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this with us. I posted this up on, The Official NEO-GEO Thread for others to enjoy. Keep up the great work and looking forward on seeing more of your Neo-Geo and SNK related material soon. 8^) Anthony..

@gavinmcdowell4777 2 жыл бұрын

Love these vids so much good knowlage i remember alot of these growing up please keep makeing these vids kind regaurds

@appdirect 2 жыл бұрын

If they didn't make the system modular because of the controls, they could have med the controls modular too

@GTB-yu2be 2 жыл бұрын

Another great video and I love that outro😁

@JoshandHarlee 2 жыл бұрын

Love the channel, idk why but KZfaq refuses to give me notifications for your videos.

@Thalesperes 2 жыл бұрын

Coincidentally, I just played Roads Edge for the first time last week, I've found a cab here in Brazil, Its average but not bad at all

@nimrodlevy Жыл бұрын

I love you channel sooo much! Thank you for this video!

@paulmuaddib451 2 жыл бұрын

This whole thing is so cheeky; I love it.

@VTKC 2 жыл бұрын

Wow I never seen that zombie shooter before. Looks like heaps of fun! It reminded me of a game called Carnevil.

@JohnSTF72 2 жыл бұрын

Well, Hyper Neo Geo 64 never made a big impact in the arcades, i never saw a single unit in my local arcades, while they were plenty of Neo Geo MVS machines around. The older system certainly aged better than the newer Neo Geo, because 2D games aged much better as well: By the time Hyper Neo Geo 64 was out, its 3D graphics felt already outdated by Sega and Namco's 3D offerings wich felt much more advanced at the time. Oh well. At least SNK is still around and brings out some new games. Thanks Lady Decade for the presentation (that HNG64 unit felt really heavy!)

@NOPerative 2 жыл бұрын

Still have the Neo Geo and had a Neo Geo Pocket; feel as though the Pocket would have benefitted greatly from a backlit screen as the games were incredibly fun. A re-release of a backlit Pocket would still intrigue me (not going to lie) especially if it were to play legacy Neo Geo titles as well.

@Thewickedjon 2 жыл бұрын

gotta love the rethoric you guys deliver on your videos

@chadhoganlive 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing how you got one. This bring back EGM and Next generation memories. You rule!

@Choralone422 2 жыл бұрын

The Neo Geo 64 was a very good example of a system that was developed/released way too late. While it had some impressive hardware specs (mostly in terms of available RAM) the game developers didn't end up making anything that showed all that hardware could do anything more than what the Playstation, N64 or Saturn had already been doing for 1-3 years at the time, nevermind beating anything in the "high-end" arcade market. Plus like others have said, the arcade business was really dying in the late 90's due to consumer level tech as a whole advancing by leaps and bounds during the 90s as well as lots of other factors.

@nexusofice9135 2 жыл бұрын

I would say it was released too early actually. Tech development moved too quickly at that point and it was outdated almost instantly. Making further game development on it a pointless endeavor. If they waited a few years and made a platform that could handle both 2D and 3D graphics well (Like the Naomi or Atomiswave) then the platform could have been more versatile and worth investing in.

@AngryCalvin Жыл бұрын

I’ve always been intrigued by Neo Geo systems. Could only dream of ever having one and even it’s games were the price of a console. The arcade was my only experience with Neo Geo back in the day. I ended up buying all the available games from Steam. I don’t even remember this 3D Neo Geo console existing.

@jonathanneville7105 Жыл бұрын

Killer videos. Subbed.

@ElricSowrd 2 жыл бұрын

It's been a longtime. The first time I've ever heard of this Hyper Neo Geo 64 was from G4 Icons with their SNK Episode.

@theoldpcgamer77 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing beat owning the AES in the early 90's. My local import shop in the UK had one in the window playing Nam 75. I bought one around the time Fatal Fury came out. I remember Fatal Fury Special costing £180 back then on release and the average Super Famicom import being £50. For an arcade in the home the prices were not that insane. SF2 on japanese Suoer Famicom import was £120 as everyone wanted it and yet that was awful compared to the arcade.

@nexusofice9135 2 жыл бұрын

Owning an MVS arcade cabinet in the 90's beat the AES. That machine is glorious in the home. And you have up to 6 games to choose from at once!

@theoldpcgamer77 2 жыл бұрын

@@nexusofice9135 No one owned arcade cabs in the home in the early 90's. Why would they when you can buy the AES with RGB scart (well i guess not in america where you used composite 🤢). An AES hooked via RGB scart and the sound through bass stomping stereo speakers was excellent and better than sitting in some smoke filled arcade in the city centre full of certain types of people trying to rob you like the scum they are. I guess if you are american with god awful connections then it wouldn't look anything like the arcade but then that's just over there with crappy tvs. The PS1 era had the supergun where you could plug in arcade pcbs and run via RGB scart but by then arcade PS1 and Saturn ports made that pointless.

@humansrants1694 2 жыл бұрын

@@nexusofice9135 The AES had a mode for playing it while sitting down.

@Andrew-ze6kq 2 жыл бұрын

A Hyper 64 collection would be rad. I don't care if it's not possible now. Anything is possible.

@Mitjitsu 2 жыл бұрын

Neo Geo had a lot of success in the early 90's because it's capabilities were well ahead of its console counterparts. However, I fail to see any difference between a Neo Geo 64 and a Nintendo 64. All that without even factoring how tame it looked in comparison to games produced on Sega's Naomi boards.

@masterquake7 2 жыл бұрын

The wild swings in volume in this video made it a pain to get through.

@Tclans 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this piece of history lesson. I adore the MVS and luckily own a cabinet, it’s an absolute blast. Is the Atomiswave next as a documentary?

@tremaineunderwood7322 2 жыл бұрын

You did ask in a previous video about possible topics. It kinda dawned on me with this one. Almost every one of the retro channels have covered consoles and games for each year that was released, like Sega Mage Drive games in 1991. Why not do arcade boards and a similar concept. I am not sure how popular that would be but I haven't seen other retro channels doing that.

@billzee89 2 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love this channel!!

@CobaltLobster 2 жыл бұрын

I sold this system on Cape Cod in Massachusetts way way back at release. Not many buyers.

@paulgregoriou6574 2 жыл бұрын

One thing I found fascinating about Neo Geo is that they had 16 bit ports of their games on the Genesis and SNES.

@TheMinchio 2 жыл бұрын

They even got 8 bits ports (pretty good ones), for example for the game gear.

@reboxtherapy Жыл бұрын

$799 for a 24 bit console is way too much money, even for 1990 when most people only had 8 bit consoles.

@RetroBytesUK 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like the caption for the thumbnail should be "Lady decade included for scale"

@futhum 2 жыл бұрын

Lady Decade, you're the best!

@capoman1 Жыл бұрын

I'd like to hear if any of these games were ported to other systems

@mysteriotube1233 2 жыл бұрын

another amazing video thank you

@alunparker3952 Жыл бұрын

Huh, well now I know what that bank of odd looking white cabinets in Namco Station on Southbank back in the late 90s/early 2000s were...

@noiselabproject9659 2 жыл бұрын

If the hyper NeoGeo had only been used to make 640x480p 2D games whilst still using a CRT of course and also taken cartriges it could have had some mega games on it that we would all still drool over today as early 3D games have mostly aged very badley unlike their 2D counterparts

@humansrants1694 2 жыл бұрын

Agree, now 90s 3D games you see it straight away a box with someone's face painted on it using 6 pixels.

@bboboneill 2 жыл бұрын

That was great, cheers

@sakuraslight 2 жыл бұрын

Saw you pick this up at OLL in norwich

@adrianturner9170 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome 👌 👏

@HistoryandReviews 2 жыл бұрын

Your videos are hilarious I Love them

@jrs4516 2 жыл бұрын

buriki one has much more sophisticated graphics than tekken tag. you have to remember the arcade version of tag is using the same hardware and engine as tekken 3. the ps2 version showed here is a big upgazde over the arcade and not comparable.

@MrSamPhoenix 2 жыл бұрын

The Neo-Geo 64 was only slightly more powerful than the original Sony PlayStation or the Sega Saturn 🪐. & by the late 1990s the Sega Dreamcast & Sony PlayStation 2 were already near release. Also, the Neo-Geo 64 seemed to be somewhat of a mess hardware-wise. SNK kept there ways when it came to certain features such as RAM. There’re too many dedicated banks of RAM for things such a textures, 2D sprites, & backgrounds etc.

@zaklaghlam1 2 жыл бұрын

KOF changed my life in so many ways.

@Buzztiburon13 2 жыл бұрын

What is the box on top of the NES at 3:34 ? look like a sensor or something ...

@only1gameguru 2 жыл бұрын

I keep calling AES the arcade Enthusiast System

@Cyber_Akuma 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, can't believe out of all the weird and obscure old systems and hardware I had seen and read about everywhere, I had somehow never heard of this, a Neo-Geo system of all things. Great video.

@fizzyfuzz5878 2 жыл бұрын

I would’ve loved to see a 3D King Of Monsters. Wonder if it was ever in the works.

@adonian Жыл бұрын

I STILL have the original Tomb Raider trilogy ON PC CD-ROM's, and my PS1 disc's are somewhere in my mess. I remember buying the 3dfx card just for Tomb Raider.

@VJFranzK 2 жыл бұрын

Samurai Shodown 64 was interesting! though the play action was a bit too changed from the 2D. Too bad they never made any Shmups and puzzle games to push the hardware! we'll never know what it was truly capable of doing...

@gordonshumway7465 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, puzzle games are really known for pushing hardware.

@dreadpirate3152 2 жыл бұрын

I love your content Lady Decade! Sadly, SNK’s Hyper 64 arcade unit looks mediocre at best. MVS tripped the arcade business model

@Mamiya645 2 жыл бұрын

I wish it had lived long enough to get maybe a tenth, or a twentieth, of what the MVS had for a library in both quality and quirkiness, which would not have become that success in the first place if not for all that ADK brought to both its hardware design and software library right from the very start.

@anthonychobotdoespopcultur7762 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome hun

@djbneozen Жыл бұрын

They should have not worried about the 3d games and instead made stunning 2.5 games which would have continued the impressive graphics they already knew how to do and ignored the gimmicky 3d which in a lot of games on other systems was also poorly done. This would have given them time and resources to make only AAA 3d titles when they did release any full 3d. They let the market hype control them. Big mistake.

@Midekai 2 жыл бұрын

Do you think talking about the Sharp X68,000 would be a good episode for obscure hardware to cover? I'd like to see your take on the original Japanese gaming PC

@XyzgorYT 2 жыл бұрын

Subbed for the use of the word "Ridonculous"

@philedney5381 2 жыл бұрын

Woah! Look at that thing!

@R12games. 2 жыл бұрын

Like garantido 🤩👍🎮

@SuperStrykerBoy 2 жыл бұрын

Love ur videos but I have questions: are u related to the guy who comes in the channel Top Hat Gaming Man. Both of u almost sound the same. Both have a passion for gaming and do amazing research. I would love to see a video with both of you talking gaming.

@mikesilva3868 2 жыл бұрын

💖 great review

@SophiaNyx 2 жыл бұрын

Biggest library award goes to... Not this

@alenaduplantier4505 2 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1989 I was a toddler when this was released

@nicholsliwilson 2 жыл бұрын

Do you have a Hyper Neo Geo 64 arcade module just hanging around to show of? @Lady Decade 😄

@TYNEPUNK 3 ай бұрын

i wonder if theres a market for new negeo64 games. and an SDK

@nustde00 2 жыл бұрын

Who is this beautiful woman showing me something I have never heard of!?!? FANTASTIC!! cool video! more more more please!

@MagikGimp 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if it still works. It would be almost next to impossible to find out I guess.

@sleazyfellow 2 жыл бұрын

My God I came buckets but it was an affair to remember.

@19822andy Жыл бұрын

The original neo geo was viable for a decade and a half. That's a big shelf life

@DarenPage 2 жыл бұрын

Ok, this is gonna bug me... What the hell is that outro tune? I remember hearing it when I was a wee nipper.

@cpu64 2 жыл бұрын

I still want an AES...

@ibapreppie Жыл бұрын

600 bucks in the 90's and people complained about PS5 and Xbox Series X being 499.99 lol. How people forget.

@chuckyluvsu13 2 жыл бұрын

Metal Slug, Saints Row, & Half-Life series 4life !!

@renzokufc 2 жыл бұрын

I remember spotting a HNG64 cab with Samurai Shodown in it at my local arcade. I was around 15 and me and my friends thought it looked like a glorified PSX. The only thing about the game we thought it was cool was Hanzo's cinematic grabs... You could see what in retrospective was the precursor for Mortal Kombat's X-rays. We ignored the game and continued playing SFA2.

@godslayer1415 2 жыл бұрын

Don't lie kid

@cubeflinger 2 жыл бұрын

Thumbnail looks like the Apollo guidance computer.. wee

@ehe7009 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@MegaManNeo 2 жыл бұрын

SNK failed to adopt the jump into 3D when everyone else did and thus made even worse mistake in that regard than SEGA with the Saturn for game development. That's what I take from the failed Hyper NeoGeo 64, a machine with a name just as silly as Ultra Nintendo 64.

@SalDOWN 2 жыл бұрын

The Neo Geo was really something different @ the arcades (2D games)!

@MrLaloman18 Жыл бұрын

"It was NOT a console for peasants!"....... 🤣 This woman knows her SHIIIITT!!!

@frost8077 2 жыл бұрын

I have no experience with SNK hardware, only seeing one person in high school with a Neo Geo Pocket, and thinking it was an old super device for rich people because I never saw any store in the mall selling anything SNK. Maybe there were no or just a few suppliers in my city, or my memory is foggy, but I never knew anyone with a Neo Geo.

@gordonshumway7465 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing story!

@Badguy10472 2 жыл бұрын

I am probably the only man on earth who loves fatal fury wild ambition

@drmgiverdrmgiver5335 2 жыл бұрын

3:35 what is on top of the NES there?

@ukkev7290 2 жыл бұрын

It's called a NES Satellite. It's an infrared receiver for up to 4 controllers.

@Theshark15z 11 ай бұрын

All in all, SNK waited too long to jump on the ball with 3D. Sega and Namco were way ahead of them. The Hyper Neo Geo graphics were too much like Sony's ZN-1's arcade board which by the late 90's was considered dated, since by that time, the developers for already became familiar with the technology, allowing them to smooth out the polygons and brighten up the backgrounds. There was no way that the Hyper Neo Geo 64 was going to get over Sega's Model 3 and Namco's System 12. Capcom's Cps 3 was not a good successor when compared to the Cps2, but the game produced for them basically gave the NEO GEO a good run for its money.

@Rackatiakka 2 жыл бұрын

I think all these games look cool. Like I would play all of them right now. Oh well that sucks.

@IAmLovie 2 жыл бұрын

I love the SNK era and have it tatted on my arm

@adventuretaco7140 2 жыл бұрын

I’ll say it for ya “NEO GEO Is for the classes ! Not the masses! “

@nexusofice9135 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the AES... But the "Masses" still got the same experience for a single coin on the MVS arcade machine.

@adventuretaco7140 2 жыл бұрын

@@nexusofice9135 still I’m sure every kid that pumped money into the machine wished they could have the same experience at home .. but the large majority could not afford it ..

@nexusofice9135 2 жыл бұрын

@@adventuretaco7140 ya. But that doesn't mean that experience was restricted to the rich. That is what Arcades were for.

@adventuretaco7140 2 жыл бұрын

@@nexusofice9135 yes but rich people didn’t need to go to the arcade and mingle with the masses in order to enjoy their decadent video entertainment..

@nexusofice9135 2 жыл бұрын

@@adventuretaco7140 yes but you were just talking about Neo Geo for the masses. In your original comment you said Neo Geo is for the classes. But Neo Geo was for the masses.... It was specifically designed for the masses.. in arcades. The AES came out after the mvs. Simple as that. It was designed for the masses.