Hello everyone, new user looking to dive in!

[Jibbajaba]

It's actually spelled "spankatopia".  Spank-uh-toe-pee-uh.

[wildfruit]

Welcome to the world of tomorrow!

[HailingTheThings]

It's actually spelled "spankatopia".  Spank-uh-toe-pee-uh.

You may just be on to something there, Jibbster, good sir. hehe

[Necromancer]

Welcome aboard!

+1 on getting in on PCE goodies too.  There's just way too many great games that never came to the US.

[Lord Thag]

I had a similar experience. My brother had a tg 16 and we had like 5 games for it back in the day, military madness and silent debuggers being my favorite.

About five years ago a friend got this crazy craigslist deal and I ended up with about 80 of the US hucard library and about 2/3 of the cd games in one fell swoop. I quickly realized that this console was criminally underappreciated.

The TG-16/PCE, Mega Drive, and Neo Geo have become my holy trinity of retrogaming. So much fun stuff!

Welcome to the forums.

[goldenpp72]

I had a similar experience. My brother had a tg 16 and we had like 5 games for it back in the day, military madness and silent debuggers being my favorite.

About five years ago a friend got this crazy craigslist deal and I ended up with about 80 of the US hucard library and about 2/3 of the cd games in one fell swoop. I quickly realized that this console was criminally underappreciated.

The TG-16/PCE, Mega Drive, and Neo Geo have become my holy trinity of retrogaming. So much fun stuff!

Welcome to the forums.

That's awesome, sounds like a lot of months of fun to be had there. I've always wanted a Neogeo but the price for the various games is just way too prohibitive for me at this point, really a shame.

[esteban]

UPDATE: OK, I finally finished reading your initial post.

[Lord Thag]

That's awesome, sounds like a lot of months of fun to be had there. I've always wanted a Neogeo but the price for the various games is just way too prohibitive for me at this point, really a shame.

I got lucky with an arcade collecting friend and got a big pile of Neo Geo MVS carts before they got stupid expensive. It is a really fun, fun console. It's expensive but I have found it really holds its value and enjoyability. Especially if you like shmups or fighting games.

If you want a cheaper option get one of the much maligned Neo Geo X systems and buy the $12 modded SD card and throw all the games you want on it. It outputs in HDMI.

[EvilEvoIX]

That's awesome, sounds like a lot of months of fun to be had there. I've always wanted a Neogeo but the price for the various games is just way too prohibitive for me at this point, really a shame.

I got lucky with an arcade collecting friend and got a big pile of Neo Geo MVS carts before they got stupid expensive. It is a really fun, fun console. It's expensive but I have found it really holds its value and enjoyability. Especially if you like shmups or fighting games.

If you want a cheaper option get one of the much maligned Neo Geo X systems and buy the $12 modded SD card and throw all the games you want on it. It outputs in HDMI.

NICE!!!!  I remember those days, I goth MOTW's for like $20 and most dusty, cigarette smelling games for $5 to $15.  How many do you have?

[Lord Thag]

NICE!!!!  I remember those days, I goth MOTW's for like $20 and most dusty, cigarette smelling games for $5 to $15.  How many do you have?

I am currently at 84 neo geo carts. I am trying to grab all the rest of the ones I want before they get out of reach.

Yeah had some pretty crazy scores. Puzzle Bobble 2 for $5, prehistoric isle and strikers for cheap. Miss the days when you couldnt give mvs carts away

[Bardoly]

Welcome to Pcenginefx!

I second your getting a region-modded, video-modded Duo.

[goldenpp72]

That's awesome, sounds like a lot of months of fun to be had there. I've always wanted a Neogeo but the price for the various games is just way too prohibitive for me at this point, really a shame.

I got lucky with an arcade collecting friend and got a big pile of Neo Geo MVS carts before they got stupid expensive. It is a really fun, fun console. It's expensive but I have found it really holds its value and enjoyability. Especially if you like shmups or fighting games.

If you want a cheaper option get one of the much maligned Neo Geo X systems and buy the $12 modded SD card and throw all the games you want on it. It outputs in HDMI.

I've heard a lot of iffy things about the neo geo x, but i've never heard of the modded SD card option. How much worse is this option versus the genuine article? I'd definitely like to be able to play the games if they are close to legit, but i'm not selling my house to afford it lol.

[johnnykonami]

I've considered lifting my region restriction for both the turbo and the sega saturn due to the extent of the library difference between the regions, just if you saw my financial bleeding you'd see why I have to at least stagger things :p

Saturn is the same bag as the Duo, only a portion of either library was localized and there's tons of great Japanese games for both.  I collected heavily for both systems in the 90's and early 2000's and I still have games I want to get.  I would lift your embargo when you are financially able!

[Lord Thag]

I've heard a lot of iffy things about the neo geo x, but i've never heard of the modded SD card option. How much worse is this option versus the genuine article? I'd definitely like to be able to play the games if they are close to legit, but i'm not selling my house to afford it lol.

The emulation is pretty good, but not perfect. It's nothing to turn your nose up at though. If you want to play Neo super cheap get a Raspberry Pi and one of the emulator suites. You can even buy one of the Neo Geo X USB joysticks for it to get an authentic experience.