Earlier this week, SNK announced that NeoGeo games would be headed for the Wii on the virtual console, at a cost slightly above SNES games.
In the early 90s, SNK launched a game console known as the NeoGeo. With a hefty price tag of $649, the system was more or less dead on arrival -- even with 2 arcade joysticks and Magician Lord bundled in, the NeoGeo was sold mostly to game enthusiasts with large pocketbooks. With games costing $200 (because they were essentially the same cartridges that arcade machines would use), the game system never achieved success in the United States. That being said, there were a good number of games on NeoGeo that were favorites of mine in the arcade: Samurai Showdown, Bust-A-Move, Magical Drop and SenGoku, which I hope to see on the Wii.
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