NEW NEO GEO PORTABLE

[Estebang]

Magician Lord is a great game but I'm not paying $800 for the privilege of playing it on the go, which is already possible with a jailbroken PSP.

[Moniker]

There's no way it's gonna cost that much. Even at a lower price, it had better have netplay in addition to most of the stuff on estebang's list. I know it won't, though. Even the PSP's (incredible) Neo emulator supports ad hoc.

[Marc]

Magician Lord is a cookie-cutter, badly designed piece of shit that was inferior to at least a dozen 16-bit platform/shooters when it was released, and beaten by at least another dozen by the time that gen ended.

[Cellinaire]

Magician Lord is a cookie-cutter, badly designed piece of shit that was inferior to at least a dozen 16-bit platform/shooters when it was released, and beaten by at least another dozen by the time that gen ended.

"What imprudence, you human being! Face your trial by God!"

Lol and I actually enjoyed that game, no matter how badly the game was made.

[Krimzon Kitzune]

Magician Lord is a cookie-cutter, badly designed piece of shit that was inferior to at least a dozen 16-bit platform/shooters when it was released, and beaten by at least another dozen by the time that gen ended.

[Marc]

Sorry man, it's just that when it comes to the Neo o lot of people seem to take leave of their senses and turn up the rose-colour to eleven. It had some great games, but the stuff it launched with was pretty poor, and even a lot of the later stuff played no better than similar titles on 16-bit systems. I think it's the lure of the machine and carts themselves, they are lovely things to have sat under the telly.

[JBueno MD]

Magician Lord is a cookie-cutter, badly designed piece of shit that was inferior to at least a dozen 16-bit platform/shooters when it was released, and beaten by at least another dozen by the time that gen ended.

"What imprudence, you human being! Face your trial by God!"

Lol and I actually enjoyed that game, no matter how badly the game was made.

At least it had nice music. Hell I still enjoy it nowadays through Wii VC.

[Moniker]

I rather like Magician Lord as well. Sure there are better titles, but it's far from execrable. Not many games out there in the GnG vein. (Just reminded myself about Maldita Castilla.. :drool:)

[Ed Oscuro]

Magician Lord makes me wonder "how am I gonna get fresh with only 10,000 points per level?" HOW AM I GONNA GET TO 50,000??

[Estebang]

Some people are suggesting that the 500 euro price point announcement is a fake-out publicity stunt made in homage to the Neo's original ridiculous price.

[E. Randy Dupre]

That's more or less what I was getting at earlier. It's a dick move if true, though - Blaze could probably do with having a word with Atlus in order to find out just how well that kind of trolling of your audience goes down (see the recent Gungnir/Growlanser stunt).

[gameoverDude]

Some people are suggesting that the 500 euro price point announcement is a fake-out publicity stunt made in homage to the Neo's original ridiculous price.

Maybe an early April Fool's joke. It IS about that time...

The English voice acting for Gal Agiese makes me LOL. "I'm destined just to die". Good in a Forgotten Worlds sort of way. ML is at least as good as GnG. In some ways it's better. OTOH one gripe would be the way it handles the time limit- your remaining time is not displayed, but you know you took too long when the Death Bringer shows up.

Stage 5's music kicks ass. Just watch out for those damn frogs.

Anything for Magician Lord 2 to be dug up and finished in some form. Wait...
Maybe there was no plan for ML2?


Chad Okada said: "Well, it's going to kill me to say this now. There were no real plans to release Magician Lord 2. Magician Lord was a flop in the arcades and there was no chance that SNK would have released a sequel."
Magician Lord a flop in arcades? WTF? I guess some players were intimidated by the high level of challenge, which OTOH probably helped it as a home title.

[Estebang]

Well, Magician Lord was successful enough to be featured on Nick Arcade!

[BAD]

No Ninja Masters, Rage Of The Dragons, or any other rarities on it? Again, we're damned with re-releases of the same few titles that have already been beaten to death both digitally and on compilations (worldwide). Nearly everybody I know has all these games in one way, shape, form or another. The sleek design is great, but the game selection is an insulting waste. This could have been so much better...

[Marc]

Probably due to rights issues etc hence the SD slot. If it allows booting of other emu's as well, I'm in i miss portable Final Burn.

[BAD]

Marc: Good point; you mean, like to put your own games on an SD card and play those ones I mentioned on it that way? Now that would make it worth buying , but only if it leaves the ground.

BTW, props to you for speaking your mind about Magician Lord in a scene that attacks anyone who doesn't like it...

[Skykid]

Marc: Good point; you mean, like to put your own games on an SD card and play those ones I mentioned on it that way? Now that would make it worth buying , but only if it leaves the ground.

This has now been done chaps:

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/neo-geo-x- ... 2-01-2013/

Still not sure it's worth buying though, such a failed product internally. Basically a Blaze handheld with different casing.

[Casey120]

I heard people complain about almost everything, feels cheap, controls getting loose fast, screen ratio and overall bad quality LCD screen, output to TV is terrible ,just final burn emulation ...etc...but they all think the package looks really good with the AES console docking station and extra controller .
So even if it's a turd it's a well polished one !

[BryanM]

I really wasn't going to bump this until an actual god honest New game gets announced for it. I don't honesty believe it will ever happen, but who the hell knows.

When you think about it, all it brings to the table is the USB Joystick.

Well, at least it has customers and a reason to exist.

The Neo Geo is truly an odd duck when it comes to video game history. ~50% of all the games developed by SNK, and even then only made viable by the massive arcade market share they had.

Even if someone made a console today, and released a new game or two for it every month, I don't think they'd get as much penetration as these guys did in that narrow window of opportunity.