The 7 Most Overlooked Neo Geo Arcade Games

Anyone who spent any amount of time in arcades in the ’90s is familiar with SNK’s MVS hardware, whether they know the name or not. If you played any of the titles in some of the most beloved arcade titles of all time, series like Samurai Showdown, Metal Slug, Fatal Fury and its beloved progeny The King of Fighters, then you’ve been a party to Neo Geo’s arcade dominance. One of the great things about the MVS hardware, apart from its capability with astounding 2-D graphics and scaling, was the fact that it was cartridge based, allowing for operators to bring in new titles without having to pay for a new machine, and in some cases stack multiple games in the one cabinet. This made for a lot of easy change, and nearly everyone has a “Did I really play this game, or did I just imagine it?” story. Even though the system had plenty of Japan-only releases that may have been imported State-side, we’ll be focusing on titles that were given an American release. We want to tell you about titles not only known by the hardest of the hardcore, despite the MVS and its home version, the AES, inspiring that kind of devotion. So here are seven titles that for a lucky few may have been arcade mainstays, but for most of us were blips on the radar, if we experienced them at all.

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