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From: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Neo Geo
Message-ID: <4563@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 91 19:13:18 GMT
References: <6725@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland)
Organization: Evil Young Mutants For A Better Tomorrow.
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In article <6725@crash.cts.com> critical.mass@pro-graphics.cts.com (Peter Altamore) writes:
>I called the Neo Geo hotline (800-800-Neo-Geo) to ask them about a few of
>these outrageous claims quoted from one of their ads..
>
>'today's most advanced 4-dimensional graphics, with vivid detail and effects,
>65,000 colors and an amazing 15-channel real voice stereo sound track. All
>pumped out by 330 meg hardware!'  The guy on the other end was a real scream,
>telling me it had 24bit graphics!  The palette is 65,000, onscreen colors are
>4096 at once.  We all know that the 330 ain't megaBYTES.  You shoulda heard
>him try to explain what 4-dimensional graphics are.. talk about double talk. 

I have a friend (a rich friend) who owns the Neo Geo and not all of
the claims are so outrageous. It doesn't have 24 bit graphics, but it
can display 4,096 colors at one time WITHOUT using the trickery that
HAM mode uses. The large palette makes from some nice screens. And
yes, it can address up to 330 megaBYTES. One ROM cart can have that
much stored in it. Thats ADDRESSABLE ROM if you read the front cover
of the box properly. The 15 voices (with 7 reserved for speech samples
only) make for some killer sound. It uses (surprise!) a 68000
processor and a Z80 processor.

I must admit, that in my opinion, it is the ultimate home video game
system out at the moment. They primiarly plan to do their games on a
rental basis. Seeing as the same hardware is what they are using in
the arcades, they plan to have the arcades as well as video stores et
al rent the carts to overcome the high price of them. Using thier
special ROM Game Memory card you can save your position in over 27
games to pick up later on with either at the arcade or at home. It is
expensive, but if you want the best there is you have to pay the
price.

Personally I'd LOVE to have an Amiga with the graphics and sound
capabilities that machine has. It's a killer..

>
>I like the text on the front of this game console the most..
>
>NEO GEO
>MAX 330 MEGA
>Pro-Gear Spec
>Advanced Entertainment System
>
>Too bad there are only 6 games out for this beast, and too bad it costs $600+
>It looks pretty nice, but not at the price of a 500!

When you consider what it does and how well it does it and the fact
that the A500 can't come close to it, it will be a good reason for
those people who were going to buy an A500 for games to switch to the
Neo Geo instead. It only has 6 games because it's brand new. It's
selling like mad in Japan.

					-Moriland




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