Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!skink.cis.ohio-state.edu!watters From: watters@skink.cis.ohio-state.edu (david r watters) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Neo Geo Message-ID: <87038@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 6 Jan 91 21:58:49 GMT References: <6725@crash.cts.com> <4563@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: david r watters Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 55 In article <4563@vela.acs.oakland.edu> hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland) writes: >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. The color on the games is outstanding, especially Ninja Combat! >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. This is incorrect. The golf game is listed at 56Mega on the box. It has two courses and is Awsome! However, it is obviously not 56 megabytes in size. It is 56megabits, which makes it a 7MegaByte game, which I can believe. >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. The sound is incredible, but the samples in some of the games are quite corny! Baseball has some of the best, eg.: "It's a homer out of here, the crowd is going _crazy_, and as he rounds the bases, he just loves to eg that crowd on, and proud he should be he hit that ball a country mile, he just loves to hit homers in this stadium!" -close enough anyway. :-) >I must admit, that in my opinion, it is the ultimate home video game >system out at the moment. I agree totally. >>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! Super Spy Golf Baseball Ninja Combat Nam '75 Magician Lord Riding Hero (motorcycles with com-link between to units for dual play) Cyber Lip (any second now) Considering the HUGE amount of detail in the artwork and sound, and the fact that it has been on sale in this country about two months, and that the games are $110-$200, The number of games is not a factor. -- "All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer by the stars. All of us do time in the gutter, dreamers turn to look at the cars!" - RUSH David watters@cis.ohio-state.edu "It's 12:35... and Michigan STILL sucks." _-_-_-__---_---_---__-_-_-____ TurboExpress : The Neo*Geo of portables _____