The Neo Geo Pocket Color - Review

Like many other companies, SNK tried to take on the Game Boy in the late 90's with this interesting handheld. It didn't last long but it was pretty cool while it was around. So let's look at the system and a bunch of games for it! Games Shown: Metal Slug 1st Mission, Metal Slug 2nd Mission, Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure, King of Fighters R-1, King of Fighters R-2, Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999, Samurai Shodown, Samurai Shodown 2, Rockman: Battle and Fighters, The Last Blade, The Match of the Millennium: SNK vs Capcom, Neo Turf Masters, Baseball Stars Color, Dynamite Slugger, Pocket Tennis Color, Fatal Fury First Contact, SNK Gals Fighters, Cardfighters' Clash: SNK vs Capcom SNK version, Cardfighters 2 Expand Edition, Biomotor Unitron, Faselei!, Pac-Man, Bust-A-Move Pocket, Puyo Pop, Magical Drop Pocket, Puzzle Link, Puzzle Link 2, Big Bang Pro Wrestling, Cool Boarders Pocket, Evolution: Eternal Dungeons, Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams *Most games in this episode were played on the Neo Pop emulator running on Joe's ancient Windows XP machine. The VGA output was recorded into the Mac Pro for capture. This PC died about 80% of the way through gameplay capture, so Joe's friend Bill whom was seen in the Console Modding episode (#111) whipped together a similarly powered PC for Joe to finish capturing gameplay with. Finally a few pick-up scenes were captured with Joe's Mac Pro running Windows 8 via emulation and that running Neo Pop. The screen capture application in the Mac OS captured the footage. This was done only for the minigames in The Match of the Millennium. *Joe's Neo Geo Pocket Color screen all but died and Dave's handheld had to be used for the on-camera shots where the screen is shown running.