{"id":1021,"date":"2013-12-30T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2013-12-30T08:32:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T13:32:49","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-snk-neo-geo-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1021\/retro-scan-of-the-week-snk-neo-geo-cd","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> SNK Neo-Geo CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/neogeo_cd_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/neogeo_cd_small.jpg\" alt=\"SNK Neo-Geo CD system CD-ROM Arcade advertisement- 1995\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t cross the line unless you&#8217;re serious.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In all my two decades of video game collecting adventures, I&#8217;ve never personally owned a Neo-Geo console. (I have owned a Neo-Geo Pocket Color, but that&#8217;s different.)  It&#8217;s probably because I started collecting with inexpensive systems, games and accessories, and the Neo-Geo line was always scarce and expensive.  Also, I was never particularly drawn to the Neo-Geo&#8217;s brand of action-heavy arcade games.<\/p>\n<p>So part of me wants to rectify the lack of Neo-Geo in my life, even if only for completion&#8217;s sake.  But then again, I&#8217;ve played the games on emulators for over a decade now, and I&#8217;ve been satisfied with that.  What do you guys think?<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, September 1995, p.74-75]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What was your first CD-based video game system?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t cross the line unless you&#8217;re serious.&#8221; In all my two decades of video game collecting adventures, I&#8217;ve never personally owned a Neo-Geo console. (I have owned a Neo-Geo Pocket Color, but that&#8217;s different.) It&#8217;s probably because I started collecting with inexpensive systems, games and accessories, and the Neo-Geo line was always scarce and expensive. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}