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NEOGEO X Gold Now Available

NEOGEO X Gold Now Available

The NEOGEO is behind some of the greatest arcade games of all time, like Metal Slug, but the hardware has always been most famous for its fighters. SNK brought out Fatal Fury, Samurai Showdown, and The King of Fighters, among countless others. Further, the NEOGEO was one of the earliest consoles to replicate the arcade experience at home. Though the expensive cartridges different, externally, from those slotted into the machines at the arcade, the guts were practically identical, which made home versions of NEOGEO titles far more than mere ports.

However, for those of you who don’t feel like spending hundreds, or thousands, of dollars on the NEOGEO library, there is now the NEOGEO X Gold. The heart of the setup is a portable game system that comes loaded with 20 titles, but also possesses a game card slot for future releases (the first of which, Ninja Masters, comes with the limited edition of the console). The most compelling feature of the package isn’t its emulation of NEOGEO titles, though. It’s the dock.

The charging dock for the system is designed to look like a slightly smaller version of the classic AES NEOGEO console, right down to the (non-functional) cartridge slot on top. Further, this dock contains HDMI and composite outputs, as well as a USB port for the included arcade stick, itself a reproduction of the original AES controller made with authentic parts.

For the NEOGEO fan, it looks to be an all around great deal at $200, and it’s available now.

Source: NEOGEO X Gold

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