What is the History and Rationale behind the NEOGEO?
Two hypotheses concern why SNK released a home version of their MVS set: • SNK originally intended for the NEOGEO to be a home rental system, as it was too expensive for most people at launch time. After two months though, SNK stopped doing this, and started to sell them vigorously, to the best of their ability. They needed to move cartridges, and could do so by interchanging the home with MVS whenever the market desired it. If more home cartridges were needed, SNK could do the conversions and sell them (Shock Troopers: Second Squad comes to mind), and vice versa. SNK needed to generate more publicity for their arcade games; it is better to hit the arcade owners with a $650 (later the retail MVS game price was around $1100) price tag than a $200 price tag. I do not believe SNK wanted to sell a lot of home carts; people playing these home carts spread the word about NEOGEO to their friends and other interested parties, and since these were still prohibitively expensive, they would head
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