More Neo Geo Games Are Coming To Evercade In 2027, And It's One Of The Cheapest Places To Play Them

I don't really have nostalgia for Neo Geo, the first place I played the KoF series and Metal Slug was on Saturn and Dreamcast. Sold my joysticks since, though the Saturn pad is always great for KoF. Still have my discs (and RAM Carts) but the actual console, I never saw one at the time, and my favourite genre of scaling racing games, was not well represented. There is no OutRun to be found. I've kind of stopped with Evercade too, I preferred the weird UK stuff like the Dizzy collection, would have been great to see a Dizzy 8-bit micro cart. I do like that Midnight Resistance is on the System though, that never seems to get an official emulated release these days and the Mega Drive cart is very expensive. The Last Ninja or the Lotus games would be welcome too, the recent Switch System 3 collection release is great.

"It's worth noting that today's SNK is under Saudi ownership, an issue we discuss in this feature. As such, this ownership will directly benefit from the purchase of these and any other Neo Geo-related products."

While Evercade is run by people who ban you if you're anything other than critical of a game while having double standards on their userbase. How about no! 🙄

@Ristar24 You're never going to see the Lotus games released for obvious reasons.

Why would you want to add performative activism into this article which could hurt a minnow in the gaming space such as Evercade?

@X68000 Why would you want to claim "performative activism" into this comment section if it supposedly matters so little?

There are more people that want to know to whom their money ultimately goes to than you realize. Even at smaller scales, people can still send a message with their buying choices.

TE's article on the Saudi ownership was a good one for informing gamers and collectors who care about such things. Still, no one is telling you not to buy these or the new AES+. Your freedom of choice is still preserved, despite your aggrievance.

Yep, they're cheap.
I'm still picking up the AES.

@Deuteros Yeah it would be expensive. Much more than getting a Chupa Chups licence for Zool (same developer).

@Tasuki Since when were Blaze terrorists?

Emulation carts

which is fine, but I can emulate Neo Geo anywhere and there are plenty of PORTS of Neo Geo games elsewhere.

@CrispNCrunch Trying to think in a more dialectic way here I guess, but I think with a lot of these things, those putting up walls in relation to a situation like this are doing so less to shut down the discourse for its own right and moreso seeing a threat to open engagement about the product line itself (i.e., if every discussion about it "devolves" into talk about the Saudis, then we aren't having the most optimal discourse about the product line on its own technical/hobbyist merits or what have you). Some reckon with cognitive dissonance differently too. You could not like what the Saudis are doing or stand for, etc..., but you still want to enjoy this new console or new Evercade games because Neo Geo has been a big part of your life. Other's can more easily dismiss the new tech despite having wanted to see something like this for years.