#Neo geo games for pc download#

Once a Game Gear game has been downloaded and saved in a ROM file, you would also need to download an emulator to enable you play the downloaded game. Most of these emulators also are compatible with the Neo Geo console games

Just like every other vintage console, there are a few Neo Geo emulators that allow you to relive the experience of playing these games on your PC, Tablet and Smartphone. Though Neo Geo games were discontinued some time ago, this doesnвЂ™t mean gamers canвЂ™t enjoy playing their favourite games anymore. While it is very true that Neo Geo console had thousands of games, there are some games that stood out as the very best till date these iconic games were filled with kick ass fights, gruelling adventures, speedy racing entertainment and a whole lot that could be found in games such as Unibios, Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy, World Heroes Perfect, Dimahoo, Sengoku3, Fatal Fury Special, The King of Fighters-KOF 99, Spinmaster, The Last Blade, Armwaur, Blazing Star, Samurai Shodown, Gururin and a ton of others.

#Neo geo games for pc zip file#

Most of these games are extracted in Zip file formats, thus when you download a game, it comes in a Neo Geo zip file, and you will need to download an emulator alongside the games to enable you fetch and play the ROMs from the zip file. This means that anyone can easily and conveniently get to download Neo Geo ROMs and play them without having a Neo Geo console. And one of such file formats that replicated the cartridge and memory cards of the Neo Geo console games is the ROM, these Read Only Memory files more popularly known as ROM(s) are files that house a copy of your games ripped from the original game cartridge or saved from an online download. Overtime as the Neo Geo was no longer manufactured and the cartridges and memory cards serving no use without the console, new file formats for saving these great iconic games that are synonymous with Neo Geo emerged. The memory cards were used primarily to continue from where you left off in an arcade game and they had cross-compatibility, allowing you to start a game at home and then continue it in the arcade and vice versa. The cartridge and the removable memory card which the Neo Geo system used housed some really great games. These features gave the Neo Geo a lot of popularity and made it the most powerful home gaming system at the time of its release, its only competitor at the time was theВ Sharp X68000В homeВ computer. Other features of the Neo Geo were its seven specialized processors, including the two CPU processors and several graphics chips, quick access to larger ROM data directly from cartridges at pretty high speeds, and then later on removable memory cards on the Advanced Entertainment System (AES) home platform, to save data when it was upgraded to making first console to have such a feature at the time. The advanced graphical capabilities of the Neo Geo came from the use of custom GPU graphics processors, both of which were within the system and also as additional chips on individual game cartridges. The console was originally released in arcade board form as the Neo Geo Multi Video System (MVS) This arcade based console featured a 16/32-bit 68000 CPU with an additional 8-bit Z80 CPU and custom 24-bit GPU chipset, which was considerably powerful for a home system at the time.

The Neo Geo console was released by the Japanese manufactures, SNK, in 1990.