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Fewconsoles say luxury like the Neo Geo AES. I was constantly promised by various adverts, publishers and game reviews that the new game I was looking forward to was going to be ‘arcade perfect’ but they rarely ever were. The Advanced Entertainment System was different though. Here was a system that was identical to the arcade experience, because it was the arcade experience, with the only real difference being differently sized cartridges and packaging for home use.
While we’ve looked at the system in the past, this has been the first time we’ve been able to peek under the hood and get insight about the specifications and hardware from the developers that worked on the MVS and AES. It highlights not only how capable the developers were, but just how ambitious SNK was in its approach to both the arcade and the home market. Little wonder it proudly boasted that its console was “A quantum leap forward in video entertainment”.