Hey, Remember That Weird Handheld Neo-Geo Thing? It Actually Exists

I have played most of the games that I would want to play on the system via the SNK Arcade Classics Collection. If the support for other Neo Geo games is there, I will consider purchasing it.

@IndeedCodyBrown said:

Huh, Sega needs to try some crazy shit like this.

I love Sega, but they would find a way to screw it up. Man I miss my GameGear with rechargeable battery pack expansion. That was literally like holding a brick in your hand. It was so damn heavy and bulky and I miss it!

Doesn't have The Super Spy, or Crossed Swords, so I don't care.

Wow things just get crazier and crazier first the GB news and now this thing turns out to be true, I wonder if Jeff is interested in one.

This seems interesting. But we're happy to have you back with the video game side of stuff! Screened was great but Big Rigs, Robocop and Blackwater are better...well...you know what I mean.

that is pretty appealing sold line up waiting on the price

@Scotto said:

When people write shitty one word comments to try and get the first post "achievement", a rubber glove filled with sand should shoot out of their monitor and punch them in the face.

well, now that they have all that extra cbs money, they can totally implement this ;]

No Super Spy, no deal!

How random and awesome!

Huh, Sega needs to try some crazy shit like this.

Crazy March strikes strikes again.

This is bana-fucking-nas!

sold

Why do I want to buy this 

When people write shitty one word comments to try and get the first post "achievement", a rubber glove filled with sand should shoot out of their monitor and punch them in the face.

This actually looks kind of cool...

This is absolutely INSANE.

LOLz if this is not a front for some sort of criminal activity I will be really disappointed.

Because this is bound to do well.

boom

woah

Wow, Pretty stoked!

A number of you were incredibly skeptical when we reported a month or so ago that some mystery hardware manufacturer had licensed the Neo-Geo brand to create some kind of handheld device...thing...and frankly, you were right to be. While the reports came from reputable sources, the lack of an identified manufacturer, as well as the fact that the initial images of the device looked like a Photoshopped iPhone 4, certainly didn't build confidence in this being anything but a crappy bootleg, at best.

So how totally bananas is it that this thing is apparently real? A press release went out this morning confirming the device's existence (evidently it is called the "Neo-Geo X"), and its manufacturer. As it turns out, Blaze, the makers of a number of different Genesis/MegaDrive-related handhelds, is putting the thing together, with official licensing from SNK. The system will come with 20 Neo-Geo classics of varying levels of classic-ness. The official list reads as follows:

• ART OF FIGHTING
• BASEBALL STARS
• CYBER LIP
• FATAL FURY
• FATAL FURY SPECIAL
• FOOTBALL FRENZY
• KING OF THE MONSTERS
• LAST RESORT
• LEAGUE BOWLING
• MAGICIAN LORD
• METAL SLUG
• MUTATION NATION
• NAM 1975
• SAMURAI SHODOWN
• SENGOKU
• SUPER SIDEKICKS
• THE KING OF FIGHTERS '94
• THE ULTIMATE 11
• TOP PLAYERS GOLF
• WORLD HEROES

There will also be an SD card slot on the device, presumably for the sake of adding additional games down the road, or maybe just so you can load photos onto it or something. No pricing has been announced yet, but it seems safe to assume it'll be a tad more expensive than Blaze's previous devices, but probably at least a bit cheaper than an actual Neo-Geo.

The Neo-Geo X is loosely scheduled for a Q2 2012 release. You can "register your interest" via this website, if so inclined. Or you could just go and make us Ultimate 11 and Top Players Golf pages, because we apparently still don't have those, which is shameful, I think.