In 1990 SNK built a home console that was literally an arcade machine. Same hardware. Same chips. Same games. No compromises. The price? $649.99. Individual games cost up to $300 each.
It became a legend. Fatal Fury. Samurai Shodown. King of Fighters. Metal Slug. Technical masterpieces that made everything else look like a rough draft.
Then PlayStation arrived. Then Nintendo 64. The world moved to 3D and SNK couldn’t follow. The Neo Geo CD had load times of nearly a minute. The Hyper Neo Geo 64 launched with seven games and died quietly. By 2001 — SNK was bankrupt.
This is the full story of the greatest console that never won.
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