I was completely underwhelmed with Neo Geo as a kid tbh
Pfff....says you. I was enamoured with that shyt when I finally got the chance to play one. I remember it fondly. I was with my moms over a friend of her's daughter's house. The daughter's "man", a white-ish cop (girl was also white), whom were ironically having a massive domestic dispute at the time of us being there, which was supposedly the reason why we were there, to get the daughter out. The boyfriend let me play his Neo Geo that he had on this big ass tv in this expansive entertainment set up that I low-key think inspired me to go all out when I became an adult. They was all hollering and screaming at each other in the background,I think she was cheating on him, cuz he crying his soul out n shyt, while I outchea not giving a fukk playing one of the Samurai Showdowns for the first time at home but with the arcade experience, drowning out all their noise with the surround sound system.
shyt was vanglorious. Cat even told me despite that he was going threw with her family n shyt, my moms could bring me over anytime to play the games. Unfortunately, that was the first and last time that shyt ever happened. At my time as a youth tho, top 5 gaming experience!