Neo Geo Pocket Color - Why Did This Console Fail?

The original Neo Geo was a true arcade experience at home but almost nobody could afford them!

The thumbnail and ending is an absolute classic

Its game library may have been pint-sized compared to the competition, but it had some truly iconic titles! A true underdog console that left behind a legacy that continues to inspire today's gaming world. It may not have won the handheld wars, but it sure was a kick-ass little system.

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I love staying abreast of retro gaming history.

I still have mine and every once in a while I play some Sonic or Metal Slug. Such an underrated handheld 😔

I still have my NGPC. Primarily bought it for snk v Capcom. Glad they ported over some ngpc onto the switch. Hoping we get biomotor unitron. That was the other game i had

Loved and miss my NGPC! I had about a half dozen games for it and think of them often. Thanks for doing this video, it brought back many fond memories!

Kid me had no idea I was holding Neo Geos last gasp in the hardware market, I only knew it blew my gameboy out of the water at the time. It was the first handheld I owned with a system menu that let you do stuff without a game installed. Extremely limited stuff, but still stuff. Date and time, language, and a horoscope gimmick. Faselei was an amazing game but also my first time hearing clear vocals in the intro on a handheld! Many games in the lineup had trading and collecting via link cable to milk the pokecraze. I think if they had brought over the radio link and made it able to play local music stations, the system would have put up a much better fight in the states.

Remember seeing multi-page advertisements in Popular Science magazine for the Neo Geo Pocket color in I think 1999. I was quite impressed with it and wanted one badly as a kid. Don't think Ive seen one in my life though, and I play a lot of retro games now but this never really seems like a system worth emulating to me.

I had one of these handhelds. It was a nice unit. Very good controls and some great games. Just not enough games. And Gameboy was selling like wild fire

I still have mine. Modded with an IPS screen it's a lovely little handheld. Normally I don't mind emulating old games, but I prefer the clicky stick for the Neo Geo Pocket library.

Sega's Game Gear also failed to overtake the Game Boy in sales.

I've been gaming since the late 70's on my dads Apple II computer, then Game & Watch and other devices to call my own. It's always been about gaming for me, and while Nintendo has always dominated this space, I owned almost every competitor over the years as well as Nintendo's best efforts. The Neo Geo Pocket was one of my favs(I owned the OG & Color), for the micro switch style stick for controls, it really makes a difference for fighting games. One of my favorite games released was Pac-Man of all games, as it provided a plastic 4-way stick guide that made wrong moves a thing of yesterday. For the longest time, handheld gaming was always seen as a child/kids market, and that is why Nintendo always controlled that space, as they had the most kid friendly IP's and support from 3rd parties(Kid Dracula and the like). The Lynx, Game Gear, Turbo Express, Nomad, Neo Geo Pocket, etc., all these devices had more adult style offerings, but very few adults ever entered the space. And since all these other devices had poor battery life, bigger sizes, etc., they just never played well for kids, hence the poor sells of each one. The PSP was the first one to really give N a run for there money, but it still fell short, and the Vita fell off even more(in large part due to Sony). Now it's crazy how handhelds are a must have for adults, and are popular with all ages and all types, but it took ages to get here.

I still whip out my Neo Geo Pocket from time to time even to this day. The little clicky joystick is still one of the most comfy and satisfying ways to control a character in all of gaming and it's definitely worth playing these games on original hardware for this reason alone. Loved Dark Arms and Last Blade I put so many hours in both those titles <3

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I used to have a Neo Geo Pocket Colour with Sonic Pocket Adventure until I had to sell them due to poverty.

You are truly an Enciclopedia of game history and game entertainment. Brilliant. Excellent.

I remember back in the mid-00s, everybody had Card Fighter's Clash-style card avatars on their Livejournal.

It's shocking to me that after the release of GAME GEAR that any game maker would release anything less than a colored, backlit screen.