NeoGeo Pocket - Overlooked or Overhyped?

[Honey_Ogre]

I don't often hear people discussing the NeoGeo Pocket / Color handhelds anymore. I've had mine for several years and it still stands as one of my all-time favorites. Between well known titles like SNK Gals Fighters, SvC Card Fighter's Clash, and Fantastic Night Dreams Cotton as well as deeper cuts like Dark Arms, Biomotor Unitron, and Ganbare Neo Poke-kun -- The visual styling across most of the console's titles are unique and charming and I think the NGP deserves a little more attention.

 

[Waffles]

I'd put it in the same category as the WonderSwan Color: beautiful console, but vastly overlooked.

 

[Honey_Ogre]

I'd put it in the same category as the WonderSwan Color: beautiful console, but vastly overlooked.

Oh totally! Dicing Knight is one of my favorite handheld games period

 

[DunkeyKong]

Definitely good but unfortunately not that well known outside of Japan like Wonderswan
It does have a quite good game like the Metal Slug (1st and 2nd mission) and Sonic The Hedgehog: Pocket Adventure

 

[Don Patch]

I... have a vague recollection of seeing it in stores about a bajillion years back.
Never had the actual doodad itself, but when I plopped CFW on my 3DS I played through a few NGPC games.
Sonic and SNK vs. Capcom.
A lot of fun for sure.

 

[Sayo]

The original non-color unit? Certainly overhyped, it had a stronger processor than the GB but it really didn't offer anything to make it stand out, as for the NGP Color, now thats a fairly overlooked little handheld that came out to a Nintendo dominated market with a seriously lacking catalog mostly comprised of admittedly fun fighting games and some other arcade conversions.

 

[Spike]

I have never seen one, or know anyone who did.
I think NeoGeo bit more than they could chew.
Distribution and promotion wasn't really there, third party developers didn't support it either.
Still the pixel art looks awesome and SNK really came through giving people a reason to get one, it just wasn't enough.

 

[dejiko]

best portable fighting games i ever played are on the neo geo pocket, i wish i owned one in real life!

 

[RetroLaw]

Bought one, only got one game, they were hard to find where I live.

Tried out more games thanks to emulation, I'd say it's a fine system but far behind other handhelds.

 

[JPC]

Bought one, only got one game, they were hard to find where I live.

Tried out more games thanks to emulation, I'd say it's a fine system but far behind other handhelds.

T'as essayé Faselei! ? Excellent jeux de stratégie avec un style unique de déplacement et un bon petit scénario.

 

[RageBurner]

I feel it's mostly an undervalued system. It has its share of great and awful games of course, but I feel the good ones are really good.

 

[RetroLaw]

T'as essayé Faselei! ? Excellent jeux de stratégie avec un style unique de déplacement et un bon petit scénario.

Sur emulateur, jamais vu en mag celui-là

 

[elehayyme]

This one is very overlooked and it isn't very common to see 'em out in the wild. The pixel art was lovely but there were some stinkers for titles on there. Granted, there were some nice ones too.

We had one here (I think we still do) but the poor battery cover is missing in action.

 

[Somnia]

Super overlooked! Systems like the NGPC, Wonderswan Color and Dreamcast always amaze me because despite only getting 2-3 years of prime time as a console they managed to build up absurdly quality libraries that would compete with or trounce many successful systems when the same timeframe is compared. The first time I met a buddy of mine he had come through with one when I was working at a local game store. It was slow so he let me play SNK vs Capcom and Sonic Pocket Adventure on it and I was immediately hooked. Had never heard of the system prior and snagged one off of Ebay. I've loved it dearly ever since!

Side note but if you want a dope NGPC inspired fighting game I recommend snagging Pocket Rumble on PC or Switch (dunno if it is on anything else). The devs would demo it at various fighting game events I'd go to back in the mid-2010s and it was always a blast! Still boot it up for an arcade run or to play some games with my other friend who loves it from time to time.

 

[kingflip]

I'd put it in the same category as the WonderSwan Color: beautiful console, but vastly overlooked.

This on so many levels it was overlooked and had stiff competion from Nintendo

 

[Bakuma1997]

Have its games in my DSi, most of them are vaporwave crabs but the few ones i got are goated