Neo Geo CD



The Neo Geo was truly a beast in 1990, but that came with a price: $650 for the AES console and up to $300 for each game. The almost identical Neo Geo CD was released four years later, to offer the same games at a much lower cost. Well, you get what you pay for: it was plagued with some of the worst loading times in gaming history, and it came with a gamepad instead of the badass Neo Geo arcade-style controller. Still, its main problem was the bad timing: the 5th generation had already begun, and it was obvious that a pure 2D console could not compete.

Being almost identical meant most of its games were straight Neo Geo ports (usually with rearranged CD-based music). Yet it also had a handful of exclusives, as well as some MVS ports that the original AES didn't get.