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I couldn't afford one either (especially after reading about Riding Hero, ironic that the game sucked so badly). I was lucky and found an AES at a flea market like store for $99 that came with 2 games. Only thing I had to do was to get an AC adapter and wait for the price of games to drop at Babbages.
I almost bought an AES from Kiddie City when they were going out of business, but even at $300 for the Gold system, $200 a pop for the games was too much for my 14 year old ass.
I have an AES now with around 20 games, but with all the comps it's getting harder to justify keeping it.
I finally got mine when I was 19 if I remember right. Having that and the Saturn in college was a beautiful thing.
It's hard not to love the Neo Geo. It consistently had great games with amazing detail for years. Even though I'm a big fan, the system never had a GOTY for me although I can understand people putting Metal Slug or fighting games in that category.
Its overpriced collector scene sickened me, though. I would rather the system have had more of a normal console life, i.e. the AES and games dropping in price allowing it to be owned by many more people, and attracting more third-parties.
I assume SNK hasn't been making the machines for a while, anyone know when they rolled that last one off the assembly line?
I want to say 2000ish.
I actually owned a neo-geo for about 2 months, then it was stolen, ah, college.
Insurance gave me 1,000 dollars for the console and two games, one of which sucked ass (can't remember what it was called, it was a baseketball game
I have an AES, but I don't really play it. Emulation and compilations are good enough for me.
The Neo Geo died a couple years ago.
I love my MVS cabinet.
I still have my AES and Phantom converter. I need to get some more MVS games.