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Neo-Geo, the king of retro videogames, gets the “maxi” remake treatment

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John Biggs
May 27, 2026
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Neo-Geo 2026

That a home game console might accurately reproduce an arcade game experience became credible toward the tail end of the second generation of those devices (ColecoVision, Atari 5200) and picked up significant steam when Nintendo entered the market. But SNK’s Neo-Geo Advanced Entertainment System broke ground by running essentially the same code on the s…

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