Neo Geo CD

Neo Geo CD · 1994–1999

SNK's answer to the unaffordable AES cartridge — a CD-based console launched in 1994 that delivered the same celebrated arcade library at a fraction of the cartridge price, trading slow load times for accessibility. The Neo Geo CD is collected as the attainable route into SNK's revered fighting-and-action catalogue, and as a CD-era platform with its own completeness grammar: jewel-case-style packaging, manuals and the distinctive presentation of the format. Its grails are the late and lower-print releases and the titles whose AES cartridge equivalents are prohibitively expensive, making the CD version the collectible version of choice.