Neo Geo Pocket Color

The Neo Geo Pocket Color is the 16-bit color handheld video game console manufactured by SNK. this is a a successor to SNK's monochrome Neo Geo Pocket handheld which debuted in 1998 in Japan, with the Color being fully backward compatible. The Neo Geo Pocket Color was released on March 16, 1999 in Japan, August 6, 1999 in North America, as living as on October 1, 1999 in Europe, entering markets any dominated by Nintendo, competing with Nintendo's Game Boy Color.

After a advantage sales start in both the U.S. & Japan with 14 launch titles a record at the time, subsequent low retail assistance in the U.S., lack of communication with third-party developers by SNK's American management, the popularity of Nintendo's Pokémon franchise & anticipation of the 32-bit Game Boy Advance, and strong competition from Bandai's WonderSwan in Japan, led to a sales decline in both regions.

Meanwhile, SNK had been in financial trouble for at least a year; the company soon collapsed, and was purchased by American pachinko manufacturer Aruze in January 2000. However, Aruze did non assistance SNK's video game chain enough, main to SNK's original founder and several other employees to leave and make a new company, BrezzaSoft. Eventually on June 13, 2000, Aruze decided to quit the North American and European markets, marking the end of SNK's worldwide operations and the discontinuation of Neo Geo hardware and software there. The Neo Geo Pocket Color and other SNK/Neo Geo products did however, last until 2001 in Japan. It was SNK's last video game console, as the company went bankrupt on October 22, 2001.

Despite its failure the Neo Geo Pocket Color has been regarded as an influential system. many highly acclaimed games were released for the system, such as , King of Fighters R-2, and other kind arcade titles derived from SNK's MVS and AES. It also introduced an arcade-style microswitched 'clicky stick' joystick, which was praised for its accuracy and being well-suited for fighting games. The system's display and 40-hour battery life were also well received.

Features

Closely modeled after its predecessor, the Neo Geo Pocket Color formation sports two face buttons on the adjusting hand side of the system, and an eight-direction microswitched digital D-pad on the left. it is for horizontally designed like the Game Gear, as opposed to the Game Boy's vertical setup and the WonderSwan's hybrid of both. Upgraded from the Neo Geo Pocket, it has a color screen in the middle.

Similar to the Game Boy and its successors, the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance, the Neo Geo Pocket Color does not construct a back-lit screen, and games can only be played in a well-lit area. Like the Game.com previously it, the Neo Geo Pocket Color uses a CR2032 battery to retain backup memory and keep the clock active, as alive as the usual AA batteries to power to direct or instituting the system during usage. The Neo Geo Pocket Color has no regional lockout.

The system has an on-board Linguistic communication setting, and games display text in the Linguistic communication selected filed the cartridge sustains that language. Other managers include time and date, and the system can provide customized horoscopes when one's birth date is entered.

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