Neo Geo CD
The Neo Geo CD was released shortly after its catridge-based equilivent in an effort to reduce cost. Despite this, the system cost $300 new. Also, the 1X CD-ROM drive was quite slow, making to load time really long. One good thing was the fact that the cost of game was reduced to about $50 as opposed to the usual cost for neo-geo cartridges, sometimes upwards of $300.
The Neo Geo CD comes with a control pad instead of the joystick that is in other Neo Geo systems. This made the controls more stiff and caused some difficulty in play if one was used to the joystick.
Ultimately, the Neo Geo CD was considered a failure, mainly because of the lack of marketing and the huge load time. It was followed by the similarly unsuccessful Neo Geo CDZ.
Specs:
- CPU: 16 bit Motorola 68000 series at 14 MHz
- Colors On Screen: 4,096
- Colors Available: 65,536
- Resolution: 320 x 224
- Max Sprites: 380
- Max Sprite Size: 16 x 512
- Number of Planes: 3
- Work RAM: 64 kbit
- Video RAM: 68 kbit
- Z80 RAM: 2 kbit
- CD Sound Chip: 13 Channel Yamaha 2610 Chip
- CD-ROM acess speed: 1X
