The thing was, my friend had one and I couldn't believe it. It was like, geez, something extraordinarily ridiculous for the system... $400? $500? Each game was like $150-200, depending. Maybe my foggy memory is exaggerating a bit but in high school, it seemed like you had to be a millionaire to keep up with it all. The controllers were really snazzy though and at the time, it was unlike anything you could play at home. But what was SNK thinking?! There's no way ANYone, especially kids (save for my rich pal) could afford it.
Ridiculously, years later a friend of mine gave me a single CD rom with most of the Neo Geo library emulated for free.
Early games were rough and for the most part, I'm more looking forward to the Samurai Showdown Anthology than any single Neo Geo VC release. But still, it will be nice to have the option to pick up some of these games that almost nobody saw outside of arcades.