These features gave the Neo Geo a lot of popularity and made it the most powerful home gaming system at the time of its release, its only competitor at the time was the Sharp X68000 home computer. Other features of the Neo Geo were its seven specialized processors, including the two CPU processors and several graphics chips, quick access to larger ROM data directly from cartridges at pretty high speeds, and then later on removable memory cards on the Advanced Entertainment System (AES) home platform, to save data when it was upgraded to making first console to have such a feature at the time. The advanced graphical capabilities of the Neo Geo came from the use of custom GPU graphics processors, both of which were within the system and also as additional chips on individual game cartridges. The console was originally released in arcade board form as the Neo Geo Multi Video System (MVS)
This arcade based console featured a 16/32-bit 68000 CPU with an additional 8-bit Z80 CPU and custom 24-bit GPU chipset, which was considerably powerful for a home system at the time.
The Neo Geo console was released by the Japanese manufactures, SNK, in 1990.
