Video Game Gazette
The Neo-Geo MVS hit arcades in 1989. A year later, a home version, called the AES, was released. It was the first 24-bit gaming system, and brought real arcade action home. With a whopping price tag of $799.00 and games that cost $299.00 it was not a system for the masses.
The Neo-Geo is built around a 16-bit Motorolla 68000 running at 12MHz. It has an 8-bit Zilog Z80 co-processor running at 4MHz. The system has 64 + 2 KB of RAM as well as 68KB of VRAM. It can produce 4,000 colors simultaneously from a pallete of 64,000. More impressively it supports upto 380 sprites. The system has a resoultion of 320x224 pixels. The system has a three channel programmable sound generator, and four channel FM synthesis.
