The Neo Geo Pocket ( NGP ) is a monochrome handheld game console released by SNK . It was the company's first handheld system and is part of the Neo Geo family . It debuted in Japan in late 1998 and was primarily sold in Japan and Hong Kong. The system and all five English games saw limited distribution in the West, where it could be ordered directly from SNK USA.
12-465: The Neo Geo Pocket received lower-than-expected sales and was discontinued in 1999 , immediately being succeeded by the Neo Geo Pocket Color (NGPC), a full-color device allowing the system to compete more easily with the dominant Game Boy Color handheld, and which also saw an American and European release. Though the system enjoyed only a short life, there were some significant games released on
24-427: A relatively straightforward conversion process An A+ was simply 100% or 10/10 and an A was at 95%, and so forth with the same five percent increment; the average unlike Metacritic avoided opinionated weight systems for rankings, as it used a simple mean of every ranking from all the accredited websites reviewing that game. When a game accumulated six total reviews, it was given a ranking compared to all other games in
36-880: A remake of the 1979 SNK arcade game Yosaku , can be played by inserting the NGPC game The King of Fighters: Battle de Paradise into a Neo Geo Pocket. XGP 1999 in video gaming 1999 saw many sequels and prequels in video games, such as Heroes of Might and Magic III , System Shock 2 , Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver , Final Fantasy VIII , Age of Empires II , Crash Team Racing , Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! , Grand Theft Auto 2 , Resident Evil 3: Nemesis , Chrono Cross , Unreal Tournament , Pokémon Gold and Silver , and Donkey Kong 64 , along with new titles such as Super Smash Bros. , Silent Hill , Syphon Filter , Driver , EverQuest , Homeworld , Tony Hawk's Pro Skater , and Planescape: Torment . The year's most critically acclaimed video game
48-522: The Good Design Award in 1998. It received lower-than-expected sales and it was discontinued in 1999 . SNK released the Neo Geo Pocket in eight color variations: Platinum Blue, Platinum Silver, Platinum White, Carbon Black, Maple Blue, Camouflage Blue, Camouflage Brown, and Crystal White. Neo Geo Pocket cartridges are smaller than Game Boy cartridges. Only nine monochrome games were released for
60-437: The Neo Geo Pocket before it was discontinued. The Neo Geo Pocket is forward compatible with 39 Neo Geo Pocket Color titles, although games for the color system will play in monochrome on a Neo Geo Pocket. Likewise, the NGPC is backward compatible and the entire Neo Geo Pocket library can be played on the color system. After the release of the NGPC, six titles received re-releases, updated to include color. One additional game,
72-497: The database and a ranking compared to games on its console. At the time of the site's closure in December 2019, seven games had an aggregate score of 97% or higher: Super Mario Galaxy , The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time , Super Mario Odyssey , Super Mario Galaxy 2 , The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild , Grand Theft Auto IV , and Grand Theft Auto V . GameRankings
84-416: The ones that GameRankings deemed notable were used for the average. Scores were culled from numerous American and European sources. The site used a percentage grade for all reviews in order to be able to calculate an average. However, because not all sites use the same scoring system (some rate out of 5 or 10, while others use a letter grade), GameRankings changed all other types of scores into percentages using
96-624: The system such as Samurai Shodown! , and King of Fighters R-1 . It was the company's first handheld system and is part of the Neo Geo family . It debuted in Japan in late 1998 and was primarily sold in Japan and Hong Kong. Neo Geo Pocket was scheduled to release on October 22, 1998 with eight titles at launch. The system and all five English games saw limited distribution in the west, where it could be ordered directly from SNK USA. The Neo Geo Pocket received
108-455: The top ten best-selling home video games ( console games or computer games ) of 1999 in Japan, the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany. The following titles were the top ten highest-grossing home video games of 1999 in the United States and Europe. In the United States, the following titles were the top ten best-selling home video games of 1999. In Japan, the following titles were
120-540: The top ten best-selling home video games of 1999. In Europe, the following titles were the top ten highest-grossing home video games of 1999. In the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, the following titles were the best-selling home video games of 1999. In Australia, the following titles were the top ten best-selling console games of 1999. In Japan, the following titles were the top ten highest-grossing arcade games of 1999. GameRankings GameRankings
132-466: Was a video gaming review aggregator that was founded in 1999 and owned by CBS Interactive . It indexed over 315,000 articles relating to more than 14,500 video games. GameRankings was discontinued in December 2019, with its staff being merged with the similar aggregator Metacritic . GameRankings collected and linked to (but did not host) reviews from other websites and magazines and averages specific ones. While hundreds of reviews may get listed, only
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#1732851575470144-832: Was the Dreamcast title Soulcalibur , which remains among the highest-rated games of all time on Metacritic . The best-selling home video game worldwide was the Game Boy title Pokémon Red/Green/Blue / Yellow for the second year in a row, while the year's highest-grossing arcade game in Japan was Sega 's Virtua Striker 2 . The following titles won Game of the Year awards for 1999. Metacritic (MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews. The following video game releases in 1999 entered Famitsu magazine's "Platinum Hall of Fame" for receiving Famitsu scores of at least 35 out of 40. The following titles were
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