![]() ![]() ![]() After a few months of reverse engineering and experiments, a prototype was made which later became Last Hope, our debut game." As I was a huge Neo Geo fan and collector, my dream was to develop for that system. "We were fans of 16-bit games and wanted to create our own. "We initially started in 2000 as a 'Doujin' developer - we were just two guys, my little brother René and me," explains Timm Hellwig. ![]() Germany's NG Dev Team isn't a stranger to SNK's hardware, and this isn't the first time they've developed for the seemingly dead platform. Few vintage systems can boast such astonishing staying power. Amazingly, NG Dev Team's Gunlord is a professional-quality Neo Geo cartridge released in the year 2012 - something that nobody could have predicted way back in 1990, when SNK launched its bold (and incredibly expensive) console/arcade hybrid. Collectors of the legendary SNK Neo Geo system must secretly smile to themselves when they hear modern console manufacturers waxing lyrical about grandiose 10-year hardware cycles their beloved platform is now over two decades old and continues to enjoy software support - albeit in a somewhat limited capacity.
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