Let's get two points down before I start this rant:
1) I love the NEOGEO. The only reason I never owned an AES machine was its stupidly high price — $600 may as well be a million at eleven-years-old — but those MVS cabinets you'd find at every 90s-era arcade, pizza joint and McDonalds topped my list of favorite arcade machines alongside Street Fighter II Turbo Hyper Fighting, Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game.
I dropped easily more than a hundred dollars into King of the Monsters 2, Blue's Journey and World Heroes Perfect.
2) I fully grasp how the modern DLC economy functions. Companies with beloved intellectual properties can make a mint repackaging their decade-old hits either in the hopes of snagging nostalgic lifelong gamers, or generating new fans who've heard good things about said classics, but until now had no way to legally experience them.
That said, when my email box caught a missive detailing SNK's upcoming PlayStation Network-exclusive NEOGEO Station, I wept softly for the once-great console maker.
Hit the jump and I'll explain why.