Then, 6 months later in December, the international Neo Geo version of Puzzle Bobble was released.

** The PS Vita is backward compatible with PSP games, Minis, PlayStation and Neo Geo games downloaded from the PlayStation Store.

Others included Sega's System 16, Capcom's CP System and CPS-2, and SNK's Neo Geo.

Being in the Fourth generation of Gaming, it was the first system in the former Neo Geo family, which only lived through the 1990s.

The MVS ( Multi Video System ), as the Neo Geo was known to the coin-operated arcade game industry, offered arcade operators the ability to put up to six different arcade titles into a single cabinet, a key economic consideration for operators with limited floorspace.

The Neo Geo was marketed as 24-bit, though it was technically a parallel processing 32-bit system with 24-bit addressing and a 16-bit data bus with an 8-bit Zilog Z80 as coprocessor.

The Neo Geo was ranked 19th out of the 25 best video game consoles of all time by the video game website IGN in 2009.

In 2012, SNK Playmore announced the release of the Neo Geo X, a handheld and home console based on the original AES.

The Neo Geo console was officially launched on 31 January, 1990 in Osaka, Japan.

Although its high price tag kept it out of the mainstream gaming market, a strong game lineup likely contributed to the cult status of the Neo Geo, enabling it to outlast the more popular Sega Mega Drive / Genesis.

The longevity of Neo Geo games kept it alive in arcades, particularly in Japan, where the newest installment of its flagship franchise, The King of Fighters, caused a stir with every new release.

The last official game by SNK for the Neo Geo system, Samurai Shodown V Special, was released in 2004.

Inside a four cartridge Neo Geo arcade machine

Measured from the introduction of the arcade hardware in 1990 to the release of the last official home cartridge in 2004, the Neo Geo enjoyed a market lifespan of fourteen years, making it the second longest-lived arcade or home console system ever produced ( after Atari 2600 ).

On August 31, 2007, SNK stopped offering maintenance and repairs to Neo Geo home consoles, handhelds, and games.

The GameTap subscription service currently includes a Neo Geo emulator and a small library of Neo Geo games.

In February 2007, Nintendo announced on their Japanese website that Neo Geo games would appear on the Wii's Virtual Console in Japan ; announcements in April and July confirmed placement on the North American Virtual Console, and on October 1, a similar announcement was made for the European Virtual Console.

The arcade version of the video game hardware is often referred to as the " MVS ," or Multi Video System ( available in 1-slot, 2-slot, 4-slot, and 6-slot variations, the latter being capable of up to six cartridges loaded into one machine ), with its console counterpart referred to as the " AES ", or Advanced Entertainment System ( most likely to distinguish it from the Nintendo Entertainment System, the dominating console on the market at the time ). Neo Geo AES motherboard.

Unlike most other video game consoles of its time, the Neo Geo does not use tilemap background layers.

It is the second console of the Neo Geo family.

Neo Geo CD game prices were low at $ 50, in contrast to Neo Geo AES game cartridges, which cost as much as $ 300.

In 1992, Taito announced a CD-ROM-based console system named WOWOW, that would have allowed people to play near-exact ports of Taito's arcades ( similar to the Neo Geo ), as well as download games from a satellite transmission ( as the Satellaview would do later ).

The Keymaker explains that two power stations elsewhere in the Matrix must be disabled in a short time window to successfully disable the security system of a building where the door to the Source will appear, allowing Neo to reach it.

Neo tells Morpheus that the Prophecy was merely another system of control, and that Zion's destruction is imminent.

Neo does have some degree of wireless connectivity with the Matrix system: he eventually learns to sense the presence of the Machines, and even interfere with their function.

They also produced a Neo Geo CD and CDZ, a failed, 64-bit Neo-Geo 64 system and two handheld systems, the Neo Geo Pocket and Pocket Color.

The Neo Geo Pocket was SNK's original handheld system.

The Neo Geo Pocket Color is built very similarly to its predecessor, the Neo Geo Pocket, sporting two face buttons on the right hand side of the system, and an eight-directional digital joystick on the left.

The Neo Geo Pocket Color is unusual in that it requires two sets of batteries-two AA batteries for the system itself, and an optional CR2032 battery to retain backup memory and keep the clock active.

As well as a clock and calendar system the Neo Geo Pocket Color has several other features such as generated horoscopes and an alarm system.

In the second Neo Zeon movement, both Char and Amuro pilot mobile suits equipped with an advanced psycommu system known as psycoframe.

At the end of the first Matrix film, Smith appeared to have been deleted by Neo ; however, in the sequels, Smith is revealed to have been " freed " from the Machines ' control, preventing him from being forcibly sent to the system source where he and other programs would be deleted.

As a result of his contact with Neo from the first film, Smith is " unplugged " in the second film ; no longer an Agent of the system but a " free man ".

After Neo enters the Source and returns from the Matrix with new information, he tells Morpheus that the Prophecy was a system of control that would bring the One to the Source to disseminate the programming inside Neo into the Matrix to allow a reload of the Matrix while Zion is destroyed by the machines and rebuilt by the One and red pills.

Neo Geo's MVS system also carried powerful sound development which often included surround sound.

In The Matrix Reloaded, Trinity is seen using Nmap to access a power plant's computer system, allowing Neo to " physically " break in to a building.

is a fighting game series developed by SNK for the Neo Geo system.

The castle was built between 1864 and 1879 on a cliff by the Atlantic ocean, and was designed by Viollet Le Duc in the Neo Gothic style.

When realtime 3D graphics stormed the arcade industry, the Neo Geo's hardware was unable to follow along.

The Neo Geo CD was bundled with a control pad instead of a joystick like the AES version.

** Although the original 68000 CPU was designed by Motorola, there are many clones of this CPU found in the Neo Geo hardware.

Idol Mahjong Final Romance II, an arcade game which was not an MVS game, was also ported to the Neo Geo CD.

The launch titles were Graduation 2: Neo Generation FX, Battle Heat and Team Innocent on December 23, 1994 and the final game released was First Kiss Story on April 24, 1998.

With the adoption of Aramaic as the ' lingua franca ' of the Neo Assyrian Empire, Old Aramaic was also adapted to Mesopotamian Cuneiform.

* The Matrix, a science fiction film, in which the protagonist Neo discovers that all what he believed was a reality is in fact computer simulation.

Later still, the region was conquered into the Neo Assyrian Empire.

After the middle of the 12th century BC follows another long period of comparative neglect, but with the conquest of Babylonia by the Assyrian king Sargon II, at the close of the 8th century BC, we meet again with building inscriptions, and under Ashurbanipal, about the middle of the 7th century BC, we find Ekur restored with a splendour greater than ever before, the ziggurat of that period being 58 by 39 m. After the fall of the Neo Assyrian Empire Ekur appears to have gradually fallen into decay, until finally, in the Seleucid period, the ancient temple was turned into a fortress.

As the Oracle departs, Smith appears, telling Neo that after being defeated, he knew he was supposed to be deleted, but refused, and is now a rogue program.

The real and historical Shammuramat ( in Greek, Semiramis ), was the Assyrian queen of Shamshi-Adad V ( ruled 824 BC – 811 BC ), King of Assyria and ruler of the Neo Assyrian Empire, and its regent for four years until her son Adad-nirari III came of age.

Burke's daughter, Melanie " Honey " Burke McCall, a Neo Soul singer who is an accomplished artist as well as a freelance background recording artist with companies such as Daxwood Records, Casablanca, A & M and Rawkus Records and a studio artist for groups such as Billy Preston, Peacock ( Anna Gayle group ), and Leslie Uggams, and toured with Chaka Khan, and wrote and produced Family, & Friends, a 14-song original soundtrack for Ms, which was released in 2005, and opened for Jocelyn Brown, Jaheim, Norman Connors, and Angela Bofill, as well as for her father at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia in 2006.