SNK Neo Geo CD

The Neo Geo CD is the second home video game console of SNK Corporation's Neo Geo family, released on September 9, 1994, four years after its cartridge-based equivalent. the cheaper CD format retailing at $49 to $79 per title, compared to the $300 cartridges.

The system was originally priced at US$399. The system can also play Audio CDs. There was 3 versions of the console and all three versions of the system have no region lock, the Neo Geo CD was launched with a bundled control pad instead of a joystick like the AES version. A newly designed joystick was released alongside the Neo Geo CD, and the system was compatible with controllers from the AES.

The Neo Geo CD had met with limited success due to it being plagued with slow loading times that could vary from 30 to 60 seconds between loads, depending on the game. As of March 1997, there had been 570,000 Neo Geo CD units sold worldwide