Neo Geo Deck

The Neo Geo Deck (Full name: Neo Geo Deck Room Amusement System) is a variant of the Neo Geo video game system.

Description
The Neo Geo Deck was developed for use as a pay-per-play rental system in hotel rooms, and can be hooked up to a television set. It features a microwave oven-like chassis designed to withstand the weight of having a TV set placed on top of it. It can play MVS cartridges, since the hardware specifications are based on the MVS, but it can only run one cartridge at a time. Plus, it does not have a memory card reader, so it cannot support memory cards.

The earlier production models, whose chassis are made of wood, only have one joystick controller hooked up to it, so multi-player games were not possible, but this changed in the later units, which feature a metal chassis along with two Neo Geo Controller Pro joysticks hooked up to it. The motherboard used in the Neo Geo Deck is proprietary to the system, and unlike the MVS motherboards, does not feature a JAMMA connector. The system even uses a different BIOS than the MVS.

The Neo Geo Deck gained popularity in the hotels that they are used in, resulting in the demand for a Neo Geo home console, leading to the introduction of the AES. In addition, the joystick used by the earlier-model Neo Geo Deck would become the main controller for the AES.

Rarity
The Neo Geo Deck is the rarest known variation of the system. At one point, a Neo Geo Deck had turned up on eBay, and was sold for over $1500 USD.