Neo Geo CD fact

■ The Neo Geo CD received about five years of official software support, with the final game The King Of Fighters 99 arriving in December 1999, ten months after the penultimate game The Last Blade 2.

PROCESSORS: 16-BIT MOTOROLA 68000 (12 MHZ), 8-BIT ZILOG Z80 (4 MHZ)

RAM: 7MB RAM (2MB PROGRAM MEMORY, 4MB GRAPHICS MEMORY, 1MB SOUND SAMPLE MEMORY)

GRAPHICS: UP TO 384 SPRITES (128 PER PLANE), 4,096 COLOURS ON-SCREEN FROM 65,536 PALETTE, 320X224 RESOLUTION

AUDIO: CD AUDIO, YAMAHA YM2610 SOUND CHIP

MEDIA: 650MB CD-ROM

STORAGE: 2KB BUILT-IN SRAM