Hyper Neo Geo 64

The Hyper Neo Geo 64 is an arcade system board that SNK released in 1997 as the planned successor to its popular Neo Geo hardware. It was SNK's only arcade board able to render 3D graphics, built to carry the company into the 3D era that had arrived in the mid-1990s. The board was announced in late 1995 and shown at the February 1997 AOU show, with a first test run in Japan by mid-1997 and release in September 1997. Its main processor was a custom 64-bit RISC design, supported by 4 megabytes of program memory, 64 megabytes of 3D and texture memory and 128 megabytes for 2D characters and backgrounds. It also carried auxiliary processors for audio and communications. Only seven games were made for it, none very popular, and the system was discontinued by 1999. SNK then went back to releasing games on its older Neo Geo system.