The Neo Geo , stylized as NEO•GEO and also written as NEOGEO, is a ROM cartridge-based arcade system board and fourth-generation home video game console released on April 26, 1990, by Japanese game company SNK Corporation. It was the first system in SNK's Neo Geo family.
The Neo Geo AES shipped with large, arcade-style controllers.
Inside a four cartridge Neo Geo arcade machine
The Neo Geo AES motherboard
The game cartridges measure 19 centimetres (7.5 in) by 14 centimetres (5.5 in) by 2.5 centimetres (0.98 in)
A ROM cartridge, usually referred to in context simply as a cartridge, cart, or card, is a replaceable part designed to be connected to a consumer electronics device such as a home computer, video game console or, to a lesser extent, electronic musical instruments.
A Star Raiders ROM cartridge for an Atari computer
TI-59 programmable calculator with ROM software library module at right, showing gold-plated contacts. Via the modules, software for a broad spectrum of applications could be bought, even for navigational calculations at sea.
First cartridge-like jumper card for the Magnavox Odyssey
The Fairchild Channel F was the first video game console to feature games on interchangeable ROM cartridges.