Today, Jeremy Parish posted a Retronauts article celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Neo Geo Pocket Color, a wonderful handheld I should have purchased when it was new, or when it was reissued in super-cheap six-game bundles, or when I worked at a used game shop and stared at one from behind the counter for like six months.

There’s a lot to love about the system: weird color schemes (including clear and blue camo), the great D-pad/stick thing, the Dreamcast connection. But what I love most about the NGPC (on a superficial level) is the aesthetic of those wonderful fighting games: all high-contrast, blocky sprites on pastel, outline-free backgrounds. Nothing else looks like that!

[Image via HG101]

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