AllieKitsune

I'd really like to see actual remakes of MSX Gradius 2 and 3.

ReBirth worked as a "Remix" version of the MSX Gradius series, but 2 and 3 deserve more widespread distribution.

I mean, heck, Konami kind of did their own remake of Gradius 2 on PSP (as part of Salamander Portable). They could have easily re-issued that.

Or, just maybe, since M2 worked on Gradius Origins, they could have put Nemesis '90 in it anyway!

I'm going to scream, really I am.

All we need now is Cyber Doll and Tengai Makyou The IV Apocalypse, and I won't feel like I missed out on anything.

Hopefully it'll be better than X2 : No Relief was.

@smoreon It's likely a licensing agreement with exA.

exA demands the games be unique in a way that can never be played at home.

Which is freaking annoying since next to nobody is ever going to see an exA cabinet.

@Axelay71 The PC-Engine is more for Vertical games.

And SNES had too many bottlenecks at the time its shooters were made. I know that now people can throw SA-1 and FastROM hacks on a flash cart and see the games running at full speed, but in the context of the games as they were at release? The SNES chugged.

Horizontal shooters really belong on the MD/Genesis more than maybe any other retro system.

@HammyHavoc I don't want Steam on my other laptop, period.

It's not worth it when I can't install every game I've paid for.

And this older one (which I don't play games on anymore because the monitor is screwed up) is the one that has Steam on it.

It's not about the size of Earthion.

It's about being done with Steam.

@AMAGON Maybe don't assume that all the people waiting have downloaded the pirated ROM.

Personally, I'm waiting because Steam is no longer really viable for me since I had to switch to a laptop that doesn't have an expansion slot for more storage.

I have to wait for the digital Switch release (which I have no problem doing) because I just don't have enough space for my old Steam games anymore.

@cawley1 I would guess that maybe it might be that the Steam version didn't have to go through LRG?

I plan on getting the Switch version when it eventually releases, but yeah, it would have been nice if it could have released the same day as on Steam.

@Kushan I don't think it's hate (at least not on this site, anyway) as much as pointing out that if someone is going to start a venture like this, they'd better know what they're doing.

And it sounds like NN didn't know what he was doing.

You're not going to last as a business only running two days a week, when you've got a lease that needs to be paid.

I'd prefer that AI devs work on upping its translation abilities (even if I'm resigned to that it will probably never be able to work out Japanese idioms).

@Moroboshi876 ININ (or their Strictly Limited label) really should have been publishing the Arcade Memories releases internationally, since they handled the distribution of the system itself, but they just never bothered.

@PKDuckman Gekirindan is probably the one I'd most like to see finally make its way to Arcade Archives...

Yeah, you can definitely tell that Shuzilow.HA is behind this one.

Now we just need them to do Chaos Legion.

Just looking at the thumb nail, you could tell that it was Terarin.

Can't wait for everybody to spam drop the exploding health packs again, oh boy.

As much as I have a fondness for Final Zone Axis, I've never been able to really get into FZII.

@SlangWon Rumble Fish 2 sitting out there as the lone exception.

exA-ArcadiA is the ultimate c-block.

Anything you hear announced for that is never getting a home version.

Which sucks, because that's where the next Chaos Code is going.

Yeah, that certainly looks like a Taito game, alright.

This is the one I'd been waiting for since the "Namco Month" announcement.

Whatever it is, at least one game will be guaranteed to be Japan only. Namco didn't give us Marvel Land or F/A over here in the west.

Which kinda sucks, I really wanted F/A.

@PowerPandaMods It takes a lot to demonstrably prove that someone is responsible for someone else's death.

Apparently the judge didn't think Karl and his lawyer were able to do that.

@Razieluigi TG-16 didn't hit the US market until 1989, anyway. The Genesis actually beat it to market by a few weeks in the US (technically. It was in NYC and Los Angeles before the TG-16 released, but took a little longer to get to the rest of the country).

Market Research ruins everything.

@Jellyscare I think I'd really only want the X68000's Nemesis 90 Kai.

The choppy MSX scrolling would be kind of rough to deal with these days.

Mostly just would have liked Gaiden included.

But it seems like they were attempting to even out the Gradius to Salamander ratio.

I'd say the game is worth playing once just for its underrated music, but I suppose one can just find the songs on Youtube these days.

Don Doko Don being renamed "Wacky Man" is sending me right now.

It may sound rude, but it's as simple as this :

The ZX Spectrum (nor the Amstrad) didn't really have a presence in the US at all. They had distrubutors, apparently, but if you lived in a smaller town, you were never going to see them in a shop where you lived.

Next to nobody in the US at the time grew up with it, they're not going to have fond childhood memories of it that they can discuss.

It's not being done to expressly piss off Europeans, I doubt that anybody intends that.

We just weren't there.

Also : If used along with a Mega SG, the Mega Everdrive Pro can also run SG-1000 games.

@Soupbones Not officially. There's a general belief that there will eventually be a PS5 version, but there hasn't been anything official on that front at all.

@Guru_Larry Aside from a cut-down PC Engine port, I don't think it was ever seen again until the Arcade Archives release.

Honestly, I'd leave it as is. That's how the series has always played, and it's not going to be an eSports game, so the verisimilitude of damage isn't needed.

People have been begging for the return of PS2-style Japanese game design, so let the game keep that older-school feel.

I'm still stuck on version 0.185 because it was around that time I lost the ability to find reliable sets (whether non-merged or merged) anymore.

(And no, I know better than to ask. I don't want repositories getting shut down.)

I can't even tell what these things are supposed to do in the first place.

@cakeashi They've already shown they're not exclusively doing STGs, and Hamster already beat them to Gun Frontier anyway.

@cakeashi Probably won't be that. Sega owns that IP now.

It'd be something 3rd party.

I'm going to say it's Arcade Gears : Pu-Li-Ru-La.

The final system that absolutely needed to be supported.

Time to flush some fools down the toilet!

"Bad Omen and Devilish"

But, Bad Omen IS Devilish.

Should have picked it up before my Amazon Japan account got locked (for being dumb enough to try to open tracking on my phone, and then having to close it out to get the 2FA number). Unfortunately, I can't have it re-opened because I'd have to be able to speak Japanese for that. At least I'm not missing out on much by not being able to pick up Vol. 3. I initially passed on Vol. 2 because I knew I wouldn't have the money to also get the Cyberstick, but, well, it's definitely not happening now.

Oof. I like Aqua Jack, but the rest of that lineup is rough.

Considering that Ken is written as being 75% Japanese (Fully Japanese mother, half-Japanese father, I believe?), there's zero chance that was the intention.

People may have wanted to (and did, apparently) interpret it under that context, but it just doesn't seem like it was remotely intended to be.

@IceClimbersMain They're already working.

You just have to be subscribed to Jotego's Patreon in order to use the core.

He probably won't consider it ready for full public release for a while yet.

@Spider-Kev They wouldn't be able to.

This is only going to have the games that Bullet Proof Software made.

None made by other devs.

Something, Something, Americans are Barbarians who can't appreciate the ZX Spectrum! And what's worse, they keep trying to say "ZEE ex" instead of "ZED ex!"

Though, seriously, I'm not even sure that Nintendo Bias is an inherently American thing. We're not the ones calling them "Ninty".

I think it's mostly just the outsized influence that the Zelda series has, and the absoultely gargantuan popularity that Link has as a character, combined with internet osmosis, that keeps it going.

Would be nice if they'd one-time-only bring back ACA NEO-GEO so we could finally have Viewpoint.

But I'm guessing Sega (through Sammy) owns the rights to Viewpoint currently...

Mmmmf, that Naofumi Hataya soundtrack...