I loved the idea of the Polymega, and for a while, I was desperate to get one. But the price point is insane and well out of the range of my bank balance.

That is amazing. I wonder who will be the first to accuse this of being AI 😂

That's way less exciting than I was hoping it would be.

@16bitGeneration This is a franchise, isn't it derivative by nature

Who here goes out of their way to buy games that don't use AI? Unfortunately, I see so many great "handmade" games that get 10 sales, while a game that uses AI to replicate a team 10x its size can pull in a profit. People like to moan about AI but don't support handmade games. Without support, your moral stance and complaints mean nothing. These developers can't feed their families on good feelings. Time Extention is a big problem in this as well. You guys do not give indies a big enough platform to promote their games; instead, more headlines go to AI devs' and their games. It has literally become the website to get your AI retro game promoted on.

People don't fundamentally get Kickstarter. You are in effect a small angel investor. You fund a project and rather than a dividend you get the project the team is building. It's a risk, you are, most times, investing in an idea. But if it's successful this allows the company to fund it's R&D and production startup. Like all investments you get many honest people, some who know how to do what they doing, and some that don't. And you get a few bad actors. I've backed about 60ish projects and I've learned that patience and support, are good friends when backing a project.

I'm sorry he did not know what algorithm meant???? It sounds like we are getting a twisted tale here. If the dev had told him they 3D modelled everything when he asked about AI, then yes misled. But if they say they used an algorithm then it's pretty clear that it's generated.

There is a business here somewhere, maybe a gaming services that supports dedicated servers and for a reasonable fee you can connect to it to play all these old online games. I don't think you would even need permission from the IP owner as you are not distributing their IP. I wonder if that would work.🤷

The Master System was an absolute power house of a console. I remember playing Aladdin and the visuals in that game were stunning for the time. My bother had the NES and is could not do anything like what my Master System did. And this game looks insane.

What a weird thing to do, like the story said maybe its down to component shortage and price, but then why release it? Maybe they are hoping people will buy it without noticing?

Good to see that there are still execs that will fall on their sword. Alien breed to be fair is brilliant, I don't know how they got that so right and pond so wrong.

OMG this is amazing, I need this now. Take my Money.

@mjparker77 Totally agree, and they were quite unique. I remember this giant skeleton that filled the screen. It was amazing.

Now that is a book I would love to have in my little mancave. I love the Alien games. I remember getting the Alien Trilogy demo for my PS1, its was the greatest thing ever! (at the time)

I'd love to get my Last Ninja Kickstarter. Yet all I see is S3 doing anything but that.

This came out of nowhere for me. I love Golden Axe. Not the PS3 game . I'm watching this regardless of the reviews. What a great surprise.

Um, if this is all true, and I have my suspicions as S3 has also lied about the Last Ninja Kickstarter. Then why not cancel the game and sue the developer? Why continue to sell it, and at such a high price. I suspect we will never hear from the developer because of NDAs or contracts. It all sounds dodgy, like System 3 can say what ever they want and we cannot hear from the other side. Anyway it's all getting a bit boring now, no one is going to buy this game, can we please have some positive retro news. 🙏

More Neo Geo 🤘😝🤘. Those carts are going to end up doubling in price in the second hand market.

I only ever played the first game on the Master System. I remember it being hard as hell. This is tempting me to try it again.

How cares who the developer is. Systemm 3 is the publisher they would have reviewed and signed off on the game all they way through. This reeks of them trying to push the blame off onto the game team. Who wants to bet that all the developers get laid off at this company and System 3 continues to shove out rubbish.

There's a developer interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghadh8e1-fk

@slider1983 I think people are under the impression that if they hate on AI enough that devs will stop using it. This is miss guided as the luddites of the industrial revolution learned. All that will happen is that devs will stop declaring it, or the 3rd party tools they use will be so riddled with AI that they will use it regardless.

If you want to stand up against AI don't try cancel it, that's just banging your head against a $6 trillion investment wall. Instead fight for legislation, security, safety, regulation, or fair use. AI companies used us to train their models, fine. Let's get legislation in that's says 30% - 50% of their profits go to government pension schemes. Witch hunts and pitch forks, are ineffective tools.

@dedant On paper what your saying makes sense, but as a Yank we know a thing or two about legal costs. A standard run of the mill lawyer who will resolve my border dispute with my neighbor will cost me $450 AN HOUR! Corporate lawyers are on a completely different level. So yes legally they can, but they don't as it costs too much.

And you are profiting of your ROMS as you've spent no money to obtained them. In the eyes of the law you are using stolen software licences, but no one cares because it's not worth the effort to take you to court, unless it's Nintendo of course.

Who cares? The train companies don't care. What are they going to sue for the few hundred Dollars he'll make? There are so many righteous retro gamers here, all against IP theft, while they sit on a mountain of ROMS. And this is hardly an AI story, another TE clickbait title.