I adore the original. That being said, this looks like a 2008 Adobe Flash game you play in a web browser. Flat, cheap, boring.. all of that.

I think they should have left the player and enemy sprites the exact same and just changed up the background and wall visuals. You can update visuals without looking like a circa 2008 flash game.

Not sure exactly how this is gonna play either. Changing this to a dual stick shooter makes a huge difference, making it play vastly different from the original.

Man I absolutely can't wait till they crack this thing wide open, it's like my #1 first priority and every discussion about the 2600+ should involve it in some way.

I'll go wild and spend $200 and my entire evening installing CFW, load up the entire set and... emulate ROMs with Stella on a low-end chipset like I can right now a million other ways for free.

$500 deluxe faux-arcade cabinet full of 2600 games. That's a pretty niche audience to shoot for.

Back when Sega first announced they were bringing these out in the West on the eShop, that was what made me pick up a 3DS. These are such fantastic and unique ports of these games that we will never have in another form.

Fantastic article.

It can't be underestimated the amount of SNES Game Genies that were sold in the States after EGM printed it's infamous Street Fighter II "boss code".

One of the main things that stuck out about GF to me, during the 16-bit era at least, was they were not afraid to call a spade a spade. They were the first US-based print magazine I ever read that would trash a legitimately poor game. Gamepro, EGM, and Nintendo Power would write an entire single page review of a crappy game, glossing over or barely mentioning bad points, and leave only a lackluster final review score as an indication of low quality.

Gamefan didn't care to comedically trash a game, and was written how a normal game player would talk to another, not like a PR driven doublespeak robot to avoid losing advertising revenue.