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And now I will have the Mysterious Cities of Gold TV series theme stuck in my head for the rest of the day!

I would love an 'all-in-one' Analogue console that takes Mega Drive and 32X cartridges as well as having a CD drive for Mega CD games too.

I love my Saturn. This is a pretty nice list. Some of my favourites that didn't make their Top 10 are... Saturn Bomberman, Bubble Symphony, Die Hard Arcade/Dynamite Deka, Shining Wisdom, Shining the Holy Ark and Dark Savior.

Loved SWIV on the Acorn Archimedes and even have the GBC version. Always been interested to try this game, so might just pick it up.

The Amiibo of the 90s!

This looks great. Wonder if they'd do a port to the Master System itself...

I find it amazing that anyone would describe RoboCop Versus The Terminator as risible. I also remember the MD version getting good reviews here in the UK when it came out. Mean Machines and CVG both scored it over 90%. I have the game for both Mega Drive and Master System and enjoy both versions. Even if you find it a bit generic or dislike the level design or whatever, I can't see what would make it risible.

This game looks like good fun and I will definitely give it a try at some point.

I'm going to try and look past this and enjoy the fact that we will soon be able to play Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands and Parasol Stars on Switch. We also have various Puzzle Bobbles.

Not to sound greedy, but can we have Bubble Symphony and Bubble Memories next please? Pretty please?

That opening text crawl is amazing!

@Futureshark I'm with you on Rastan! I wonder if there will be a third Milestones collection too.

Looks stunning. Great effort.

Yes! This is a brilliant addition! Day 1 buy. Really looking forward to this one.

Brilliant update! I've been wanting turbo fire for shmups for an age, but especially since the EXP came along with TATE mode. Anyone who can comfortably hold that thing by one end and rapidly hit the fire button cannot have human hands!

Thanks for the heads up. As I own Aero Fighters 2 and 3 on Switch already I should probably pick this one up too!

I'm going to be honest, I read the opening paragraph of this article, stopped reading and ordered the book!

They had one of these in a small independent games shop in the place where I grew up. I always wanted to try it but I think it was something like £5 a go back then, which seemed like madness to a school kid like me. Look forward to reading the chapter in the book.

I am super excited for this! Without a doubt this is a day 1 purchase.

Just had a quick game on my Mega Drive using a Power Base FM and a flash cart. It worked perfectly and was really good fun! Thanks for the heads up.

The driver in that video would have racked up about 900 years in jail!

This looks great, I'm going to have a serious dig through the site when I have some time. Thanks for sharing!

I hate this style of 'poll', so I'll just say 3 SE.

I love the Wipeout series and it has such iconic design that it is well suited to a nice hardback book. I really want to like Read Only Memory, as I love books about classic games and buy basically every Bitmap Books release, but I have always been put off by their fondness for blank space. Every one of their books I have ever looked at has loads of pages with a single image at the top and then half a page of blank white space beneath it. The Street Fighter II book has pages that are mostly text (with a small cartoon of the person speaking) where the top half of the page is just empty white space. I've always found it quite jarring and it has put me off picking their stuff up.

Great article. I love Jeff's games, so it's a real shame this one never released. Moose Life VR is a favourite of mine.

I never owned an Atari back in the day and had no interest in this when it was first announce... but since then it has managed to sneak into my head and I now really want to get one. The impulse buy price tag helps.

@michaelf I'm guessing it will be like the two versions of the C64. As in essentially the same as the Amiga 500 Mini but in a full size box with a functioning keyboard.

Shame there wasn't an Atari Arcade 2 before this happened.

It's Metal Slug 8!

Really want this for Mega Drive, shame it's coming from Limited Run Games and their Japanese company, as I'm really not a fan.

I'm a sucker for a slide out keyboard, but I'm guessing I can't afford one of these and likely never will be able to!

As above I will remain reasonably sceptical about this until I see a more varied demonstration, but it is interesting news nonetheless. I'm also intrigued by a Retron FPGA console in general, as I've never been interested in their software emulation devices.

I had to vote for Ultima IV as the Master System version had a huge impact on me as a small child. My brother bought it (and boy was it pricey!) and the different classes and terrain and general size and complexity of it blew me away. Not to mention the books and maps that came with it! I bought Ultima Underworld 1&2 CD collection in the EA budget range for PC years later but they already felt a little old fashioned by then so were harder for me to really get attached to as an impatient teen. I also played some Pagan at that time but I mostly took the GTA approach and just messed about in the world, blocking people into rooms with items and getting in trouble. It was fun but never gripping or awe inspiring like Ultima IV was.

Nice idea. It would be nice if a single site had one section for old games that have received modern official localisations/remakes and one section for games that have received fan translations.

Oooh, now this has me interested. Wonder where they're going with this one...

That is amazing cover art.

I am loving mine so far. Have loved little clicky sticks since I first bought a NEOGEO Pocket Color way back when. Lovely.

I just wish someone would make a left Joycon with a clicky stick and built in battery/wireless, so I could play shmups on the FlipGrip with it. I would then be in shmup heaven. I guess the arrival of this means there's some scope for DIY projects...

I've nearly bought the original a few times. The expanded version looks great, but I really can't stand Limited Run. Preferred the original cover too, especially as this one has not only a huge Press Run logo on it, but also a big Limited Run one too!

I am hopelessly behind in the Yakuza series, but I now want to buy this game just for the arcades! SEGA are constantly re-releasing the 16-bit era content in ranges like SEGA AGES, can we please have some standalone releases from this era? Pretty please?

Er.. Japanese language has been what?! Haha.

This was always a nice game, but this 16-bit version is fabulous and continues to get better.

I love how this is nice and subtle, yet still pays perfect tribute. I have no interest in a really garish watch and I would actually wear this. That said, I don't really spend that kind of money on watches, and have a perfectly good one already, so can't really justify it. Good effort by Seiko though.

2D hand drawn artwork and pixel art are not the same thing. I do expect that pixel art will start to disappear as fewer developers (and gamers!) have nostalgia for it, but a beautiful hand drawn 2D image will always be beautiful and someone will continue to make them. It is however a much more expensive and time consuming way to work than using 3D models on a 2D plane, so I doubt we'll see a lot of it.

Two that still stick in my mind are...

Cheat mode in James Pond on the Acorn Archimedes: YNGWIE J MALMSTEEN (name of a Swedish guitarist)

Wonder Boy in Monster Land on the Master System: Pause the game 45 times to gain 45 gold. As the buttons in controller 2 could be used to pause/u pause the game, we used a Quikshot Python joystick in controller 2 with the auto fire switch on and a rubber band around the trigger. Wander off for a bit and come back to endless riches!

My first thought when I saw the picture of the dirty statue was "I could clean him up nicely in PowerWash Simulator!".

Definitely going to pick this up. I love that they're including all versions of the game.

As someone currently sitting less than a metre from copies of Choplifter for the Master System, Desert, Jungle and Urban Strike for the Mega Drive and Soviet Strike for the Saturn, this is right up my street! Thanks for the heads up.

I can't stand their big head art style, so I would really rather someone else take on Golden Axe or Final Fight.

I am delighted to have this wonderful game on more systems, but I was really hoping it would arrive as part of a Bubble Bobble collection, along with the original, Bubble Memories, Bubble Symphony and Rainbow Islands (preferably all on a single cart together).

I love rom hacks, so this is a fabulous idea for an article. I'd love to see more of these features in future, that gather together lots of hacks that are worth checking out.

Maybe one on your favourite hacks that have been kicking around for years could work too?

This is a day 1 purchase for me as I love clicky NEOGEO digital sticks. Please can we have Switch support too though?

I would kill (lots of naughty in-game baddies) for a left JoyCon with one of these sticks and wireless so that it worked with the FlipGrip for shmups.

I had Heroes of the Lance for the Master System when I was young and couldn't really get anywhere in it, if memory serves me well. Still got the cartridge kicking around. I always see these old D&D re-releases and instantly add them to my Steam wishlist, but I usually find that in reality they're too archaic for me to enjoy them much. I generally find the old games that hold up best for me are the simplest ones. Nowt wrong with Pac Man, Galaga, Mappy or Super Mario Bros. in 2023.

I love a good fan translation, and I love Samurai Shodown, but these things usually take many years to release, so I generally try to forget about them until they appear in fully playable form.

Mine finally arrived this week. Pre-ordered from Funstock, so no question of authenticity. The overall package is beautiful and made me feel like a 10 year old again!

Loving the EXP so far, although I do find the L2 button really gets in my way when I try and play in TATE mode. Would be good to get some rapid-fire options for the TATE games as trying to rapidly press the buttons in that setup gives me cramp quite quickly!