Bod2019

This looks pretty cool.

I’ve not played the game, but could this possibly make it easier by virtue of increased forward visibility of what is upcoming? (Ignoring the fact you’ll have to rotate your body so much to see it all at close distances)

I’m no expert on the tools used to create modern games on classic systems, and it may just be me, but I feel like I’ve just witnessed a lot of recycled assets in that video/trailer, a mixture of Gyromite, Mario Bros, I’ve seen that grassy earth terrain somewhere before too. 🤔

Interesting concept.

Like the previous Peter I’ve had a few issues with Scart boxes.

Namely I have an Analogue DAC for my Mega SG and Super NT, but for whatever reason I can never get this to work through a Scart box, plug in directly it is fine, but as soon as you introduce a Scart box it will not work, any one else have any luck with this?

Screamer - wow didn’t expect that. I was thrilled to have a ridge racer alternative on PC when this released originally, though it didn’t run well on my non Pentium machine.

@Daniel36

Agreed, I’m a big fan of both properties, it’s quite a keen eye that has recognised this.

@Daniel36

Totally agree, I’m imagining a copy of the manga residing on the artists desk at the time, and a sudden thought of this will meet the brief for the background.

Convenience perhaps over respect/homage.

This looks great. The implementation reminds me a lot of Silpheed on the Mega CD, really impressive and cinematic.

Would be cool if it runs on the A500, especially when they release the full size version.

My 2nd gen could do with a new battery

This is one I have conflicted memories over. I had the Mega Drive and Mega CD, Gen 1 variants. So I was well in the Sega camp at this point. I had been reading all the magazine articles I could about the 32x, including those first impressions of Virtua Racer and Star Wars Arcade.

I was so eager to get one, but from memory the release date was so vague in the UK, I kept trying to get my name on one with local stores, but they couldn’t confirm the date of release, or were not getting solid info from their supplier.

It was all frustrating, and as a 12/13 year old I lost interest/faith it was going to release, I eventually moved onto the PS1 a year later after playing Wipeout at a friends house.

I was always aware of the Saturn in the background, but that never grabbed my attention, for some reason.

@Masacheez

I’m going to join you there. I built a full scale replica of a MVS 1 slot running real hardware and a CRT back in 2020 (something to do when the world stood still). Personally I went with a Terraonion ROM cart, I wasn’t prepared to part with mega money per cartridge. Managed to get featured on Arcade Attacks website at one point, I shared the whole build process online too.

All that aside, I love the NeoGeo/SNK stuff, it was almost stuff of legend when growing up, not something I’d see in the wild in the UK. I’m very intrigued by this Blaze partnership.

“Nintendo realised cartridges had already maxed out their memory footprints“

So as much as I love the N64, this begs the question, why did they stick with cartridges again. They knew what they were up against with the PS1 by this point.

Greed again really I guess because they didn’t want to let go of the model of charging for the production of cartridges.

BTW there are lots of great campaigns pushing sells of the switch on the lead up to Christmas, yet most people with a remote interest in gaming know that early in the new year they will be announcing the successor, sell off that old stock fast before the announcement I guess.

I like Nintendo games and products by the way, these are just observations.

@-wc-

I can understand that. There is clearly a whole lot of nostalgia attached, and I do agree the Diablo was/is an awesome car.

I had a Scalextric set with a Ferrari F40 and Lamborghini Diablo, which was super fun and still the closest I’ve ever been to drifting these cars around in real life.

Your right about the video clips, I forget how big a deal these were to games in the early/mid 90s.

@-wc-

All pedantry aside, these games, in my humble opinion, we’re never really very good.

My comparison of Gran Turismo was merely that of a generation comparison, not necessarily by year of release. That being said, I preferred Ridge Racer and Destruction Derby, I believe they came out in 1994/5, so in terms of being produced in the same pocket of history, possibly a fair comparison.

These are just my humble opinions, it’s the beauty of consumerism and free choice, or at least the illusion of.

@KitsuneNight
Yeah, I’ve clearly watched too many TV dramas

It’s no Gran Turismo is it. Specifically PS1 era.

So how much of this is fully intentional on Martin’s side?

He has received a great deal of exposure with respect this venture, clearly people have parted with money, using a provocative name has grabbed the attention of Sega.

Is there something more shrewd going on here? Or is it simply a poorly disguised scheme to separate people from their hard earned money?

I’m sure that I’m overthinking this, and expecting greater strategies to be at play here.

@BionicDodo

Retro-Bit would have been a good choice, I’ve been impressed by the quality, and they generally hit their stated timeframe.

@mollipen

Thanks for clarifying, and thank you for setting this up, it certainly has been hard work knowing all of these various releases coming out, this record will certainly take the burden out of that for everyone in the community.

Also keep the fight real, don’t give in to the SNES fans pressure machine 😆

This is very helpful, a great resource, though it is missing a lot, just from a quick cursory glance:

-Busterhawk Gleylancer (Retro Bit and Columbus Circle)
-Mega Man Wily Wars
-Demons of Asteborg
-Cotton Panorama
-Xeno Crisis
-Tanglewood

I’m not sure if the list is to be exhaustive, or just ‘recently released and upcoming’

Either way, glad for the use of it. Thank you.

** ignore most of what I said, the website clearly says it only covers this year and a bit before, with an aim to add more over time.**

I appreciate people need to gauge the demand for a proposed product coming to market.

But if you have access to an expensive sports car (assuming it’s not rented) in my mind you can sell that and fund your product development and manufacturing before hitting your potential customers for R&D and manufacturing costs ahead of a working product.

Kickstarter and the like have become almost like a charity for people’s business aspirations, expecting us as customers to take the risk on instead of the individual.

It is bitter sweet, I appreciate that, in our hobby we have been granted some great products that wouldn’t otherwise exist, but fatigue is setting in.

@Damo thanks for confirming.

It’s a shame as it would be a great cart collection, would likely interest me more in the system too, in a big Capcom fan, not a lot they could do wrong in the 90s really.

Just a guess, but I’m assuming neither of the system specific games (Street Fighter, or Mega Man/Final Fight) are available on the mentioned separate cartridges?

I’m not 100% familiar with Evercade, but I thought I’d read before that the Capcom licence was for console exclusive release only, and not cartridge releases (?). Hence to play these on Evercade, you have to buy all the different machines.

That advert/commercial is great. I love things like this, personally I like creating fake commercials, for fun, think Tarantino/Rodriguez “Grindhouse”, or Robocop etc.., they’ve achieved this nicely - intentionally or otherwise.

I really like the rotating PCB 😄

“I’d buy that for a dollar!” Or maybe $3.

This just reinforces my concerns for Earthion, when it gets released. Should have put it out through RetroBit, their releases have been great.

@jamess @jalex_64

Personally, I’ve bought the Pocket and Mega SG at initial pre order stage, and I’d memory serves me right, neither were offered with videos of the system functioning.

They had renders with gifs running on a screen of the pocket for example, but there was no indication or suggestion that was actual footage from the device.

I could be for forgetting something, but I just don’t think putting out videos of the system working, at this stage is a thing they do.

I’m ordering on the basis I have purchased a good few products from them in the past and all have delivered and met my expectations.

@jamess

Thanks for the reply. I’ll keep checking.

Quick question, did anyone else see the black 8BitDo controller available at any point?

I see the white one can still be preordered, but not the black.

Either it sold out super fast, or was never available.

Got one too, in black. Couldn’t get hold of an 8BitDo 64 in black though. Seems like it was never available, white controllers are still available though.

I was very interested in this when it was first announced. I’m still interested, just justifying the expense. That being said, the price is where I hoped it to be.

I was there on a midnight pickup from Game where I preordered it. A console I truly liked, but didn’t devote enough time to, as such I lost interest.

I wonder if the originator of that texture would like to take Nintendo to court, and perhaps force them to remove all traces of this recurrence? 😉

This could be cool. I have the PS1 which as a family we play from time to time. But it’s limited to playing through the CRT.

If this had a bundle of Time Crisis games and Point Blank then I’d be In Like Flynn.

Wonder if it can be hacked/side loaded?

The history lesson in this article suggests that all equitable predecessors were perceived overpriced and the cost greatly reduced during its time on market.

On another note, is anyone else sensing an increasing downward spiral of this industry, there doesn’t appear to be much of a spark left anymore, it’s all become stale, lacklustre and expensive, yet with no sense of ownership as games are removed from stores and servers are shut down. Expensive technology can be justified to enthusiasts, but there has to be something compelling about it.

@Blofse

Similar here. I got this day one. I was at the shop for a midnight launch to get my console and Ready 2 Rumble boxing. I later enjoyed Power Stone and Shenmue. I just feel I didn’t give the console enough time/attention to get the most out of it.

This looks good fun, with enough novelty and appeal to reach the masses.

I’ve always been intrigued by the Sinden Gun. And often contemplated creating a PC based emulation setup for all the classic arcade light gun games.

To be honest that might still be the case, as the mister, from what I’m reading, is not currently running things such as Time Crisis, House of The Dead, Virtua Cop etc..,. (Arcade versions I’m referring to).

@Andee

Agreed, my copy of SSF2 got absolutely hammered. Plenty of spare time in those days 😀

@Andee

I didn’t mind the content level too much. Given the advancement available.

SSF2 was £59.99. Though my copy I got for £49.99. I still have the sticker on my original copy from release. I’d upload a photo, not sure how on here.

@Ristar24

In the UK this game was £70. It was the most expensive Mega Drive game at that time - Super Street Fighter 2 was quite pricy I remember, due to the memory side of the cartridge.

I recall reading all the magazine promos for this, and repeatedly visiting my local game store to play the pre-release demo they had playing on their stands.

I was lucky enough to get a copy at release from my Mum’s catalogue (Littlewoods, or something like that) only to have the case arrive and not work correctly in my original Mega Drive, the graphics were all corrupted and the car was driving/flying through the sky. Very bizarre.

Regardless of the comparisons with the SNES, this game was a tremendous feat for the Mega Drive at the time. I’d say you had to be there at the time to understand how much of a leap this felt.

Yeah, but you know - “Sega does what Nintendont” 😀

@HoyeBoye

I’ve had no first hand experience, but have read a few tails.

I guess having a new game of this calibre, even if through LRG is better than no game at all.

This is the one I’m keen to see. They should release this via Retro-Bit, I’ve been impressed by their output.

Does anyone know who is releasing the physical edition? I have an odd feeling I saw somewhere it would be Limited Run Games 🤔

@BLAZINOAH

I submitted a contract form to ask, as I’ve seen a few YouTubers and media mentions latel who have received their copies.

They came back and advised it would be sent out in August.

@NatiaAdamo

From my knowledge the closest we have is the Mega SD from Terraonion.

I always hoped Analogue would bring one out to use the extension on their own Mega SG consoles, especially after I saw they were producing the PC Engine with CD drive.

Still awaiting mine to be delivered. No word yet from Strictly Limited Games.

Is it a European launch title for the 64DD?

This story was helpful as I followed the preorder links through to a store and found a new copy of Sol-Deace (retro bit re-issue) in-stock. Snagged that instead.

First I’ve heard of this, another great Sega innovation. We need more quirky stuff like this in our lives.

Aren’t these the partner chosen to release Earthion on the Mega Drive (the new Yuzo Koshiro Shmup)?

I’ve been really looking forward to this, having not ordered from LRG before, I’m concerned. Hopefully the UK have a different outlet/supplier.

This on an oculus quest, or something similar, to achieve the wild ambition of the old Tomytronics 3D