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The article's half right in that Psycho Dream was released as part of the SNES's Switch online service, not on the E-shop as the listing for the game says.

Having glanced at its Wikipedia page it seems like Retrobit are scraping the barrel with this one: 33% from the venerable pages of Super Play, 21/40 from EGM and 18/40 from Famitsu!

@Damo True but I can't help but feel you'll end up antagonising some of your readers and it'll inevitably be divisive, and to the site's detriment in the long run.

We should be arguing on here over Sony, Nintendo, Sega and SNK not Saudi Arabia/USA v Iran or Israel v Hamas. People can find enough other places online to argue about that.

Who comes to videogame websites to read their hot takes on politics? Definitely not me, TE has opened a can of worms for itself by not covering ModRetro and is now twisting itself into contortions over this.

Better to cover everything in the videogame space on its own terms and let the readers and consumers make their own judgement.

P.S. calling the war in Gaza 'a genocide' is itself highly contentious and only further stirs the pot.

This is amazing, I well remember reading C+VG back around Christmas 1991 and their review of Burning Fight, on this unobtainable Neo Geo console for which each game was a ridiculous £120+.

I'd much rather have an actual physical console, arcade stick, joypad and a handful of games than go down the emulation route, so will be putting in a pre-order for one of these.

P.S. Sadly TE's virtue signalling over ModRetro has come back to bite them again, as the double standards on show are glaring.

@Hexapus

I whole heartedly second your recommendations of SNESDrunk, Strafefox, Jeremy Parish and Gamesack.

I'd add Happy Console Gamer, My Life In Gaming, Modern Vintage Gamer, Mad Panic Gaming, and for Shoot 'em up/Shmup fans Shmup Junkie and The Electric Underground.

As well as the obvious ones like Nintendo Life and Digital Foundry. Like others I've gone off IGN, the website's gaming coverage is a shadow of what it was about 10 years ago.

@slider1983 A shame that we'll never get any more coverage of the ModRetro 64 on this site due to Time Extension wanting to virtue signal. I'd be very interested in how it compares to the Analogue 3D (which I have and which is great).

@gojiguy Not sure about the Push Square reviewer but Tom Massey who did the Nintendo Life review is definitely a shmup player (to put it lightly) who writes excellent reviews.

@ChromaticDracula No worries I thought it sounded a bit un PC. Still i never knew that they made Joanna Dark look more south east Asian for the Japanese release of Perfect Dark, till yesterday.

A shame that it doesn't work with the NSO N64 Controllers yet, hopefully we won't have to wait too long for that functionality. From what Gamesack and MLIG said it needs to add Motion Adaptive Deinterlacing too rather than just using Weave Deinterlacing.

Looking forward to getting it in the post some time in the next fortnight or so, it's been a long wait!

Never realised until watching that video that they made Joanna Dark look more Oriental for the Japanese version. Loved F1 World Grand Prix back in the day and I'm not even a real life F1 fan. Jordan being sponsored by 'Bitten & Hisses', classic.

Looking forward to mine finally arriving in the post. Also hoping against hope that Analogue do another production run for the Super NT and Mega SG.

One of my very favourite games and still my favourite gaming soundtrack of all (i managed to get a copy of the Japanese soundtrack CD on eBay a few years back).

Excited for this from the region free aspect as I've had a US copy of Conker's Bad Fur Day for about 10 years and I'll finally be able to play it if I can get hold of an Analogue 3D. I may be falling for the marketing hype but it sounds like it might give my N64 collection a new lease of life and $249 seems very reasonable (though their shipping costs to the UK no doubt won't be).

Solid list, glad to see Super Tennis in there, I replayed it when it hit the Switch SNES online subscription and it's still great.

Surprised to not see Super Mario RPG make the cut (is Arcana really a better game?), and having played both games to a finish on Wii Virtual Console I'd add Gradius III (what a soundtrack) and Final Fight to the list.

Great work again from Retrobit to bring another Mega Drive classic to the west for the first time. I've got their Gaiares and Gleylancer re-releases and they're high quality.

Very pleasantly surprised by this announcement as Kevtris (the guy who engineered the Super NT etc.) said a few years back that an N64 FPGA system was pretty much impossible.

I've got an American copy of Conker's Bad Fur Day that i've never been able to play yet.

Also hoping that the Switch N64 controllers might be compatible with it via bluetooth.

Had never heard of Sega's Houses of Parliament stunt until now. This must have been a couple of years before FHM projected Gail Porter onto the House of Commons one night.

@Andee Similarly I'd go for SFII Turbo, Super SF II, SF Alpha 2 (all SNES), original IV (PS3) and SF 30th Anniversary Collection (Switch), SF 30th in particular as it's so packed with content.

What sort of monster would prefer the US box art to the Japanese original?!

I picked up the Retrobit re release, think I'm correct in saying that the original was never released in Europe?

@qaopjlll You're right, I just checked Wikipedia and the PSP game came out in October 2007 (US), November 2007 (Japan) and February 2008 (Europe) while the Wii Virtual Console release was 2008 (Japan) and 2010 (US and Europe).

Really disappointing, Bitmap's SNES/Super Famicom compendium is a great read and this would have been a perfect partner for it on the bookshelf.

These sound good but I have my eye on a Retrotink 5x for my SNES, Megadrive, N64, Gamecube, Wii and PS2 upscaling needs. At £350 they’re far from cheap though.

Great news that it will work with European Megadrives. Have heard lots about it but it was never released over here back in the day, nor since via the Wii shop or Megadrive Mini.

@antster1983 Pretty sure they gave Super Mario Kart ‘only’ 82% as well.

@HalfAWorldAway Yes indeed, I bought probably the first 10 issues, it was edited by Steve Jarratt who later started Edge.

Very sad to read the news of Jason Brookes’s death in the latest Edge.

Super Play was a wonderful magazine, and I still read Edge to this day. He has left a hell of a legacy with his contributions to both publications.

I also seem to remember he was a big fan of the Super Castlevania IV soundtrack, which is my all time favourite.

R.I.P.

Great article, shame that I've taken so long to find it but better late than never!

I started reading CVG just before Christmas 1991 (aged 11), just before I got hold of an NES, and soon moved on to flirtations with Total!, Mean Machines, Gamezone, Super Action and Nintendo Magazine System. Super Play was the only magazine which sucked me in though, and I have all 47 issues, as well as nearly every issue of N64 magazine and the first 20 or so of NGamer.

The world has moved on of course since the early '90s but it'll be a very sad day when the likes of Edge (the only magazine I still buy, and that's only occasionally) shut their doors, or more likely move entirely online.

Sounds like a great read, I hope someone has a similar book regarding the SNES in the pipeline?!