Puzzle Bobble is my favourite game on the Taito Alpha. Ridiculously addictive in both single-player and multiplayer.
Football Champ is just hilarious (tackling the ref, hitting the photographers with the ball, super shots where the goalie flies through the goal), and I really wish it had been included on the Alpha — more enjoyable than the more generic Super Sidekicks on NeoGeo Arcade 3 IMO.
Cadash is definitely pretty cool as well. Plenty of fun to be had on this cartridge if you don't own either the Taito Alpha or the Taito Super Pocket already.
This means Banjo will be part of the eventual Rare Collection 2 then, right?
Seeing as how they're going to have to make Banjo work on a standard d-pad for the Super Pocket, I'm excited to see what it's like playing that game on the Alpha 😁
I was a PSP person back in the DS days (got one at launch), and never really gave Nintendo's system a chance until 2019 when I happened upon a very cheap 2DS on Facebook Marketplace.
it quickly became one of my favourite handhelds of all time, and I haven't looked back since. I do also now have a New Nintendo 3DS, and I think overall it's definitely better, but there's something about the slab 2DS that I just fell in love with.
I'll always have a massive appreciation for the wedge model.
Side note: I used to play this game all the time back in the day. Not what most people would consider a "good" football game, but it tried some ambitious things — the shooting mechanic is a target that moves around the goal and is really difficult to control. You end up getting a lot of 0-0 scorelines as a result, but it's really satisfying when you actually score.
The most surprising thing to me is that he knows "very little about technology" despite having made some of the best dance songs of all time on an Atari ST.
Also, those classic FIFA intros were incredible. Blur, Fatboy Slim, Robbie Williams, Gorillaz... the list goes on.
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Re: Review: Taito Arcade 3 (Evercade) - Puzzle Bobble And Cadash Lead The Charge
Puzzle Bobble is my favourite game on the Taito Alpha. Ridiculously addictive in both single-player and multiplayer.
Football Champ is just hilarious (tackling the ref, hitting the photographers with the ball, super shots where the goalie flies through the goal), and I really wish it had been included on the Alpha — more enjoyable than the more generic Super Sidekicks on NeoGeo Arcade 3 IMO.
Cadash is definitely pretty cool as well. Plenty of fun to be had on this cartridge if you don't own either the Taito Alpha or the Taito Super Pocket already.
Re: Evercade Range Expands With Two New Carts And A Banjo-Kazooie-Packing Super Pocket
This means Banjo will be part of the eventual Rare Collection 2 then, right?
Seeing as how they're going to have to make Banjo work on a standard d-pad for the Super Pocket, I'm excited to see what it's like playing that game on the Alpha 😁
Re: The Best Mistake Nintendo Ever Made? Why 2DS Is The Perfect Embodiment Of Gunpei Yokoi's Core Principles
@gord352 Very true 😅 Hey, the PSP was still an amazing system, no regrets getting one at launch! Way ahead of its time.
Re: The Best Mistake Nintendo Ever Made? Why 2DS Is The Perfect Embodiment Of Gunpei Yokoi's Core Principles
I was a PSP person back in the DS days (got one at launch), and never really gave Nintendo's system a chance until 2019 when I happened upon a very cheap 2DS on Facebook Marketplace.
it quickly became one of my favourite handhelds of all time, and I haven't looked back since. I do also now have a New Nintendo 3DS, and I think overall it's definitely better, but there's something about the slab 2DS that I just fell in love with.
I'll always have a massive appreciation for the wedge model.
Re: The "Hot Coffee" That Never Was - Did Rockstar's Co-Founders Put A Lewd Secret In This PS1 Football Game?
@MysticWangForce Yeah, that intro / trailer was my first exposure to the song. Amazing stuff.
Re: The "Hot Coffee" That Never Was - Did Rockstar's Co-Founders Put A Lewd Secret In This PS1 Football Game?
@RobertCop2 I actually just bought NeoGeo Arcade 3 for my Evercade Alpha, partly to try Super Sidekicks.
Never played it before, so that'll be interesting to compare with Three Lions / Alexis Lalas.
Re: The "Hot Coffee" That Never Was - Did Rockstar's Co-Founders Put A Lewd Secret In This PS1 Football Game?
Well I never! 😅
Side note: I used to play this game all the time back in the day. Not what most people would consider a "good" football game, but it tried some ambitious things — the shooting mechanic is a target that moves around the goal and is really difficult to control. You end up getting a lot of 0-0 scorelines as a result, but it's really satisfying when you actually score.
Re: "I Needed Money" - Fatboy Slim Opens Up On The Smurfs Video Game Soundtrack That Never Was
The most surprising thing to me is that he knows "very little about technology" despite having made some of the best dance songs of all time on an Atari ST.
Also, those classic FIFA intros were incredible. Blur, Fatboy Slim, Robbie Williams, Gorillaz... the list goes on.
Re: Welcome To Time Extension
On behalf of Pure Xbox, welcome to the family! 🤗🤗