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@Sketcz Thanking you kindly Sir , alas, I had nothing to do with the article itself. In fact, I didn't even get to read it until I bought the issue three months later.

I always got the feeling Edge wanted to be more an industry trade magazine, even though MCN exists for that purpose, so were trying to be more cold than other gaming magazines.

@Damo That's the one, yeah. That's awesome you have that issue too!

If you look at the same image in the article itself, you should see my name lightly written on his hand.

I was also going to take over from Wil Overton on doing the covers for N64/NGC GameCube Magazine when he left to work for Rare, but they suddenly had a change of policy to only use official art on all magazines from then on >.>

But I am getting back into doing manga/anime art this year, I really miss it.

@James-Bond That's the one!!!

@JJtheTexan You won't believe what number 3 is!!! Mindblowing!!!

Fun Fact: I drew the cover for the April 2003 issue.

I feel the massive rise in popularity of FPSes in the mid/late '90s really pushed focus to the West, whereas the US and UK excelled at making FPSes, the Japanese absolutely suck balls.

Clickbaiting dude...

The Forgotten Sony Handheld you never knew existed!!!

@DoorToMundane That's the one, Stop, Drop and Retro did an amazing video of it on YouTube many years ago.

@MojaMojaKumaSan Aw, bless you Sir, Thanking you kindly! ^_^

@Slackshoe So, one of the SNES games?

When "Fable: The Journey" was revealed at Microsoft's E3 event, and the entire audience was absolutely dead silent straight afterward.

@DoorToMundane You thought the VCS Kickstarter was bad, did you see the one they did before with the Atari Watch???

This isn't 1982 any more,
no one in this day and age gives that much of a sh1t about Atari to want to stay at a Atari themed hotel.

Croc 2 remastered!!!

@Martin_H Or it could be Dave Perry the Norwich/Great Yarmouth Puppet man!

Look him up on YouTube

@Robocod I didn't like what they did with the Monster World IV remake, they gave it that low poly appearance, which made it look like they just ported over an old mobile phone game.

But, the Japanese love doing that, even on high profile titles like The Secret of Mana and Klonoa.

@MisterStu Billy Kane is a marketing manager, he's not a journalist.

@Martin_H Well... Billy Kane wears a bandana and a leather jacket, and isn't a 7ft tall Irishman, so..

Dave Perry once told me Billy Kane from Fatal Fury is based on him.

@Robocod That remake of GODS was infamous for that horrible airbrushed/gradient look.

It would be interesting to know which Smurfs game his music was intended for.

There were two Smurfs games released on the PS1, one a platformer, the other a kart racer, and neither use music fitting to his style.

@Johnny_Arthur Brosnan said he'd like to come back some day as a retired Bond.

That might be a good movie concept!

@The_Nintendo_Expat Driv3r

such a shame these have never been put on the switch, if nintendo are happy to let third parties publish the arcade version of super mario on the system, why not these?

also hotel mario.

They really nailed that early '90s synth redbook music!

But hopefully they do actually complete it, and it's not another of those overly encaustic Sonic 2 HD remakes.

@cawley1 Lizardcube's Wonderboy II remake was astounding, you could even have both the original and new graphics on screen at the same time! They also added some additional areas not in the original.

What did you think of the remake of Toki? Which went for a totally stylized new look, took them over a decade to complete.

@MysticWangForce One of those game you'll forget existed until you come across a steam code on some key site for 10p in a decades time.

Literally how I found the HD version of Superfrog, even though it had be delisted from Steam years ago

@Zenszulu I hope they weren't "inspired" by the DS's box art, please no!!!

The Artwork looks rather soulless, that typical minimum effort vector gradient style.

But, it's the same looking schlock you've been seeing in these lower effort "remakes" since the PS3 days. Such a shame as it would have looked amazing if it used the original chibi anime promotional artwork as inspiration.

(But, what would I know )

I'd have thought on the British side, Sheffield would have a HUGE head start on the UK side of the industry, considering pretty much all the American museums have completely glazed over UK culture and seem to believe video games were only ever created in the US and Japan.

Heck, my storage locker has a more complete archive than US museums.

@GodlessPreservation Sephiroth? But, we could have had Lara Croft and Adam Jennsen, if Square hadn't sold the license to bank on NFT's, lol.

And for Taito... Rastan? The Cops from Chase HQ, they had their own Rolling Thunder esque game once.

Didn't someone make a Capcom Vs. Kelloggs game once?

I can see why Fincher didn't want it made. Vivendi clearly missed the point about the entire movie, just assumed it was a movie about fighting.

It's like buying the rights to Chariots of Fire, and making a game set in Rome where you race conflagrant horse-drawn carriages.

It was rebranded to Gizmondo, as there there was a PS2 controller system called the Gametrac already trademarked. (that thing with gloves attached to elastic pulleys, so you could punch Etc)

They "lent" me one to review when I was on TV, but I took so long getting a video out for it, by the time I had they had gone bust, so I kept it.

Also the "with ads" one was weird, I bought a with ads model about a year later as they were going for pennies then, and never once saw a single advert on it.

@ZenoEvil Yeah, Dragon's Trap itself only ever came out on the Game Gear in Japan, they never released the Master System port there.

@Eocene84 They should be doing that already, and if they're currently suing them, and it turns out they don't have any rights, they'd be committing perjury.

@ZenoEvil a recap of the final level of the previous game?

@Daniel36 Interesting, so they're nothing to do with maps being randomly generated?

@The_Nintendo_Expat Wouldn't "Single Screen Platformers" also qualify games like Donkey Kong, Lode Runner & Solomon's Key though? Even 3D stuff like Blast Chamber.

Arena Platformers are like 2D horde modes, you need to eliminate all the enemies before moving on.

@RZ-Atom Ah wow, was that just for a digital copy on the Wii U? I think I got it on Steam in a sale.

I like it, but it's not Road Rash to me. Then again, stuff like Jailbreak was veering quite away from Road Rash too.

@sdelfin Indeed, either it is, or it isn't. You can't have a "sort of" claim. There needs to be a better title for the genre.

And now Netflix owns the Warner Bros. share!

@RZ-Atom Sweet, did you get one of the characters named after you with your pledge?

Ah, I Just felt way too focused on the combat side, rather than the racing/avoiding traffic element.

@Grackler What is a Man? A Miserable pile of last Metroids in Captivity.

@Daniel36 So that's the difference between a Rogue-Like and a Rogue-Lite?

The most recent genre title I've heard is for games like Bubble Bobble/Snow Bros. Etc. Arena Platformers.

Let's hope it's better than "Road Redemption" which claimed to be the spiritual successor to Road Rash too, but completely missed the point.

I also hope the unfinished PS2 Road Rash Criterion we're working on sees the light of day someday.

Cheers for the tweet embed Damo!!!

@slider1983 They're always the default "younger brother/friend comes over" controller for them to use, while you have the good one

@slider1983 That must have been pure Hell!!!

It's a silly term anyway, Metroid established the concept long before Symphony of the Night existed, so why is it getting a credit for its creation in the first place?

Even Metroid wasn't the first to create the genre, just make it popular. Then again, we called FPSes "Doom Clones" and Sandbox games "GTA Clones" for years.

"Survival Horror" is also a head scratcher, So there's horror games where the goal is not to survive?