Guru_Larry

I thought Monster Max was the sequel to Head over Heels?

@Lordplops You just had to wish out loud, didn't you???

It does look cool, and a great premise. But the Mega Drive pad is pretty terrible for top-down shooters. (probably THE worst of any console for this genre) At least the SNES controller's layout could emulate twin sticks.

Other modern retro games like Xeno Crisis on the MD had this issue too.

It's like bringing out a console FPS in 2026, then making you use the shoulder buttons to strafe again. You've spent the past 25+ years hard-wiring your brain to a more modern control system.

(And yes, I can see the irony of the infamous IGN PS1 Alien Resurrection review there )

@Sketcz Considering memory space isn't an issue in this day and age, I'd imagine It's more an artistic oversight.
The only way to have it physically correct would be having the character walk around holding the gun with both hands.

But, that wouldn't look as badass.

Surprised NiGHTS is coming back, the sequel was so poorly received it killed the franchise.

But need more Alex Kidd/Wonder Boy.

@slider1983 It was a US copy I found in Watford Market

Wasn't Street Smart SNK's final ever game before moving over to Neo Geo hardware?

But I got it on the Mega Drive back in the day... Yeah.

I always confused this game with IO Interactive's "Mini Ninjas" back in the day.

@NoirConceit Unfortunately, its all true.

From what I've seen, the C64 Ultimate has been an utter dumpster fire from start to finish.

Bad enough that customers have had their machines arrive completely cracked from shoddy design builds. cheap screws threading, The space bar snapping off, random keys stop working, forcing the user to re-solder the board, and complaints that the entire computer will just permanently die out of nowhere.

But now Commodore wants to take their ball and go home, so no one can fix their god awful firmware.

This is almost as bad as the Spectrum Vega Plus.

For all the bashing Final Fight Revenge gets, it does hold one accolade... It was the first ever video game to have a playable trans character!

Also, good luck finding an ST-V cart of the game, it goes for insane money now!!!

So it's Prince of Persia now.

@Fake-news There's repros available now. I have a repro of Neo Turf Masters and Windjammers, you wouldn't know the difference!

I hope they use the same quality of plastic as the original too, every repro of the Neo Geo joystick has always cheapened out on plastic, and they always feel tacky in comparison.

@BLAZINOAH Ah wow, amazing how quickly time flies by!

I hope there's an interview with Dave Perry in it, he's the inspiration for Billy Kane after all!

Wasn't there another game not to long ago that used an emulator, that specifically stated "not for commercial use"?

It might have been a console even.

@benjaminer Aah, The infamous "Capcom 5" where only 4 were ever released (Dead Phoenix was cancelled) and three of the remaining four were eventually ported to other systems (P.N.03 remained the only actual exclusive)

Even Microsoft kept their Capcom exclusives exclusive, like Dino Crisis 3 and Dead Rising 3. Well, except Lost Planet.

But Resident Evil 4 has been the worse "exclusive" in gaming history. The Xbox Series X/PS5 have TWO ports of it, the PC has THREE!!!

They're my favourite retro porting developer by a mile.

Then again, with completion from the likes of Aspyr, they don't really have anything to worry about.

I was going to say Digital Eclipse are starting to catch up, but that Mortal Kombat collection wasn't great.

I don't think he knows too much about modern PCs either.

That's the first housing I've seen with Disc Drives on the front in well over a decade!

AND No USB ports!?!?!

Fantastic choice! Wood is renowned for its heat dissipating properties!!!

M2 has always loved Marble Madness. The Mega Drive port was M2's first ever game they worked on, they even tried to re-release it as the game's ROM is still hidden in the game files of the Mega Drive Mini.

They also tried to make their own sequel, TAMA on the Saturn and PS1. (It technically could have been officially too, as Time Warner published TAMA, who were Tengen/Atari rebranded)

I still feel the scars from the TOMMO version a decade ago.

@BuhBuhBuhBanned They're Japanese, they'll never make what YOU want!

@Robocod Oh, the Deathly Shallows game? I think I had a chat with him about it back in the day.

Seicross looks like what happens when a Deliveroo and a Just Eat rider meet each other on the road

I bought a job lot of 100 random Japanese PS1 games off eBay a few years ago, and literally 10 of them were copies of Aquanauts Holiday!

Also had a copy of Final Fantasy VIII, but the third disc was a bootleg japanise copy of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith!

I really can't help thinking these companies are REALLY scraping the bottom of the barrel for remakes nowadays.

There was a third Impossible: Mission released on the Amiga and PS2.

This is almost as bad as Taito constantly forgetting they already made a Chase HQ 2.

@Robocod a couple of games were originally pitched to be James Bond titles. The arcade games Sly Spy: Secret Agent, and Thunderjaws certainly were.

@slider1983 I thought Amazon owned the rights now? :S

Who'd have thunk, the ludicrous prices NES games were, kids didn't want to spend their Birthday/Christmas money on an education game!!!

Good job you didn't port the Popeye spelling game then!

@Hexapus If you like Sega Saturn, Shiro! You should definitely check out "Pandemonium" on YouTube, he works with them quite often and makes phenomenal in-depth videos on Sega Saturn releases.

@PKDuckman Indeed, a lot of these licenses Konami picked up were US based.

I can't even think of any Japanese licenses they did over the years.

I was wondering why I was seeing so many Jak videos on YouTube all of a sudden!

@bring_on_branstons AAh, thanks!

Was there no Super Goal 1 released in the west on the SNES, as Nintendo picked it up and turned it into Super Soccer?

@AllieKitsune That probably won't happen unless they go for re-releasing Sega's more well known games.

@PKDuckman What I meant really, the repurposed the premise for a licensed game. Like with Sunset Riders/Wild West CowBoys of Moo Mesa.

@Profchaos It looked more like a paper label on the cart too, which felt more authentic.

The Virtual Boy flash cart had a similar feature, but that used an e-Ink display.

@Damo Aah, I see it now, just so used to previous models orientating it from the other side of the screen!

@Martin_H Aah, I don't see the Tate buttons now, or am I missing something?

Surely, Sonic Labyrinth still holds the record for slowest Sonic game? 😜

Are they scrapping the Tate mode with the Nexus?

@ihaveallthecoins It'll probably a side mod, like the Analogue Pocket again.

There's already been one side mod, the feature to add labels to the on-screen carts.

The ultimate update will be when you can forgo the flash carts entirely, and use the in-built Micro SD card slot to play games.

Just like with the Analogue Pocket.

Zuiki's biggest issues are the ridiculously expensive asking prices for their hardware, and for the West, that none of their titles are translated. They've not even approached fan subbers for their ROMs.

I played Equinox recently, it was way ahead of it's time, it was a clear evolution of the isometric platformer, that even modern games like Lumo feel archaic to in comparison.

Software Creations, when they were left to create original titles, were absolute masters, more so when the Pickfords were involved.

But Software Creations only ever made ONE arcade port for Acclaim, Revolution X.

I had a good old chat with David Liu a few weeks ago coincidentally, Lovely guy!