Guru_Larry

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!

Isn't this just a prototype, or non copyright infringing version of their GI Joe arcade game?

Then again, you could say the same with Wild West CowBoys of Moo Mesa/Sunset Riders. and their numerous beat em ups.

@slider1983 Oh, I didn't mean a collection, I meant a full on remake, using actual artwork/animation of the characters. Sort of like the DuckTales remake.

@HammerGalladeBro Yeah, they billed me for Switch copies of Blaster Master Zero 1 and 2, as well as some other game. :S

Worst thing was I HAD made an pre-order, which I imagine went to someone else, and when I asked for the stuff I had ordered, they said no, it was out of stock.

So, Not only was I billed for someone elses stuff, they gave my games to another person, and also doxxed me to them on the attached bill. That royally p****d me off about the company. Absolute clown shoes.

@Zeebor15 It's Butasan,

I've NEVER heard it called "Pigs & Bombers" before. It was called "Psycho Pigs U.X.B." on UK home ports, but Pigs and Bombers is probably THE most creatively bankrupt name you could have for the game.

It's not even a translation of Butasan, Butasan Is a Japanese Pun, "Buta" means Pig, as well as making a hole, so Butasan means "Mr. Pig/Hole Puncher".

But, it's essentially Bomberman without walls.

@Agent_P Well, you could buy the Evercade cart if you want to be legit.

But Aspyr are renown for being terrible with how broken their "remasters" are.

Any movie that casts Dexter Fletcher has to be a good one.

Especially the fact he played a "pinkie" pig monster thing in it

@Fallingshadow skins are alright for multiplayer games, give some variety. But single player, it just removes the atmosphere.

The new outfits are bizarre too, why not at least include the 2013 Tomb Raider outfit Etc.?

Well, if ignoring tickets and charging me for other people's orders is "trust", then they're extremely liberal with the term.

I'm honestly surprised we might be getting a Hit & Run remake before Bart Vs. The Space Mutants.

I'd have thought someone would have been on that back in the PS3/360 era.

@GordonBennet You can also do a pretty simple HDMI mod which gets rid of the fuzzyness entirely!

I wish there was an option to remove the grainyness in the graphical menu, I'm all for options to having it as authentic as possible, but it looks like complete arse on a 4K screen.

In hindsight, it was a bit pointless releasing an upgrade for the Saturn so late in the day when the Dreamcast was just around the corner.

Obviously they learned their lesson from the 32X.

What I said in your original article, rather than them remaking the game using the original artwork as it's inspiration (which I would have done if I had the rights)

They've made something that looks like something a kid made on Newgrounds in the early 2000's. That awful, souless overly airbrushed vector gradient artwork that the PS3 remake of GODS had, and that was released over a decade ago.

Awesome, the Retsuprae boys were working on a translation about 2009, but they've been quiet for years on theirs.

@slider1983 Interesting, so I can burn it to a floppy and have copy 51!

Well, it's not the first time Customs has destroyed a rare game, I think last year, they smashed open a graded Pokémon game, and tore the box apart.

That floppy disk had no writing on it, no label, nothing. So there's nothing actually "unique" to make it valuable other than the data on it.

So it could be easily replicated if one of the 49 other owners are willing to send the data. If it's not already online. And no one would ever be the wiser if he used old stock floppies to burn it to.

Are these new records, or the original records from 2001?

@AceGrace Nice, Can you still use it?

Did they just nick the retooling casts for the Gamestick or something?

My CEX was their original prototype, they had a market stall at Wembley Market in the mid '80s/early '90s. I used to buy Amstrad games from them! Then later on Master System and then import Mega Drive/SNES games.

Also found out recently that their HQ was literally next door to where I took my driving theory test a few years ago. You'd never know from the outside.

Is that Apollo Smile voicing her too? The original VA for Ulala.

It really reminds me of Psygnosis' Ecstatica.
Probably the art style.

I'd imagine the next step would be having wi-fi on the card and the memory card accessing a cloud based saving system.

Of course Sony won't give us a new WipeOut, they'd rather blow $400 Million on a live service game no one liked, nor asked for.

God forbid they'd give us a new instalment of a franchise they've hoarded over the past 30 years. What they did with Lemmings was downright criminal.

Feels like something you'd get on a Mastertronic budget tape from John Menzies

@turboxray Americans thought it was a good compromise.

But I never knew the difference as a kid either.

@Arcadia_Official The season John was on was filmed in 1998.

Best of luck John, hopefully someone out there still has a copy

Konami's only ever translated FOUR of the THIRTY-FIVE Goemon games into English (Five if you count the unreleased PS2 game, but that was Working Designs) So I doubt we'll be seeing this any time soon.

Also, two of those four are Nintendo 64 games, which aren't even in the collection >.>

American English just sounds so wrong in ANY medieval themed anything.

What irked me about Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom. While the Hylians (mostly) had the stereotypical plum British accent, the other tribes really should have had Scottish/Welsh/Irish. And considering how popular Game of Thrones was at the time, I'm honestly surprised they didn't go for that.

But I remember hearing in the '80s, a lot of cartoons would hire Canadian voice actors as an inbetween the American/British accents.

You must be one genius of a driver, you gotta teach me!!!

The music is pretty banging', but other than that, it kinda feels like a beta version of Chase HQ.

Now, hopefully they'll actually release Chase HQ soon, as they've never released it on anything since Taito Legends on the PS2, and even that was an exclusive on the Japanese version.

I've always been curious if Red Alarm was ever meant to be a Starfox game at some point.

@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.