Guru_Larry

@postnuke No worries bud, let me know if you have any joy. Love to hear the outcome!

@GlamorousAlpaca Can I have one Pls? I never go my copy

Good, you've still yet to send me MY copy!!! And I bought it directly from your site, not through Kickstarter.

Can I recommend looking for a YouTuber called "Sepi"?

He's an Iranian gaming channel, and he's done some great videos on Iran's attempts at trying to make their own console and games over the years!

@Blankfrak It was Project Gotham with Mario Kart mechanics.

Would explain why it got a remaster only a few years later. It didn't meet sales expiations, so they dusted it off and shoved it out the door a second time.

Sony are forever doing this now, most notable The Last of Us Part II.

Blur flopped as Activision did absolutely zero publicity for the game, same with Singularity which they also released at the same time.

But Bizarre was done dirty in general IMO, idiotic enough that Microsoft declined their purchase after the huge success they had with the Project Gotham series, which was probably the IP after Halo which pushed the console into the mainstream.

I've also got a huge box full of their game assets that a fan sent me from an liquidation auction they had.

@AllieKitsune It's weird Namco has this "pretend it never happened" mentality with their older games. Would be nice to see different games from their back catalogue for once other than f'kin Pac-Man over and over.

Victory Run as well, one of the first ever polygonal arcade racers (possibly second) and Namco have bushed it under the carpet.

I can't stand thieves like this, absolute parasites leeching off others hard work.

If I was this guy, I'd literally put my work behind a Patreon pay wall. If these people are going to take your hard work, might as well charge them for the privilege.

Better yet, create a license for it, so you know who is responsible.

I've never even heard of 'Märchen Maze' before. Namco couldn't have been too fond of it, as it never appeared on any of their Namco Museum games to my knowledge.

Where can I buy one?

@postnuke Hmmm, could it be the sword that's the issue? Put your phone camera over it, to see if it's showing any UV light.

@postnuke and you have fresh batteries in it?

There's the infamous "Life's Short" Xbox advert.

@NiXoo9 That's awesome, can you remember what N64 games were playable with it?

You can buy those hotel units nowadays, There's a guy on Facebook who sells the Super Famicom ones quite reasonably.

That's cool, I bought a Nomad many many moons ago that never came with the battery pack, so it was always using the wall plug for me.

But out of curiosity, is there an actual mega jet inside? or ir it a whole new board?

@postnuke Have you tried it in a different room? They might not like the lights you have in that room.

@Damo Oh yeah, I did wonder if Elite or Hewson still count too. But I think Elite wants to sell themselves to Piko.

Glad they're not changing Team17's name, since Codemasters sold themselves to EA, they're one of the last of the British old guard.

In fact, is there anyone else?

They really should have had the accelerator and brake on the floor of the unit.

It's not only more accurate, but would also be more comfortable and stop the unit from sliding about on a table.

Turtles in Time is probably one of the first times a port was superior to the arcade version.

But I'd say games on the Mega Drive like ESWAT and Shadow Dancer are superior if they're classed as "ports".

It's certainly longer than a couple of months, I've not been paid any royalties for over two years!

They also sent me a bank payment of £200 completely out of the blue around October-ish, then asked for it back!

The Cash Converters in Great Yarmouth had an entire bargain bin full of these controllers.

No idea where they came from :S

@JackGYarwood TBH I could like the anime-esque look the SNES version of Aladdin has.

Kinda reminds me of Turbo Toons on the SNES.

@Juga_Juga Wouldn't he be better as King Hippo?

@JackGYarwood Ah, excellent, thank you! Can I msg you on Twitter or are there DMs on here? Save clogging up the comments page

British retro YouTubers who talk about nostalgia for the NES, like we all grew up with it were clearly infected by American channels.

The NES was literally a rich kid's toy in the UK, an overpriced console with overpriced games, mainly thanks to Mattel completely arsing up the deal and essentially handing the entire console market to Sega.

There's a few games that are ownership no man's land I can think of, "No One Lives Forever" being one off the top of my head.

@nocdaes Thanks, it's really the PS1/Saturn version in particular, but thank you for your help still

Hey Jack, did you do any research on FIFA 96 at all? There's some info on it I've been looking everywhere for, but I just can't seem to find a copy. >.>

Could it have been intended for the "stop and swop" concept?

Which was a bit of a dumb idea, considering the console also used memory cards!

@slider1983 Yeah, I remember seeing a car repair company years ago online still using Amigas.

I think I've even seen a few places still use an Apple 2.

@slider1983 Yeah, loved Probe!

Sega has great IP's, but they've done precisely fcuk all with them since the death of the Dreamcast.

Yes, there's been some great games in recent years using Sega IP's, but they're all licensed out and wouldn't exist if it wasn't for passionate fans doing something with them.

All Sega have done is Sonic, Football Manager, Sonic, Sonic, Yakuza, and more Sonic. While quietly brushing utter dumpster fires like Hyneas under the carpet.

@jimmytodgers It'll probably be how we view how casual everyone was with asbestos years ago.

The Switch port of Virtua Racing was originally meant to be on the 4th volume of Sega 3D Ages.

Probe Software made the Viz game too! Who also developed games like the Mega Drive/Genesis port of Mortal Kombat 1 and 2, and later games on the PS1 like Die Hard Trilogy and Alien Trilogy!

Question though, how do you use it if you play the steamdeck docked?

But interesting device, Kinda reminds me of Datel's external mini hard drive for the PSP, a whopping 4gb of memory for only £170!!!

1> SNK Evercade carts bundled with a Neo Geo Joystick/Pad.

2> A replica AES console with Evercade VS guts.

3> Evercade Alpha painted in MVS arcade colours and Neo Geo button layout.

It's kinda cool, but considering the SNES and the Mega Drive had re-branded ports back in the day, is it really that impressive?

There's gameplay of an extremely early version of WipeOut in the Angela Jolie movie, Hackers.

@slider1983 Is it even possible to buy them outside of their website, when they're not out of stock?

@NewBond the remaster of Horizon Zero Dawn had loads of extra people/traffic added to the city hubs in the game!

@Fallingshadow when did you order?

How about actually getting their Tomb Raider Evercade VS consoles out to Amazon???

My order has been delayed for nearly five months now!

I bought this game with my holiday money one year, It was such a huge disappointment, considering how Sega managed to stike gold first time with Castle of Illusion, and they follow it up with this tripe.

This enhancement feels like "what if Sega released a Mega CD version of Fantasia?".

Amazing how Infogrammes got away with this mess for years, did they EVER make anything decent in this generation?

@profkross I'm trying to gather evidence for a video, but from what I gather it's a personal grudge from one of the heads, after they dicked him around over a super cheap copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga he wanted to buy! (not a joke)

@NewBond Yeah, I remember them saying in interviews they wanted to make the actual city the main character of the game (if that makes sense).

But the only real difference really is it's missing a couple of side streets/back alleys, and the game makes London look far far cleaner and far less traffic than it actually does/is.

I absolutely loved The Getaway, the city was such a close approximation of London, I actually used to use it like a TomTom/Google Street View to plan some business trips I had there back in the day.

I am honestly surprised we've not had a remake/remaster of this game, considering it's Sony's first ever cinematic game. Ant it would be nice of them to remaster a game that isn't three years old for once.

But, note all the CEX stores are boarded up in the game, no fake replacement, literally boarded up as Studio London despised them.