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I'm holding out for the physical version, but I agree - this makes me even more excited to play NSG!

I never heard of Mr. Girvin before reading this, and now I realize he's something of a hero to me. I have adored the NES, SNES, and Game Boy packaging since I was a kid. Knowing so much of it came from the mind of a design expert and his team makes it even more meaningful!

@Themilkman thank you so much for sharing this. It brought me to tears. I am glad to know you had a chance to say goodbye. I lost a dear friend and mentor recently and we hadn't spoken it a while, and it still haunts me.

I hope you're able to finish your book on Itagaki-san. I've long thought of him as the rockstar of Japanese auteur game developers. I love his games, especially DoA 4 and Ninja Gaiden II, and I hope your efforts can help more Western gamers learn about this industry legend.

I played Donkey Kong Jr. Math for the first time only recently, after it arrived on the Nintendo Switch NES Classics app. It's pretty terrible!

Where's the guy who always vigorously defends generative AI as a "tool" in the comments of these Time Extension posts? Must be busy playing WANUS, I guess

I've recently been playing Joy Mech Fight on my Nintendo Switch. It's pretty good, and impressive for a Famicom game! A bit long, though.

I am completely floored. What an achievement! I never thought I'd see a SEGA X Board game running on a C64.

Coming soon, a Street Fighter 6 crossover with the 1995 PC Engine Super CD-ROM2 all-female time traveler space shooter, Ginga Fukei Densetsu: Sapphire

Missed opportunity to name him Sal Desunee.

@PZT that makes sense, and I doubt Konami wants to spend the $$$ to port it again, which is a shame, but who knows! It might be time for a full remake anyway, though I personally would hate to see the game in anything but the 32-bit pixel style.

I love these games so much. I really wish they'd get ported to Nintendo Switch / 2, but I thoroughly enjoyed the PlayStation 4 version.

I am one of the lucky few to have received a Virtual Boy as a gift the year it came out, and I still have it (and it works, though I had to have it "refurbished" by an expert). I can attest that, yes, as a 15-year-old, I did prefer to play while lying on my back, with the unit resting on my face. No, it wasn't comfortable, but it was much better than the horrible neck / back strain caused by trying to play it as intended, on a tabletop.

I did experience some mild eye strain back then, but I still enjoyed it to some degree. The last time I tried using it, about a year ago, I got a headache almost immediately, and the eye strain was so severe I had to stop after about five minutes.

Still, I am a Virtual Boy sicko and I will be purchasing the Nintendo Switch VB dock thing ASAP and look forward to wrecking my 45-year-old neck, back, and eyes further in February 2026.

I LOVE the aesthetic here. Hope this is a success, and comes to consoles too

I spent a couple dozen hours doing much the same in Super Mario Maker 2, and I was quite pleased with the result.

Another great backstory I never knew about an interesting game! This is why I visit Time Extension every day.

It would be fun to see Tekken Advance come to the Nintendo Classics line on Nintendo Switch. I think only three Tekken games ever came to Nintendo platforms; this, Tekken 3D on Nintendo 3DS, and Tekken Tag Tournament 2: Wii U Edition.

Wait wait WAIT. Bubsy indirectly led to Syphon Filter??!? I never heard this!!! @Damo I would really love to see a feature on this in the future!

I just recently picked up Gimmick! SE on my Nintendo Switch. The soundtrack is absolutely superb. I am happy to know he was aware that his work was finally getting the recognition it deserved before his passing.

@NatiaAdamo oh! I didn't know that... if they're going for authenticity, then bring on the weird grammar lol

Packaging with phrases like "BRING A REAL VECTREX AT HOME" and "MINI ARCADE PLAY HOME" does not inspire much confidence.

The "16-bit trilogy" of Super Castlevania IV, Bloodlines, and Rondo of Blood are among my favorite games. I cannot choose a favorite from among those three; all are equally-great and unique to me!

Next time: BBC marks the 25th anniversary of PlayStation 2 in Europe with a Dreamcast taped to a Nintendo 64 that has a PSP sticking out of its cartridge slot

Crossover DLC in both games seems inevitable at this point, and I am absolutely here for it

@PKDuckman true. I have Silpheed and Zanac. Loved Silpheed in spite of its 15fps performance. Zanac is good but the lack of sound effects is not great in a shoot-'em-up.

@LinktotheFuture EGGCONSOLE is a series of games for 1980s Japanese home computers, like the MSX2 and the PC-88 series, emulated on Nintendo Switch. I have a couple of them and they're very interesting, but definitely show their age. Most don't have English translations, so they can be tough to play if you can't read Japanese.

I backed this on Kickstarter and was sad for years about its apparent abandonment / cancelation. We'll never get to play it in any form unless someone leaks the build (if it even exists)

I really like the look of this one! Looking forward to future updates...

We truly live in the worst timeline.

It's like the old joke about the British guy who tells a friend he took his wife to a large Caribbean island.

The friend asks, "Jamaica?"

The Brit replies, "Nah mate, she came of her own accord"

(See also: Led Zeppelin song title D'yer Mak'er)

Ohhhh, this hurts. I've bought a number of items from RCG over the years.

(clears throat) The current geopolitical situation with respect to international import / export costs must surely be to blame, at least in part. Sigh

"All the bells and whistles" except for "being a finished product you can buy" and "playing games for the largest region with the most manufactured cartridges."

I jest. It looks extremely cool. I wish this was something a manufacturer could create.

I would love to see an adaptation of Duke Nukem that both preserves the 1990s edgy misogyny and also puts it in a modern context, where the humor is that Duke is basically a big dork and he keeps getting in trouble for it.

Also Jon St. John absolutely, positively must voice Duke. Anyone else and it's not Duke Nukem.

Reminder that Dig Dug has some truly out-there official, canon lore, including that the main character from the original game, Taizo Hori, is the divorced father of Susumu Hori, the player character from Mr. Driller.

In this week's Retro XP newsletter, Marc Normandin writes about Solar Assault, the 3D Gradius spinoff Konami released for arcades in 1997. I really hope Hamster will be adding this to the future list of Arcade Archives 2 releases. It certainly holds up better than some of this early 1980s stuff like Strategy X.

As an American, I feel like UK gaming history took place in an alternate timeline where everyone is nostalgic for the Zed Ecks Speccy's astonishing ability to display up to three colours and play legendary games with titles like Biggums Goes to Rhodesia and Alistair the Badger's Adventures in a Car Park

I have a hunch they'll work with Limited Run or someone like that to produce a console-compatible trackball controller.

Worth mentioning Mr. Simpson is one of the designers of the Commander X16, a Commodore-inspired DIY / hobby microcomputer he helped create with fellow YouTuber The 8-Bit Guy. The original backers got theirs a couple of years ago, but as far as I can tell it's no longer available for purchase.

One of my elementary school friends had an Atari ST at home, and I was regularly invited to visit and play games on it. He only had a few titles: Star Raiders, Buggy Boy, and Time Bandit. I had never played games on anything other than my NES at the time, and I was enthralled by the superior graphics and gameplay on just those three games.

I remain very fond of the system's keyboard-and-case design, especially those rhombus-shaped function keys, and the charming Windows-like OS with a "busy bee" replacing the mouse cursor whenever it needed a moment to launch something.

@Damo I just want to know where you got that GOREGOUS custom GBA shell and what I assume is an IPS screen

@Quick_Man came here to say the same thing. What a bizarre and unfortunate choice.

Get in the robot, Shinji!

The relentless pursuit of pachinko ruined Konami. Hopefully this is the start of a return to the development of quality games for people who don't find entertainment in staring at ball bearings bouncing around under glass.

That's great. Meanwhile, I am still waiting on my orders of Eschatos, Steel Empire Chronicles, and Puzzle Bobble: Everybubble! from Strictly Limited. It will be TWO YEARS and counting as of next month on the first two games.

I have the original Defender model and I love it. Best PS2 / PS3 controller I've ever used.

If anyone at Hamster reads this, PLEASE work with Taito to resurrect this lost classic!

The visuals remind this old-timer of the "Macventure" point-and-click dungeon crawlers on the original monochrome Apple Macintosh computers, like Shadowgate and Deja Vu. I quite like it!

"Limited Run Games will be handling the distribution of physical copies of Earth."

Great, now they're selling copies of entire planets. When will it end? xD

I guess it dovetails nicely into the release of Ridge Racer on NS2 (and maybe PS5?) on June 5.

Lest we forget the first huge RPG hit in Japan was The Black Onyx, developed by Henk Rogers. (Though he was living in Japan at the time, so was it a Japanese game?)

I'm a sucker for this sort of thing, especially since Windows 3.11 was the OS on my first PC. Now I just want Windows 95 for Nintendo 64 xD

@Kushan I was a teenager when Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov and I remember it being huge international news. It's astonishing that almost 30 years later we have more powerful chess engines running on hardware that costs a few hundred dollars