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@PKDuckman that would be Gearbox Software.

Marc Normandin's column this week takes a deep dive into Carbuncle and its unique place in gaming history. I highly recommend a read (and subscribing to his free Retro XP newsletter) if this interests you.

https://retroxp.beehiiv.com/p/past-meets-present-carbuncle-pi

Wow! I absolutely love Breakout, Arkanoid, and other ball-and-paddle games, yet I had no idea Quester even existed. I'll be downloading this for sure!

Let us also remember Edge and its publisher legally body-slammed notorious patent / trademark troll Tim Langdell, the guy who tried to sue every game developer that used the word "Edge" in its title.

@Guru_Larry new video idea? "Five Times a Failed Console Was Actually Successful"

@no_donatello I did notice that! I was surprised the PS3 sold nearly a billion software units. Fantastic attach rate, vs. the PSP which was only around 4.4 per console sold.

@Damo where do you get the 82 million sold figure? Sony itself says the PSP only sold about 76 million units:

https://sonyinteractive.com/en/our-company/business-data-sales/

They don't even list the Vita. Like it never existed.

Can someone please explain this to me, a gaming tech dummy, in plain language? Is this a hardware mod that somehow increases FPS performance on games like Bayonetta or Crysis?

This is an excellent assessment. How much more successful would the 3DS have been if it launched as the 2DS (or DS2 or whatever) - no cameras, no 3D, simpler form factor - at a lower introductory price?

A larger model for bigger hands (or a built-in right thumbstick) could have come down a little later, as the console became more established.

The 3DS was not a failure, but it could have been a bigger success at a time Nintendo really needed one.

@GhaleonUnlimited it's thoroughly thrashing me! I just can't wrap my 45-year-old brain around how to make the shadow Ryu guys work for me, and I keep getting tripped up by respawning enemies.

Boss fights are shockingly easy, though

@Zenszulu I remember that! It was the first thing I thought of when I saw this post. What happened to the TV-dependent N64 clone they announced years ago? I assumed they ran into difficulties with the software emulator they wanted to use and gave up.

I recently started a playthrough of Ninja Gaiden II (NES) and that game could easily be a Community Challenge entirely on its own. It makes the first Ninja Gaiden NES game feel like Super Mario Bros.

If someone is dumb enough to pay WATA to "grade" and seal their games / consoles, so be it. If someone else is dumb enough to pay money for a "graded" game or console, fine. It's their perogative, and you know what they say about a fool and his money.

I have a sealed New Nintendo 2DS, which I bought on clearance at Walmart for $99 U.S., knowing full well it would be worth considerably more in just a few years but mostly because I wanted a backup in case my old daily driver 3DS failed. I was torn about ever opening it in case I wanted to sell it someday, but it's getting to the point where I need to just crack open the box because that battery isn't going to last forever.

I hate to admit it, but after nearly 40 years of collecting, I am pretty much bowing out. It's gotten too expensive, and I just don't have room to keep hundreds of games I may play only once every few years (if at all). I sold a chunk of my collection last year, and plan to gradually unload more this year.

Of course, I will hang on to stuff that has strong sentimental value, like my original NES I've had since 1988, my CIB copy of The Legend of Zelda, etc.

I bought a New Nintendo 2DS XL on clearance at Walmart for $100 US in 2019, I think? I have kept it sealed in its box in case I ever need to cash out. I imagine it's more likely I'll end up using it, since my longtime New Nintendo 3DS XL needs repair to its B button and C stick.

It's remarkable that none of the Pushmo / Crashmo games has come to Nintendo Switch or NS2 yet. Surely porting the Wii U game wouldn't be too difficult.

@PinballAficionado I'd never heard of Vertexer before you mentioned it! Kind of looks like F-Zero meets OutRun. I'd love to play it!

"Objection!" is a solid track, but my favorite will always be "Pressing Pursuit - Cornered!" Its intensity reminds me of Yuzo Koshiro's "Go Straight."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxnvGDK0WGM

Today I learned!

I had a Quickshot when I was a kid! It totally sucked!!!

That's a pity. Terrible news for everyone losing their jobs.

I love the Arcade 1Up concept, but I could never come up with the physical space nor the financial justification to buy one. I have other ways of playing every game they've ever released.

Hamster has mostly released titles from Taito, Namco, Konami, Tecmo, and a number of small / extinct publishers. My guess is Tekken or that 3D Gradius spinoff

@PKDuckman thanks! Not a terrible list at all

This gives me a tiny sliver of hope to someday see the fantastic MSX2 title Pleasure Hearts ported to modern platforms. I played it on real hardware at a retro PC exhibition years ago, and I couldn't put it down. I think the person who designed it went on to create Judgment Silversword

An FPS dungeon-crawler RPG, set in the Dusk universe with a Quake II-esque aesthetic? Sign me UP

This game looks great! I can definitely see the Uridium influence. I'll pick this up on Nintendo Switch 2 whenever it comes out there.

@TheAdza Game Sack is easily my favorite retro game YouTube channel. His videos come out every other Sunday at midnight U.S. Mountain Time (can you tell I am a regular viewer?)

Definitely worth going back into his past videos if you need something to watch!

That is a FAST translation. Cheers to Aeon Genesis!

Unfortunate but not entirely surprising the game would include the ghost of You-Know-Who as a gag character. Seems he shows up in a number of Japanese games from that era. Bionic Commando comes to mind.

@Blast16 I'm a big Space Invaders nerd and I was lucky enough to get that limited print Invincible Collection at the time. It still seems like an odd exclusion from the earlier Taito Milestones, though. Space Invaders is THE Taito game!

I first played this in the SNK 40th collection. It's very unique as scrolling shooters go, and quite challenging. Tough to recommend on its own, though.

Lots of great Taito arcade games that could be included in a fourth collection. Some I'd like to see:

• Space Invaders (somehow absent from all the earlier Milestones games)
• Space Invaders Part II
• Birdie King
• Jungle Hunt
• Qix II: Tournament
• Return of the Invaders
• Empire City: 1931
• Arkanoid
• Slap Fight
• Darius
• Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh
• Chase H.Q.
• Kurikinton
• Cameltry

I wish I grew up in an alternate reality wherein I had an OutRun cabinet at home.

Let's Go Away is one of my all-time favorite tracks. What a great story!

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Oh gods it looks so awful and yet I absolutely love it and want to play it

Acclaim is a cancer on the history of console gaming. This, stealing NBA Jam from Midway, a laundry list of terrible games

This is a really great review, but I want to shout out whoever designed the "comparison tool" - that is some GREAT work right there! I loved playing with it.

Beyond heartbreaking. I am glad she is at peace. An absolute legend of the gaming industry, and I hope the Time Extension team will provide an obituary that does her justice.

The smallest Nintendo Switch Game Card capacity is 1GB.
You could fit the entire NES and Game Boy library and still have enough room to fit more than half of all Genesis games.
$40 U.S. for a Game Card with < 5MB of data is a bridge too far. Maybe if it included, say, the entire Toaplan collection. But this is just absurd

What are the Medabots games like? Sort of a "we have Pokemon at home" knockoff?

Most people don't know this, but I too was in negotiations with Capcom to get exclusive rights to the home console port of Street Fighter II at my house.

I can't think of a single Acclaim original IP. I always thought of them as a licensed slop factory that also did some pretty decent ports of Midway arcade games.

I confused Motoyama-san with Yukio Sawada, creator of Super Mario-kun. I'm a little surprised to learn there were two Super Mario manga.

At any rate, I'm sorry to hear Motoyama-san is no longer with us. At least we have decades of his work to enjoy.

This is a great idea. I expect they'll rediscover a Crown 602 by the end of the week with that small bounty.

This is great! I was hoping for something like this since my NES consoles are both in storage at the moment.

@JohnnyMind agreed. It feels like we've been slowly getting it in bits and pieces via Nintendo Switch Online over the last few years. I keep holding out for the Conker games. Spectrum titles are probably never going to happen.

I love the idea but the game looks like something I could not enjoy... that rapid 90-degree snap when changing directions makes me very dizzy. I can't play the Sonic 3 "get the blue spheres" special stages for the same reason.

As an American, I enthusiastically welcome this! U.S. gaming history and perspective has been pretty much exhaustively covered. I look forward to learning how gaming developed outside the USA and Japan.

I would LOVE this. I admit the BAT gameplay has not aged particularly well, but I love the characters, and the first game's soundtrack is far, far better than it has any right to be.

Edia did a nice job with the Valis series and several other semi-obscure properties from the 1990s with modern ports, so I'm feeling confident about playing Battle Arena Toshinden again soon!