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Whoever they hired to be on top of this stuff is clearly the wrong person for the job.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant The only thing you have accomplished here is exposing your own one-sidedness, irrational takes on current events, and political extremism. I guess that's your problem though, not mine.

Honestly the politics around here in general are cringy and an embarrassment, gaming sites should really try to stay away from it. This is supposed to be a retro gaming site, I shouldn't know people's politics around here.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant I think anyone intellectually honest should be willing to admit how this is a complex situation involving international politics and it can't simply be summarized as Trump just being a mean bad guy.

@Scollurio People having an odd obsession with Donald Trump and trying to blame all the world's problems on him is nothing new unfortunately, it's just the way some people are when it comes to anything over the past decade, they'll quickly jump on any opportunity to blame and complain no matter how lame of an excuse it might be, it's just all about jumping on any excuse to swing at the bad orange man they hate so passionately.

With this, it's obvious how this is just some lame attempt to blame politics for a simple business issue.

I am just glad I picked up all the ACA Neo Geo games on my Switch back when they released. Not a fan of this slow drip feed of random assortments.

@BausRifle Yeah what are they talking about? The US is easily one of the biggest markets for electronics and entertainment, to the point to where it's hard for anything to really succeed without the US market. I haven't seen anything outside of niche products intended for foreign markets not get sold out here, and even then there's always importers who seem to offer anything.

I think this is not looking good for Evercade. I bought a lot of their games and handhelds in the past but if their official support is going away like this I doubt it's going to do well in the long run.

@jygsaw Yeah import games used to feel pretty special before youtube, like seeing something hardly anybody could see.

I would love to see them bring back VF3 and 4, they get so little attention.

My list would be:
Virtua Fighter 10th Anniversary
Virtua Fighter 2.1
Virtua Figther 3tb
Virtua Fighter 4 Final Tuned

We need proper home port modern releases for these!

@cdoty It's definitely a serious problem, and one historically related to things like religious followings where people have a crusader mentality.

@slider1983 Bluesky is a mess, it's totally one sided politically extreme, has loads of content issues, and people seem to get blocked and banned like crazy over there. Sure X has it's problems but it's more open and friendly by comparison.

So they finally managed to make these handhelds play Saturn games well? I remember getting good PS1 handhelds years ago.

Still, waiting for them to get these things running PS2 and Gamecube games well.

I loved Alpine Racer in the arcades, such a cool arcade machine. All these games remind me of the glory days of both Namco and 90's arcades. Such an amazing era for video games.

@smoreon Back then it really made a difference when it came to what hardware games were designed around.

I remember this game being somewhat highly praised for a PS2 FPS back when it released. By now it's become the only way to really enjoy it for most since the PC version just isn't as accessible.

CD based consoles are what we need the most desperately when it comes to these new modern clone consoles as disc drives are notorious for age related issues.

@BausRifle Yup. I miss the days when the gaming industry wasn't so caught up on trying to please everyone. It seems like they put more effort into trying to make games appeal to people they never appeal to than they do simply making them appealing to their target audience.

The gaming community is incredibly toxic these days.

@Santar Yeah I feel like most people didn't understand Duke or what made Duke Nukem 3D so appealing. They really leaned heavily into the crude sex obsessed personality and he seemed to lose his comedic macho action star image.

It's funny how back in the day we were like Duke Nukem Forever is such an absurdly long time to spend developing a game and now it doesn't seem like anything special with games like GTA6.

Never really saw the appeal of this thing. It always seemed absurdly expensive for what it is and I could never really figure out what I would do with one either. Seems like the sort of thing I would just mess around with for a couple of hours for the novelty then never use again. Considering how this costs as much as serious modern PC's that I could see myself using daily for no shortage of things, it's like why bother with this? Seems like the market would be extremely limited, especially given how obscure it is as a gaming platform, one that I have a hard time seeing many people having any real software or experience with, especially in the west.

This explains why it has never arrived, this is what sucks about ordering hardware from smaller companies, you never know when or if you will get what you order.

@sixrings Yeah Sega probably has the best catalog of 90's era arcade games that have never seen a proper home release.

This is probably a once in a decade sort of thing at best, sort of like how collectors recommend powering up old hardware at least once in a decade. I know some people say SNES consoles can die if you go too long without powering them up for example, similar deal with the WII U apparently.

Wow that X account is a mess, like non-stop trolling. Hard to figure out if there is anything genuine or of value to be read there.

Didn't know Ben Colins had a gaming youtube channel. Instantly subscribed lol

Seems like the Wii U has become a high maintenance console considering it's age.

@Zenszulu Yeah to me this is just not engaging looking, it's basically just some basic calculator screen that presents you with numbers related to some cards you can scan, not exactly the most engaging concept when it comes to gaming.

Hopefully this means they are actually moving on from all the 80's arcade games and finally focus on delivering some 90's arcade games with 3D graphics.

I already have a mobile phone I could buy controller attachments for.

EA is no longer the worst company in gaming. Ubisoft is.

The thing about trust is one of the hardest things is to earn it back after it's been lost.

@Grackler I think we can see a big divide in the results by now. So many western developers fell under the type of leadership that ruined Bizarre Creations, not caring about the staff, being quick to fire the talent, not understanding the value or strengths of the studio.

@avcrypt Yeah I just think it's ridiculous to get all bent out of shape over some luxury electronic goods maybe going up in price when the price for necessities has gone up so dramatically in recent years. Like I wouldn't expect this site to be covering global economics but then again they did suddenly feel a need to make an article directed at criticizing American foreign policy.

After all the massive inflation we have experienced over the past 4 years, NOW we should be concerned about things getting more expensive? I'll take more expensive game consoles that I will probably never purchase over more expensive food that I need to survive.

This thing was really cool looking with that fake CRT monitor but it's also the type of thing where I genuinely had nothing I would really want to do with it.

Not sure why anyone would want this unless they're a kid or something but they're too expensive for that demographic, you could buy a new Apple Watch for cheaper.

Not a fan of these "eggconsole" games, they always look a bit too primitive for my taste.

Mine always had some sort of battery attachment on the back of it that I could never figure out how to remove. Guess it truly was just an addition.

So happy this is making a comeback, I loved these games.

Honestly I prefer a lot of home ports of old 90's fighting games to the arcade releases. In the case of games like Tekken 2 and 3 the home ports were just better looking, sounding, and more fully featured. With stuff like Capcom fighters the home ports were often just a lot more playable, because they would make the AI stupidly difficult and cheap in arcade versions.

Ah yes, early attempts at new technology back in the early 90's. What could go wrong?!

Paddle makes it neat but these retro handhelds just aren't nearly as appealing as they once were, especially when it's so easy to just buy one of the many retro handhelds already on the market that will play anything from Atari to PS2.

"YouTube's policies now basically make it impossible to have any sort of intellectual discussion."

That is typically what happens when censorship happy authoritarians with an agenda are given power over people and platforms.

Can you imagine how much this could have saved the Dreamcast if it actually released?

The Saturn was a big flop in the US but a big success in Japan. Probably one of the most polarizing major consoles I can think of when it comes to that. I remember how nobody really wanted one, every kid I knew who was into video games went from a Genesis/SNES to a PS1/N64. Even as a Sega Genesis fan I skipped it, was mostly into PS1 that gen, and got a Dreamcast after it released. Even though the Dreamcast also flopped arguably it was a lot more popular than the Saturn ever was.

I love the way it uses AA batteries, I could just take a bunch of rechargeable AA's with me and get an incredible amount of longevity on the go. Probably the system seller for me, but the lack of GBA support does make it a hard sale at it's price point.

Sounds like what would have passed as a cool and high-tech portable product back in the 00's. Standards were much different back then.

I was always mildly interested in one of these but it seems like it would be little more than a novelty and I really think it would be hard to go back to a non-lit screen after having portables with screen lighting for so long.