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This gaming site sure loves to complain about Donald Trump and blame gaming company issues on him.

@Deuteros Judging by this video I would say the GBA is comparable to the Atari Jaguar. They tried to market that as a 64-bit console but it was basically an early 32-bit console and it's 3D games usually looked kind of like this. This is what most of the early first attempts at 3D games were like, no textures really.

I am just glad I bought all the ACA Neo Geo games back when they released on the Switch, I would much rather just have them all and organized A-Z as opposed to buying this slow trickle down of randomized titles.

I think Master of Arena has always been the definitive PS1 generation release by the sound of things. Like the first game was very campaign focused and rough around the edges, with the second game having a difficult campaign and really getting overshadowed by it's sequel when it comes to arena and multiplayer.

To me this was important information to gather on these as I was curious about the PS1 trilogy but didn't really want to play through all 3 games, they were more of a curiosity than anything. Always seemed like simply downloading MoA for my first gen AC fix was the way to go.

Great analysis on this franchise though! The breakdown on the PS2 era games would be helpful if I want to check them out.

Glad to hear he's not giving up. Xbox's loss, it's like they're going out of their way to not have any appealing games anymore.

This type of thing has become far too common these days. It's not that hard to include small/private creators in a project, just contact them, get their approval, and give them credit where it's due.

@hste I have one and the quality is definitely not "horrible" as you implied. Looks good to me with numerous enhancement options.

Sad to see arcades shutting down in Japan, seemed to be the last place where these arcades still worked and had a presence.

@FirebreatherRichard Yup and they sell affordable HDMI adapters for them as well. I wouldn't even bother with this Analogue system anymore if it wasn't for the fact that I pre-ordered it long ago.

The rotary dial and trackball are the only cool thing this really has going for it, and the low quality screen coupled with the relatively high price means I am just not interested right now even though I find it interesting.

@Zeebor15 Yeah they did make a sequel but maybe they consider 2 to be like a next generation for the franchise or something? Sometimes devs do that.

@Zeebor15 Nah there was some ex employee who tried to run a smear campaign against them, turned out it's because he was fired for sexually harassing his coworkers and was very bitter about it so he had a vendetta against the studio.

I always loved the R4 soundtrack, that millennium era had such great video game music.

@Sketcz Yeah this shows off some very real issues with the current state of government and law enforcement.

I was never one of those people who had some problem with the original N64 design, IMO it was always uniquely appealing.

It was definitely an idea done too far ahead of it's time, the 3DS was basically an improved take on that concept. The biggest issue with Virtual Boy was their decision to go entirely with monochrome red for the graphics, which made it easy to give people headaches when combined with it's "stick your face right up to the screen" approach.

So how does this handle PS2 and Gamecube?

@PKDuckman Yeah I was expecting ACA2 to be more focused on 90's 3D arcade games, old early 80's stuff is what we have already had heaps of for the standard ACA library.

So is this becoming a political site?

I still have a t-shirt they gave out at Funcoland for pre-orders for this game.

@Exerion76 Yup I miss the days when gaming sites stayed away from politics.

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.