Their response to Ai usage was both shocking and sickening for me to hear, especially as they expressed it so articulately.

They genuinely believe they're doing nothing wrong and are unable or unwilling to see the damage of their actions.

They have detached themselves from any morals or wrongdoing.

Their unwavering support and admiration for something that's proven to be so destructive witin the creative industry they reside, is like witnessing an elderly relative being radicalised by a hateful social media algorithm.

30k to relocate an already built fibreglass statue?

They've been had

@jygsaw Bloody Roar 1&2 were genuinely great though

'Human authored' does NOT mean a human MADE it.

It means a 'human' okayed whatever the ai pipe spunked out.

If he doesn't know this, then he's a bigger idiot than he thinks we are, for spouting this as a defence.

Then they donated another few million quid to the Tory party and announced another partnership with Mod Retro....probably

@Agent_P I don't know him well enough, hence the informal 'Mister'

I had to sell this very model on ebay a couple of months ago to pay for food

I hadn't charged it since 2005 and it still had power

The reason it smells of Ai, is because it is 100% Ai and therefore not worth anyone's time or attention.

The remastered 'key art' (seen in this article and within the trailer) shows Mr Miner has five fingers, but zoom into the screenshots and you'll see the in-game depiction of him shows that he has only four.

A human artist would never be inconsist on something like this.

They've turned the comments off on their YouTube vid. They know, but they're still doing it anyway.

IIRC, Hopping Mad was originally a different game with a Mr Nutz sprite swap?

Was the 'explosive' part referencing the weapons that the money from this project will allow SNK's owners to buy?

@MontyMole This!

I buy physical so I can sell it on afterwards to fund the next game

The money all goes back into the industry

Never expected something I posted on Bluesky to get included in a TE piece

Things can only get better now

I'm 100% certain that a load of obvious Gen Ai assets will be found in the game.
Wait and see

Imagine the fallout if it turns out they've just re-shelled a bunch of original Genesis boards

I'm not entirely sure why it's touted as Genesis only, either

Sonic & Sonic 2 were not region locked games in any territory, so a Genesis cart would fit & work in all Mega Drive consoles (Albeit at 50Hz in a PAL console)

@Deuteros Damian met him when he popped round to buy my Panasonic Q for the Time Extension office. He probably didn't realise he was amongst royalty.

I've seen that 😀

I have a copy of a trade magazine (MCV) that features an interview with Gary (regarding UK:R) and he mentions that one of the most popular things on UK:R was a picture of a cat, wearing a Sonic The Hedgehog hat.

It was my cat, and get this, he was called Sonic. He sadly passed away in August last year, at the grand old age of (almost) twenty

The synchronicity at play here is certainly something

@Deuteros Gary did 99.99% of everything that made UK:R great.

I only stepped in towards the very end, when his interests had waned, because I wanted to keep it alive. I only posted from 2008 - to when the plug was pulled

@Guru_Larry It was from a time when the internet was great. I'm a fan of your channel 👍

@Deuteros Early SEGA was all about the blue skies though, so it does all merge.

As for UK:R, I used to write for it (in its later years, when Gary was fed up of it)

@Deuteros I always thought the Blue Sky thing came from Outrun?

@slider1983 Oh go on, be a brave boy

You can get the original Mega Drive cart for about a tenner off eBay, if you really want a (very poor) platformer.

Possibly Giles too (word of mouth)

Shame Argonaut are completely tarnished for me now

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-14649647/Kemi-Badenoch-financial-boost-video-game-tycoon.html

It wasn't just the intro that was censored in Europe. The very first cut scene involving the zombie was also censored

@retrogamer1 I have one with a faulty Bluetooth module. Very annoying and I only discovered it was a widespread issue after researching.

I initially thought my joypad batteries had died at first.

@Guru_Larry is Billy Kane rubbish at Mario 64?

@jygsaw The only difference is that a different tree will burn

I have one. All boxed and in pretty great shape. Tried to sell it on eBay three times but nobody was interested.

It's just sat gathering dust now.

Hold any Playstation disc up to the light and look at the data side. Still think they're 'black' discs?

It was (and still is) an incredible-looking game, but it wasn't a "once in a lifetime leap in visual quality"

I'd say that leap was the transition from 16 bit to 32 bit.

Everything since was incremental.

@samuelvictor Totally agree. Composition-wise, I've always felt that it's a rather poor image too, but this is subjective.

@UK_Kev I haven't forgotten anything. I was simply stating that from a quality standpoint, the aforementioned were all consistent, whereas SEGA are a husk of their former selves.

@UK_Kev 40 years is a bit of an odd figure, especially as SEGA are older than that.

Saying that, Nintendo have remained pretty much the same for the last 40 years. I'd also say that Namco and Capcom have remained pretty consistent too, in that they can still be trusted to deliver.

SEGA had their glory period and they'll never reclaim it. They shone too brightly.

@UK_Kev I agree, but the SEGA we all fell in love with died during the merger and has never been the same since.

Other than the Yakuza team, SEGA have no discernible talent left any more.

@UK_Kev SEGA is just a rebadged Sammy.

The real SEGA died over twenty years ago.

I used Music & Music 200 extensively and they will forever have a place in my heart.

Fun fact: Leftfield created a track (Double Flash) entirely with Music 2000. It's on their Rhythm And Stealth album.