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@PKDuckman That's interesting. So there are different collections! Well, I hope they finish one already and make it physical or at least digitally collected!

I believe they said the collection would have 10 titles, and with the recent three titles announced that would be it.

Now it's time to honor the name and make it a real collection, so please put them together and release it physically! I would be very happy, seeing all these B-tier games -as they describe them in the website- in a nice compilation.

EDIT: with Shatterhand I see it's 11 now. They said they would be 10, but again they also said they would release consecutively yet 2 full years have passed.

@Teksette Well, it usually worked as you say, but last time they reissued volumes 2 and 3, and even the Arcade Collection Part 1 (which is third-party actually), and they didn't sell out, so ended up on frequent discounts. It made me angry.

Now with the new expansion (which I hope is third-party too, so Arcade Collection Part 2) that I also wish it's Irem if only for selfish reasons (it's a company which would overlap very little with games in my collection), I don't know what to do.

It's possible that is sells so poorly that it ends up on a sale like the last ones... but it's also possible that precisely for that reason Taito produces less copies and this time goes out of stock fast and is never rereleased like all the other volumes were.

I guess not all the initial Egret II Mini adopters bought the first expansion, not all the volume 1 buyers bought the second and so on. It's only natural. There is even people that wanted volumes 2 and 3 and didn't know that they were rereleased and are still available. So I guess the numbers are going to be smaller with each release.

P.S.: I also would kill for Chase H.Q., a glaring omission in this product, also in all other systems where Taito's legacy is present nowadays.

Not overly excited because all this we already have on modern systems, albeit digitally. Plus the new price increase.

I was expecting something different, something exclusive.

A couple extra games (not WADs) such as Wolfenstein wouldn't have hurt.

@gojiguy Amazon Japan. It's getting impossible due to increasing shipping costs, plus the new EU import tax, but other import online stores are more expensive.

Arcade Collection Part 1 was really appealing to me, due to the previously never emulated Boogie Wings and the opportunity to play Renegade and Double Dragon on a mini cabinet, but it hurts that it's been on a heavy sale since, especially when there was massive overlapping with Evercade collections and I bought it mainly for those three games.

Now I have to continue, after all I'm all about discovering games, so I don't mind if they're not even B-tier.

@Shiryu As I said in the first comment, unfortunately for me, an early adopter, the reissues of vols 2 and 3 plus the Arcade Collection Part 1 have been consistently on sale.

@RootsGenoa I guess if last release was Arcade Collection Part 1, the next one should be Part 2, excited to know what companies are involved this time.

I hope they're worth it. I've been buying all previous expansions, so I'm at 90 games currently.

But I've been out of luck moneywise with Egret II Mini. I grabbed Vol. 1 on a sale, decided to hold when vols. 2 and 3 came out, but then the sale didn't happen and they went out of stock. When Taito reissued them, I pre-ordered for peace of mind, yet those rereleases and Arcade Collection Part 1 have been regularly on big sales.

What do I do this time?

If all the hype they've been building for months comes to this, it's a huge disappointment. People in the Evercade community was hoping for something different, like a native port (they did it with Duke Nukem), because it has been re-released multiple times and with enhanced versions in the last couple of years indeed.

It should have been a more comprehensive collection, with companions like Quake, Commander Keen, etc.

If it involves hacking the console it's a no for me. And I guess it does.

So is this going to be included in the cart in time or it will require a download?

Big fan of Evercade here, not a fanboy, and I gotta say the timing is bad. What a couple weeks we've lived with bad gaming news...

With the new price the carts won't cost less than the standard physical retro collection on Switch for instance. Time to be more selective...

Great to see this preview, because the relase date is approaching and I wanted to know if my 80 euros (for the absolutely worthy collector's edition) would go into a game that actually measured up to the expectations. Looks like it will.

If the RAM problem persists just put the development of new systems on hold.

Not sure if it's something to be proud of. It's almost scalping, probably downright scalping.

Great!

But what about the weekly Arcade Archives 1 release?

When Ridge Racer and others were released they were announced for Switch and PS4 too, but not this time.

Nice! I've been missing retro announcements in Nintendo Directs and other showcases, despite the multiple retro releases through the year.

The duplication is what kills these devices for me, there's always the odd game that remains in "Super Pocket prison" whatever the edition, but Banjo cart with both games will be available soon enough as you said, not only with the Nexus (I hope they also sell the cart alone and the new handheld alone too at some point), but there is also an analog controller coming that will make the Evercade VS a great option, maybe the best, to enjoy these classics.

Honestly, this made my year Evercade-wise. For me it's not being the hyped "best year ever" that they've been announcing.

I've been hoping they would bring Visco, so I can avoid having to cram the Visco bartop in my already full house, or Pixel Heart to finally release the promised Visco Collection physically.

This is better: more games than the Bartop, of course more than the 7 that come in the for now digital only Switch collection, and I'll be able to play them in my Evercade Alpha.

Since I discovered the Super A'Can a few months ago, I was wishing their games came to the Evercade at some point. Given the strong relationship between Blaze and Piko Interactive and the mentioned acquisition of Super A'Can games by them, my wish could come true! Fingers crossed

I also would love to see games that aren't the ones that we saw re-released dozens of times, but let's face it: they'll try to get the most money they can, naturally, and the fact that Metal Slug is the Top 1 seller shows that the average consumer wants the big names, especially if they are the rarest to find in their original form.

Personally, I would buy Windjammers, Nightmare in the Dark (unreleased digitally or otherwise), Double Dragon, Neo Bomberman and several games that I know are almost impossible for licensing reasons.

Konami GT looks amazing!

Thank you both, it makes sense now!

I don't understand why this one is treated as an indie game, Duke Nukem 1+2 wasn't.

Plus, there are more Apogee games to release if they wanted to, but including this one in an Indie Heroes 5... I don't know. I haven't bought any of the previous four, I would rather have BioMenace in an Apogee Collection.

I've suffered with SLG before, and decided not again. They released a statement saying the waiting times would improve, yet they have worsened. Usually their games end up on Amazon Japan for everyone to get anyway.

Available on the Evercade (Renovation Collection cartridge), just for information purposes.

I struggle to keep up with the versions and re-releases. Anyway, I would love to delve into the series from the beginning, but no one seems interested in emulating or remastering the first two entries, three if you count Dodonpachi II.

Even if it's in Japanese only these games are playable, so as long as they're available on Western Steam it's better than nothing.

But I still hope it comes to the Switch, physically if my wish can be granted. And the re-release of the rest of the series would be the cherry on top.

I got Fighting Simulator 2-in-1 (aka Hiryū no Ken Gaiden) on Game Boy as a kid, and weird as the game was, I found it very fun.

I don't know why, but the main theme of the series is one of my favourite video game songs.

It feels like these collections should be put together by sports and not be divided in several volumes within the same sport.

@OorWullie Yeah. When asked about releasing individually arcade games playable inside Yakuza games they said it's just too risky for them, that they wouldn't be profitable.

And seeing how people complains about Hamster prices "for a game this old" I can't totally blame them.

@CrispNCrunch Sure. Anyway, I love Jaleco and wish to see its games collected physically. I hope the JaleColle line will become a collection once the 10 games have been released. I mean... it's in the very name!

Nice! Now that it seems that Blaze has lost interest in more Jaleco carts for the Evercade I hope this comes one day to Switch and physically. I'll take the overlapping.

For those wondering, Blaze has heavily hinted that there will be a cart with more Rare games this year, and other Super Pocket editions have seen their games re-released on carts before, no worries.

As for Banjo-Kazooie working on this thing, they said it's a native port, that's why. And they also announced an analog controller due in September, so we're definitely seeing the game out of the Super Pocket before the end of the year.

Mega Cat 3 has been a letdown for me, I was hoping they would include bigger games in it, owning the likes of ZDF and Project Blue. I don't think I'm gonna buy this one. Activision 2 I will, after all both Activision carts have games that aren't on the Atari 50 Collection and aren't expected to be in it as a DLC either.

If I had gotten the Turrican Anthology vol. II for Switch from Amazon Japan to complement the barebones Turrican Flashback release, like I was planning to, I would be angry, would've spent too much money and would definitely skip this cart.

But I didn't, so this is a collection that solves the problem, will definitely buy it and I guess I'll keep Turrican Flashback for Switch in my collection because it was dirt cheap and I don't mind having it if I fancy some Turrican and don't have the Evercade with me.

It looks great, I hope it's not text heavy.

It took 84 years, nobody expected it at this point. And everything is already on Evercade and the Toaplan Collections. The overlapping on Switch and Playstation seems a litlle odd.

At this point the main attraction for me at least will be the console ports.

I'm an achievement fan as long as they're not things that feel like a chore or are insanely difficult to perform, and sorely miss them on Nintendo consoles to the point of purchasing some games elsewhere for that reason.

But I don't really know how it works. I mean, can I use Retro Achievements on a BatleXP G350? On a Raspberry perhaps? It would be really cool on Evercade, by the way.

Sad to hear about it. I recently was delving into his work, because I love what he did in the Kunio-kun series, especially in Downtown Nekketsu March: Super-Awesome Field Day!, with epic but at the same time nostalgic themes.

Rest in Peace.

Looks interesting, even more so being the line's mascot. I love it when they release games that don't require reading japanese. It will definitely go to my wishlist... unless they start releasing variants for more powerful platforms, which happens a lot in EGG Console games.

@Arcadia_Official I don't know the reason, but all ACA Neo Geo games did appear on Xbox One. Yet the Arcade Archives ones didn't.

@Teksette We never know. They do sales sometimes, but always affect a handful of titles, and from a library of hundreds it would be luck to see the one you want. They still haven't put any Konami game on sale, though. Some Namco several times already.

@GhaleonUnlimited No, I meant Battletoads in Ragnarok's World, which is THE Battletoads but on GB. There is another one simply called "Battletoads" that is, in fact, an entirely different game. It is confusing.

Like others mentioned, I was able to beat it on Game Boy as a kid. Since I can't on NES on Rare Replay I assumed that the GB version was slightly easier, but it could just be me that I'm rusty.

Anyway, I do remember getting to later stages and struggling with the snake one. Maybe I used the Game Genie, I honestly can't remember.

But obnoxious as Turbo Tunnel is, it's kind of addictive, isn't it?

Anyway, I kinda feel that this is a huge downgrade coming from Astro City Mini. They should have made the first one with more games or now a third one with the remaining interesting ones and even more obscure titles mixed too. I love that the Egret II Mini can be expanded with the SD slot, it started with 40 games and now they're 90. I didn't mind buying the second Astro City Mini with vertical games. Would prefer a third one than these toy-like devices, even if I end up buying one or two.

I didn't know about Mad Rider (nor about Rune Worth), and this one looks interesting and not text-heavy. To the wishlist!

@Damo I know you mentioned it, but the sentence about the My Arcade Outrunners being a port (or any other arcade exclusive game that arrives to consoles) is something that I read very often (from any writer), and I was just pointing it out, don't worry. I liked the article!

One year after my comments, I almost forgot about these things. Anyway, I'll consider some of them, but not all. Mainly Out Run, with the Outrunners arcade being available for the first time at home. It's not that it hasn't been ported as it incorrectly says in the article. It got ported to Mega Drive, for better or worse. Emulated arcades on consoles don't make them less arcade-only, since they're not ports. They're exactly the same, only emulated.

Well, it's always good news that some arcade exclusive game is officially released on domestic systems via emulation. It's not a port, though. It's the arcade running on emulation. So it was actually never ported to consoles.

What's not good news is the asking price. Come on, this isn't polygons... It can't be 1995 = 14,99 €...

@PKDuckman You can enjoy Outfoxies from today, I'm sure you already know!

Space Invaders... well, I have it on the Invincible Collection AND the Egret II Mini, so no, I'm not excited. I wasn't to begin with. It's a welcome addition, but only for those who didn't already have it on the same system.

An expensive license with an expensive price tag for sure.

About Ms. Pac-Man, it can be done. It's a matter of Namco not wanting to pay for the inclusion of what considers to be theirs in any collection. Hamster could. Not sure about this game being THE game for the 500th release though.

But it would be nice of them to do a 50% off across the entire line-up as a celebration, wouldn't it?

Looks interesting, and I didn't even know about it, so it's a yes.