These products are overpriced from the start, but when the shipping and taxes come into play, it's a no-go.

The thing is they do a NSW2 version of Cotton Reboot, Cotton Rock With You but not this one... Weird.

@PinballAficionado I see. Well, I meant consoles, but if the license was available then I'm even more confused. Why didn't they release it elsewhere too? Especially along with the remake that Microïds themselves did.

As for Tad Corporation, they in fact developed 6 games in total. Easiest retro collection ever. But it never happened.

To make things worse, this game is in Sunsoft is Back: Retro Game Selection with two more games, often on sale for 2-3 euros and fully localized.

I thought Snow Bros. was too known and popular enough to not need that clarification. Clone is an exaggeration, on top of that.

I'm still using the OG handheld, and enjoy it, but I'm starting to have the need for a bigger screen, and the wireless earbuds feature is very welcome too, because the wired earphones give a really low sound in that device.

I do take the Switch 2 on the road and don't have a problem with its size, so the Nexus is the natural upgrade in my case coming directly from the OG, whenever the new handheld is on sale. The only problem: I love the OG and I'll feel as if I'm leaving someone for someone else.

For a moment I thought we would see the original arcade ROM rereleased at long last, but it's not that. It's ports for several systems. Which is nice, but what about the ROM with the original as it was, with insert coin and all that?

Why isn't anybody doing that? Why didn't Microïds include the original arcade rom in their remake a few years ago?

Now I might get it. I hope they fixed whatever people said didn't work well in the emulated arcade original. Not that I don't have it on Switch and other places, but still.

@GlamReaper Interesting. Why is that? I feared that it wouldn't be included in any case because the free update was announced when both physical versions were in late stages of production.

EDIT: Now I realized that Switch 2's physical version hasn't been released yet. That explains it. Thanks!

@CookieByte Of course, I give them that.

@RKO_JPL7 Oh, that's not a deal breaker, because I want it anyway, but it's certainly sloppy.

Thanks for the info, though!

Is Panic Bomber W included in the cart or did its addition come too late in the manufacturing process?

They never advertise it, but these games usually are available on Switch 1 too. Is it the case this time around?

A cart with several versions... That's a first on Evercade. Good.

They should've done the same with James Pond, but I'm afraid they're Mega Drive versions only. The infamous Legacy does that better, we have to give them that.

Anyway, isn't System 3 behind the James Pond IP (also The Last Ninja) too?

I wanted to like it. Hell, I wanted a James Pond Collection and the contents themselves are good enough. But AI inside the software (and on the cover art), not only in the trailer, is a deal-breaker.

@PinballAficionado Wow. So whatever the issue it was solved a couple years ago...

@KingMike I believe you. But I wonder how did the arcade game release with the name unchanged back in 1993. In fact, there wasn't any reference to Batman in the original Japanese title. It was a risky decision for the international release.

@gmar Interesting facts, thanks. The "Bat Man" (in two words, which would avoid the issue in my opinion and in fact the game was released in 1993 without problems) part could have been changed for "League Man" in order to rerelease it just like this time with the remaster, but Maniscalco owned the rights to the characters and Irem to the game itself, that's at least what has always been said, and it has to have something to do with the 33 year absence of the game. Now two separate releases which seem to not have known about each other smells like the unblocking of the complex situation.

Anyway, this is an obscure console, yes, but not for us. And it wouldn't surprise me if the game starts appearing on Arcade Archives, Evercade, etc.

This one I like better than the previous one, mostly because I don't have any of these games anywhere else. Last time I had a lot of repetition, but wanted Boogie Wings so bad... I guessed Irem right!

But it's going to be a long wait until March. They used to release these in December.

Anyway, now I don't know what to do. As I said in a previous comment, I preordered Arcade Collection Part 1 and the reissues of Arcade Memories vol. 2 & 3 in order to not miss them, but they ended up discounted, Arcade Collection permanently even. That hurts. And I felt stupid.

What do I do this time?

@sbeng135 I understand there were rights issues with this game. Everybody would kill for being able to re-release it, so twice in a few months must be due to the license being available at long last.

So they're not at odds anymore. This means a new DLC for the Atari 50 is coming, I guess. When are they going to release the final physical version of that great collection? T_T I can't keep up.

Again, what about the game itself? Trailer is lazy, but the game is the real product. And the cover.

I've asked them a couple times on X if the game will be included in the cart once the physical version comes out, which would be better than a download, and I think the question makes sense because the physical version has been delayed, but they never answer.

Non Hall Effect sticks are sadly common in current systems, Switch 2 being an example (and reports of drifting are starting to arise), so I can't blame them.

I wonder if the dongle works with other wireless controllers, though.

I admit that I rarely turn the VS on, especially after the arrival of the Alpha, but I'd like to have a second controller and, given that I couldn't get one for a good price, now the analog controller will be the way to go.

@PinballBuzzbro Sorry, I meant the collection itself, because I didn't even know it was planned.

Great news, it was lost in the arcades for convoluted rights issues (and with the new title I guess they didn't want any problem with DC Comics either). Glad it got sorted out. But I would love if the original graphics (or the rom itself) are included, because this is a remake/remaster with added content. I want both versions in this kind of release, and with Snow Bros. 2 Special (only with that entry) we had them.

Now I wish whoever brings it to the West releases it with a CD soundtrack too.

Great news!

I'm a sucker for this type of collections, regardless of the quality of the games.

But I wonder if the Robocop song will be a problem.

Anyway, it's great that it comes with all those versions, a shame that they're not all that exist, but it looks great anyway, with all the archive contents on top.

I'll be picking some, but it will have to be on the Japanese eShop, because Ridge Racer is still pretty expensive after the 30% discount.

Whatever happened to the days when Arcade Archives discounts were 50%...

I don't judge the prices for the age of the games, but this line of digital games would benefit from more frequent discounts and not only of Namco and Neo Geo games. I don't see other companies' games on sale anymore.

@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.