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Surely one to have. Hail to the SMS

Employees within these publishers know the need and importance, and they know there’s not a great compatibility between real preservation effort and the business agenda. So the best hope we can have is that they can stretch any time they have engaged and get away with as much as they can, before the demands of business swing things the other direction

Love a good video pin ball, not sure about this release tho

Sounds bad. But I will play some Out Run

This is a fun one especially if sidescrolling shooters are your thing.

…blows your socks off!

That 90’s computer setup picture brought back some memories

@sdelfin wish granted then

@Moroboshi876 is that not what is mentioned in the end of the trailer?

I’d have been interested in seeing the left stick up top, but I’m in the minority that uses a stick even in 2D gaming

Love it. Keeps me in that 90’s brain bubble

SoR2 was a great playing game, but SoR1 had this atmosphere and experience to it that was shouldered by the music, and that would have been maybe impossible to repeat with any sequel. I feel that way about Sonic 1 as well

That’s really cool. The original team I believe was resistant to anyone else filling the gap, but more importantly it’s now a widely understandable game

Nice, Hamster! For anyone looking for fun overhead tank games, I recommend checking out Metal Stoker for PCE. Definitely a little gem

Resourceful and a development of the tech that’s been primarily used to load software libraries via flash memory, now also a bypass of sorts for the failing internals

These big businesses have for sure absconded with swaths of creativity knowing they have a window of impunity to do it in now. They have palliated AI technology by making grand statements and investors have taken that as the only license they need. Most of the public doesn’t care about how the products are made. And many individuals will defend the practice as progress, as being both inevitable and the greatest benefit. In reality, it’s a disrespect. A decay disguised as achievement. And like many other things we’re seeing in the world these days, reversing the damage will be decades or maybe never..

My lower back hurts thinking about how bulky and heavy everything in the 80’s was. Our Oldsmobile and Hideabed sofa were probably the same size and weight

I don’t doubt M2 knows what people would like to have access to. I don’t know how much sway they have with the publishers when these cuts are made. Game compilations have always left out some good stuff adjacent to the games selected. I do think businesses like M2 and Hamster are interested in the full catalogue and history.

Like a cutesy Turrican

@-wc- yes for many of us Japan has long been the Vatican of video games

@-wc- life force/salamander origins would have been a better package. Maybe throwing in the brand Gradius doubles the sales and sets up an easy collector’s edition. They could have made a pitch for a narrower focus, because whether it’s Gradius or something else the genre remains a niche

Will have to play Salamander 3 for sure, definitely at some point

Untraceable rights holder after passing through multiple corporate accounts.. sounds like it’s reasonable to consider any reproduction as fair use. Legal risk is probably extremely low

Wherever the true influence lies, I definitely bought it back then as a Final Fantasy clone and loved it for it, lol

I’m a bigger SoR1 fan myself but very much looking forward to the playthrough of a new Ancient title

Nice insights and commentary

Was happy to preorder this. It’s shaping up to be just a long held dream of mine as far as little game consoles go

I like the idea of this. I know popular opinion is that concave stick caps are better, but I very much prefer the concave style of the PS DS controllers. Even Nintendo since GameCube has gone with slight convex sticks

@aaronjmill dang. I never ended up buying the pocket but that converter was the main pull in my interest in analogue products. That’s a real frustration and terrible servicing from that business

Looks interesting but pretty busy with the effects occluding the action from what was shown

Now that’s an interesting looking sonic clone, at long last..

Crazy, looks like Christmas lights

Acclaim was known best for licensed/sport games, I feel? Do they even know what their notable original properties are? lol

Love the “imagine if” age of gaming we live in these days

If my SNES goes supernova I’m not replacing it. All these old consoles are on borrowed time now and while it’s nice to turn them on still, it’s now 10 years later from when I was first buying everdrives for them and I don’t have that sense of reliability about them any longer

Kind of like the 2DS but without the casing creating a divide

Like playing games on a giant tooth. Truxton can perform a root canal

I’m wondering if that chromatic one will get a second edition, maybe just a plastic budget version, would be nice

Algorithmic images have become an inescapable blight in every quarter. It’s really depressing on multiple fronts. Coming from well financed companies is no shocker but it’s also the least excusable

Nice to read the positive experiences in the industry

Pretty impressive and rare transfer within the games industry

There you go, it flips in more ways than one

Before a lot of these retro games businesses got going you had China-made bootleg reproductions that have been around for a long time, long enough that a good amount has found its way into a lot of places here overseas. With the retro collecting trend came the opportunity to meet old-stock demand by marketing a licensed product and reframe the value of a reproduction game through that marketing. But a lot of questionable business practices are putting these products in league with the quality-issues and sub-standards of the bootleg producers that came before.

I’ve nothing but praise for video game music composers and authors. I don’t listen to game music away from the games so I don’t keep track of many of those individual elements. Good if those creators can come forward with their works and credits being years removed from publishers’ constraints, find their fan base and keep these things apart of gaming today.

@-wc- I feel similarly about the PCECD, but then sometimes I get in a basic mood and fire up a HuCard title

@JJtheTexan @smoreon

For anyone that has missed some nice scrolling brawlers on the SFC:

https://youtu.be/dPKgO-xPH4k?si=Zetcvp5zDoTwpzOD

Awesome effort. I hope a Gradius comes to the system too one day, I’ve always felt it was an absence

Where is the warehouse?

The business will know to what extent they are getting original content. And like their translations, they are wholly unoriginal in testing to what extent they can save money and resources by considering lowest to no-standards options, which is common practice in the retro products industry, as we’ve seen in multiple instances for years now. And it won’t be the last we hear about shady practices in the retro products category, particularly from the businesses that sell themselves as a full notch above the Chinese bootleg market, but then inevitably adopt some of its practices

That’s some heavy background to the visual element of the game.