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Beauty! Sega was ahead of their time in so many ways, but putting out successive home consoles was not part of that visionary element. The Neptune probably should have existed in place of what constituted the tower of power.

The ever expanding FPGA turf war

Lufia 2, very nostalgic but also one of the best from snes too

I like it. One day I might have a PC device I feel to game on to play some of these fan made Sonic remakes

Assumably Sega didn’t want to pay out the royalties for Sonic 3’s full OST in Origins, so no surprise lesser projects don’t come with any willingness to do so. As for third parties there’s no surprise they aren’t catering to a game’s full history either, with the exception of M2, who go that extra mile to deliver an archive effort

AtGames.. well there’s the problem

I dig it. If I owned their products I’d support that release

Nice going with the demo. Will be pumping the Splatterhouse soundtracks in front of the house for the trick or treaters tonight as I do every Halloween

Well I dug out my PSP from the basement and sure enough the battery has begun to bulge. Good timing on the PSA. Added to the list of game devices I need to source aftermarket batteries for 😵‍💫

I’ll give mine a check. Recently my N3DSXL had a bloated battery. I’ll need to find a good aftermarket for the 3DS range at some point

The industry argues against the preservation of works of software because it is not a part of their business agenda and never will be. Arguments of harm to profits are disingenuous. In fact, the work of people who have been unofficially keeping old games playable decade after decade is informing the back-catalog aspect of these businesses, which is a cost savings. Old and obscure video games and their history have a cult interest that has spilled over to mainstream interest and has arguably fueled the sales of whatever back-catalog these businesses do release. Profit harm is disingenuous as far as I see it, relating specifically to software no longer in official circulation because the hardware is no longer in production and sold and so on.

Maybe a strange mixture of northern seal hunting and cartoon video games but I guess it’s not surprising as you of course have to have a snow level and it wouldn’t be a video game unless something was violenced

Now there’s a beatemup. Very nice to have this game finally see a home console release. Notable for sure.

@MSaturn or contract the guy doing an HD conversion

I believe it was the top executive at Sega a few years ago that said they wanted to bring back the Sega of old, but outside of one ‘Sega New Era’ trailer a year ago and maybe some movie deals (which weren’t a big part of their heyday) there hasn’t been much of a visible return yet

A digital purchase would be nice to load onto 3DS

I love the Bonk universe designs. It’s a shame this designer left the industry as more games need that certain touch of cute and absurd

I love kill-em-up style games so I think this could be good

@AJB83 okay interesting, I watched a video review and that mode wasn’t mentioned

The visuals remind me of an arcade called buggy boy. They might have incorporated elements from it by having bizarre track obstacles and jump ramps, something to amp the craziness since it is styled for it

Very nice, I hope it stays near its classic gameplay. There were a couple sequels to old shmup series I’d read about but haven’t seen news since. I know I read Strikers was in the works someplace..

@flamepanther I’ve only ever owned model 1’s. My current model 1 doesn’t have very noticeable banding, but definitely a previous model 1 did have that. In fact I was considering the HD retro vision cable at the time to clean up that signal but then a replacement model 1 solved any issue I had with genesis over composite

I have encountered rainbow banding on the genesis, although it’s not like this double rainbow reaction this person is having. I might add that if you were playing on a 13” tube via composite it may not have been pronounced. Maybe more pronounced on larger sets.

@KingMike he’s got a good stream showing the history of arcade. But I’m a Retro channel junkie, it’s my usual background noise

I always carry some dedicated portable console when I’m out (OG 3DS lately). I was hoping the Switch would get a further shrunk down model that was actually pocketable. I feel like there’d be a market for a smaller Nintendo handheld these days, but with rumors of an 8” Switch 2 screen, they seem to have given up that space to cell phones. Perhaps they didn’t foresee Apple phones easily playing Nintendo games nowadays. It’d be a shame if Nintendo didn’t come back to small display devices.

Nintendo is going after all digital proliferation of its trademarks in any form. If they havent yet hit a certain site or source, best to assume their legal has noted and prioritized it.

Happy holidays. Nintendo sue us, every one!

The good but never great jaleco striking again. Pizza Pop is a neat little platformer, so that’s cool

It was the Joe Mad illustrated cover of PSM (#19) that got me interested in Soul Reaver. But I think I only ever had access to a demo. I think that cover might have inspired his Death design for Darksiders. Anyhow, when I saw the remake footage I was kinda disappointed the character didn’t look more like the Mad promo art

@-wc- yes, those princely nerds that could feel the 2% in their Game Boy, not us nerds of the soil..

I don’t play on the SGB very much but firing one up when I get a hankering to is a better experience than going back to original game boy hardware. I’d actually be more in favor of a Super GB-studded mini console than a GB rerelease that’s not going to have a high quality. But obviously that’s never going into production from Nintendo.

@romanista Nintendo might not be a person, but it’s been shown that they recognize that they are a company of persons. Particularly in the Iwata era, it’s been hinted that do they have an ‘emotional culture’. Not accidentally, but they actively lead with an emotional culture in order to increase longevity and productivity, and make the kinds of products they do. Maybe it stems from it once being a very old family business that to this day maintains long held alliances among its workers. It does stand in contrast to the more pervasive and so called corporate culture or ‘cognitive culture’ that focuses on competition and business intellect. That often is the sole culture of large businesses. So I don’t feel people are completely missing the mark when they feel Nintendo does make some decisions with feelings, and that there’s something to be admired there.

@Razieluigi Red Viper was a nice way to bring the legacy of the VB full circle. Really nice to have. Nintendo declined to delve back into that project for reasons manifold I imagine, but I think certain legacies in gaming are being realized by fans of preservation when the official source can’t commercialize them.

Played the first bit. It definitely has a Mario maker feel where it wants you to weasel around a little bit before getting to the exits

I never thought Nintendo felt shame for the VB but rather it probably centers around their feelings about G. Yokoi, which I imagine are entirely respectful as he fathered in an organizational sense the great minds at Ntdo and really set the tone for Nintendo as a tech manufacturer. Now of course G. Yokoi passed tragically not long after his resignation following work on the VB. I could believe his departure and death were enough reason for Nintendo to retire that number, if commercial failure is not the sole factor.

@MegaManFan this a neat looking game. Should look good on oled screen too

I’d be curious to know if composite connection will ever be an option

Big difference between this year and years past with the amount of AI in a google image search. None of it looks great and is genuinely an eyesore.

I’d always heard the opposite about this ost, that it was Yuzo’s most indistinct work. I’ll have to give it an intense listen

My question is why does it look like it’s the top of an aquarium

Good review. That seems right to me after watching Macaw45 stream it. it’s a cool game to be sure

Bucking trends is not what large businesses do. Their growth insists upon pushing anything that might generate a return, so long as their lawyers can sign off on it

I wonder what aspect is not repeatable for the designer. Surely he’s not thinking about it as a story, which is what movies are. The Ghibli movies do have repeated themes and structure. I guess he feels that the game fulfils the movement of the character with the existing levels. And certainly there’s a lot of level variety packed into it. But the same could be said of Nintendo’s best games that never stopped getting sequels. The difference I suppose is this was the designer’s chance to prove himself, and that makes it a very personal piece of work. So the bad timing, the anger and breakup with Sunsoft maybe factor into the feeling there. It’s a closed chapter.

3.75’ denotes feet. Now a nearly 4 foot figure of baby head would be amazing

Sequel Wars Ep Blue is the one I’m impatient for

It was a good pick for a remake. I wouldn’t play this over the original because the original arcade looks great and is more of that fantastic Japanese pixel art from the 90’s. This is an illustrative style that’s stiffer than the original pixels, it’s not fun looking.

I’d be interested in seeing a review

Wouldn’t look out of place on the PCE

Is this the movie equivalent of the YouTuber in front of bookcases of old games

Im sure the team at M2 would get a kick out of this

@sdelfin definitely. Emulated ports and rereleases on consoles were pretty reliable in the PS1 and PS2 era. Some emulated arcade games on PS1 are still among the best ways to play them. Then the “retro” goldrush went into swing and few companies were taking that same care because it was about getting out a quantity of games. Or in other words, a slew of new businesses jumped into the licensing frenzy and expertise/passion for emulation was no longer the selling point