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I look forward to watching the Speedball 2 film whenever it ends up on YouTube.

What a game! I first played it on my friend's Amiga, before getting it for my Megadrive. It must've been one of my most played games on the console. Pretty sure I got it from the Sega Swap Shop. The greatest video game shop ever! (Now I want to talk about that place but this is about Speedball 2).

Around 10 years ago, I was with my mate in Thailand, he asked me if I remembered Speedball 2 on the Amiga. I said of course, it's one of my all time favourite games and I've got the Megadrive version on my hacked Wii, "Ye want to go play it?". It was around 2 o'clock in the morning and he hadn't played video games since the 90's. Yet we ended up playing the League mode for around 8 hours, taking turns. We both had blisters on our fingers. Great memories.

@X68000 What a amazing package that will be for receive. The Japanese box art looks much better. Can you change the language to English though?

I loved Marble Madness on the Megadrive. It was published by EA if I remember correctly.

Polaris is vaguely familiar. I think I might have had it for the 2600.

The Console Archives releases so far have been a little underwhelming. I hope it's not going to be the case where most are just obscure NES games.. I'm hoping for more PS1 and hopefully PS2 games, along with Turbografx , Master System, 32X/ CD and maybe even Saturn, Dreamcast and 3DO. Although I'm not sure how emulation is on these consoles. We're already spoiled for choice with NES games on NSO.

@AllieKitsune If only. A deal with Sega for most of their 80's and 90's arcade games, would take Arcade Archives to the next level. I'm sure Hamster have tried more than once to make a deal. It's a shame. The arcade era was Sega at its very best, yet they do absolutely nothing with it.

It's interesting they're releasing Neo Geo games again. I was thinking this is the first in 5 or 6 years, but I see Pop’n Bounce released 3 weeks ago.

I quite like how there's no rhyme or reason to Hamster's releases. I've discovered loads of obscure games that I teaaly like over the years.

I love this game. I had it for the Saturn. The Switch version is superb, played through it twice.

@Prollo I've never played SOTN unfortunately. I was hoping it'd come to Switch., along with Rondo of Blood. Love thar game.

@BulkSlash Do you have the NSO N64 pad? I tried playing Goldeneye with the Pro controller but I really struggled to get my head around the controls. I was gutted as I'd been really looking forward to playing it again.

Edit - ah just noticed you played it on an emulator.

I am going to counter the negativity by saying, this looks fantastic. I am not a fan of the furry characters, far from it, but the game itself looks superb.

That's funny. Someone predicted this would be the 500th game at the beginning of the week. Instead it's Space Invaders but this is the 499th.

@Daniel36 It seems 501 is Space Invaders II.

I'm going to make a wild guess, Daytona USA.

I was also blown away by Final Fight in the arcades and gutted it never came to Megadrive. The Mega CD port though was amazing and until the arrival of the Dreamcast,.was the closest to 'arcade perfect' I'd ever experienced at home, and for a brief time, it made me feel like I was the coolest kid in my group.

My all time favourite console. The Switch tops it for the sheer quantity of new and old games I have for it but it can't beat the excitement that the Dreamcast delivered. So many games properly wowed me like very few games have since. I've still got the console, it's up my parents attic. No idea if it still works.

@MontyCircus That is impressive, especially when you consider how primitive Street Fighter is today. This actually looks like it would still be fun to play.

It reminds me of Cyborg Justice on the Megadrive..I remember being hyped for that game for months prior to release, then disappointed it didn't live up to expectations.

If Tengo Project are involved, I'm definitely interested. Love their work.

It should really be unlimited time. As others have pointed out, it's not exactly good value compared to other places. I'd understand time limited sessions if there was high demand for entry but I can't imagine that being the case.

The replay factor in thisis in the online leaderboards, just like all the Arcade Archives games. They can turn the most basic arcade games into something you spend many hours playing, provided you care about climbing the leaderboards.

I completely forgot about this. What a pleasant way to be reminded of its existence. It's here, it's available and it's absolutely superb.

I will hang off and wait for the Switch release.

Superb stuff. I have never played this. It's a shame City Connection are the ones behind it. Their ports are usually solid but rather bare bones.

I have an M30 pad. I bought it specifically for the rolling Dpad which I assumed would make fighting games easier and less tiresome on the thumb. And it definitely is less tiresome on the thumb. It's a top quality dpad and all round fantastic controller, I love it. However, I cannot use it for fighting games. Hadokens are easy enough but I cannot pull off a Shoryuken on demand and more complex moves seem impossible. I have always been poor at fighting games but the M30 makes me even worse. If I can't even pull off the basic commands, I've got no hope. I fare much better with the SF30.

I use my M30 all the time. Outstanding controller. Just not for fighting games.

That Project Century game that was revealed at the Game Awards looks very promising. I actually wish it was the new 3D Streets of Rage game they're developing. A Yakuza style brawler would be a great direction to take the series.

Ah man ,this is superb news to read. Speedball 2 is one of my all time favourites. I've been asking for a new version for years. I'll hang off for a few weeks or months until it's in better shape. Or ideally , it's announced for Switch or the next console.

Impressive stuff. I never noticed the text saying there's extra parallax scrolling but I spotted it straight away in the video.

It's a game I want to love but it's just too annoyingly difficult. Those damn frogs!

@dmcc0 Ah alright, got you haha. Yeah that's a much cooler title for sure.

@dmcc0 The Japanese one has different fighters or it plays differently? It'll be included with this release, I look forward to playing it.

I'll be getting for sure. My Switch is sorely lacking in boxing games. Punch Out is great but it's not the same as proper boxing.

This looks superb. Hopefully it makes its way to Switch.

When a company treats its customers like LRG does, the only appropriate response should be to never use them. Making excuses for them or praising them for slightly improving in recent times, is not the way to go. The sooner companies like this go under, the better.

The Final Fight remake is due this year according to the Capcom leak from a few years ago.

I wonder at what point they'll stop releasing on the original Switch? They're at 370 now, 500 would be a nice number. Another 2 and a half years. Perhaps they will keep going till end, releasing them alongside Switch 2.

Superb. I was just watching some footage of this the other day and wished it was on Switch.

The video I watched was Evolution of Formula 1 games. Pole Position 1 and 2 really stood out from the other racing games of that era.

I came in here wondering if a game that I absolutely loved as a child but could never remember its name, would be mentioned... and there it is, Firefox F7. I even remember the box.

Caveman was another tabletop game I had and loved.

Great game. I go back to it every now and again, usually after being remembered about it. I think I'll play it over the weekend. I don't think I've even come close to beating it. I start to fall apart on the 3rd or 4th stage.

I really loved this game. Very impressive for its time.

Thanks for posting this. I've just downloaded it and played my first game of Sensible Soccer in almost 30 years. Noticed there's new stadiums and animations to download too. This is just amazing.

I have spent an absolute fortune on games across my 40 odd years of gaming. So in the rare times I want to play something that I can't or don't want to buy, I will do so without feeling in the slightest bit guilty. My conscience is clear. However ,I would never make illegally downloading games my main way of playing.

I can't wait for this to come out. I love the Aleste series. I wish someone would get around to porting the incredible Robo-Aleste, which is still criminally stuck on the MEGA-CD. It's likely only a few thousand have ever played this absolute belter of a shoot em up.

I remember the day well, I had a sore tummy that day. So sore, I was unable to go to school that day, which was a real shame. Fortunately for me, my sore tummy miraculously ceased to exist the moment the Dixons cashier handed me copy of Sonic 2 on that Tuesday morning.

I remember spending many hours playing Pit Fighter on the Megadrive. I knew it wasn't great, far from it in fact, but I had a good time with it. Perhaps the MD port was a little better than the SNES.one?

As bad as these games were at the time, I imagine it would be easy to find ten games on the Eshop that are much worse. You could blindly pick ten random games from Pix Arts enormous library of dross and you'd have a list that tops this one.

I've been considering an Anbernic handheld for a while but I've yet to pull the trigger. Would you say this is the model to go for over the others, or am I perhaps better hanging off for a revised model? They seem to get updated quite often.

@Ambassador_Kong It's Nintendolife not Switchlife.

@Kimimi You are a star for mentioning Robo Aleste. You've just solved a puzzle that has boggled me for a very long time. For many years I've been trying to remember what that excellent 90's vertical shmup involving a flying robot was called. I have asked on forums, searched through lists and even convinced myself that it was a different game. The biggest problem I had it turns out, was thinking I had played it on Saturn or Dreamcast, when in actual fact it was for Mega CD. As soon as I read 'Robo Aleste', I said out loud "That is it, THAT IS IT".

Thank you. Now I really want to play it again.

No Fantasy World Dizzy? That was my favourite one, from what I can remember.

It doesn't say which version of Dizzy they're releasing, Speccy, Amiga or something in between?

My first experience of Turbo Grafx games was on Wii VC,I think I bought most, if not all of them. Absolutely loved Lords of Thunder and Gate of Thunder. It's a shame the latter didn't make it, seems like a glaring omission. I'm sure it'll be hacked in time though, so that's not a problem. Rondo of Blood is my favourite though, superb game. Really tempted to get one.

To be fair, Nintendolife have been running articles on modern retro consoles for several years now. Retro-bit, Polymega etc etc. There will be articles when a new console is revealed, perhaps a hands on as its launch approaches and then finally a review by Damo. Considering how popular retro gaming is with many Nintendo fans and Nintendolifes original crew, plus the age of many of its members, I totally understand why these consoles are covered as well as others like the Neo Geo Mini and Megadrive Mini, despite having nothing to do with Nintendo.

It does seem this Evercade has been getting more coverage than most though and perhaps that is due to some staff being mates with its developers but does it really matter? I'm sure Damo will review it once it's ready and there's no doubt it'll be given an honest review, mates or not. I'm not interested in it myself but it's clearly a passion project rather than something slapped together to make a quick buck. I look forward to see how it reviews!

I wonder what the chances are of 8bitdo or this guy making these controllers compatible with Switch? They would be great for playing SF30th and the AGES games.

@Heavyarms55 Yep download all the way. Considering how the internet speeds are in my area I'm in no position to call for games to be streamed haha