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@delta7890 I'd forgotten about that. You're right, it's unlikely to happen. What a shame.

@AxioMaxiM Some great films there, I think I've seen them all except for Frankenhooker. Never even heard of that till now.

The Supernaturals didn't sound familiar to me, but after looking, wow. I had one of those figures. I haven't thought about this guy for nearly 40 years.

@McCrimmon Wow, it's all coming back to me now.

@FatWormBlowsASparky That sounds vaguely familiar. Pretty sure I had that whatever it was.

You got me thinking about this hardback horror annual I used to have. I hadn't thought about this in decades. I managed to find it in no time, as I rememeber Twins of Evil being one of the tales.

Bookmarked this to read later.

I was really big into horror as a kid, and Freddie Krueger was one of the baddies that creeped me out the most. Him and that damn kid scraping on the window in Salem's Lot. I couldn't sleep after watching that. Yet I must have watched it dozens of times.

From Nightmare on Elm Street, to American Werewolf in London to Evil Dead to Amityville Horror to Poltergeist to Hellraiser to The Fly
to every single Hammer Horror movie and all the 40's and 50's classics like House of Frankenstein and Creature from the Black Lagoon. Man, I watched them all, and a whole lot more, many times over.

Does anyone here remember SCREAM horror comic. Not the well known horror magazine... it was a comic that was only around for 3 months and 15 issues, in 1984. I have never met anyone in real life who remembers it. I'm pretty sure I bought them all, because I definitely had the 1st episode with the free Dracula Fangs, and not a chance I would have missed it after that. It was like a comic made just for me.

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It is looking very good. The part where Robotnik appears and the transition to the stage being under attack, was really well done. And the new moves look like they add to the gameplay.

Hopefully Sega have been quietly working on a new 2D Sonic with the Mania team. Something with entirely new worlds, and much more ambitious.

This is the first of me hearing about this game. I'm reading comments on YouTube, with one person saying they've had it on their Steam wishlist for 10 years!

It's looking very good. I will surely play it if it ever comes to Switch 2.

Virtua Racing is an all time favourite. I remember when I first laid eyes on it in Johnny's Arcade. It was the huge 1-player cab with the cockpit and massive screen. It was the greatest thing I'd ever seen. I never got to play it much in Johnny's though. I was only 14 or 15.

But a couple of years later, my favourite arcade got one of the 2-player cabs, and Daytona not long after. They had both cabs sitting next to each other. Every Saturday afternoon I'd be down there with my mate and we'd be playing both of them. We'd keep track of the results every week. It got really competitive between us.

My hype for the 32X was through the roof because it was launching with Virtua Racing. And it ended up being a pretty impressive port.

When the Sega Ages version launched, it had been over 20 years since I last played it. I was curious to see how it held up and it was just as good as I remembered. Surprisingly so. And this version is amazing. With double the framerate, widescreen and no pop-in, it looks so good. If you enjoy trying to master the 3 tracks, and get a buzz out of shaving a ball hair off your record laptimes, you can play this game for tens of hours. I think I've got over 40 hours on it, and I'm far from mastering the tracks.
In my view, despite having just 3 tracks, it has more depth than many other racers that have dozens of tracks.

@KingMike Excuse the late reply...

That's a funny story. I've saved the video for watching later.

I am always surprised by how good Gameboy Colour games look on the big screen. I really like the big chunky sprites. A cinema screen might be taking it too far though.

It's a really sad state of affairs. The Xbox reset may have been necessary, but rising hardware prices aside, they've mostly brought it on themselves.

Game Pass was probably a mistake, both for Xbox and for the industry as a whole, although they'll never admit it.

The Activision acquisition will most likely prove to have been a mistake too. It'll be interesting to see how well Call of Duty sells on Xbox now that it's no longer a day-one Game Pass title.

Another decision that will likely come back to haunt them is making their biggest IP's multiplatform. It was short term thinking during a difficult generation, that has probably done more long-term damage to the brand than they realise.

And now you've got all the negative reporting around the lay offs - which has just kept coming for a year or two now - and the stripping of beloved studios. There will be Xbox owners who bought the console for ID or Obsidian games.

It's almost a certainty Xbox want to dump physical games too, and have been planning to for years. They will be glad Sony made the first move. But Xbox cannot afford even a fraction of the flack Sony are taking, at this stage. If they are going to do it though, now is probably the time. Saving that news for closer to the launch of their next console, will be the final blow.

@mjparker77 @Atariboy I never knew that. So there's still hope.

I had to Google Hiroaki Yura because I'd never heard of him. I wondered which classic RPG he'd developed that made so many people place their trust in his new project... but it turns out he's a violinist, not a game developer.

How did someone who'd never developed a game before receive so much backing?

@Ristar24 I think it's unlikely we'll ever get Chase HQ via Arcade Archives. The game used real cars like Porsche and Lamborghini,.and had billboards that mimicked real companies. For it to be re-released, Taito or Hamster would need to either secure licensing rights, which will be too expensive to justify, or change the assets in the game. I don't think there are any examples of Hamster doing that with any of their releases so far.

Someone like M2 could do it though. Imagine a Chase HQ Collection with the original game, S.C.I, Super Chase HQ and Chase HQ 2. They could include the console ports as well, and maybe even the spin offs Crime City and Quiz HQ. Or maybe, just maybe, let them make a brand new entry for the collection. Like they did with GG Aleste 3 and Salamander 3.

It reminds me of Road Blasters.
I wonder if we'll ever get that on.Arcade Archives? I never played it back in the day and only actually discovered it after hacking my Wii and downloading a load of Megadrive ROMs. Love it! If I'd owned it on Megadrive, it would have been one of my favourite games on the console.

Games like this is what I've been hoping for from Console Archives. Obscure games I've never heard of, that were on a console I never owned.

13 years! I remember it well. I was really looking forward to it back then. That guy got some stick on his Kickstarter!

I haven't played any of his games yet but I'm happy he's still making them. Takeover 2 looks good , especially with the bonus games. It says in the video more tracks from 90's Arcade Racer might be added, and possibly a spin off if the game does well enough. If it reviews well, I will definitely buy it.

I can't believe you wore a bumbag to the school disco. What were you thinking!

Lucky boy. I used to fantasise about playing my Megadrive on a cinema screen.

Imagine playing Doom or Quake on a cinema screen!

@Atariboy I also hoped it would be added to Arcade Stadium. Perhaps they're saving it for a smaller collection, like Beat Em Up Bundle, or Fighting Game Collection, and like Red Earth, Slipstream will the big selling point.

The Commodore Call Back is one of the worst products in memory. $500 is absurd, for a basic device with zero nostalgia attached to it. I am curious to see how well it does. If they shift over a 1000, I'll be shocked.

The picture of the boy with the football made me think of another 90's game which I had to Google the name of - Marko's Magic Football.
I vaguely remember it being heavily promoted in a Megadriv magazine one month, although I never played it.

I really enjoyed that. I didn't do too well, getting 8 out of 15 right. Half of these games I had never heard of. I'm going to have a look to see how many of them have been released by Hamster.

I didn't know there was a leaderboard at the end. I would have taken it more seriously if I did. I look forward to playing more quizzes like this.

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.