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And Taito thinks giving Han Solo a suit and a moustache will totally change him into an original character 🤣

Yep the title is clickbait. Wolfenstein 2009 is one of the least popular games based on id properties and I don't see why MS would even bother to remaster it over RTCW and others. The single-player is decent but multiplayer is widely regarded as a step down from Enemy Territory. I assume it's only getting a barebones rerelease since the legal disputes between id/Bethesda and Raven/Activision got resolved as MS owns them both now.

Isn't Arcade1UP in financial difficulties? They should really reconsider their business model and offer mini arcades for a fraction of the price. Not a lot of people have disposable income for large arcade cabinets nowadays.

Unsurprisingly Sony didn't learn and gave away KPop Demon Hunters to Netflix, and now it's one of the latter's biggest IPs.

Speaking of which, I really wish Nintendo released a SNES equivalent of the Turbo Express and Sega Nomad back into the day.

@PopetheRev28 Same here. The Xbox Series is always worth it for me for its backwards compatibility and developer modes.

@KingMike IMO the DS game pales in comparison to the SNES games. The third game has a plot twist later made famous by a certain Western RPG. The fourth has you start as a dog and body surf into multiple characters in lieu of classes, a concept not used in many RPGs.

It's a shame that the Glory of Heracles games aren't translated officially. The second game is where the story got good, written by Kazushige Nojima who later worked on FF7 and Kingdom Hearts. Glory of Heracles 4 is one of the best RPGs on the SNES and there's an excellent fan translation available.

I thought we already got one, "The Spy Who Shot Me"?

Seems like this collection is composed entirely of Nintendo games. I hope the next collection includes the Turbografx games alongside the lone Genesis and Neo Geo games.

A port for the Super A-Can next?

I can't help but get the feeling that id Software was in already in steady decline once John Carmack left. Sure the Doom and Wolfenstein reboot games are great, but Bethesda never pushed idtech to compete against the Unreal Engine and kept it strictly in-house, limiting the studio's investments in technology. Furthermore management also pushed many games and ideas fans didn't ask for, such as making Quake Champions a hero shooter, and making a Wolfenstein co-op looter shooter.

@gmar I'm disappointed as well with the lack of Momoko 120%, and I'm pretty sure it's over the theme song being a copy of the Urusei Yatsura theme, although the developers could have justed replaced it like the Arcade Archives version of Rainbow Islands.

Wow the graphics look closer to Pole Position than Outrun, even though the latter came out the year before.

So Qubyte Interactive lost the rights?

Still amazes me that Nintendo approved of this but not id Software's better SMB port to MS-DOS.

Speaking of Nicalis, I'm still waiting for the port of 1001 Spikes for Switch which was shown in the launch showcase, and it's still MIA a decade later.

It has nothing on Top Fighter 2000 Mark VIII. Where can you see Goku fighting Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan outside of a bootleg game?

https://youtu.be/mgAPEhtjizk

Even back in 2013 I never believed for a second that Sony is somehow pro-consumer. They were the same company that tried to put rootkits on music CDs, invented the hated Securom DRM that limits how many times PC games can be installed, and even a year earlier screwed the potential of the Vita by using overpriced proprietary memory cards.

@Exerion76 Speaking of which, there are also two bonus games in that collection if you use the Konami code.

Spoilers for those who want to know how to activate it:

Go into the credits menu (bottom right), activate the credits screen (far left), and input the Konami code. It is permanent, but you have to go into the credits menu every time you want to play the game.

@SpaceChurro Yep and all three versions are quite different in their own right. The 360 version is the last one with the original cheesy voice acting, whereas the PSP version is the one with new voice acting, playable Maria, and some changed item locations, at the cost of being really buggy. The PS4 version is based on the PSP version, and there is also a different smartphone version that has all three characters unlocked from the start.

I assume Hard Edge got retitled in the US due to our friend Tim?

It's rather bizarre that Vol 2 only includes the original Breakers but not Breakers Revenge, which makes the original redundant anyway.

Apparently id Software also made a small profit in the Chinese market in the 90s, which was largely impenetrable and rampant with piracy, by offering publishing rights to local publishers for cheap, so id gets $1 per copy sold.

https://romero.smugmug.com/Video-Games/The-Archives/i-WCvJRGX

@Atariboy I'm hoping to see a Capcom Arcade Stadium 3 at some point. There are still some missing games including the entire Buster Bros/Pang games, the Saturday Night Slam Masters sequels, several shmups like Dimahoo and Mars Matrix, plus all the licensed games.

@Futureshark Hamster is still taking its sweet time with Taito's sprite scaling games, and they only released its predecessor driving game Full Throttle/Top Speed earlier this year.

@Quick_Man Carmack also messed up both the Saturn and GBA ports of Doom 1 by forcing the developers to strip out their custom engines and reuse code from older console ports. He's a great programmer but an absolute control freak.

I just want a good port of MS6. The one included In the last collection isn't that good.

The first 3 episodes of Q1 are great, but the final episode feels like a mash of rejected levels grouped together.

I also greatly enjoyed the expansion Dissolution of Eternity with its time travelling theme, and the devs reused the scrapped dragon as the final boss.

@Exerion76 TBH Doom Eternal feels more close to Quake 1 than other Doom games.

Wow the first AA2 exclusive game. I assume the Switch is too weak to run it at acceptable frame rates?

Sadly, as someone from the PAL region it's one of the many games I've missed growing up. Luckily I found the physical Switch copy for a decent price.

@Quick_Man Qubyte has released some bootleg games before, with the copyright infringing material removed. This includes Thunderbolt and Water Margin, and they do have the rights to Brave Battle Saga, Canon, and Legend of Wukong.

@RextheSheep The individual releases from the Piko Interactive range are horrid due to the input lag. The collections are much better and offer way more options.

They're also rereleasing Biomechanical Toy, and I assume the rest of the Gaelco catalogue down the line.

If this hits the Switch eshop I hope owners of the Live Wire version gets a discount.

You should also do one on non-FIFA football game covers, some of the early ones for European PCs are a gold mine.

https://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.com/2017/08/football-game-covers.html

Heh, according to Larry's last video, Monster Energy forced Ubisoft to change the name of Gods & Monsters to Immortals: Fenyx Rising. As if there are chances people can confuse an energy drink with a video game based on Greek mythology.

https://youtu.be/HUpYvWcuMYM

Wow this looks so much better than Aspyr's abomination of a remaster for Deus Ex. Eidos should just scrap that and let Nightdive remaster Deus Ex as well.

@AndorV Ever consider adding Hugo as a bonus character? IIRC back in the day some news sites claimed that he's playable but he's not in the final product.

Also it's worth noting that Atari just announced a remaster of Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee (and a compilation of Barbie games).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZ1-x9Tei4

Hey it's the game Sega copied in the Sonic bonus stages.

ININ should just release an emulated port of the original as an apology.

@HammerGalladeBro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a__4rHXmKJs

And ironically, Shadow the Hedgehog was the last Sonic game he had direct involvement in.

@StyrofoamCup Virtua Racing is available on Switch via Sega Ages though.

As much as I like Ace Driver, I have a feeling that Ace Driver Victory Lap will be out in a couple of months, and it pretty much makes the original game redundant, kinda like Rave Racer to the original Ridge Racer.

I see someone getting 15/15 in the leaderboards but it took them 23 minutes. Hmmm...

@KingMike Yep the first Glory of Heracles game is very experimental. Different weapon types are effective against different types of enemies. It also has a weird save system where only your stats and times are saved, but bosses and treasure chests respawn.

The sequels streamlined the series to be closer to DQ but storytelling got much better thanks to Kazushige Nojima who later went on to write FF7 and and KH. The fourth game is one of the better RPGs on the SNES due to the interesting system where your character can process different NPC characters.

Took me a while to realize that the Japanese Universal has nothing to do with the American Universal.