I enjoyed the Epic Mickey games despite their flaws, but I wish Spector continued with a few more immersive sims in the style of Deus Ex. Then again, DX Mankind Divided, Dishonored 2, and Prey all flopped in sales despite receiving great reviews, it's as if gamers would rather pay for the same recycled COD games every year.

@Andee That's what annoys me about Sega. They seem to half arse their retro catalogue, with many of their System 32 games almost never seeing any modern rereleases. They don't collaborate with Arcade Archives either and abruptly cancelled their Sega Ages line despite fan requests. They are far more interested in embedding their retro games inside the Yakuza games.

@Andee I assume it's because it's much easier to port the Genesis version, which many consider to be superior in terms of content. IIRC the arcade original was only included in the Sega Vintage Collection and Astro City Mini.

@mjparker77 Right now you can get it as part of the Super Technos World collection, along with Combatribes, Shadow Force, Super Dodgeball Neo Geo, and several others.

The art of the worms in Worms 1 is creepy but also endearing in a way. They look far better in the Worms 2 games after the devs got rid of their noses and wrinkles.

The annoying thing about the arcade version is that half of the characters are digitized sprites and the other half isn't. Good thing the PS1 version has some unlockable extras so all characters can look like pixel characters.

@h3s Yeah if you want a more purist experience, you can also turn off the UI enhancements. The emulation of the Jalecolle series are far more consistent than Digital Eclipse's.

@h3s I just checked, you can turn rewind off.

@Moroboshi876 The Last Ninja apparently doesn't count, since its part of the Jalecolle NES series and its number is JCN-01, and the upcoming Boy and His Blob is likely JCN-02. Shatterhand is part of the Jalecolle Famicom series and its number is JCF-09, so when Esper Boukentai releases it's almost certain going to be JCF-10.

Edit: The page is now live, and apparently Shatterhand is JCN-02 since it doesn't include the Japanese version Solbrain which is a licensed game, and Boy and His Blob is JCF-10 instead since it does have a Famicom version.

@Johnny_Arthur They don't own all of the games in the Jalecolle range, kinda like how Hamster doesn't own all of the Arcade Archives games. City Connection previously published the NES version of The Last Ninja and is going to publish A Boy and His Blob soon.

Also the next games per the City Connection stream are Esper Boukentai (an action RPG spinoff of Psychic 5) and A Boy and His Blob (which is already available via LRG collection).

https://www.youtube.com/live/ybwmWVgmTX0

@JackGYarwood can you please update the article to reflect it?

Ironically, Lucasarts was the one which got Star Fox 64 renamed to Lylat Wars in Europe to avoid confusion with Star Wars, per @Guru_Larry

Hey at least Kevin Costner didn't interfere in the production of the gameplay, unlike like Arnold Schwarzenegger who demanded that the creators of Last Action Hero remove all guns from the tie-in game, resulting in a boring beat-em-up.

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.