@firenze I've seen nothing about death threats. Not saying they didn't happen and I certainly don't endorse them in any way, but that's also par for the course with being a person of note in the games industry and they're never credible. I'm not saying that justifies it, it's just sadly the way it is. One of the reasons I barely use any social media anymore.
Maybe scumbag was too loaded a term, but Josh Fairhurst's shall we say, controversies, are well documented and based on those and the fact that he hasn't even denied many of them, I'm inclined to think he's not a good person and I don't have a problem pointing out what many with actual journalistic cred have reported on the subject. I'm not accusing you of cherry-picking, but I'm not just talking random people on Twitter and Reddit here. Companies that have practices such as bad support or missing deadlines or the other things that LRG has done often tend to have bad leadership and/or toxic cultures in them that cause people to have weak morale and at best, not put in their best effort. I've worked at a few places like that myself and seen it first hand. In IT and not gaming, but the concepts are the same.
Of course, if you or anyone else has had good experiences with LRG and wants to continue buying from them, have it it. You do you. I've never claimed that anyone who still supports them is bad or wrong to do so. But my experiences have been awful, as have many others and I do not intend to stop pointing that out, so that others can make informed decisions.
He's not at LRG anymore, which I think is a good thing, though the company's attempts at reforms seem at best, glacial. But he keeps chiming in on things, so I'll keep pointing out why I think is credibility is shaky.
@firenze I call him a scumbag not because of his company's awful track record, but because of the many reports out there of the toxic work culture he created, how he drove many talented people out of the company and the frankly very aggressive means he's gone to in order to defend said company's awful track record.
If you don't care about those things and want to keep buying from LRG, fine. I'd consider buying from them again if they got their act together. They claim to be trying with no real results yet that I've seen. But I don't accept your whataboutism regarding other companies because a) I've never bought from them so I can't speak to personal experience there and b) Even if they are just as scummy, not only are they not what this article is about, but LRG is considered the poster child for this business and they should be raising the bar, not lowering it.
Based on my experience, they have not improved their practices recently. The last thing I ordered from them before writing the blog post I linked in another comment was only a couple of years ago and it took close to two years to receive it. It was a reproduction SNES game, something that companies a fraction of LRG's size like Retrotainment Games have no problem fulfilling much quicker. And while it's good you agree on the CD-R fiasco, this is a boutique publisher selling premium products at premium prices. That should never happen, period and it shouldn't take massive community backlash for them to own up to it.
Kind of embarrassing to be associated with “gamers” who bootlick corporations and their ethically questionable owners like this.
@CopyX1982 On Josh Fairhurst you mean? He's just been known to run his mouth on a lot of things and was known to be a toxic leader who drove a lot of talent out of LRG. And well, this is a link to my own blog (no ads) about why LRG generally sucks: https://geekbravado.com/limited-run-games-sucks-heres-my-reason-why/
I'm at work at the moment so I can't find the best summary of things but if you Google "josh fairhurst controversies", it should point you in the right direction if you want to do a bit of research into it.
In this case, whether one likes the guy or not, I think there's validity to the point he's making.
As a matter of course, I don't give a damn what that scumbag Fairhurst says about most things, but he's probably right here. Boutique physical publishing is just that, boutique and though the fans of it are passionate, it is a very tiny piece of the industry and there are probably more people doing it that it can sustain.
I am curious what the killing of physical games (at least for PlayStation but let's be real, it's coming for Xbox too and I'd be shocked if Switch 3 or whatever has a card slot) is going to do to these companies. I wonder if the other things they tend to bundle with their editions will be enough to keep fans interested when it's just a code in the box.
I get the idea behind this and New Commodore's want to not just be a retro products company, but they've made this "digital detox" thing part of their corporate mandate and it just comes across as a bit pretentious to me and not really something in line with what they're trying to achieve. If Parafractic wants to start a new brand around this idea, cool but I feel like he's diluting the purpose of Commodore that people associate with that brand with initiatives like this. But if people don't buy it, they'll learn the lesson quickly enough. I definitely won't be. I have a regular smartphone and it's easy enough to uninstall apps I don't want and I just avoid the cesspool of social media by and large.
That's because it is. The models largely being used today were trained almost wholesale on other people's stolen work. It may not be generating exact copies of the stolen work but without it, it wouldn't be able to make anything. Yet somehow, blanket theft is OK when Scam Altman and Wario Amodei do it.
Were one to come out, I'd definitely love to hear a behind the scenes of how it ended up this way. I covered a lot of ININ's releases on YouTube back when I did that and most of their stuff is usually decent, if not pretty solid. There's definitely an untold story here.
@h3s I've ordered plenty of AliExpress stuff reliably, but I find when looking for "brand name" stuff like these drives, many people often either get the wrong model or a model that doesn't have the right firmware, despite what was advertised. Not saying you're guaranteed to get scammed, it's just a risk, especially when they're still charging $150+ for the drives.
I'm from Canada, but every listing I could find for these drives on Amazon, Newegg and elsewhere shows unavailable. LG and ASUS still have product pages for the drives, but they don't seem to be active SKUs anymore.
@ddlevine I personally don't care about violating an outdated law written by people who didn't understand the technology they were regulating, but from what I can tell, you are right. You are legally allowed to make backup copies of media you own, but you aren't legally allowed under the DMCA to bypass encryption to do so. I'm Canadian so the DMCA doesn't apply to me, though our copyright law doesn't allow it either. Not the case worldwide though.
@h3s Yeah, USB-based peripherals are always tricky like that because as you say, the USB chipset introduces its own layer of communication that isn't always standards compliant. It sucks cause I have a barely used Pioneer 3.5" drive, but it's not compatible. The only ones on the supported list I can find for anything approaching sane pricing are on AliExpress, which it's a crap shoot if you'll get what you order and they're still like $150.
If you still have a PC with one of these drives, hold onto it because you're sitting on a gold mine. I tried to find one of the models in the compatibility list for this project and they've all been discontinued and are already selling for massive markups, if you can find them at all.
Wish there was somewhere to pre-order the Ultimate set in Canada. I had to order it from Plaion, which is already a gut punch for currency conversion and the import fees will be worse.
Question that maybe people here would know: Does the Ultimate package include a memory card? It doesn't look like it based on the web site. If not, are you able to save games and scores directly on the console or do you need a separate memory card? Really hoping that if you do require one, that they didn't fail to include that in the supposed "Ultimate" package.
LRG is a terrible company, in no small part because Josh Fairhurst is a terrible person and had an iron grip on the place. Everyone deserves a second chance, but they have a LOT of work to do to earn my trust back before I'd give them a dime again. It is interesting to me though that they announce this shortly after Fairhurst left so maybe they can finally do the things they've known they needed to for years.
Nintendo being as notoriously litigious as they are, I would love to see them go after this the same way they go after fan emulators that do essentially no brand damage. There is no way this classifies as Fair Use and as far as I know, government entities are not exempt from copyright law.
As it should be. I'm frankly surprised that Google cared to deindex them given how much AI slop dominates results now. Meanwhile, my hobby blog that is completely written by me is completely unindexed by Google despite meeting all their requirements (and Bing having no problem indexing it) and they refuse to tell me why.
I didn't know The Escapist got sold yet again, but that site has been under a constant string of failed management almost since its inception. I think literally every company that has owned the brand has either gone bankrupt or is very close to it. I'm amazed it's still going at all.
It wasn't a failure in terms of unit sales. However, a lot of game developers and publishers do consider it a failure and many abandoned it for the second half of its life because piracy became so easy and so rampant that developing a commercial PSP game was almost guaranteed to be a money losing proposition. I used to have friends who sold jailbreaking services on local classified sites. They weren't techies at all, but it literally took them like 20 minutes to soft mod a PSP and they could sell the services for $50 a pop.
Horrible company made that way by his horrible leadership. Maybe with him gone, they'll become a place I'd remotely consider giving my money to again since publishers keep partnering with them for some baffling reason.
@MapsBam Yeah OK bud. I've got better things to do than spend my Friday arguing with someone who only registered their account this morning to spew nonsense in this thread. That should tell people here all about your intentions, assuming you're not just a bot. I hope you never have to end up in the place Rebecca has. Peace.
@MapsBam You're projecting if you think I believe Democrats are perfect. They are merely the lesser of two evils. Much lesser in this particular case.
And no, insurance is not universally affordable. Speaking of propaganda. It's funny that when you could have just wished her well, you instead chose to focus on regurgitating falsehoods about the US healthcare system hocked by grifters instead. Speaking of things that make you go hmmmm.
@MapsBam A few thousand dollars? Do you have any concept of what American health care costs or how expensive insurance is, especially for the self-employed? And how is she supposed to get government assistance when Trump just shut down the government because Democrats are fighting wait for it...massive health care cuts!
My best to her. An OG game dev legend who deserves better.
Absolutely loved this game. Beat it on my now dormant YouTube channel many years back. Still amazing to me that it was a launch window title with everything they did. The soundtrack is still one of the best on the SNES.
@NoirConceit Read this site's original story about Barcadia closing. Most of the claims being thrown around were BS made up by trolls. I mean sure, you have to take his word on that, but none of the actual Barcadia staff have made any claims of non-payment.
Short version: This Italian company is run by some very shady people who are almost certainly lying about what they do and don't own. And I say that as someone who is only cautiously optimistic about Perifractic's new Commodore.
@nocdaes We have several of these kinds of arcades where I live in Canada. Most charge between $10 and $20 for all you can play, not per hour. If you want to draw in more than hardcore retro people (many of whom know how to use emulators), you have to have a low barrier to entry.
What these places do to make up the difference is selling food and booze. I've talked to a few operators because I briefly toyed with the idea of opening one myself and they said the entry fees only help cover some costs, the food, booze and sometimes, merch is where the actual profit is generated. Much like with movie theatres who make nothing on the tickets, but make profit on the overpriced popcorn and pop.
If you intend to survive on just entry fees and especially if you're charging by the hour (I'm curious how he's enforcing that), you're either probably not going to survive or will have to operate in a very cheap area.
I have zero love for Karl Jobst, between his major shift towards being a drama channel and the scumbag companies he advertises to an audience with more than a few young people in it, but that Mitchell managed to win this is a complete miscarriage of justics.
This is like the third time the name has been resurrected. It came back as a free-to-play publisher that blew up similarly to the original one, an indie studio in Montreal that makes new games for the NES was using the name (curious how that worked out), and now this. It's funny to me because while it's a name many in retro circles remember, it's often also remembered for publishing a lot of shovelware.
Didn't expect an article from Time Extension to hit me in the feels, but here we are. I still play games with friends online all the time and love it, plus I play a lot of single player stuff too. But I agree, it's just not the same. I used to play games in person with friends all the time in the 80s and 90s and even in the 2000s, I remember hanging with my buddy and his stoner friends in the house they shared, playing hours and hours of 4 player Gamecube games. It was a blast and something I still treasure greatly. Time to get some people over for some retro nights I think.
Many don't remember Dune as much as Dune II, but it was also excellent and a very different game. His soundtrack was also incredible and some of the most creative use of MIDI ever put into a game. I highly recommend picking up his remaster on Bandcamp and trying the game if you can find it. A true legend lost. 😟
Initial reports said they were wholly rebranding, but I'm glad that like when Focus Entertainment's parent become Pullup (seriously, wut?), that the names people know are being kept.
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Re: "To Enter Now Would Be A Deathwish" - Limited Run's Ex-Boss Thinks Boutique Physical Publishing Is "Oversaturated"
@firenze I've seen nothing about death threats. Not saying they didn't happen and I certainly don't endorse them in any way, but that's also par for the course with being a person of note in the games industry and they're never credible. I'm not saying that justifies it, it's just sadly the way it is. One of the reasons I barely use any social media anymore.
Maybe scumbag was too loaded a term, but Josh Fairhurst's shall we say, controversies, are well documented and based on those and the fact that he hasn't even denied many of them, I'm inclined to think he's not a good person and I don't have a problem pointing out what many with actual journalistic cred have reported on the subject. I'm not accusing you of cherry-picking, but I'm not just talking random people on Twitter and Reddit here. Companies that have practices such as bad support or missing deadlines or the other things that LRG has done often tend to have bad leadership and/or toxic cultures in them that cause people to have weak morale and at best, not put in their best effort. I've worked at a few places like that myself and seen it first hand. In IT and not gaming, but the concepts are the same.
Of course, if you or anyone else has had good experiences with LRG and wants to continue buying from them, have it it. You do you. I've never claimed that anyone who still supports them is bad or wrong to do so. But my experiences have been awful, as have many others and I do not intend to stop pointing that out, so that others can make informed decisions.
He's not at LRG anymore, which I think is a good thing, though the company's attempts at reforms seem at best, glacial. But he keeps chiming in on things, so I'll keep pointing out why I think is credibility is shaky.
Re: "To Enter Now Would Be A Deathwish" - Limited Run's Ex-Boss Thinks Boutique Physical Publishing Is "Oversaturated"
@firenze I call him a scumbag not because of his company's awful track record, but because of the many reports out there of the toxic work culture he created, how he drove many talented people out of the company and the frankly very aggressive means he's gone to in order to defend said company's awful track record.
If you don't care about those things and want to keep buying from LRG, fine. I'd consider buying from them again if they got their act together. They claim to be trying with no real results yet that I've seen. But I don't accept your whataboutism regarding other companies because a) I've never bought from them so I can't speak to personal experience there and b) Even if they are just as scummy, not only are they not what this article is about, but LRG is considered the poster child for this business and they should be raising the bar, not lowering it.
Based on my experience, they have not improved their practices recently. The last thing I ordered from them before writing the blog post I linked in another comment was only a couple of years ago and it took close to two years to receive it. It was a reproduction SNES game, something that companies a fraction of LRG's size like Retrotainment Games have no problem fulfilling much quicker. And while it's good you agree on the CD-R fiasco, this is a boutique publisher selling premium products at premium prices. That should never happen, period and it shouldn't take massive community backlash for them to own up to it.
Kind of embarrassing to be associated with “gamers” who bootlick corporations and their ethically questionable owners like this.
Re: "To Enter Now Would Be A Deathwish" - Limited Run's Ex-Boss Thinks Boutique Physical Publishing Is "Oversaturated"
@CopyX1982 On Josh Fairhurst you mean? He's just been known to run his mouth on a lot of things and was known to be a toxic leader who drove a lot of talent out of LRG. And well, this is a link to my own blog (no ads) about why LRG generally sucks: https://geekbravado.com/limited-run-games-sucks-heres-my-reason-why/
I'm at work at the moment so I can't find the best summary of things but if you Google "josh fairhurst controversies", it should point you in the right direction if you want to do a bit of research into it.
In this case, whether one likes the guy or not, I think there's validity to the point he's making.
Re: "To Enter Now Would Be A Deathwish" - Limited Run's Ex-Boss Thinks Boutique Physical Publishing Is "Oversaturated"
As a matter of course, I don't give a damn what that scumbag Fairhurst says about most things, but he's probably right here. Boutique physical publishing is just that, boutique and though the fans of it are passionate, it is a very tiny piece of the industry and there are probably more people doing it that it can sustain.
I am curious what the killing of physical games (at least for PlayStation but let's be real, it's coming for Xbox too and I'd be shocked if Switch 3 or whatever has a card slot) is going to do to these companies. I wonder if the other things they tend to bundle with their editions will be enough to keep fans interested when it's just a code in the box.
Re: Random: "This Is Cringeworthy" - Commodore's Callback 8020 Holster Gets Ridiculed By Fans
I get the idea behind this and New Commodore's want to not just be a retro products company, but they've made this "digital detox" thing part of their corporate mandate and it just comes across as a bit pretentious to me and not really something in line with what they're trying to achieve. If Parafractic wants to start a new brand around this idea, cool but I feel like he's diluting the purpose of Commodore that people associate with that brand with initiatives like this. But if people don't buy it, they'll learn the lesson quickly enough. I definitely won't be. I have a regular smartphone and it's easy enough to uninstall apps I don't want and I just avoid the cesspool of social media by and large.
Re: "It Feels Like Intellectual Theft" - Bitmap Bureau Isn't A Fan Of GenAI
That's because it is. The models largely being used today were trained almost wholesale on other people's stolen work. It may not be generating exact copies of the stolen work but without it, it wouldn't be able to make anything. Yet somehow, blanket theft is OK when Scam Altman and Wario Amodei do it.
Re: "It Feels Like Intellectual Theft" - Bitmap Bureau Isn't A Fan Of GenAI
@mariteaux Breaking news: Look in the mirror. At least some measure of actual effort went into the article.
Re: R-Type III SNES's Original Director "Deeply Concerned" With Launch Quality Of ININ Games' Recent Remake
Were one to come out, I'd definitely love to hear a behind the scenes of how it ended up this way. I covered a lot of ININ's releases on YouTube back when I did that and most of their stuff is usually decent, if not pretty solid. There's definitely an untold story here.
Re: "The GBA Is So Back" - Gradius Advance Gets A Comprehensive Fan-Made Upgrade
Still have my copy of Gradius Advance. Love that game! Looking forward to trying this out.
Re: You Can Now Legally Rip Your Wii, GameCube, Wii And Xbox Discs Using A Blu-Ray Drive
@h3s I've ordered plenty of AliExpress stuff reliably, but I find when looking for "brand name" stuff like these drives, many people often either get the wrong model or a model that doesn't have the right firmware, despite what was advertised. Not saying you're guaranteed to get scammed, it's just a risk, especially when they're still charging $150+ for the drives.
I'm from Canada, but every listing I could find for these drives on Amazon, Newegg and elsewhere shows unavailable. LG and ASUS still have product pages for the drives, but they don't seem to be active SKUs anymore.
Re: You Can Now Legally Rip Your Wii, GameCube, Wii And Xbox Discs Using A Blu-Ray Drive
@Lanmanna $150-$250, even on places like AliExpress. I haven't looked super hard, but that was the average after about 30 minutes of looking into it.
Re: You Can Now Legally Rip Your Wii, GameCube, Wii And Xbox Discs Using A Blu-Ray Drive
@DanijoEX Let us know if you can find one and at a semi-sane price. I haven't had any luck so far.
Re: You Can Now Legally Rip Your Wii, GameCube, Wii And Xbox Discs Using A Blu-Ray Drive
@ddlevine I personally don't care about violating an outdated law written by people who didn't understand the technology they were regulating, but from what I can tell, you are right. You are legally allowed to make backup copies of media you own, but you aren't legally allowed under the DMCA to bypass encryption to do so. I'm Canadian so the DMCA doesn't apply to me, though our copyright law doesn't allow it either. Not the case worldwide though.
Re: You Can Now Legally Rip Your Wii, GameCube, Wii And Xbox Discs Using A Blu-Ray Drive
@h3s Yeah, USB-based peripherals are always tricky like that because as you say, the USB chipset introduces its own layer of communication that isn't always standards compliant. It sucks cause I have a barely used Pioneer 3.5" drive, but it's not compatible. The only ones on the supported list I can find for anything approaching sane pricing are on AliExpress, which it's a crap shoot if you'll get what you order and they're still like $150.
Re: You Can Now Legally Rip Your Wii, GameCube, Wii And Xbox Discs Using A Blu-Ray Drive
If you still have a PC with one of these drives, hold onto it because you're sitting on a gold mine. I tried to find one of the models in the compatibility list for this project and they've all been discontinued and are already selling for massive markups, if you can find them at all.
Re: "Humbling And Deeply Inspiring" - Neo Geo+ Production Forecasts Increased After "Overwhelming" Response
Wish there was somewhere to pre-order the Ultimate set in Canada. I had to order it from Plaion, which is already a gut punch for currency conversion and the import fees will be worse.
Re: Guide: Where To Pre-Order The Neo Geo+ AES
@sdelfin OK thanks. I couldn't tell from Plaion's site soci wanted to make sure.
Re: Guide: Where To Pre-Order The Neo Geo+ AES
Question that maybe people here would know: Does the Ultimate package include a memory card? It doesn't look like it based on the web site. If not, are you able to save games and scores directly on the console or do you need a separate memory card? Really hoping that if you do require one, that they didn't fail to include that in the supposed "Ultimate" package.
Re: "We Know Trust Is Something You Earn Over Time" - Limited Run Games Reveals "Renewed Fan-First Focus"
@NeonPizza Can't argue with you there.
Re: "We Know Trust Is Something You Earn Over Time" - Limited Run Games Reveals "Renewed Fan-First Focus"
@Bod2019 I so wish they'd do this. I really want a physical edition of Earthion, but LRG is an instant no go.
Re: "We Know Trust Is Something You Earn Over Time" - Limited Run Games Reveals "Renewed Fan-First Focus"
LRG is a terrible company, in no small part because Josh Fairhurst is a terrible person and had an iron grip on the place. Everyone deserves a second chance, but they have a LOT of work to do to earn my trust back before I'd give them a dime again. It is interesting to me though that they announce this shortly after Fairhurst left so maybe they can finally do the things they've known they needed to for years.
My story and one of MANY with this company: https://geekbravado.com/limited-run-games-sucks-heres-my-reason-why/
Re: "War Is Not A Video Game" - White House Social Media Post Mixing Iran War Footage With Nintendo's 'Wii Sports' Triggers Outcry
Nintendo being as notoriously litigious as they are, I would love to see them go after this the same way they go after fan emulators that do essentially no brand damage. There is no way this classifies as Fair Use and as far as I know, government entities are not exempt from copyright law.
Re: This Long-Running Website Has Apparently Been Nuked From Google Thanks To AI-Written Resident Evil Review
As it should be. I'm frankly surprised that Google cared to deindex them given how much AI slop dominates results now. Meanwhile, my hobby blog that is completely written by me is completely unindexed by Google despite meeting all their requirements (and Bing having no problem indexing it) and they refuse to tell me why.
I didn't know The Escapist got sold yet again, but that site has been under a constant string of failed management almost since its inception. I think literally every company that has owned the brand has either gone bankrupt or is very close to it. I'm amazed it's still going at all.
Re: Roguecraft DX Is Available Now On Amiga, Mega65 And Game Boy Color
Picked up the Amiga and C65 versions last night. Really looking forward to trying this out on my Amiga 1200.
Re: Apparently, The PSP Counts As A Failure To Some People Now
It wasn't a failure in terms of unit sales. However, a lot of game developers and publishers do consider it a failure and many abandoned it for the second half of its life because piracy became so easy and so rampant that developing a commercial PSP game was almost guaranteed to be a money losing proposition. I used to have friends who sold jailbreaking services on local classified sites. They weren't techies at all, but it literally took them like 20 minutes to soft mod a PSP and they could sell the services for $50 a pop.
Re: "Flex Is In Spec, Buckling Is Not" - Commodore Addresses Quality Control Concerns With Its C64 Ultimate
I have one of these on order that hasn't shipped yet. I'm curious if they'll change this to units already in production or not.
Re: "Limited Run Games Has Been My Life For Ten Years" - Josh Fairhurst Announces He's Stepping Away
@SpacemanSpliffz Oh yes, I know those well.
Re: "Limited Run Games Has Been My Life For Ten Years" - Josh Fairhurst Announces He's Stepping Away
@SpacemanSpliffz Legal trouble?
Re: "Limited Run Games Has Been My Life For Ten Years" - Josh Fairhurst Announces He's Stepping Away
Horrible company made that way by his horrible leadership. Maybe with him gone, they'll become a place I'd remotely consider giving my money to again since publishers keep partnering with them for some baffling reason.
Re: Random: I'm Kicking Myself That I Didn't Know This Fact About The Classic Konami Logo Screen
Well, this is some Mandela Effect stuff right here...
Re: Team Ninja Founder & Dead Or Alive Creator Tomonobu Itagaki Has Passed Away
Tragic loss. Some absolute gems attributed to him. RIP.
Re: Gaming Legend Rebecca Heineman Could Really Do With Your Positive Vibes Right Now
@MapsBam Yeah OK bud. I've got better things to do than spend my Friday arguing with someone who only registered their account this morning to spew nonsense in this thread. That should tell people here all about your intentions, assuming you're not just a bot. I hope you never have to end up in the place Rebecca has. Peace.
Re: Gaming Legend Rebecca Heineman Could Really Do With Your Positive Vibes Right Now
@MapsBam You're projecting if you think I believe Democrats are perfect. They are merely the lesser of two evils. Much lesser in this particular case.
And no, insurance is not universally affordable. Speaking of propaganda. It's funny that when you could have just wished her well, you instead chose to focus on regurgitating falsehoods about the US healthcare system hocked by grifters instead. Speaking of things that make you go hmmmm.
Re: Gaming Legend Rebecca Heineman Could Really Do With Your Positive Vibes Right Now
@MapsBam A few thousand dollars? Do you have any concept of what American health care costs or how expensive insurance is, especially for the self-employed? And how is she supposed to get government assistance when Trump just shut down the government because Democrats are fighting wait for it...massive health care cuts!
My best to her. An OG game dev legend who deserves better.
Re: Limited Run Games CEO Obtains Rights To Several FMV Games By Night Trap Dev Digital Pictures
I hate that LRG and Josh Fairhurst continue to succeed despite the well documented scumminess of both. Been burned by this company twice, never again.
Re: Game Changer: Super Castlevania IV - Why Simon Belmont's 16-bit Debut Is A Stone-Cold Classic
Absolutely loved this game. Beat it on my now dormant YouTube channel many years back. Still amazing to me that it was a launch window title with everything they did. The soundtrack is still one of the best on the SNES.
Re: "I Lost Myself" - Nostalgia Nerd Opens Up On "Starting Again"
@NoirConceit Read this site's original story about Barcadia closing. Most of the claims being thrown around were BS made up by trolls. I mean sure, you have to take his word on that, but none of the actual Barcadia staff have made any claims of non-payment.
Re: Despite Its Recent "Rebirth", All Is Not Well In The World Of Commodore
@skipperfly He also has a written version of that with more detail too: https://www.nostalgianerd.com/commodore-heist
Short version: This Italian company is run by some very shady people who are almost certainly lying about what they do and don't own. And I say that as someone who is only cautiously optimistic about Perifractic's new Commodore.
Re: "It's A Middle Finger To Everybody" - Producer Behind Netflix's Castlevania And Devil May Cry Series Is Working On Duke Nukem Next
This will either be great or a glorious trainwreck. Either way, I look forward to it.
Re: This Classic Ghostbusters Game Is Getting A Fan-Made Remaster
Played Ghostbusters so much back in the day on the C64. Definitely interested in seeing where this goes!
Re: "It's Just Not Working" - FreePlay Arcade Will Close Its Doors Later This Month
@nocdaes We have several of these kinds of arcades where I live in Canada. Most charge between $10 and $20 for all you can play, not per hour. If you want to draw in more than hardcore retro people (many of whom know how to use emulators), you have to have a low barrier to entry.
What these places do to make up the difference is selling food and booze. I've talked to a few operators because I briefly toyed with the idea of opening one myself and they said the entry fees only help cover some costs, the food, booze and sometimes, merch is where the actual profit is generated. Much like with movie theatres who make nothing on the tickets, but make profit on the overpriced popcorn and pop.
If you intend to survive on just entry fees and especially if you're charging by the hour (I'm curious how he's enforcing that), you're either probably not going to survive or will have to operate in a very cheap area.
Re: Limited Run Refutes Accusation It Violated GPL In Tomba! Special Edition
If Josh Fairhurst is claiming it, it's almost certainly a lie.
Curious why the investigative video I sent in on LRG last week didn't get picked up here. Or anywhere else.
Re: Toaplan's Tiger-Heli Is Getting A New Port For The Atari 2600+ & Atari 7800+
OMG, why does Atari's store still not ship to Canada?! 😭
Re: Billy Mitchell Has Won His Defamation Lawsuit Against The YouTuber Karl Jobst
I have zero love for Karl Jobst, between his major shift towards being a drama channel and the scumbag companies he advertises to an audience with more than a few young people in it, but that Mitchell managed to win this is a complete miscarriage of justics.
Re: "We Owe You An Apology" - Hyperkin Admits It Has "Overpromised And Under-Delivered"
The proof will be on the pudding in the end, but this is about as honest and "non-corpo" a statement as you could ask for.
Re: Company Behind The X68000 Z Range Wants To Know If Global Players Will Buy Them
Done and done! I've been following these from Canada and would LOVE an ability to buy one without importing, which costs a fortune for us.
Re: More Than 20 Years Later, Acclaim Is Back From The Dead, And WWE Legend Jeff Jarrett Is Involved
This is like the third time the name has been resurrected. It came back as a free-to-play publisher that blew up similarly to the original one, an indie studio in Montreal that makes new games for the NES was using the name (curious how that worked out), and now this. It's funny to me because while it's a name many in retro circles remember, it's often also remembered for publishing a lot of shovelware.
Re: Please, Please, Please Treasure Your Offline Multiplayer Buddy
Didn't expect an article from Time Extension to hit me in the feels, but here we are. I still play games with friends online all the time and love it, plus I play a lot of single player stuff too. But I agree, it's just not the same. I used to play games in person with friends all the time in the 80s and 90s and even in the 2000s, I remember hanging with my buddy and his stoner friends in the house they shared, playing hours and hours of 4 player Gamecube games. It was a blast and something I still treasure greatly. Time to get some people over for some retro nights I think.
Re: Dune, Lost Eden And MegaRace Composer Stéphane Picq Has Passed Away Aged 59
Many don't remember Dune as much as Dune II, but it was also excellent and a very different game. His soundtrack was also incredible and some of the most creative use of MIDI ever put into a game. I highly recommend picking up his remaster on Bandcamp and trying the game if you can find it. A true legend lost. 😟
Re: Don't Worry, Team17 Isn't Changing Its Name
@Guru_Larry Oof, I hope that doesn't happen.
Initial reports said they were wholly rebranding, but I'm glad that like when Focus Entertainment's parent become Pullup (seriously, wut?), that the names people know are being kept.