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The amount of people defending this in the comments is disgusting. You can't just nick somebody else's project with a half-baked code-a-like and pretend it's the original bloody thing.

Well, I suppose you can if you're morally and creatively bankrupt, which the retro scene apparantly is happy to be.

Simple fact is this isn't a lost game as it's claiming to be, it's someone hacking together a cheap imitation and presenting it as if it's not. And if your response is "who cares", why the hell are you even commenting? If you don't care, nobody needs your input.

@Vyse_the_Legend I mean, Gran Turismo sold about eleven times what Omega Boost did... what company would look at the two and decide to prioritize an Omega Boost sequel?

@Sketcz The English dictionary also has the word "exception" in it. Did you miss that one?

Weird how there are people like you out there who still don't know unironically throwing "IQ" around is a red flag for someone who thinks they're way smarter than they really are. It's 2026, we know what you are when you say this and "smart" isn't in the collection of words

@Xerox1919 Yeah, I'm sure that's the difference of life and death for a Japanese series selling in the west. Jokes that you personally didn't find funny. You get 'em.

@Sketcz "Why doesn't everyone just do this once in a life time thing that for all intents and purposes shouldn't have even worked out that one time" ah, I love gamer brain sometimes

@The_Nintendo_Expat Rage Racer is definitely a much different game in my opinion. The aesthetics themselves are pretty different as well as how the cars feel to drive.

@Soupbones I personally hope we never stop, because of how upset it makes people who use said AI. If it was the future they all claimed it was, it wouldn't upset them as much that people knew that it was used before putting down their cash.

Fallen Angels is such an interesting game, you can really get the vibe of NESTS-saga King of Fighters from it. Bit of a shame Psikyo's other fighting game in Battle K-Road didn't get thrown in.

@PopetheRev28 While also thinking Nintendo's failures AckTyuAlly aren't failures at the same time lol. "Nuh-uh, N64 didn't fail."

The PSP sold twice as much as the SNES and the Genesis and about the same as Xbox 360 and Game Boy Advance. All those systems were failures, right?

It was a huge shame that Megamix was never truly finished, so this is cool to see.

Shocking: Man addicted to Kool-Aid drinks 573rd glass

I have no real interest in playing something that the creator had no interest in actually creating, but we'll see how it plays out. I predict a pretty bad translation even if they promise to go through it and try to fix it up.

@Guru_Larry "Geese, I can't get a Nintendo 64 on import..."

It's crazy how I used to not care for the Chaotix all that much but as I've grown older I love their shenanigans.

@GodlessPreservation There are still people who think the N64 was a good system. Some things can't be broken.

I keep having to read people going "oh my god, it's such come a long way, we're doomed, we may as well give up, give up guys, stop resisting guys, c'mon guys the future is now guys why are you complaining guys it's so over guys" and it's just like... am I just a hidden genius or something? Because over the past few years I've ALWAYS been able to spot genAI fairly easily and seen relatively few miniscule improvements to the most obvious tells. I don't consider myself especially intelligent so are people parroting this "just give up, it's over, we can't tell anymore" tripe blind?

Rock Band did always feel more mature to me as someone who loved both series. As an IRL drummer, Pro Drums in Rock Band 3 is the most accurate rhythm game drums ever felt to real life.

I suppose DrumMania/GITADORA drums can compete, but man, I just can't read that game's charts for the life of me.

Even if you use a 16:9 screen can't you just put bezel over it to make it look 4:3 and run the games in 4:3? Why don't companies who insist on using 16:9 screens just do that if they're desperate to save those pennies?

@axelhander I'm begging you to stop pointlessly coming into every post about AI to whine about it being "fearmongering".

It looked cheap and bad. People could tell immediately. People don't like cheap and bad. Solve for (x). Maximilian Dood, someone often accused of "toxic positivity", paused the trailer seconds in without having to be told it was AI and said "are you kidding me?"

For me, City of the Wolves is the best current fighting game on the market, I have more fun booting it up and playing sets than I do Street Fighter 6 or Tekken 8. But good lord, is it just in their design document that every time they get people excited, they have to do something stupid as hell to pop that balloon immediately?

DID it get Sega fans excited, though? It's Hyperkin. They're not known for quality...

Wow, how did it-- [sees user ratings] Oh.

Yeah, I'm not surprised. Metacritic user ratings are absolutely worthless. Every game nowadays gets bombed for the most nonsensical reasons. Gran Turismo 7 sat at like a 2 or a 3 for ages iirc. And don't you DARE make a game that becomes the target of the anti-woke YouTubers [read; has a female main character or a rainbow]

I've never enjoyed most RPGs, usually turn-based ones, but I think we all have exceptions to our no-go genres. For me, it's Shining in the Darkness alongside Chrono Trigger.

@Hexapus This style is how pro players use modern Playstation controllers for Tekken and King of Fighters. If it's a four-button fighter, claw style.

The six button Mega Drive and Saturn controllers were also definitely meant to be used with your palm facing down and multiple fingers used ala how you'd play a Street Fighter machine. Shoulder/trigger buttons are the Devil himself for fighting games. Get that SNES pad in the bin.

Money no object and you like the Dreamcast controller, go for it. Money very much an object or you don't like the Dreamcast controller, don't go for it. That's my entire review.

@Coalescence Karl Jobst has always just felt like a grifter making his money off of leeching off whatever was the hot topic at the time, presenting his faux-journalism as fact and doing the typical grifter thing of "I'm Doing This For All You Gamers, I Represent You, An Attack On Me Is An Attack On You". Even when he's happened to choose the right side of history it's rare he ends up not doing more harm than good to the community he decides to pretend to know about. Couldn't tell you how many outsiders pretending to be experts we had to deal with in the Clone Hero community after his BIG SCOOP on Schmooey.

It's 2026 and we still have video game grading discourse? Everybody knows the people buying into this aren't bright. Let them waste their money and win their Darwin awards all they want.

Might have to get the OutRun one if it's only 50 bones.

75 quid for this seems like a good deal. I'm happy to stick to the pre-PS2 generation for my gaming on the go so I might consider this.

@slider1983 "Bluecry is that way dude" the Intellivision Amico discord server is that way, dude

@GrandmauL Who's "they"? The CEO of Woke?

@cawley1 "At this point, you know they suck, and most of their products have issues so just avoid those, and bingo! Stop complaining!" Come on, man. What was even the point of that comment? Why are you acting like the people making fun of them are still active customers who are still buying? We're not. Why did you write "most of their stuff sucks so just avoid that" as if it was some kind of softening defense? What... what were you even /going/ for?

@Eocene84 "woke is when i don't like it" is thankfully dying a deservedly painful death. Even the gaming Twitter grifters have been jabbing their index fingers and going "so, uh... all the minorities, all forgiven, right?" lately.

Is it just me, or has the exact same character in the main article image been in... about a hundred different games?

@AndyVGR Heavily hyper-capitalist, "screw the consumer" companies are the opposite of "woke" actually

Welcome to the internet, where having a different opinion means you were paid off.

While I respect Space Invaders as someone who was born in 1999, I've never found it much fun. It's just... too limited. Much like Galaxian to me. However, it's when you get into the early 80s you start finding games that even people like me absolutely obsess over. Galaga is probably the biggest example, that game's so much fun. Williams games while I find few fun outside of Wizard Of Wor, I like because of how LOUD and FLASHY they are to compensate for perhaps less refined gameplay. Marble Madness is also up there. Then when you get to the mid 80s, Sega's output really starts kicking off and that's where my love truly begins.

Crazy to imagine just being in an arcade at the right place at the right time playing Donkey Kong could lead to you having to demonstrate Nintendo's games in court. I always remember Maximilian Dood's hilarious quote about how you had to present your game in court cases back then when watching a Fighter's History vs Street Fighter 2 copyright case - "Remember, you're presenting this to a judge who is approximately 190 years old. They have never seen a television. Go."

Some people really need to learn that not every single game is meant to be their dream come true. Especially fan projects.

Meet things on its creator's own terms or don't. It's not hard. Things like this get made because the creator just wanted to. Some people really don't like Mega Man 1 compared to the rest of the NES series. Let people that are not you have things.

It's so tiring that you genuinely can't have something like this posted about without the comments being complaining about what it isn't rather than actually giving a damn about what it is.

One thing I feel doesn't get enough love about this game is how unique the final boss is. It's cheap as hell, because 90's arcade fighter, but the sheer spectacle and the hilarious death scene of the cowards when they finally bite the dust make it so memorable. Just love the almost silently comedic fall-splat-HELICOPTER.

Itagaki's passing, Tagawa's passing, Harada leaving Namco after working on the Tekken franchise since the beginning... now Nishimura's also passed. Rough year for fighting games.

Always loved Akuma's menacing grunts in Third Strike, but it has to be the terrifying Bison end boss from Alpha 3 that the man's fighting game legacy shines brightest to me. Probably the most intimidating Bison as a final boss has ever been because for the first and last time in a proper Street Fighter game, continues were disabled at the final boss - lose the match and you get the bad ending. Made it terrifying when you saw the guy with full Super just waiting to unleash that PSYCHO CRUSHAAAAA and take 80% of your health bar.

@ozyr *throw

Your comment history shows all we need to know, really.

Also does anyone else think Sammy Salazar sounds like a name they'd give to one of Don Corneo's perverted goons that Tifa and Aerith beat up or is it just me?

I thought this had already been discovered after scouring TCRF about these games years ago, but maybe they were different debug menus.

... Was SAMMY on Cribs?

Nobody but a tiny amount of nerds like us care or would ever notice, so.

You can tell AI is the future because Tim Sweeney just whined about the fact Steam has an AI tag.

If these slop peddlers were so confident that this is the way forward, why are they so terrified of consumers knowing about it?

Remember, folks, if someone has a differing opinion to you, it means their review is worthless. And if they didn't note an issue you have, it means they never actually played the game. It's me, John Review Reader, here to tell you for the 573rd time why you shouldn't believe anything you see on the internet. Except what I say, of course. I'm different and cool.