Didn't bother to put the disclaimer on it because they know there's still a sizeable chunk of gamers who don't want to Consume Product. They'd rather lie by omission than risk whatever amount of sales it would cost them.

How is it that the richer the corporation, the more of a whore they act?

He was the 1PW guy?! Well, that checks out. Never thought that story would come up in retro gaming controversy.

This reminds me of the Gran Turismo 4 cheats that took ages to discover. Neat work.

Thankfully the US art for Street Fighter 2 is still mostly good but so many other games got screwed. Like, for games like Mega Man or Strider, it was like "did this artist even SEE the original art? Or the character themselves? Or the GAME?"

I see the genAI convo speedran from "limp-wristed defending of its use" to "I know I'm lazy and wouldn't even bother creating if this couldn't do it for me, lmao. Don't care mate"

I'm so tired, man.

I just can't wrap my head around the controls they've gone with. With a proper d-pad and six buttons it feels like this would instantly shoot up from a 3/10 to like a 6/10. Still a "think long and hard about it" kind of purchase, but an immediate vast improvement. What were they thinking?

You know it's rough when the reviewer has to put "it's something different" in the pros. I think even they felt bad about how rough this thing is and the rightful score they had to give it.

My favourite detail about this is that Sega kinda badly botched the launch of the Master System in the UK - but Nintendo botched the launch of the NES in the UK even harder and thus Sega won out lmao.

As someone not perverted but curious, I do wonder about the history of nudity in arcade games that aren't just completely pornographic like all the strip mahjong games or Qix clones.

I remember distinctly a hidden easter egg in Real Bout Fatal Fury where if you got a ring out in a very specific way on the docks stage, you'd actually see Blue Mary's bare breasts for a very brief moment before she panicked and went back under the water to put her top on. It made me wonder in a post-ESRB world how they got away with it - but I guess it was just THAT obscure an easter egg.

The people demand more Kim Justice, and so it shall be written.

SF4Enhanced is vibe coded trash. Go with Embers.

Huge shame. Project Gotham was THE Xbox racing franchise for me. Many good memories.

@Reechard "Everyone draws the line of what's acceptable just beneath what they're doing themselves." - Tom Scott

Frankly I'm glad they just said "eff it" and moved a year out. Everybody's sick of delays where it's like "just around the corner guys!" and it moves a dozen times. Least this is a transparent "it ain't coming anytime soon".

When the bombs drop and we're all in the goddamn ground, the only two things somehow remaining will be TNA Wrestling and the Intellivision Amico "still being active".

@jygsaw Fansubs were like cracktros back then - it just wasn't one without an unnecessary comment about how another group sucked LOL

Getting real bored of making new titles in beloved-but-niche IPs, completely missing the mark on them, and then I imagine the takeaway will be "GUESS NOBODY CARES ABOUT RENT-A-HERO" instead of "MAYBE WE SHOULD'VE MADE IT AN ACTUAL GAME".

That artwork is /hideous/.

@Zebetite Surprised none of them have thrown the classic "why can't you create an entirely other website solely so I, a sensitive person, will have no chance of having to read anything anti-AI" yet.

He isn't dead, he's just gone to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.

... SPACE!

@xzacutor He played the first two extensively during development as special segments during the seasons when they were being made. He's never officially challenged them but given that they're actually Game Center CX games in Japan they probably don't feel the need.

Damn, I've been watching Game Center CX long enough to remember Arino quipping about being unsure they should be playing a PS1 game because it's not that old lmao.

I feel like Golden Axe could have a fun Avatar The Last Airbender type adventure series. It could be really funny without actually being a comedy show.

It's one thing for non-artists to be flooding music platforms with genAI slop but to be doing it under the name of real artists is absolutely disgusting. If you're doing that, you already KNOW what you're putting out there is tripe.

I love having both options. Corporations only want us to have one. There's nothing wrong with digital media in itself - far from it, it's kinda superior in almost everyway. The problems mostly just stem from corporate restriction. The reason PC has gotten away with basically being digital-only for years is places like Steam and GOG that have earned the trust for that. Not so much console stuff yet. Prove people can trust you, and people will trust you.

I will say that while the game is by no means impossible, my shmup benchmark of difficulty is my all-time favourite Gradius, and this is harder than that. And many people who aren't shmup-brained consider Gradius a nightmare. So I get why it got the reputation - and the AVGN bump doesn't help matters.

James just wanted to make funny videos while playing a character that's miserable about video games, man. He didn't think people would actually end up absorbing it and regurgitating it as faux-criticism.

GO HOME TO YOUR MOTHER... NICK.

DARN IT!

@slider1983 Present company included?

This is somehow Pat and Ian's fault.

This goes beyond huffing your own farts at this point. This is gorilla-gluing your face to your ass.

@Guru_Larry It is, yeah. Tatsumi repurposed TX-1 cabs for Buggy Boy iirc

@AndyVGR if they did that, would you and the people like you who post this on every article that even dares to mention AI sod off?

@Cronodoug There were a dozen articles posted today that had nothing to do with AI - Am I to assume you have some rare inability to just click those?

"Game delay bad good design game forever game delay" - Hideo Kojimbo

@zazou703 Maybe you should just not click things that don't interest you

@Deway "Everyone wants to shred a guitar solo, nobody wants to pick up the damn guitar and learn how" as I've said to a friend of mine who's just getting into learning.

"We're all looking for the guy who did this."

@Ruka You can't get in trouble for falseifying sales data if you didn't present any sales data.

People really just want to FEEL like they're contributing something to the world for the clout and respect even though we're a niche of a niche lmao. You wanna be a musician, pick up a goddamn instrument.

"Don't like, don't use" how about "can't make, don't fake"

lol. lmao. rofl, if you may

What's next, a CD-i revival with the tagline "RETURN OF THE KING"?

Detox from the digital realm. Not us, though. GenAI everything. You should buy our 500 dollar flip phone still.

JOHN ROMERO'S ABOUT TO HOPE YOU ARE DOING WELL.

@slider1983 Completely irrelevent to the point.

Are the defenders just purposefully ignoring all the comments about how phones like this already exist by actually reputable companies for a fraction of a fraction of the price? It's not the CONCEPT of a non-smartphone that's the issue. Stop pretending otherwise.

iam8bit seem like the bottom of the barrel of retro rereleases. If this were half the price and there wasn't random chance involved in getting the glowing cartridge, sure. A nice collector's item for hardcore Sonic fans. At this price and with that gimmick? This is just insane.

Obligatory "screw Carmack" for being a jackoff about Rebecca Heineman's passing. Always knew he was a jerk but that was just beyond the pale.

Arcade Archives is for hardcore enthusiasts and people who like preservation. Always has been. Console features aren't there because it's the arcade game and the arcade game didn't have them. This is not some mainstream treat-it-as-a-disposable-product project. Like, no duh it doesn't have online play with rollback and crossplay or the FMV endings. The arcade game didn't have them, so this won't either.

@metaphysician Well, as someone who isn't even a GTA fan, even I know it's probably going to be a really good game. I don't know of a GTA that wasn't at least "good"... ever. San Andreas is the only one I really loved but both 4 and 5 were good games and I also know 2 is really fun, so...

@Willgraham At least GTA6 is a product that you can trust will be a good video game with lots of work put in over the span of a decade, y'know? It's not worth 80 bucks to me but it's not even close to the scam-level worthy Commodore phone.