Quick_Man

Fat 80 year old trying to pocket more of your money? Just Say No. They cannot legally rob you without your consent

KOF 2000 is such a weird pick. One of the most forgotten games in the series. You'd think they'd either go with the first one in '94 or one of the ones that are considered the best, like '97, '98 or 2002.

It is a shame the version with the most unique deaths was on a platform where that kind of blood and gore wasn't really allowed lol.

@Daniel36 I would hope so. People dismissed the infamous Konami/Kojima scandal from years back as just one company being horrible, but that's just the Japanese work culture. I would hope more and more of them would speak up and fight for better rights as I similarly hope for western creators.

The reason you don't hear about these horror stories from companies like Nintendo or Sega while seemingly always reading about them from Western companies is because this is shocking to the West while in Japan it's just the norm and not even report-worthy. People often think Japanese companies are some glorious pro-worker fantasy land because this stuff doesn't get reported as much, haha NOPE.

VVVVVV not being one of the games is a huge shame.

@cyxceven It's a reference to a by-gone era where stuff like that is interesting and is worth preserving. Don't get your knickers in a twist with armchair psychology about how this proves they're "out of touch with reality".

@WhiteUmbrella [journalistic outlet] is [vaguely bad], please give upvotes, I am Funny Gamer Man.

Some of the major trolls that have always been going after retro YouTubes are just being arses as usually. If I have to read "George Bum" ever again I'm going to throw my device through a window. But yeah this was always a long shot. "Where did the 25k go?" askers are just stupid. They probably spent a lot more of their own money than that 25k.

@mariteaux This says more about how whiny and entitled gamers can truly be sometimes than it says about him tbh.

Interesting that they deliberately left out a visible cursor for Point Blank - presumably because it can make some of the challenges where you have one bullet and a tricky target way too easy?

@willstancilfan This is not the website for the weirdo "hehe this would never happen in MY glorious country" posting.

Came into this expecting a bunch of drooling "no polticin viddy gum" responses and was not disappointed.

Some people care about things you don't. I'm sorry to have broken your heart over this revelation. But you don't have to announce that you don't care every single time you ever see something you don't care about.

I legitimately respect people who go "I don't see anything wrong with this controversial person" more than "DON'T CARE NO POLITICS" because at least the former had something to say while the latter had nothing to say but still think people had to read their drivel.

If only there were some kind of Sonic 3 Bonus Video I could've learned this from!

An all-star lineup if ever there was one.

Martial Masters was a super underrated fighter, I wish more people got to play it.

I doubt Trilogy will be announced as it was never an arcade game, but seeing that they're throwing wacky GBA ports [including Mortal Kombat Advance, an unplayable mess] who knows? If they want it to be complete, they'd need the PS1, N64 and Saturn versions - Saturn being the hardest to emulate.

Not as good as Tekken 1's working title - RAVE WAAAAAAR

@mr_benn My only guess is that the in-game music is an issue.

Why would you ever use Metal Slug 2 instead of Metal Slug X? Metal Slug X is essentially just the actual finished version of 2.

@NicolausCamp Street Fighter EX games were made by Arika, they've always been one of the "little to no chance" options. Surpassed maybe only by Tatsunoko vs Capcom. That game is NEVER getting rereleased and I accepted that years ago.

GT1 arcade mode had completely different, more simplified handling compared to the career mode. I think this carried over to GT2, although I don't quite remember fully. By GT3, that was no longer the case - arcade mode was just quick race with the regular handling.

@Scollurio "At least someone's trying something!"

This is like a boat being too unstable out in the open sea so you shoot a hole in it with a shotgun and then go "uhm smart guy I didn't see YOU coming up with a genius solution like me"

Maybe only use games like London Racer or 007 Racing as lessons on what not to do lol. Those were... rough.

Ridge Racer Type 4 is the peak of the series in my eyes - I would like to see its style return.

@PopetheRev28 Correct, everyone is just making this up as a conspiracy to make the poor widdle Supreme God Emperor look bad. You nailed it

Here before the inevitable "stop making it political!" comments

As a huge rhythm game nut I often struggled with Samba de Amigo due to the feeling I had of a lack of tactile feedback. I like me some buttons. I know when I'm pressing a panel in DDR, I know when I'm strumming in Guitar Hero, I know when I'm hitting buttons in IIDX, I know when I'm twisting knobs in Sound Voltex... Samba de Amigo often was hard to get used to with the idea of just having to trust you were doing it right and it would be registered. Still, it's a game with legendary art direction, and I appreciate it for that alone.

Games even as recent as then did typically have the burden of "the female character needs to basically just be there to be the male character's shadow", I'd kinda be interested to see some of the wilder concepts of Amiga.

At least when the character is a sister and not a love interest or something, it gives an excuse for them looking similar and "just do the male character in a dress with a bow".

@somnambulance I really don't think that counts in what he's saying. The games weren't successful when they released.

@Craftylover "This isn't happening" to "who cares that it's happening" pipeline speedrun

@RetroMasters Would you rather be told when video game stuff gets cancelled that it was because of magical space fairies or get the actual truth?

@PKDuckman For some reason whenever their "team" [let's face it, they see politics as merely a team sport] flops they just transition into this fantasy land where actually the opposite happened.

Nah, nah, mate, trust me, the tarrifs have got the Chinese SHOOK, they're BEGGING for us, the alpha Americans, to stop winning so hard, trust me bro trust me.

This is cool. Outrun on Game Gear was a pretty solid conversion but it looks like this person definitely has the talent to do it well on Game Boy. I like seeing these super-scaler style games on the more primitive handheld systems.

@MG4M3R I will say when he mentions the PC-98 version of this game featuring rape, he means completely uncensored and explicit rape scenes played for sexualization. I don't know where the hell you got this whole "touching someone but for the good of the world!" thing from. That's not what happens, lmao. False equivalence helps nobody here and dilutes the conversation. This is not, like, Silent Hill type storytelling here.

Again, I'm not to censor art, if that's your thing, I will leave you to your thing... buuuut I'm completely okay with that kind of tripe staying in the obscure home computer scene where it belongs and generally has stayed since the 80s.

@Norsaken This is just wrong. Art you don't like still deserves to be preserved. I don't particularly care for so many of these anime games that quite clearly are just pretty bad games stapled onto the main attraction - anime tiddies - either, but c'mon. You being formerly addicted to something does not mean it should be banned. I'm a recovered alcoholic, I don't slap beers out of people's hands.

@PopetheRev28 Given that half the Switch's e-Shop is just shovelware softcore hentai... yeah, doubt it.

@-wc- Well said. "Censorship" just became yet another word that the internet silently turned into a simile for "I don't like it". I saw many of these big "PRO FREE SPEECH! ANTI CENSORSHIP! GAMERS RISE UP!" accounts with six figure followings who spend their life making money off people's desire to always have something to be big about... actively celebrate things like Middle Eastern versions of games censoring any LGBT topics. It was "based" so it's a Win For Gamers[TM], right? A lot of this is just performative.

@PKDuckman The PC-98 original is not the one getting released, though, which is why the cancellation is confusing. If it was actually the version where the plot literally has "the loser gets sexually assaulted" written into the plot [no, I'm not kidding.], I'd understand a bit more. No way would that have made it onto consoles neither back in the 90s nor now - it's just not happening.

If you want eroge, and look - fine, maybe you do, I guess. Not my cup of tea, but then again games of those type are a bit dry when it comes to those aimed at my gender and sexuality of person - it's historically always been "go PC". We are not getting those games on consoles any time soon and basically never did unless they were unlicensed garbo like Divine Sealing on the Mega Drive. But, yeah, Saturn Advanced Variable Geo is just "lewd" at worst. There's no porn in it. So I don't understand. There's honestly more titilating games available to buy on all current consoles than this so I'm not going to do the Capital G Gamer thing of going "pshhh censorship amirite gamers rise up", I'm just wondering what exactly happened.

@smoreon Don't fall for narratives that people peddle on the internet exclusively because getting gamers to have a Boogeyman Of The Week is how they make a living lol. I was literally going to make a joke about "but The Last True Gamer on YouTube told me it was SONY coming for all my anime tiddies, now I don't know what to believe! Mods! MODS!"

I understand that they can't just show full blown sex or bare breasts, but the Saturn version of Advanced Variable Geo was never an eroge game anyway - I'm pretty sure the only Variable Geo game with flat out porn was the very original game on PC. Advanced Variable Geo on Saturn and Playstation is essentially a sequel, and doesn't contain any R-18 stuff. The most you'll get some clothing damage, which is no more explicit than, say, when King's shirt rips off in Art Of Fighting and reveals her bra. What exactly did they want altered at this point? At least it's coming to the other platforms so 98% of people who would actually care about this game can still play it, but how bizarre.

As a fighting game, the game is pretty bad, but, like... bad games still deserve te be preserved properly.

The fact that after all this time we still have very good super smart geniuses going "wahhh stop talking about politics" or "just make it in the US" proves that there are definitely multiple alternate universes and they clearly don't live in the same one as us humans.

@Zeebor15 Shun'ei, Meitenkun and Tung were a cool hero team, at least. Kukri [the sand guy] is African.

DJ Hero 2 genuinely has one of the best rhythm game soundtracks ever, I'll always love it. Shame this happened. Bigger shame some wooden spoons will blame this extremely hypercapitalist consequence on the "wokes" or whatever they're saying in 2025 now. DEI? I dunno.

There's something really funny about a rip-off being so bad that they went "well it'd just be bullying if we sued at this point..."

I have no idea who Salvatore is so I can just pretend he's a brand new character and I actually kinda like him, he's amusing and I like the idea of a DJ character.

Wacker.

That is all.

Billy is a complete cheater and compulsive liar, Karl cost him at least one appearance at an event due to claiming he was why Apollo Legend took his own life.

Only one of these are crimes - and it's not cheating in a video game.

Hate them both, frankly, but what a jackarse Karl was by purposefully never mentioning that he was being sued for this in particular and trying to frame it as "cheater doesn't like that I said he cheated" - he ABSOLUTELY knew he wouldn't have gotten the support he did if he was 100% honest about what he was being sued for, because it's completely open-and-shut.