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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.

Video System's catalog has to be one of the most interesting catalog's of an obscure company.

Too many good games on this machine to count. XBLA was a revolution, too. Many hours spent on Hydro Thunder Hurricane, Peggle, Trials Evolution... and all the many many notes spent on Rock Band DLC.

Absolutely gutted. According to her she went in one day and was told "you have one to four days". Not six months. Not a month. "Four days, maybe."

Cancer is /terrifying/.

@Guru_Larry I was about to "uhm acktyually", but now that I think about it, even though you can tell where the GTA games take place, they never do actually NAME the city... You can tell for example that GTA4 takes place in New York, but they make sure to ever call it that.

@OdysseyPoint Cool. Don't care. If you're not gonna credit the things you take, you don't get to take them.

I mean, you could easily handwave there being guns in the game by having them be obtained illegally. GTA characters do commit, y'know, crime.

"Watch me play or watch me don't, depending on if they ever deliver it"

@OdysseyPoint Then you can "1-to-1 copy" it yourself, can't you? It's so easy after all, it's nothing but 1-to-1 copying.

I don't understand people like you who always have this contradictory take of "Your work is not valuable enough to deserve credit despite being valuable enough for me to take". Pure selfishness from people who don't have knowhow yet want to act like an authority. If you take something, give credit. It doesn't matter what it is or where you drew your artificial self-satisfactory line of smugly going "well you didn't do enough to DESERVE it now, did you"? If you're using things that other people worked on and passing them off as your own, you won't last in any community.

@Coalescence Not really, the major plot points are identical. Any deviation is usually for the moments inbetween to further develop characters. The two "major" deviations in Rebirth for instance that you're probably quick to say are 1) an alternate dimension/timeline and 2) Cloud's imagination.

@PopetheRev28 True, Mega Drive was the premier place to get CPS1 ports for the most part. Strider, Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition [yes, the presentation is slightly better on SNES but the gameplay itself is more arcade accurate on Mega Drive], Forgotten Worlds, Ghouls and Ghosts...

@Guru_Larry I think it's fair to say both systems could handle more sprites on screen than what we usually actually got during their lifespans as we learn more about the hardware. Developers back then don't have the 30-35 year knowledge advantage we do now.

If he made a Matrix game now everyone would be crying about how Kojima had "gone woke".

@OdysseyPoint If you don't want to credit people don't use what they did, whether it's vectorizing logos or ripping sprites. Be an adult, do the work yourself to rip those sprites, or credit whoever did. The absolute end of the discussion.

@Ikuto_the_reaper Just credit the person you're taking stuff from oh my god it's not hard

Really disappointing that not only have they been caught stealing but they then turned into a passive-aggressive arse about it as if they're the victim of something. "You don't do anything groundbreaking!" Then it should be easy to do yourself or credit. "Obviously you invented redrawing logos" No they just drew what you're using, so credit them. "Yup, you caught me, I've made millions off these" No one said that they just said you're profiting off it.

What a piece of work. Screw whoever runs that account. Absolute child.

Between this and the garbo AI generated image of Chief and Trump shaking hands, Gamestop's social media is just DESPERATE to be part of something, anything, isn't it? As if the official White House account itself trying to piggyback off this wasn't cringe-inducing enough. You're not part of the team, be quiet while you continue tearing the White House down.

I mean, Street Fighter 6 very recently had an AI controversy lmao. None of this "MY precious company would NEVER!" drivel, please and thanks.

And imagine the nerve to use AI for an art book of all things. Scum.

Amazing tribute. I always wondered if the excessive smoking and drinking had anything to do with Itagaki's passing, but it's always a "who can say for sure". Itagaki's games gave me many great childhood memories.

I've always enjoyed Midnight and Top Landing personally, there's something relaxing about them.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant If I exaggerate anything I don't like, I too can pretend to have a point. "Remakes were rare and special!" Or maybe you can look at things with the reality-lensed goggles and realize there was nothing special about Mario All-Stars or Ninja Gaiden Trilogy...

It's hard to not review a compilation of games without talking about the games. You know how stuff like Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection or Street Fighter 30th Anniversary include the bad stuff like Mortal Kombat Advance or Street Fighter 1 because it's like "well we've got all the good stuff, let's include the stinkers because it's part of history and it's a good curio and it's pretty funny"? The Bubsy Collection is a collection where the "good stuff" doesn't exist to offset the novelty of playing the bad stuff.

Also enough of the "mob mentality" stuff. You're not a victim, you're part of a scam that you refuse to stop perpetuating, even when it's so obviously over that even the god emperor of it all has given up on it. It's over. You're not some renegade rebel going against Da Woke Mafia, you're not a victim of a conspiracy. You openly say things that go against any basis in reality and then respond to anything saying otherwise with "I'm a little birthday guy c'moooooon it's my birthdaaaaay". Just stop it. I'm going to just hit the ignore button on you and keep it that way but I am BEGGING you to realize you're not the main character of the universe and people don't care enough to rally the troops against you.

Japan wants to hire you young and keep you for life.

As a musician myself I've never once thought in the creation of the three albums I've done "man, I really hate doing this. I wish it could be easier". We already have SO MUCH technology involved in the creation of modern music. It's never been easier without AI to start.

Maybe I'm just a complete loser for thinking creative projects should remain so? I don't know anymore. Pick up a goddamn guitar or a pair of sticks or a DAW.

AI never would've been able to create something like No Promises to Keep, I'll tell you that much.

@slider1983 "They weren't. Tallarico snubbed them online and they got angry and spent the next eight years complaining about him and the console almost every week on the podcast, to this day."

So Tommy snubbed them online and Pat and Ian... aren't snubbing him online too? Tommy's words are somehow epic cool and based while Pat and Ian's words are mean and harmful and unfair? That's what we're going with? All they do is cover this trainwreck, and they've been the best at covering the trainwreck lmao. They haven't gotten anything substantial wrong because so often all they do is use the Amico team's own stupid words.

And I'm sorry, but if you actually BELIEVE Alvarado with no proof or evidence to his claim that the tech would be "updated" [jesus christ], then this conversation is pointless. We clearly live in different realities.

@Lowdefal Yeah, they're gonna make all three of the Bubsy fans out there really angry.

@slider1983 Acting like the CUPodcast haven't been attacked by Tommy tenfold [and that Pat and Ian aren't COMPLETELY CORRECT] is really, really funny.

And "confirmed to have improved tech"? Confirmed by literally WHO? WHEN? HOW? WHY? WE CANNOT LIVE IN A WORLD OF CHAOS. How is it 2025, LATE 2025, and this thing that doesn't bloody exist and won't ever exist is treated like this evolving Necronomicon where all the remaining believers just come up with their own fanfiction about it???