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@GravyThief Oh geez... I didn't even see that one last sentence dangling below the video.

Interesting. If they do make those, I imagine they'll be substantially downgraded to run on older hardware — kind of novelty releases alongside the main event. I really can't imagine the SNES or Genesis pulling off what we're seeing/hearing in that video without a lot of sacrifices. Reduced palette, animation, sound quality...

Again, maybe I'm wrong and they're programming wizards. But that's looking like a mighty heavy lift for those old consoles.

@FR4M3 I don't recall ever hearing that this was going to run natively on Genesis or SNES. Eyeballing it, that color palette does not look possible on the Genesis.

I could be wrong, but I think this is just meant to evoke the style of 16-bit console/arcade games.

That's a real shame. Their products filled an admittedly niche role, but when you needed them they were the best around. I have a few stands of theirs, and I'll miss the ease of knowing exactly where to look when I wanted to put a piece of hardware on display.

I hope everyone involved lands on their feet and moves on to good things.

What an awful, awful idea. Distracting video content — interactive or otherwise — should never be displayed on that screen. This is exaxctly why apps like Spotify work with in-dash screens but apps like YouTube do not.

Not to mention that this is pointless in a world where everybody already has a phone, tablet, or portable gaming system available to scratch their gaming itch.

@Sketcz But literally nothing is stopping you from just enjoying games! You choose to be reading and responding to all this when you could just be playing them. You don't have to engage with this part of the culture at all if you don't want to.

The internet, if anything, has made it supremely easy for people to wall themselves off from news and opinions they do not want to hear. I'd argue that's been one of its most destructive features, but that's neither here nor there. You 100% have that opiton if that's what you want.

@jamess Sure. And everybody can decide where that line is. The more controversial the political stance, the more likely people are going to find themselves on the "nope" side of the line. It's not like he's being criticized for putting pineapple on pizza here. He's an ultra wealthy weapons manufacturer that has chosen to publicly taken sides in a war that has killed thousands of innocent people.

"Keep politics out of xxxx" is facile and tired (and tends to come only from those who disagree with the politics at hand, suggesting bias rather than principle). Politics isn't this nebulous thing where people are disagreeing about nonsense. Politics literally is people and their lives. It intrudes on everything. Our jobs. Our health. And, yes, our hobbies.

@Sketcz I mean, the obvious answer is that they don't just care about "some dude with a goatee".

Reducing an issue to its most absurd possible description isn't the same as making a valid point.

@BausRifle Apart from the first game in which they were still ironing out the concept, they really aren't that hard. Not saying they're easy, but they're forgiving with passwords and continues and, unlike a lot of games from that era, ultimately give players the tools they need to practice and get better at them.

Agreed, however, that he's an awesome character. One of my all-time faves, easily. I'd still love to find good matching poseable figures of both Mega Man and Rush for display.

@slider1983 Not only that, but they have a distinct habit of failing to even provide the support they promised.

DAC support for the Pocket and Duo, as others have mentioned above, has been casually abandoned. So has GameBoy Camera support. They're happy to sell gobs of these things, but apparently don't have the resources to turn it into the product they promised.

Analogue peaked with the Super NT and Mega SG. They were brilliant, single-purpose clone consoles that delivered the exact experience they promised. I absolutely love both and there was still a real sense that Analogue cared back then. The Pocket, nice as it is from a hardware perspective, still feels feature-incomplete nearly 4 years after release and has largely been propped up by external FPGA development.

I was once a huge fan of Analogue. But something has definitely changed, and they no longer deserve the beneift of the doubt from customers.

Have such fond memories of this game, even if it pretty much typifies the "NES hard" phenomenon. Those first few stages (including the not-as-hard-as-everyone-says Turbo Tunnel) are embedded permanently in my muscle memory, even after all these years.

But even having finished games like Batman and TMNT, this one remains uncleared. It's just too brutal.

It was common back then to see screenshots that were never actually in the game. In the pre-internet era when we were scrounging for what little information we could get about our favorite games, that kind of thing always contributed to a kind of intrigue that I remember liking.

I'm of two minds here.

The tech certainly is impressive and I do find this kind of work fascinating. It's no knock on the developer, and people need to calm down. It's wild that this stuff is possible.

But part of the fun of retro gaming is seeing what can be done within certain technological limits. And while you can argue that earlier tech like the FX and SA-1 were already stretching beyond those limits, they were still doing so with tech from that era. While this new FX-3 is still constrainted by many of the limits of the SNES, it's hard for it not to seem more like a cheat when it's beaming in technological advancementss from 30-something years in the future.

None of this negates how cool it is. But it's cool in the gee-whiz "who'd have thought this was possible?" sense and not in the "authentic SNES experience" sense that retro enthusiasts are more likely to be seeking.

I've been pretty happy with my RetroUSB AVS, but I'm looking forward to seeing what this is!

@sixrings I think Capcom is doing a reasonably good job on their own, although they've had so many arcade and fighting game collections that their names are starting to blur together.

Sega keeps reviving and then dropping their Ages line, and I wish I understood why. We got a nice burst of old arcade titles on 3DS and more on Switch, including M2's top-shelf port of Virtua Racing. But they have such a deep arcade heritage to mine, and it's mostly just languishing for no good reason. The lack of any official way to play Revenge of Death Adder remains criminal.

Definitely going to have a look at this!

And to honor the success of Blue Prince, I think this should finally see a full retail release but with its subtitle changed to Finger Prince.

The clean look of these early 3D arcade games is just timeless. It's too bad these Arcade Archives versions don't seem to include any options to run the games in HD because games of this vintage scale so beautifully to higher resolutions.

I feel like polygonal graphics started strong, and then had to go through an ugly phase before they started coming around to looking good again.

If history is any guide, all this hysteria about preserving physical media is irrelevant anyway.

Just as we've seen with cartridges and discs, by the time these things fail — likely decades after we're all dead anyway — the data once contained on them will be readily available to anybody that cares to look.

As ever, preservation isn't happening in the closets of a few physical media enthusiasts (which is not to disparage the hobby — I have my own personal "museum" as well). It's happening across an uncountable number of hard drives throughout the emulation community. In 20 years, that will be just as true for current gen games as it already is for prior generations.

But why though?

Setting aside that this doesn't look very good, it still took time, effort, talent, and presumably money to make. Why spend resources developing a product that will only be out in the wild for 14 days? And even sillier, Dig Dug is a nostalgia property that the target Gamisodes demographic likely has minimal interest in.

What's the strategy here?

@WileyDragonfly Words changing meanting over time is the natural progression and evolution of language, far from any kind of "devastation of the written word."

@WileyDragonfly The most common use of "decimate" is — far and away — to indicate general destruction, exactly as it was used in the article.

We don't live in ancient Rome. Here in 2025 it would only be confusing if anyone actually used it to mean "reduce by one tenth".

@Exerion76 That was my first thought.

Neither Aleste or Zanac were danmaku franchises, so I'm not sure how this is the result of crossing one with the other.

I'm glad the bullet hell crowd is spoiled for choice these days, but all these games kind of blur together and I miss more classic-style shmups. Definitely holding out hope for Earthion and Salamander 3...

"Unbound co-founder John Mitchinson, who also jumped ship to Boundless"

This is hardly "jumping ship". Same company. Same business model. Same grifters running it.

Same ship, different day.

God, I love GBA-era pixel art.

Can't play a proper game of chess without wood paneling.

What a lovely sentiment from a legendary talent.

His work has never really clicked with me for whatever reason, but no shortage of respect for the man.

Tron 2.0 was amazing, and it's a real shame that the story was jettisoned for Legacy because what was going on here was much more interesting.

@marc_max Those links both include information about modded hardware, though. The first is specifically about the "GB Mini Camera" and says "Note on assembly of the board. If you're using a new 3V0 regulator..." so that's not a software update. And the other has actual pictures of replacement PCBs.

I think you're mistaken. I've been searching, and I have yet to find any evidence anywhere that the original Gameboy Camera can be flashed.

@marc_max Wait... you can flash the ROM on an OG Gameboy Camera? Or are these modded cameras?

I'm just boggled to think that a Nintendo product from 1998 would have come with a rewriteable flash ROM when the regular nonrewriteable chips they used in every single other cart would have been considerably less expensive.

@Sketcz Yeah, I feel like this article is giving me more questions than answers. You'd need special hardware to get the SRAM off a Gameboy Camera.

But I'm especially confused by what this utility is doing with ROMs. No user pictures would be stored on a ROM. It says you can add frames to the ROM, basically a ROMhack, but then how do you get that hacked ROM onto a GB Camera to do anything with it? It's not like you can just run it off an Everdrive.

Maybe some GB Camera enthusiasts in the peanut gallery could explain this better.

As for Analogue, they've been promising GB Camera functionality for years and haven't delivered it, which is sadly about what I expect from them nowadays. Best you can do with a Pocket is take screenshots and recover those from the SD card.

@PZT It's a re-release, not a remaster. A ROM in a wrapper with some QOL features is more than enough for a relatively niche title like this as long as the emulation is solid.

Not everything needs to be "remastered" (whatever that even means half the time — we borrowed the word from other media without paying much attention to what it actually means).

This was the very tail end of an era in which every single movie and TV show got a video game tie-in, regardless of whether or not the IP lent itself to a video game at all.

One of the fun things about retro gaming is that it doesn't just trigger gaming nostalgia. Since they made games of anything and everything, you wind up being reminded of all these other facets of pop culture in the 80s, 90s, and early 00s.

Most of the games themselves were trash, but it's really cool how the complete unsuiability of something like Charlotte's Web as a video game gave the developer so much lattitude to do whatever they wanted with it.

@retrogamer1 Yes! I have TotD: Overkill on Steam and it's totally worth it.

Loved playing Overkill on Wii, though. It had a great vibe and was a fun, underappreciated update to the original games.

I love that they made this, and the price can't be beat. I'm not even a Warhammer guy, but I'm downloading this immediately.

Typing of the Dead was so emblematic of Sega's spirit during the Dreamcast era. Just off-the-wall experimental and willing to try anything. What a time.

I keep meaning to get a Saturn for my collection. I really haven't spent any time with its library and would love to fix that eventually.

But this is a fun flashback to when the gaming industry was always in upheaval. Even all this is against the backdrop of Nintendo jilting Sony at the altar, so both Sega and Nintendo really failed to grasp the scale of Sony's threat.

With the "big three" fairly stable for 20+ years now, it must be odd for younger gamers to think of a time when the console market was in constant flux like this.

I kind of agree that the genre has painted itself into a corner. It's good that there are crazy bullet-hell games for the people who love them, but the best way to ensure that a genre dies out is that it no longer allows new players to engage with it. Where's the next generation of shmup fans supposed to come from?

Who, exactly, are these critics reviewing unreleased games that haven't even started funding on Kickstarter yet that are calling the game "Zelda with guns"?

Sounds like RetroBro just wants to market it that way and is doing the "people are saying" shtick.

I'll add one more voice to the chorus in case anybody involved in publishing this is reading. I'd buy the ROM in a heartbeat, or one of the PC/console versions if it comes with the ROM as an extra.

@Tott I can't say for sure, but 8BitDo eventually added support for Nintendo's other NSO controllers, so I imagine they'll eventually support these as well.

@no_donatello I got one of these as well and really like it.

But once Nintendo releases the official new GCN controllers, I suspect those will become my new go-to.

At this point, the only thing I'll buy from LRG is books because I respect Jeremy Parish and want to support his excellent work.

But the constant drumbeat of problems like this just never seems to end, which suggests a company unable or unwilling to learn.

Crab 'n Grab?
Fiddler Robo?
Thrustacean?
Shmup Rangoon?

Anything — ANYTHING — but "Metal Cancer".

Ugh. Achievements were a fun idea until they metastasized into the "keep playing the game long after it stops being fun to satisfy your cumpulsive 100% tendencies" nightmare that it is today.

@sdelfin I did not know this until today, but according to Wikipedia Sydney Sweeney was a math and robotics nerd in HS and is a genuine car enthusiast.

I still don't understand why Outrun should be made into a movie, but she seems like she might be the right person to take a crack at it.

Just a shame about the Michael Bay part.

I always wondered what Outrun would be like with a billion quick cuts and an incoherent sense of spatial awareness.

Oh, and at least one piss joke.

@Crecca Are these products "garbage" for any reason other than casual racism?

Because last I checked, Anbernic products are very popular and often highly reviewed by the exact kind of tech-savvy crowd that would absolutely reject garbage products.

Weird how igniting a global trade war without any kind of plan or coherent reason can cause so many entirely predictable problems.

But at least some billionaires got even richer off the market manipulation. I hope they don't have any trouble getting a RetroTINK if they want one because it would be sad if they ever had to suffer even a moment of the slightest inconvenience.

@IceClimbersMain DC games on Switch 2 NSO would be killer.

Kind of wish I had one of these as a display piece and I always appreciate these kinds of efforts at hardware preservation.

But at this point, the best way to experience the Virtual Boy is by jailbreaking a 3DS.

This is a situation where the game itself is broken and not worth owning, but If they fixed it at all, it would ironically lose everything that made it noteworthy to begin with.

Either way, it's certainly not worth $6 just to briefly snicker at the novelty. Unlike movies, games don't really benefit from the "so bad it's good" effect.

This is a dangerous reaction.

It's easy to point and laugh about how wrong the AI got it, but just getting this close would still be inconceivable science fiction to anybody alive just a few years ago.

Scoffing at it minimizes the danger this poses. While we're laughing it's getting better and stronger, and at a rate we probably can't imagine.

There you go putting politics into our gaming news again just because it's relevant and accurate to do so.