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@Damo I bought a copy at the time, I actually still have the entire first run from issue one. Congrats on getting into writing about something you enjoy so much. I do enjoy a lot of the features on Time Extension and thought was a great idea when it started up as the Retro Companion to Nintendo Life (which I arrived at from reading VC-Reviews) and Push Square.

1991's Sonic the Hedgehog is one of my favourite games of all time. Still have my original cart and still play it on a real Mega Drive (not my original console as have a 60Hz modded Mega Drive 2 these days). The label is pretty worn from taking the cart out over 35 years, but the game to me remains as timeless as OutRun. I did get Sonic 2 at launch, but the original remains my favourite. The Master System game is fun too and I actually owned that one first. I can play on my Saturn via Sonic Jam or even my PS5 via the Origins Collection, but something particular about the memories I have for that original cartridge.

That picture is just unnerving to be honest.

@MontyMole I agree, the technology is not inheritly bad, but when the driving force is profiteering over all else, and the copyright law has not caught up, the result will not be one that benefits the majority of us. Ethics go out of the window, along with artistic integrity and actually paying talented people who create work.

@MontyMole Exactly my thought, it's exclusively doing so. It appears to me to be diffuse plagiarism by design, to make profit and not pay actual artists. I mean, even if an artist is inspired by something, there is usually a human story there. An intent that amounts to more than just an algorithm stealing other peoples work and smashing it together for profit.

Nice, this game is predominantly why I still have my PS3 under the TV.

@Damo Thanks, that's an interesting bit of information that illuminates a distant memory! I do remember really liking SEGA force's writing and of course Oli Frey's art.

I regularly bought SEGA Force, I liked the style and the late Oliver Frey's art was striking, to say the least. I do remember the screen shots looked a bit blurry compared to SEGA Power, but as I was buying Zzap!64 previously you could see the continuity, and I liked the writing a lot at the time. A good magazine from a bygone era, makes me feel very nostalgic.

Well, I jumped to GameCube after Dreamcast and did have this one new. Was pretty frustrated when OutRun 2 then skipped the GameCube. Anyway, yes that would have been a startling alternative name for Billy.

Club SEGA, looks great. I guess the closest we got in the 90s in London was SEGA World in the Trocadero, was great to go there at the time. I remember the video shop near me had a Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition arcade that got modded into that weird unofficial 'Black Belt Edition', didn't really have any proper arcades local. Great pictures, at least we have Yakuza for some virtual tourism of the arcades.

Great products, but of course come at a cost. I just use my Rad2X for Saturn and Mega Drive. My aging retro gamer eyesight is kind of making up for the resolution at this point, so low latency is my priority after cost.

I quite like the C64 one and adding games is good.

Sounds nice, I currently use RAD2X cables on my Mega Drive and Saturn as were comparatively cheap and have very low latency, even if only the x2 upscale. For a plug and play solution they are really good in my opinion.

Well I can play Last Ninja and International Karate on my Switch OLED so there is that...thing is, it's not so much the C64 I have nostalgia for, but the specific games I played. Some of those favourite games were movie or arcade licences like Platoon, Rambo, Buggy Boy or Power Drift, so cant be included on collections. Having said that, I would take an 8-bit Micro Dizzy collection. A 'themed' Hyper Mega Tech couldn't include thise games, plus I wonder how it would cope with the 50Hz output these Micro computers had in the UK.

I bought a Japanese Saturn copy recently and that uncut intro is quite different. Not just Chris smoking but a lot more Zombie dogs. Green blood would have been weird, glad they decided against it. I liked that in House of the Dead on Saturn you could at least change it to red.
@MisterStu yep much more gory first cut scene, creepier than the one in REmake too I think.

This was the one I had, the Hollywood pack with the Ocean games. Nice nostalgia but I just can't justify the price on this type of thing, in reality, I know I'd not use it much.

Super Turrican is a lesser favourite of mine, misses those sprawling levels which defined the game for me when I first played on the C64, the cassette version. Turrican 2 on Amiga remains my favourite (though that remastered soundtrack on the anthology version is also great), but nice they do these types of rereleases, I was only playing my Universal Soldier cart on the Mega Drive last weekend, the 'not Turrican' port of Turrican 2, it's a fairly decent version.

@carlos82 Im kind of suprised with the interest, as no one could afford one when I was child, and it's not a device I'd want to buy myself. I had played some of the ports on Saturn, Dreamcast, and various emulated collections over the years, but I still prefer the Mega Drive and Saturn Libraries. Guess it is the gap thing as you say, and having an actual affordable unit for real carts, thats not simple emulation.

I wonder how they'll deal with the 50/60Hz matter, I think the carts were multi region and the console determined which version was played, so perhaps not an issue, depending on whether this new unit has region coding or lets you swap it out.

I don't really have nostalgia for Neo Geo, the first place I played the KoF series and Metal Slug was on Saturn and Dreamcast. Sold my joysticks since, though the Saturn pad is always great for KoF. Still have my discs (and RAM Carts) but the actual console, I never saw one at the time, and my favourite genre of scaling racing games, was not well represented. There is no OutRun to be found. I've kind of stopped with Evercade too, I preferred the weird UK stuff like the Dizzy collection, would have been great to see a Dizzy 8-bit micro cart. I do like that Midnight Resistance is on the System though, that never seems to get an official emulated release these days and the Mega Drive cart is very expensive. The Last Ninja or the Lotus games would be welcome too, the recent Switch System 3 collection release is great.

Darn, very sad to hear. I always remember school taking my class to the swimming baths in the 80s, and I just wanted to play the Double Dragon arcade that was in the foyer instead. My local video rental shop had the arcade a little later and any pocket money I could get together was playing the arcade with my friend who lived locally. The C64 port was awful, so glad I got to play the amazing for the time arcade game. Master System version was great fun too.

One of my guesses was '...just a more powerful emulation system with analog controllers'... so, I was close. The Tate mode using the analog stick seems less than great, plus be quite heavy to hold vertical I would think. I've actually started to sell a few of my carts and I think just be sticking with the Vs. and my Capcom Hyper Mega Tech. Use my Switch OLED for a lot of retro games portable, as they look really nice on the screen.

I am wondering an online shop, but would seem to go against the principle they started with, or online multi player gaming maybe. They started with the hand held you plug in the TV and have progressed to separate units. Or, just a more powerful emulation system with analog controllers. Be interested to see, I still have a VS though don't use it much these days.

I bought the second issue at the time, then managed to find the first about a week after. I still have that original run complete before the relaunch, and the discs too, mad to think that's so long ago now.

Funny, I'm playing Shenmue 3 on PS5 at the moment and thinking how that series started on Saturn really says something of Yu Suzuki's ambition. I still regularly play my Saturn, and SEGA did amazing work with SEGA Rally and Virtua Fighter 2 on the console. We can only imagine at this point what could have been.

@The_Nintendo_Expat The 8 and 16- bit mirco ports in the UK were really something back in the day, Specturm, Amstrad, C64, Amiga, Atari ST. Games could vary from great on one computer, to terrible on another, sometimes the 8-bit versions being superior. They always used Amiga screen shots on the box to sell them though!

Was kind of disappointing at the time, and RE2 of course. I never did buy a PS1 so I couldn't get back to Tomb Raider until the Dreamcast. I only finally beat Tomb Raider 2 on the Switch with the remaster versions, if it had come to Saturn, I'd have bought it I think.

As I own those two anthology collections on Switch, with their very nice re recorded music options, this would be a a skip for me on Evercade. Nice collection though

@Madbury Me too! Would often head from Rathbone over to Game Focus in Goodge Street, which sold imports for about every console you could Imagine even after CEX stopped selling them. Bought my modded Saturn in Rathbone place and I still play it.

Looks like Shoot 'em up Construction Kit on the C64. That was a lot of fun making your own games and saving to a cassette.

The style in the remake of Haunted Castle that was included in the recent DS collection was much nicer than this new Belmont game. This game lookes much better in terms of style. I felt similar about Streets of Rage 4, I appreciate the art but I'd have preferred a pixel look.

Looks great and I'd never heard of it, will certainly get this one.

Ah what a game, what a memorable cover, certainly caught the eye in WHSmith going through the C64 tapes. It's still fun to play and that C64 music was great too. My school friend had the Atari ST version and we played the game for hours.

Why, how does this improve art, it doesn't. Artless is more accurate, to me, its diffuse plagiarism facilitied by technology for profit and little else.

I can just imagine Sid James and Bernard Bresslaw playing this with Kenneth Williams over their shoulders! Cor, Blimey!

I used to go there every Friday after College, remember the escalator leading up, funny to see it somewhere other than my memory. The Trocadero was great, sad what happened to it in the later years.

@sdelfin Makes sense, the Saturn controler just feels better quality to me. The detachable wire also always makes me think, what were SEGA planning.

I prefer the Saturn 3D Controller to the Dreamcast, which always felt a bit light and cheap. The triggers could use most improvment in my opinion, playing Crazy Taxi for a long session was literally a pain.

Last year I bought a RAD 2X for my Saturn and my Mega Drive, I have both consoles region and 60Hz modded, but I'd fallen off playing them as my current TV doesn't have a SCART. So this year, plan to get back into proper retro gaming on real hardware and pick up more games for both systems.

@Damo Cheers! Will give that a read. They've republished some recently and I went back to read The Forrest of Doom. Freeway Fighter and Robot Commando were also favourites of mine branching into other fantasy genres. The cover art of those books in the 80s captured my attention like nothing else. Top Trumps in the playground also really takes me back.

I had a pack and and played it in school in the 80s, but was all Lorries! My fantasy interests were catered with the brilliant Fighting Fantasy books. I would have liked this pack for certain though if I'd known it existed at the time.

Even 20 years ago on dial up most pages wouldn't load. I did like that you could download save games direct to the VMU on GameFAQs though. How else would you get Green Hill Zone in Sonic Adventure 2, those Chao races were infuriating. Getting any pictures you liked off the internet to use as graffiti in Jet Set Radio was also very cool.

@Gerald I have that disc, the digital controis aren't great and it doesn't properly support the annalog controller sadly. I've heard it's better with the wheel but I don't have one. I do like the 'criminals hear' arrow though ha.

The lack of chase H.Q. must be licensing at this point, maybe as the cars resemble real life vehicles too closely, which is a real shame if so.

I still frequently play SEGA Rally on my Saturn and Daytona on the PS3, just all time classic games and tunes at this point. Not heard of this VF2 vocal album though, so will look that up.

If Switch didn't have the excellent two anthology collections with their outstanding extra features, I'd be more interested. I really like Turrican but even if they'd included the C64 versions of 1 and 2 would give me more reason to buy it. As is, I'm sure these will be the straight Amiga versions adapted for 60Hz, so wont compare to the Switch versions on the TV or how great they look on the OLED portable. Still, great games and always happy to see a new release. Also be interesting if they could include Universal Soldier on the Mega Drive as its a pretty good Turrican 2 port with some rearranged elements, though of course licensing means we never will, at least I still have my original cart.

Oh dear this is a shame to see, I still enjoy the Dizzy games to this day. I really don't like 'AI' being used like this at all. For me, creative work including video games require talented people and artists.

I remember RE2 had ammo and health on the screen which was good, except for that I gave up feeding my VMUs CR2032 batteries as it seemed to burn through them. Not played the Dreamcast in years, though I do play the Master System, Mega Drive and Saturn. Once I do get back to the console, these look like a great modern accessory.

My aging retro gamer vision would struggle to see the screen. I need my reading glasses for the Super Pocket as it is, though overall I like those units as they are robust and take carts. These seem more like novelty items, not for me.

I have the Japanese Dreamcast version of Garou, it's where I first played it. For me with Evercade it's the more weird and UK centric collections that have interested me, Dizzy, Codemasters, Bitmap Brothers, Gremlin. I do like the NeoGeo and first had the chance to play SNK games when I imported various ports back on the Saturn, but probably not something I'll buy for Evercade.

@HammerGalladeBro and @Tropicallo.
I was one of the people who had to chase a refund! I had to contact Commodore gaming directly as Nintendo pretty much said it was 'not their problem'. I think they had to buy Wii points and send me a code.
That was the C64 version, it was impossible to leave the first stage, but the high score table didn't feature these graphics like the Amiga, to my recollection of playing a working version on an emulator.

A disclaimer seems like a sensible option to me, I feel it's better to contextualise the past and seek to understand it, rather than alter or delete it.

I recently tried getting back into Dungeon Master Nexus on my Saturn, just holding my phone up to the screen to translate, ha. Nice we have these, shame the Saturn missed so many releases in the west.