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Ahaha in your face PS5,
the Mega Drive got'em games bruh!

Love it.

Slap Fight Special Mode is great! Love it.

@KitsuneNight Don't forget all that political-infused messaging too.

And yes, Xbox360 is a good point. XBOX, XBOX360, both are wildly playable. Also PS2 and most of PS3 of course. All that remastering is a joke anyhow. If you have a fast PC and "backed up" all your PS2, PS3, XBOX360 and Wii games (don't forget the Wii) and scale it up via emulation, oh my those games look good.

@Bod2019 it's not only in gaming though. It's everywhere. You still see growth and interest in everything retro or indie. Movies are stale AF, series crash and burn left and right while the classics still sell like hot cakes. And it's no wonder. Especially the period between 1980 and 2010 were 30 years of great content and technological advancement.

We've entered the realms of diminishing returns when it comes to tech and we as sure have reached a critical point in our civilization. Usually limitations birth creativity, think of old systems and technical constraints. We've been living and prospering too long through too good of a time, it rots societies, creativity and takes away the spark from everything.

I'm honest to god more excited for re-releases of 30 year old games or these old games themselves on their OG hardware than I am for anything "cutting edge" that has come out the past couple of years.

I don't care what what cost 30 years earlier. Thing is the PS5pro is a marginal upgrade at best, so all the games you can't play because they are not there look a bit better or run a bit better. That's it.

Retrogaming is receiving another boost and I feel like this would be the perfect timing for a Switch 2 announcement (with a sub 500 pricetag).

https://www.freegameplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Night-Slashers-X-game-download.jpg

"ChonkyBoy"

This is getting ridiculous.

I hope it’s going to be in a OG classic shell and not the handcramp inducing SP!

There's something about "city racers" I absolutely can't stand, I can't quite put my finger on it.

@nuff64 lol, love it

@KitsuneNight true that - I really dig the evercade concept - it’s just the hardware does not convince me in a marked filled with retro handhelds of all breeds!

@Bonggon5 Sounds like a tangy rapper name

These popup windows are irritating AF. Otherwise looks nice!

I have a really hard time following what every character is doing, like the framerate is off and there is too much going on, too little contrast. Anyone else or is it just me being old?

@Gamecuber Ah! I missed that! Good lad!

Oh if I had the time and money...

@AJB83 You could still make it like you have your well-crafted SEGA tracks sprinkled throughout an open world map, so just instead of selecting a race from a list and press Start, you actually drive to the locations where it then is a "closed track" race. But I'd love to fool around and go haywire with "sega physics" not gonna lie!

To me it feels like SEGA is the eternal underdog, mostly because they are stumbling over their own feet and keep doing so for decades.

There is so much dormant potential. I'd even go as far and say they could dabble into consoles again, with the latest gen consoles somewhat stagnating, looking at the Nintendo Switch, which basicly is a remaster/remake/indie/retro gaming console, I feel like there's a place for a professional retro console with a digital storefront where you can legally buy old back catalogues (imagine virtual console, just way bigger and more ambitious).

I'm of course just dreaming. But SEGA is sleeping on so many gems of yore. I hope that whole new "revive old franchises" thing goes over well, but to be honest, I'm not so confident, just because of SEGAs track record and company structure.

Basicly NintenDOES what SEGA don't.

And I hate to say that.

Imagine if Sega would revive Sega Rally and Sega GT and give Rally the Forza Horizon Treatment and GT the Gran Turismo treatment! Once could dream.

These Olympics are hard to forget for all the wrong reasons. lol.

I have some devices from Anbernic. Can't say I'm too happy. Especially software-wise these are often horrendous. CFW is not up to snuff most of the time either. Build quality usually is good though.

@-wc- This!

@Blast16 A pack-in foot you mean!

I love my filters, but this, especially when playing the lovely synths and twangs of the Mega Drive... n'ah.

I will develop something myself:
A whole box of nothing, faithfully recreating the awesomely nostalgic feeling of not being able to afford buying your favorite Videogame, just like back in the day!

Peak Retroism! Haha.

I can't believe I watched it all.

That ruined an already ***** day lol. I guess I’ll take my chances thank you.

@KitsuneNight If you are into emulation you can still get a used mini PC for like 50 bucks, slap a CRT filter on your GBA games and play them like they were always meant to be on a home console.

I dont see this selling much. Might as well just get a Modretro Chromatic for that kind of money.

Love this. throwing money

I really don't like Anbernic. I love my RG ARC S (for obvious reasons) but the software is abysmal and the custom software is also not what I'd like to see. But oh my.

This thing seems to have the typical "bad" Anbernic D-Pad (Love Trimui ones) and again I think the thumbsticks are not really necessary for this kind of power in a device. But that's just me.

I'd love to get the Trimui Smart Pro over this, but the 16:9 screen AND the thumbsticks make absolutely no sense to me.

Weird. Seems like a missed opportunity.

Finally someone with common sense. I have a plethora of retro handhelds and none work well across the bord for me. Anbernic is hit and miss for me, especially on the software side. A dedicated, modern "GBA clone" is an instant buy from me. GBA has a stunning library that deserves the best possible experience.

So.... take my money already!

Wish I could make Megadrive games. I'd love to see two particular ideas realized on the hardware.

@Bonggon5 There's that FPGBC thing.

MEGA DRIVE!
That is all! <3

@KitsuneNight My comment obviously was tongue-in-cheek. There's plenty of business decisions made by any other company out there that I can't comprehend. So let's wait and see.

I do think though, that if Switch 2 goes HARD on retro gaming not only with remasters but also with "officially sanctioned" emulators, i.e. a Virtual Console with plenty of filters, language patches and rom hacks too I think they'd be able to monetize big on it!

You guys need to read between the lines. You know what that means?

RETRO-GAMES-STOREFRONT on SWITCH 2 confirmed!

lol

Im intrigued.
Let's see what comes from it.

I'd love to see something FPGA-like to play OG XBOX games from some company out there!

Can't wait, always had an eye on this one!

FM synth, while maybe subpar, is a large part of what made the Mega Drive so iconic. Never lose that.

LOOKS nice, but the trailer was a snoozefest. Could be bad presentation though.

YES finally NO analogue sticks! Perfect formfactor for everything from GB, GBA to SNES. Love it.

Absolutely lovely and while 800 isn't much comparatively in the watch world, it's still a lot for a "single function gimick". Sporting a Seiko 5 fully automatic watch that I picked up for 200 and loving it. 300 would be the most I'd spend on a watch. 300 buys you a lot of great watches, including those nice 90's looking Casios.

Almost nailed it. Make it GBA classic formfactor and I'm all in.

@-wc- Exactly what I wanted to say.
Who needs ONE analogue stick on something this small, mainly aimed to play 16-bit 2D games? What?

Crap. Otherwise it looks nice!

Looks (and sounds) good! Lovely!

I do think discussions like this are unnecessary. Indy and Bond are fictional characters portrayed in a certain way. Oftentimes a female protagonist is employed for storytelling reasons and maybe give the (small) female audience something to root for and a laugh or two when the hero stumbles because he was "distracted".

There is no argueing creative choices. They are made and you like them or you don't and creative choices should only ever be influenced by decisions regarding storytelling, the craft and original vision of the characters portrayed, never politics.

All that said, I think even "masculine heroes" like Indy and Bond pale when comparing "body count" to many young, modern, liberal women IRL and there it seems to be somewhat accepted, even frowned upon when one is not so keen about high bodycounts and speaks their mind.

Also since OF is a thing, this discussion is moot anyways.

@AlexOlney The interesting thing is that current mainstream society always thinks it's "on the right track". Now and then. That said if the choice is skippable trigger warning for the minority of easily offended people or censorship, it's of course the trigger warning. But this is only the beginning. Rewriting books from the past to fit into modern narratives is already a despicable practice.

Imagine a world 25 years from now, where all these games we're talking about now will be re-released, with a trigger-warning for the trigger-warning.

Societies change. Always. If they don't, it's tyranny.

I don't think that a content warning is needed for an evolved mind to see how far we have come as a culture. It's literally tapping yourself on the shoulder but also we will be judged by time.

Anyways. As long as something does not get in the way of us enjoying our media, I guess it's not as bad, or something!

Now excuse me, an old SEGA retro game needs a playthrough.

It’s not like trigger warnings do right any wrongs from the past and not everything needs to be commented. If our sensitivities really changed for the better we won’t need a trigger warning or content warning to know if some content is „outdated“ or not, right?

Also changing the past robs us of the opportunity to learn from it as evolved individuals making up a whole species.

Modifying or censoring media in any way is just muddying the historical record - like it has been so often. I prefer the uncomfortable truth over the candy cotton treatment any day.

This is laughable. I’m old enough to remember better times. It’s not like the old tomb raider games broke anyone’s mental health back in the day…

Education fixed a lot of problems. It’s not too hard to grasp the concept of different times different sensibilities.

Got this on my Switch. Came away hardly impressed.

Funny how the whole Retroarch community tries to get "console blur right" when in reality back in the day all you wanted was clarity, Europeans were blessed with SCART cables for ultra sharp imagery and now in Emulators everyone is trying to get the most blurry RF-signal-like image quality it seems.

Just enjoy the Pixelart!