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So tiny… my eyes hurt just looking at it like that!

A bit worrying everything so far looks like a mock up. Gamble £200 on something that could be rubbish? No thanks. I’m also invested in Evercade at the moment and could do without another competing system being there. I want more capcom / Namco carts!

Fun fact: I’ve never played every level on the original or up to now. This is simply because I’ve always used the warp pipes and have never gotten round to a proper play through (with save states etc). Not been high on my priority, just never found the time, but something I would like to do at some point. I have however got all the chaos emeralds on sonic 3+knuckles, and played all the super sonic levels and won, with save states, but that was when I was at uni and I had a lot of time! Maybe I’ll fire it up and give it a go eventually….

Now hopefully they release this on Evercade, but with the original artworks and no AI rubbish! One can only hope!

Think this fact is on the recent worms Armageddon pack with the history bit. Both Andy and the team 17 persons commented on this same comment. Good fun!

Sold out already? Doh!

I’m having a bit of physical resurgence, I’ve got into Evercade and bought a few carts, now I’m thinking of getting a ps3 so I can play tekken tag tournament 2 properly (every emulator I have on my hardware can’t seem to cope with it), along with little big planet series. I’m even considering a 360 to play early forza and dead or alive 3. With my ps5 I’ve generally bought digital, but I buy physical to use games I know don’t have a long shelf life. I have a switch 2 where all my switch games are physical and switch 2 is about 50/50 digital to physical, although I’m regretting buying digital on the switch 2 and will now buy physical. Very interesting times indeed

Weirdly I played this in Spain once, believe it was a random bar or something. Wasn’t that great to be honest. Does anyone know if the GDRoms for these are interchangeable and therefore I can I buy this can and play other games like crazy taxi and virtua tennis?

That’s a lot of money for not much cab. Still, the target market is 40 somethings with too much disposable income, so this could sell… but it does seem a lot of wonga for not much

@sdelfin your right, thanks for the clarification. I’ll go back through the history just so I’m up to date!

@Allahver_Fist for some reason, I’ve always assumed polymega was hardware backed and not emulated, but now reading up - your right! Well, even less appeal now for me!

Just got into evercade and now owning 7 carts all bought between 12-20 each, I find the £30 asking price along with the hardware costs a little steep. Granted the polymega ones are not emulated, but still.

It is however great to see physical resurgening a bit, especially with the recent Sony announcements. Let’s see if we can get back to home arcade!

I would have normally said for the top price you may as well buy a steam deck, however that is now not the case. Still, if you already own a steam deck, that will wipe the floor of these devices. I went through a couple before realising what I really want is what I already have - so consider that if looking at these

Is there a ds version of this? I’ve just found my ds with a slightly ropey cart come sd card and it needs an update. Any options?

He keeps us all on edge!

Edging is something else…

What a ****

Could this be so it can fit the random rumoured Sega “retro” portable device? Could be!

Well now I know where ball x pit got its major influence from, that and bride of pinbot!

Saw this before and would be interested to know what the software quality is like. I assume it’s pretty naff and therefore not worth it?

Yer I’ll be getting mr do as that will take me right back to my childhood and the old arcade machine at my local swimming pool. Can’t believe arcade machines used to be everywhere, even in Chinese take aways and kebab shops! At least I believe I played every arcade machines at the time, although I didn’t realise it was a golden age late 80s early 90s.

@Martin_H squares original Saturn vs multiple triangles modern ways of doing things = not quite right when upscaling. The new approach gets closer to the squares and therefore is more accurate.

Something like that anyway!

My 40 something eyes won’t let me see this, but when I was young I would have enjoyed this maybe.

@betterman wipeout is made for 120hz, then we can all smash into the wall repeatedly very, very smoothly!

@Martin_H I think I agree with you, it does seem that way. However he could also be stupid and does seem to be fighting legal over everything. So if an artist, I would have avoided the legal side.

Original post comment - Checks date - not April fools. But this would seem exactly the sort of thing that happens on April the 1st!

@BinaryMessiah takes a look… holy moly! Didn’t realise that sorry. CeX are selling for 600 odd as well. Crazy times these!

With these sort of prices you may as well buy a steam deck. It’s a very capable emulation machine more so than a lot of these devices and with a big screen to boot.

Had this on the CD32, I wonder if they will get to that version? It was quite cool that one, although I’m not sure if it was any different to any other version other than extreme amount of different colours.

I went on a bit of a journey for the sub £100 devices and went through a few via cex. Eventually I concluded that for £350 the steam deck is really what I was after, emulating up to ps3 and even some ps4 generation games, and arcade games to boot. Save your money and get a deck instead!

Xwing vs tie fighter and rogue squadron 3D - had these on my 486 and they really didn’t like it very much, so might be time to go seem them actually working! This was at a time when 3D pc games were dark (due to draw distances) or FMV style games. The darkness and loneliness the games created at the time really influenced me, still now. Why I prefer games of colour nowerdays!

All this suited xwing however so I’ll be giving that a go on my steam deck!

@Martin_H I just hope it doesn’t get 98% of the way there and then Sony shut it down. Seems Sony is less likely too, however it could still happen

Looks not dissimilar to Kirby air riders! At least the madness! The original wipeout had the extra layer of skill that once you zoned in was brilliant. I used to be able to do phantom without crashing when I was much younger, nowerdays I’ll probably just hit the wall over and over!

Yer baby! I’ll look forward to see what sort of output we get here. It was a very capable simulator at the time. I used to turn full destruction on and drive round Monaco backwards to see how long I could last without crashing into the road or the other cars! What fun I had with GP2 all those years ago. Most games force you from doing this type of thing, not sure its possible even with wreckfest?

That’s a lot of doh. Seriously, buying a steam deck is almost 2k less than this and it emulates up to ps3 and Xbox 360. Brilliant for the money!

Some dark memory is telling me I played this game in an arcade somewhere in the uk, like 30 years ago. Not sure that was in English however, pretty sure it was one of those floor standing wooden cabinets too.

Crazy that he’s stupid enough to think this would work, lost for words really!

So the premium edition includes two guns but one pedal? Forgive my memory but don’t you need two pedals for two people?

@The_Nintendo_Pedant same here! Every game was a gem, playing it in the arcade then a quick turn around and it would be on my home console. Loved the VMU, and the controller. Switch 2 could potentially scratch that itch a bit, but month on month after release the DC line up was second to none. Shame everyone hated it and went ps2, even if the game selection only really kicked in the latter part of its life

I actually have a bit of a soft spot for these FMV games. I remember the demos of these types of games in comet (uk electronics shop) on Sega cd, cdi, 3do, and even the cd 32. It was quite exciting time even if at that point your could realise these sort of games were a bit rubbish. It was like developers were given cd as a format and everyone thought the best thing to do was fill the space with pre-rendered visuals or video. This was the time of video disk, clear see through phones, but the slow death of vinyl.
Early 90s games were either video games or really dark/grey to shield from the low render distance for 3d. Liberation and the robocop games that came out this time were examples. Megarace on the other hand was fmv and a racing game being bright and very noisy soundtrack. Glad games have moved on, but I have a weird vibe about this time that has never since been repeated that I like to tap into every now and again. A bit like brutilist architecture!

Great article!

I loved to play GP2 on my PC and used to have the challenge of damage on, driving around Monaco backwards and see how long you could last…. I was 12 at the time! Fond memories of this game, didn’t realise GP4 was a thing so I’ll have to give that a go, was great simulation at the time so might be a bit rubbish now. But it was the only game as far as I know where the smashing physics were spot on!

That’s the problem with these Chinese devices - they flood the market and even if from the same company. Not sure how they turn a profit with that amount of releases, not sure the same people would buy at all. They must do though otherwise they would not keep doing it

That trailer is soooo slow and relaxing and very Japanese 80s next door to karaoke bar. Doesn’t actually show much of the game, is it any good?

@dodgykebaab I had one, just trying to remember any other games other than diggers, zool 1/2, Nigel mansal, nick faldos golf, microcosm, liberation, chaos engine and about 5 other s in total. Tbh a jaguar might be a better option

Spotify has always had some shady stuff going on. Have they implemented 2FA yet? Basic security was last in their list and my account got hacked at least twice on the platform. It was shockingly simple to get back my account though - just a quick question to support and no proof required, so I can see how easy it was for people to do the same on my account. The final nail in the coffin was when loads of random music I didn’t listen too started appearing in my feed, turns out someone logged into my account somewhere else in the world and had been playing music 24/7 and I maintain that was some sort of bot used to inflate listening numbers. This was about 3 years ago. I made it a rule that I would only go to a secure service then and so that limited me to Amazon, google and Apple. Not sure why none of the other providers provide any level of security but something tells me these Spotify stories are the tip of the iceberg of what practices are actually going on, feels like you can fake a lot more

GTI club would be fun in addition for system 22 games. Otherwise, I would love to legally own a lot of my old arcade games so the more the merrier!

Can’t remember how many tracks were on this one, thinking it’s going to be a quick 5mins before you stop playing this. The main appeal, the jet ski cabinet, isn’t here with this so night be a bit naff, who knows?

Saw a new arcade appear in Eastleigh (near Southampton) recently, along with the already established new on in Southampton. Also not forgetting “game over” in Portsmouth having a cracking few games too.

They are starting to appear here and there now!

Added to wishlist! Does look a lot like the rollercoaster tycoon style which I always enjoyed. Let’s hope they bring it to the switch 2 and or make the controls on the steam deck user friendly and not so much mouse dependent, then this would be ideal. I’ll keep and eye but not a primary game to focus on yet

Out of interest, if I went this route for light gun games, how much would the modules plus the gun cost in total? Guessing it’s about £500?

Very interesting. Not sure how that level of gore will be accepted in any arcade tbh but I would love to see a return to light gun games and maybe even on the switch 2! One can hope!

While in Salisbury, check out https://specialwhenlit.co.uk/index.php which is a pinball only place dedicated to restoration and play of pinball. Took my dad there for his 70th and it’s really great fun, even if slightly difficult to park there!

I love the fact that time extension has all these games. Did you guys ever do a report as to the history of your collection of games and where they came from? What was the original intent for the collection - to preserve them all or was it just coincidence? Cool though!