The_Nintend_Pedant

"Newly Preserved?" 🤔

(ps - good article, love to see this. I remember Sega Channel like it was yesterday. 🥰)

@WhensDinner

you arent wrong but i still want to own one! very unique layout and thats kind of my thing 😊👍

also I like the stick 😁

every time i see "Lunar... original English voice acting" it sets off a tiny alarm bell in my mind, as Lunar didn't actually have English voice acting, originally. More Iike Lunar Remastered won't have 90's English voice acting, but it will have new voice acting in English that is as original as the other overdub was. 👍

obv i get the meaning but actually i didnt at first because I thought you meant it wouldnt get English voice acting at all.

TLDR the headline is ambiguous, could be better. 👍✌️❤️

every time i see a pic of that damn beautiful controller on here, I think someone has made a new one 😆

I've admired it from a distance for like 30 years... 🤩

@Steel76

I no longer have my 32x but I held onto my copy of Kolibri. really unique game that I recommend if you haven't played it ✌️

@BulkSlash

Once upon a time, there was a game store in Tulsa called Hershel's, where I spotted a loose 32x behind the counter tucked away, that they hadnt even bothered to merchandise. got a price on the fly, from Mr. Hershel himself.

$8. 💀 I sold it some years later, and scarcely regretted it until roughly this moment.

thanks 😂

@nocdaes

I must've watched that Tekken demo 1 million times 🥰

(to be fair though I watched the Philosoma and Kileak: the DNA Imperative videos many, many times also 😂)

@Spider-Kev

Good for you, seriously. If you've been around drugs at all, this is unmistakable. ✌️

"keen to stress that the drugs angle hadn't crossed his mind when the photos were taken"

oh yeah RIGHT 😂 I simply don't believe it but I can't imagine why 30 years later he couldn't/wouldn't just cop to it.

this bit of 30 year old conjecture is hardly "news."

@PinballBuzzbro

I like your style. 👍

@slider1983

i totally feel you. I LOVE RPGs! But I can count the ones I've beaten on probably one hand.

Xenogears, FF6, Chrono Trigger, Suikoden 1 and 3, Earthbound, Illusion of Gaia.

ok. two hands ✌️

(for context, the number I've played and not beaten is many times longer 😆)

PS - is this my own syntax confusion or are you making a distinction between Tactical Strategy RPGs and Non-Tactical Strategy RPGs? 🤔 I'm genuinely interested.

@PinballBuzzbro

I know what you say is true, yet the term "always..."

I was around in the 90's and I don't remember either 1) thinking these games were unfun in any way or 2) there being a negative conversation broadly about WD's localizations until years later, primarily in internet forums. ✌️

@slider1983

yeah. seems like a real non-story, to me.

if they hadnt brought it up, id not have assumed this new release had the old Working Designs dubs.

OTOH recording all new English dubs seems weird unless they are really going to make this a full blown premium rerelease and a series revival. which also doesnt seem to be happening here.

I like the old dubs for nostalgia, and I cherish my old copies, but I can't imagine a new EN dub so "good" that I would choose it over the Japanese voices, or frankly, no voices. 👍 cheers.

@slider1983

oh! well i read the article but the embedded videos dont work for whatever reason on my phone (just for this site) so i appreciate you pointing that out 👍

@PopetheRev28 @MarkyVigoroth

i guess i just dont know any better but ive only ever played my copies of 1 + 2 on PSX and I love them to bits, including the voice acting and dialogue. ✌️

"It's a shame, because Ireland says he has a lot of stuff he could offer for these projects, including uncensored outtakes, audience tapes and other cool extras. "

geez, maybe this Ireland guy should just start publishing games himself! 😬

EDIT - the headline seems to imply that the game will include non original/new English voice acting, but it will actually have no English voice acting.

"Sure, someone is always going to be stuck with the joypad rather than the authentic coin-op interface, but it's not the end of the world."

1) or they can use a stick of they so choose, right?

2) especially given #1 above, far worse is that player 2 will always be peerng over the shoulder of player 1, kind of like trying to see what someone is doing on their ipad. 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

3) two sets of controls is the ONLY way for street fighter, this is DOA for me personally for this reason.

"None of Mega Man's famous platforming adventures are included, which might seem a bit odd"

what seems odd is the choice of Mega Man for this project at all, given that the "famous platforming adventures" mentioned are not arcade games. 🤔

thanks for the review! my take is that this seems high quality, but the lack of AV out, second controls, and odd choices for the marquee franchises make it irrelevant for me right off sadly.

"Because it's a 4:3 screen, it's the perfect aspect ratio for retro gaming, but you'll still find that some titles have a border around the action (like TATE-mode shmups, for example)."

Imo the second half of this couplet actually disproves the first, by demonstrating that a 1:1 screen is actually the perfect ratio for retro gaming, when it comes to arcade games in particular (also handheld games made for a variety of different screens.) ✌️

"there's no way to connect the Alpha to your television via HDMI (...) feels like an optional feature that most people would have welcomed."

I'll go a step further and say that such a feature would/could have legitimized this entire endeavor, in terms of justifying the purchase. as is, it feels like an executive toy mostly for display/nostalgia purposes. ✌️

@HoyeBoye

YES mad dog mctyper!! 🤣😂😂

i feel like someone with the requisite skills could make this happen.

@Damo

you are completely right about that! ✌️

"It’s not going to be kind of lumbered with a whole bunch of back story that might exclude people who know nothing about House of the Dead."

This guy is going to DUMB DOWN the HOTD story for us 😂 he really is the visionary genius that everyone always says.

@Damo

I think the point of @Hydra_Spectre 's comment was more about the actual quality of the films than the critical reception, but your answer still applies. 👍

(let's not forget, Synecdoche New York for example was critically panned, and commercially bombed upon release...)

@HoyeBoye

i wish every light gun game had a "Typing of" version 😆

WES Anderson is making a house of the dead movie?!

(looks again)

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON IS MAKING A HOTD MOVIE?!

(one more time)

oh. 😒

@N64-ROX

"I get the feeling that a lot of "physical forever" purists are going to get a rude awakening when they plug in their Switch cartridges in 20 years' time and most of them run like muck without any patches..."

I think about this all the time!! physical makes zero sense to me now, and I rarely buy games that way because of exactly what you describe. we are on the installment plan, now, and it's hard to imagine what "retro" gaming will be like when it relies on all this online garbage that no longer functions.

for me, pre-internet gaming is a different thing, and essentially dead, along with so many other good aspects of life. it does seem like theres a movement to "unplug" but since it isnt the "way forward $" for the dominant corpses i mean corporations I don't think we will move that direction with any level of peace or comfort.

so, I'll just hang on to the pre-switch consoles and games that I still have, leave my phone by the door (on better days) and roll with the punches 😊✌️ cheers.

@Daniel36

lol btw 😅✌️

I will say this: while the Wii is definitely part of the "old Nintendo" that I love, part of the appeal for me before Wii (yes, I'm old and I had every Nintendo console along the way since NES) was that Nintendo was averse/afraid of online gaming or distribution just like me, and in those days there never, ever would have been a non localized game allowed on any Nintendo platform.

in other words, I meant what I said, but when I said it, I didnt realize just how far back I was reaching. 😅👍 so It's pretty much old man yells at Nintendo shaped cloud.

@N64-ROX

nah, my argument fell apart under light scrutiny but I'm leaving my gpa moment up for posterity ✌️

@Daniel36

yep! i remember this one too!

i guess its only a ~20 year old phenomenon 😅 I'll go back to sleep now ✌️

@LowDefAl

Right you are! and I recall that, now that you mention it. 👍

still, without any other examples, I will consider DoReMi Fantasy on Wii Virtual Console to be the exception that proves the rule. 😊✌️

pre switch Nintendo would never have allowed non translated/localized games on their platform. Now, they have them on their own online service.

I miss pre Switch Nintendo a lot, y'all. ✌️

@PinballBuzzbro

great comment 😂👍

@bluphraust

lol very true! or (in the US at least) "middle class voters." It's no one! It's everyone! 😆

"The Internet" in journalism bugs me in particular because it's just like when (ahem) certain politicians and news organizations say "people are saying." The implication is that everyone or most people agree but in fact there's no "there" there, and it's actually just the speaker using a kind of straw man fallacy to separate themselves from the statement they personally would like to propagate, in order to make it seem more valid.

in truth, there are people on "the internet" on both/all sides of literally any issue, and this same writer could make the opposite argument or any argument at all really using the same strategy and data pool ("the internet.")

@bobby_steurer

That's what life's like! You'll never play all the great games, listen to all the great songs, see all the great movies, but you can spend your life having a blast trying 😊 and, better late than never, as they say! It sounds like you had a good time with it, and that's what is up. 👍✌️

"The internet" isnt a person, doesnt have feelings, and doesn't have an opinion.

growing up, i didnt realize people were also going to "get good" at games like Mario 64 😆 good for them.

I felt pretty accomplished when i finally got 120 stars, myself, and that's where my Mario 64 career pretty much ended ✌️

this game was a phenomenal "late gen" release at the time. to have our heads expanded by gta3 and then to see another giant leap to San Andreas in the same generation was just incredible!

it was also a welcome throwback to the early 90s at a time when 80s nostalgia was very much in vogue. Pretty much no game that I can think of even tried the vibe they pulled off in this game.

@Geobardi

good pull! so, he used it once ("rarely") in a dire situation against absolute evil, not exactly running around, slicing up mall security. 😂

PS - i just watched level 1 on genesis as it had been a long time. yes, it looks weird as hell to see Aladdin brandishing a deadly weapon, weaving a trail of carnage as he makes his way across town 😂 what were they thinking?!

@RossoftheRobots

I guess Croc is just too middling for the "Rise of the Robots" guy 😂✌️

I feel like Aladdin rarely if ever used a sword or weapon of any kind in the movie. +1 SNES.

@Scollurio

I LOVE GAIN GROUND! would love to see the idea expanded upon and or revisited in any capacity 👍

@demadeefy

different strokes! Can't say I agree 👍

start with some good games.

i have zero familiarity with this song until now, but it could not sound more like "land," to me.

@Poodlestargenerica

I second this request!

PS - have you listened to the podcast Legacy Music Hour? They used to do some interview episodes, and they did David Wise, Tim Ferriss, Oka, Tanaka, and I want to say Alberto Jose Gonzales(?!) but I might be getting a little mixed up over time.

suffice to say its a great podcast and those episodes are really special ❤️👍✌️

@SakuraHaruka

hi ☺️

I love soyo oka too! among my favorite composers.

If I'm reading your comment correctly, you seem to be attributing SimCity 3000 to her, but it was actually the great Jerry Martin! one of my favorite game OSTs ever, SimCity 3000 is really elevated stuff and I love it!

anyway. ✌️

@Poodlestargenerica

jumping flash gave me the absolute creeps as a kid! 👍👍 great game.

"smooth modern analog controls with an improved camera"

so it looks like Croc, but it plays like every other generic warmed over 3d action game since the ps3 era.