X68000

It’s down. Plagiarising not one, but two current projects. I’m pleased decisive action was taken and it’s already forgotten.

What can you do nowadays with your custom FW PSP whilst online?

Emulation Vs FPGA argument aside, the 3D printed case is always a worry from a quality perspective.

This is the greatest gaming achievement I have ever accomplished," says Summoning Salt

This will be inscribed on his headstone.

Check cvg and edge around late 98 for the dc launch.

The good ol days!

@Damo I originally imported games and systems in 1987 from Japan as a distributor before opening an office in Kowloon HK called West Lake. I then opened a store and mail order business called Akihabara Games Central. I used to supply games to EMAP and Future Publishing in exchange for cheaper advertising slots. Something I stopped supplying when they were returned without their box or a very scratched CD!

I remember PC Engine supplies. They used to buy directly from Japan and later became Console Concepts. The guy was called Colin Dimond. I think he hailed from stoke.

I forgot that he received a suspended sentence. I thought he must have updated it whilst inside.

Who doesn’t play Nintendo?

@Damo I’ve just preordered a copy, thanks for the review.

I met Jaz and Eugene Lacey a couple of times whilst dropping off and collecting games I supplied EMAP for review for the PC Engine and the MD.

As an import games retailer and a fan of their publications, It was a real treat to see them in their work environment. It was just as I expected it to be. Chaotic, messy, empty pizza boxes strewn around the office but above all else a great atmosphere with many like minded individuals who obviously worked well together.

Pleased I didn’t have to sell my gran in order to get a copy of the book.

The forerunner was called Geograph Seal on the X68000. A far superior game. However, Jumping Flash 2 on the PSX offers a great time all round.

If you ever get the chance, play Xanac X Xanac Neo on the PSX. It's an absolute blast 🙌

Unless it has a steering wheel, what is the point?

Outrunners will be incredibly twitchy without analogue control.

@-wc- I was thinking 16:10 but flipped a coin and went for 9. I reckon you're right though.

My favourite modern display for retro games has to br the iPad pro 12.9" 4:3 display.

You just look at that screen in 16:9 format and know this thing is gimped.

Looks good, but pleeeeeeeease Nintendo._________Do the right thing and give us a Rhythm Heaven release on Switch this year.

They are scraping the bottom of the barrel with some of these AA releases. The 1988 sequel was released on Switch a few years ago and that’s the version to go for.

Amazon had pre orders for Gradius VI back in 2006 for the PS3. Knowing it was unlikely to happen, I still placed the preorder and it was eventually cancelled in 2011!

Nothing sounds better than a MD when it's singing like that.

@KingMike 200 dev units must have resulted in some form of software being developed. I remember reading a trade magazine in the early 90s which had seen a game running on the system at CES. Maybe it was Jerry Boy with redbook audio 😃

Shadow Dancer on the MD was poorly received at the time, many magazine reviews pitched it around 15-20% below Super Shinobi.

Whereas MD ESWAT provided a better gaming experience over the arcade, this (for me) felt a little half baked.

@Damo the sizeable msu-1 library could definitely be utilised and converted into iso images to run off the cd rom drive (providing they would add one)

@Hordak you need to find a compatible romset pre compiled for the pocket. You should find what you need on Google, or always check out the Internet archive.

Alternatively, I could help you dump your complete set of AES carts 🤣

The most impressive looking console of all time. Especially with that LCD display and pure early 90s Sony design language coursing through it.

Of the 200 or so that were produced, this has been incorrectly reported to be the only one ever sold or potentially still in existence.

There was a unit sold on Yahoo Auctions Japan in the early 2000's for £8000 or $13000 at the time in better condition than the one found a decade ago. I also saw one in a display cabinet of a games distributor in Shibuya when I was securing stock of launch Dreamcasts from them. It wasn't for sale and they wouldn't let me touch it. I offered what I thought was a good price but my Japanese translator told me continuing to ask was insulting them so I abruptly dropped my interest.

No doubt it would be the absolute centrepiece of any games collection no matter how big or small, so this replica should sell well enough with those who can afford what will be the nearest thing we'll ever get to owning one again.

Try the albernic rg arc. It's the closest we'll ever get to the real thing.

BTW, Happy New Year Everyone!

@Profchaos the original Saturn version would be my pick of the incomplete versions. Not the new proof of concept. But the original AM2 build that later became the Dreamcast game. It’s mighty impressive.

That six button configuration looks verrrrrry steep. It’s a great idea, just lacking the practicality to make it worthwhile.

@JayJ it would be amazing to think that a single game could have made the difference, but the Dreamcast had loads of exclusive killer apps.

The PS2 was a juggernaut which brushed everything aside. It never really had a chance.

@slider1983 I guess Saturday night slam masters did the same job.

@slider1983 not the subtleist display of irony I've ever seen. Please remember I'm from the UK and understand what sarcasm is. 😅

I'm sure Sega could have removed the sponsored elements of the game if they had wanted to during the porting process.

I guess the sales performance of the Dreamcast version wasn't good enough to convince them it would have sold well on PS2.

@KociolekDoSyta How about mobile phones being replaced yearly? Surely that's the issue. This is a cottage industry in comparison.

I've had a £1000 onexplayer windows handheld which had the worst dpad I've ever used. This appears to be a trend with the brand.

The build of windows was massively unstable too with frequent random crashes. The whole thing was a massive let down.

If anyone put there hard earned cash down on this, they almost deserve to lose it for being so gullible.

@GlamorousAlpaca I’m sure there are better things to make your Christmas than that……….hopefully!

As for ufo 50, I purchased it on the strength of the recommendation here but have been sorely disappointed. I found most of the games sub standard with far better alternatives elsewhere.

5 mega drive games on pretend arcade hardware. These sound awful.

Please do SMB3 next!

@RetroMasters we had the 4 colour buttons on the snes here in the UK…….also in the west.

Chris Donald comes from my neck of the woods. Viz is a very Geordie-centric comic and still going strong today.

@slider1983 I had the 17 bit space ace demo disk, which could play half of the trailer at a time, unless you had the 1 Meg ram upgrade so it could play in it’s entirety.

Heady times

@slider1983 exactly, plus the original unedited article said it was released for the Sega CD first then mentioned the PAL Mega CD release.

It was pandering to a US audience and was factually incorrect.

The uneducated will remain misinformed.

@MrPeanutbutterz @slider1983 I see the wording had been altered to include Mega CD. Small victory?

It was released for the Mega CD in Japan. Not the Sega CD.

I realise the site has a NA bias, but in the next sentence you mention the PAL Mega CD and the Mega Drive.

That YouTube guy is massively annoying. He sounds both pathetic and ridiculous.

@Scollurio now available for under £50 delivered to the UK. Anbernic cannot build a good OS and not enough sold for sufficient homebrew support.

The chances of a new, more powerful variant are non existent 😔

@Scollurio my biggest disappointment was the Saturn controller shaped Anbernic Arc. Easily the best controls I’ve even seen on these kinds of of devices, but was too underpowered to play the games it’s aesthetically trying to replicate.

@Peteykins this is a handheld game console which runs emulators. Even the switch can run many of them.

I could never understand changes like this. I’m sure a U.S. audience could appreciate the Japanese soundtrack. Same goes for Sonic CD.

I had the Japanese import version of this back in 86 and it still holds up. There was a great remake from brain games for the PC which is definitely worth checking out.

28 YO max. The white pad was launched in 1996.

The headline image used is from Turbo Outrun.