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I guess Bentley finally got his sequel after a fact. After he already got his Kart racer... Technically. I look forward to the "HD remaster" of Crystal Castle 2 on Super Nintendo Switch.

I always forget who owns the course of Epyx. Some British holding company I think.

Note to self: double check the M Network Intellivision ports later. Those renames are doubled up on the spreadsheet.

@Twilite9 I was a cartoonist in a previous life, yes.

You ever hear the story of Roger Coreman's Fantastic Four? How about the creation of Two and a Half Men?

I don't think any of these Sega adaptions The Hollywood Machine has in "various stages of production" are meant to ever see the light of day (barring the Blue ball and white suit exceptions). I think they're just there so A)no one else can make them or more likely B) Connely, those producers, and probably a whole bunch of other ghost writers associates of Connely, are sitting on all these so they can say they're working and get union benefits through the AI Squeeze, or whatever they end up calling this time time period of constant striking in retrospect.

Of course, the presence of a Sega executive throws a bit of a wrench into this, but Sega"s had more people credited for less. Bayonetta Origins has three Sega supervisors credited. For reasons known only to the Japanese copyright office.

https://x.com/ima_1966/status/1824222742557888553

My spreadsheet makes the assumption Sega kept the rights when Argonaut went boom.

Okay, it's one thing for Ziggy to go to the worst part of Embracer for the SNES reprints because options are limited (ba-dum-tish) on that front, but Ziggy has their own SNES emulator that's WAY better than the Carbon Engine. Why is the modern version running in THAT?

Thanks, Australia?

Another common City Connection W.

Now if only Clear River could hurry up and reorg Limited Run into CRG America so City Connection wasn't stuck with those two narcissists as their default American distributor.

Who would even own Lord of Midnight now?

While I never really liked the contents of Game Informer, in fact I always thought their articles and reviews were some of the worst ever put to print, their covers were something I always respected. Sure in the later years they weren't always good, mostly becasue the games they often to put on the cover were recent western AAA offerrings; I.E. crap in a basket not worth the plastic that would go into making their incomplete discs, it was still the best chance we had at getting close to the magic of Famitsu or Nintendo Dream here in the states. We never get to see those special illustrations Nintendo or Capcom make, some of the best character composition and 2D design all just meant to be put on a combeni shelf and be forgotten about in a month. It's an art form we lost at the turn of the millinia, not even the many hobbyist magazines that popped up in the wake of Nintendo's Power death still make their own covers, but Game Informer, of all people, kept that flame alive. Mega Man 11, Playstation 25th anniversay, and Sonic Superstars are some of the best covers in print; not just gaming. I mean in the history of the magazine as an artistic medium.

Here's to you Game Informer. You were usually crap, but when you hit you it out of the part. Say hi to PlayStaion Magazine and the New Yorker's credibility for me, will ya?

Of note, Twitter apparently started sending Twitter mail to Ian in response to his desire to pick up where he left off.

I get that twitter hates a lot of things, but last I checked Mega Man Twitter loved the Archie books. Is it cause IDW Sonic doesn't have the freedom fighters? That's on Penders, people!

@KitsuneNight fascinating. The heck is that logo?

Who is Genki?

Fill words

Good for PaonDP. Get that paycheck.

I blame Twitch

I'm surprised they offered an update at all. Normally LRGDHD goes a year between product updates.

Soccer

Soccer

It's a PS4 game. There's no way it's not coming to Super Nintendo Switch

The weirdest thing about this game (besides all the homoerotisim) is that Edia is developing this as part of their "Telnet revival" effort. Cho Aniki never had anything to do with Telnet.

Extreme is an IT consultant company that happens to sit on a small ransom of about 41 IP. Edia is a Hamster/City Connection type "retro IP vault" company that claims to have "over 200" IP, but like Atari buying the bones of Intellivision I can only verify around 61. Why crowdfunding is needed for a port of two TurboGrafx games between the two of them is questionable, but given that this is Cho Aniki we're talking about it's probably best not to ask too many questions

@IceClimbersMain Kingdom Hearts 3 is the 9th Entry in the Kingdom Hearts series.

I think the write just thinks Infinite IS 4, which it techinically is, but at the same time, is also 7

Ah yes, one of the precious few Falcom games that have nothing to do with Dragon Slayer or Ys.

@Poodlestargenerica disturbing

The community for Jaguar and Lynx stuff is far larger than I thought it would be. And than it should be

I sincerely hope it wasn't a matter of one or the other and Wade is going with WayForward instead of Howard for brand recognition. It's James Montega's team, so it's the good one at WF, but Rising is much more Shantae's sister than an Atari game. Arguably really only Lunar Lander and Akka Ahhr have gotten faithful sequels outside the Recharged remakes, and Akka wasn't even released originally. It was an unfinished "bonus ROM" resurrectted to sell AtGames consoles. Like Aquaventure or Save Mary.

GawdDAMNIT PHIL! Dark Horse is RIGHT THERE! YOU LITERALLY WILL CALL NTRIL OT NEXT YEAR

This and Axelay are just standard legal housekeeping. Same reason we aren't getting new Eternal Darkness

Really it should have been Sunspot's job to make sure he was contacted at all. They're the one's that would have had his contact information, after all.

Good for Gerald

Not even I know how many ways you can buy Batsugan, but I'm pretty sure at this point they're just trying to beat Sonic 2

0/10 game ruined

I'll do it for less than scale, and the right to tell Maximilian that Marvel 2 is mid and TvC is the TRUE king of the versus series.

@Grail_Quest I'm still mad and confused Embracer didn't get him in the sale. Literally, it took the worst division of Embracer to get Gex out of the Square dungeon anyway.

I am biased because I have a financial stake in the game through Crystal Dynamics, but I will say that the game would be vastly improved if she was a wisecracking Gecko that made references to old movies and celebrities

I was gonna mak a joke about not having anything from Revengance the Musical again, but then I saw that they included the Ape Escape reference from the original 3, and I have to salute patriotically now.

We used to be a CULTURE. We used to MEAN SOMETHING

Those Dino Crisis votes were more botted than a (insert you own political punchline here)

Sakurai is the real-G

It doesn't matter how much they try to port to modern systems, the web of spin-offs Falcom has released over the last 40 years will forever be the single most inpentrible narrative in all of fiction.

"it should go without saying, but Bobby and Phil can suck it"

Yet more evidence that Take-Two is a bag of chickens

This led me down a rabbit hole of Nichibutsu's releases and dear LORD there is SO much Mahjong porn

They've made bigger mistakes.

Deadpool knew ALL ALONG

I just remembered these were suppossed to be happening this year. Hopefully Clear River can get them, and the two City Conenction games including Omega 6 localized and on shelves at the same time internationally as in Japan. I know Freemode is in kind of an "All hands on Middle Earth as we desperatly try to get rid of as much debt as quickly as possible" mode, but I hope one of the two best parts of Embracer is able to keep steady through it all.

@KitsuneNight @KGRAMR The current Wade era is still Into-tari. The name hasn't been sold to anyone else since then, but their market segments and divisions have changed drastically. While the other Atari's were straight up re-incarnations, the transition to this current age is more a ship of theseus piece by piece re-invention. Again, trying to do the Embracer style "put the old company back together piece-by-piece" approach without making the same mistakes of getting sidetracked by Randy and over-extending

Joust and Defender are in Lego Dimmensions, along with I THINK Blasteroids, and I know the rights to Sprint are a bit weird right now.

@Fallingshadow @KGRAMR Yes, Astrosmash and SHARK! were sold to a compnay called BBG. AS for the likes of APB, yes the first collapse of Atari into console Atari and Arcade Atari is confusing. That's why I eventually sat down and figured out what Warner Bros Discovery now calls "Midway Classics" Here's the in -progress list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uHp_wqa1tNWa8DpeRRH-KGp3rSU4fmYLtIr86Z7f7og/edit#gid=639918701

@Steel76 Don't get your hopes up on Astrosmash just yet. We're trying to figure out if Tommy already sold that to the Germans.

I'm currently discussing with some of the Atari executives what exactly is in that >200 games count. Will report back with finidngs later.

EDIT: Wade refuses to make the full list publisc. Again. Bollocks