Zeebor15

Zeebor15

We simp THQNordic and Atari

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Re: Super-Camp Shmup Series 'Cho Aniki' Is Making A Comeback

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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

Re: "I Am In Talks With Atari" - Howard Scott Warshaw Gives Update On His Yars' Revenge Sequel

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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.

Re: Snow Bros. Is Getting A New 3D Action Game For PS5, PS4, & Switch

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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.

Re: Atari Purchases The Intellivision Brand, But Not The Delayed Amico Console

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@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.

Re: Atari Purchases The Intellivision Brand, But Not The Delayed Amico Console

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@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

Re: Soapbox: The Trouble With Limited Run Games, And How To Fix It

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@dr-gorgo As stated, their partner companies in other regions are massive improvements over them and it's quite instulting, but feels partially justified, to the American audeience. If you mean purely American, Maximum's PM and Merge labels have actually been beating every other Adv-A level publisher in the country by every metric with the exception of LRG's OTHER "way better at your job" European cousin, THQNordic.

Re: Soapbox: The Trouble With Limited Run Games, And How To Fix It

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As the Embracer sycophant, the most frustrating thing about LRG is their younger, European cousin Clear River Games is SOOOOO much better at their job, but we in the states don't get them. Only doing an average of about one release a quater, and putting ALL eggs on it instead of spreading 70 people across 3 releases a WEEK. Clear River used to distribute ESRB copies on it's own, but now their releases just get shuffled in with everything else LRG in the states. They're at least guaranteed to be possible to get without pre-ordering as they all go up on LRG's Not at All Limited In Fact Why are We Even Publishing This in the First Place Amazon Store Front Selection, but you're still dealing with the LRG shipping delays AND you don't get Nintendo points off of them. That's just salt in the wound at that point.

I've at least been able to have conversations with the Clear River folks that don't end with me being insulted and called an idiot, and their new community manager is MUCH more transparent than LRG's ever was. Even won an Omega 6 comic off of them. It was very based. I digress.

The only way to really fix Limited Run Games is to hope they get fuly absorbed during the "Middle Earth Enterprises and Friends" split into being Clear River America, and the pompus founders are kicked to the curb so MVG can focus on the Carbon Engine, and Clear River can focus on what LRG was meant to do; give me day and date physical releases of City Connection, Tasujin, and other Adv-A - AA tier retro game revivals.