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Not too sure about the clear plastic front part it just makes it look like the design is unfinished for some reason

@JJtheTexan from what I recall it was about as accurate as any emulator at the time which meant it wasn't great for certain things and displayed obvious inaccuracies. Since then FPGA alternatives have come along that offer better results than they could so if it wasn't cancelled before then it probably was after the Analogue 3D was announced.

They still haven't got around to releasing that emulation N64 system they shown off several years back I even checked that it was June of 2019. So I wouldn't hold my breath that they would actually release a handheld one any time soon even if they do show a prototype some point.

Hyperkin do have a bit of a track record of announcing systems and then they seem to disappear. Does anyone remember the N64 console they announced and shown a prototype off of about 4 years ago? Since then it has pretty much vanished without a trace. They seem to announce things in the very early stages of development without knowing if they can actually do what they promised.

It gives of a vibe of a WiiWare game of one of those small download only games from 20 years ago.

@Guru_Larry You beat me to it, it's the first thing I thought when seeing the screenshots.

@Mrakey I know they were I am not disputing some of the poor decisions Sega of America made. Both sides made decisions during the 90's that would benefit their own market only or that they thought would and there was little open communication between the two sides. It was essentially two separate companies trying to run a single business. Sega of Japan was still stubborn and oblivious to the changing market though and didn't realise it until it was too late.

Sega was very slow to adapt to the changing market when the Saturn came out thinking they could rely predominantly on arcade conversions. So they have a history of stubbornly sticking to a philosophy. It seem to take them a long to to realise that people wanted a lot more content in their games than what they were offering. They tried to correct that with the Dreamcast but they were still few and far between. It seems like it took them going third party to realise that.

Although this isn't a great shock that Sega of Japan wasn't interested in what Sega of America had to say and anyone that worked for them as they just never got along.

The Quickshot Maverick was my go to joystick for the C64 and Master System. It's the only Quickshot joystick I ever used that didn't stop reading inputs after about a month of use. The majority of Quickshot joysticks are only iconic because of how cheap they were and just about everyone's parents would buy them or they would come bundled with systems.

A product that never existed in the first place has now been cancelled? Oh man that is Christmas ruined for me.

I followed this pretty much from day one and it first seemed too good to be true and then after that it snowballed into the ridiculous with his so called prototype and his claims that Sega made him destroy all of the manufactured devices after they were produced so he couldn't refund peoples money.

It doesn't seem like it was a year ago when he suddenly vanished for a period of time probably to stash the money somewhere.

If the game is completely different to the game that was cancelled and has been redesigned from the ground up has the game actually been saved or are they just making a new and different game with a smaller budget for a new publisher?

If nothing of the cancelled game remains and just incorporates some of the gameplay elements then it wasn't saved and this is just a new project.

That is such sad news he was a really good character actor. The first time I ever recalled seeing him was in the first episode of Star Trek The Next Generation.

I watched it and before I seen the controller or console I thought he was the spoiled kid who got an early Mega Drive or something until the shot shown him with a NES controller. But then I could tell they were going for the spoiled child route when he had the Hang-on arcade machine in his room. I didn't really think much else of it though as for the most part when it came to gaming references in it they have been pretty accurate.

In all honesty the properties that Acclaim did own by the end were all from Valiant Comics which is under ownership anyway. The rest of the stuff they did was all either licensed from TV, sport or movies or they did home ports of other people's arcade games that they didn't own the rights to anyway. I seen a lot of random wild hopes that they were going to revive games that they would no longer have the licences to like Turok. I think many people fail to realise that Acclaim didn't come up with any original ideas except for maybe Vexx.

It definitely is the case that North American video games seems to be talked about as if it effected the world especially the video game crash of the early 80s. It is often talked as if it had a global impact when in Europe it didn't really effect much as consoles weren't as popular as various computers at the time and in Japan western developed games or consoles weren't really a thing at that point. I imagine there are other times when it was talked about that things effected only the North American market too but were made out to have effected everywhere.

Really gaming system rivalries only started when they first Xbox launched? Then why did I spend countless hours at school telling my friend the N64 was better than the PS1 even that one kid that had the Sega Saturn? Even before that I would often ridicule my Speccy owning friend that he didn't know what a game in colour looked like properly.

That number pad looks like you will be mashing the buttons on the right hand side when you grip it. Which probably wont make it comfortable for long term play.

From what I recall seeing it was so early in development it could barely even be called a proof of concept as most of the stuff they wanted to add wasn't even implemented yet. I can't imagine they are going to actually finish it after all these years.

Joke's on you I didn't need to hear this news to make me feel old. Just getting out of bed this morning achieved that result.

I honestly never cared that much what the buttons were called they are just labels. Every console especially earlier ones all had radically different designs as well as button names. It has only become an issue for me in the past several years when switching between Nintendo and Xbox controllers when momentarily pressing the wrong buttons after an onscreen prompt. For the most part though all modern games use the exact same button layout so for many you can play any system without thinking too much about where the buttons are placed regardless of what it is called.

I was put off by the AI voice more than the price and that is an impressive feat.

What a strange spin-off to a beat em up. I really would have liked to know who pitched that and hear how they sold the idea.

Unless it has the smell of my parents smoking cigarettes in the other room that fills the whole house then it's not authentic sorry.

@Deuteros I like your logic obviously this will be a surprise launch though as nothing has been announced yet

Of all three games the only one I ever really had issues with was the final level on Return of the Jedi as that seemed to require far too much accuracy to escape. Of all three though the first game was probably the easiest and fairest but they seemed to ramp the difficulty up with each one. I could see why as the games would actually be fairly short otherwise.

He seems unimpressed by all of this but in comparison in the UK even by 1990 many developers of computer games were still working from home and not in any kind of office environment and it was only the larger ones that had any kind of cramped space.

I know he points out that they work on these games and just get a regular salary while Nintendo makes millions but the same could be said for the countless people who worked on movies at the time or anything that involved working on anything media related as it does to this day.

@Deuteros Well that is clearly the reason why else would it have shifted so many copies? The greatest Street Fighter game of all time this list proves it since the Saturn had the best ports of all of them at the time. This is how it works right?

@Deuteros I can imagine since it was released so early on after launch and probably was still somehow selling copies even at a reduced price for a couple of years they probably kept printing them. It is surprising how it is the only Street Fighter game on the list though and I wonder if it was also the one that made the most money in the US as a result.

£8.99 for 50 minutes? You don't even get a full hour? Still opening these places in areas where there are now less people passing through do to local high streets becoming increasing less active will always be a struggle.

Didn't realise there was ever a debate on how to say it. But I never ran into anyone that gave it an ger sound at the end and I lived in both the west midlands and south coast growing up.

I am more wondering what happened to that N64 console they originally announced 6 years ago now it seems to have disappeared without a trace.

I have often found games like this that aim for retro style visuals especially from the PS1 era tend to miss the most important story element of the games. Also is it just me or does the main character just look like a reskinned Leon Kennedy model from RE2?

The term "classics" seems to get used for all old games now making them sound better than they were.

I managed to give it a try and I can't say I am that impressed with the game itself. Sure it looks pretty but it isn't that great at times with poor collision detection and some questionable enemy AI even on the highest difficulty. It has gained more of a reputation because of its history and how impossible it has been to get access to than because it was good game that is worth being sought after.

Their biggest problem is every couple of years they are changing their business strategy rather than trying to focus on one. They went from buying loads of publishers expecting everyone to flock to Xbox and Gamepass as a result. To everything is an Xbox and becoming more third party publisher. But this has gradually been happening since the Xbox 360 days and around the time they launched the Konnect. Since then they have tried to be everything to everyone and they always come up looking second best at everything. They also still haven't recovered from the awful Xbox One reveal which was again trying to be everything to everyone being more focused on anything but gaming.

All the people that thought all the acquisitions they made were going to mean loads of exclusives for Xbox and that they were going to overtake everyone seem to have not taken into account that all those publishers they brought their games were only valuable because they were on just about everything and sold well because of that not because they are system sellers.

They took huge risks thinking it would pay off to benefit their brand but it hasn't really done that if anything it has zero effect on actually boosting sales of consoles or subscriptions.

Like many I don't quite see the point in an FPGA system for the 32X since it had so few games and and even smaller amount of good ones that would make it worth buying the thing to begin with. If it had the Mega CD added on as an FPGA as well that let you use the original CDs and not just a cartridge solution then it would defiantly have a broader market.

@PopetheRev28 you may have considered it a more interesting game but in terms of it's popularity in both arcades and sales on the Saturn it wasn't that popular. Since Fighting Vipers actually seen some kind of popularity Sega were probably more willing to make a sequel to that than a game that was essential a flop. So it's understandable why they went with that seeing as they were losing money quickly at that point in time.

I do feel bad that he almost lost not only his job essentially but his private photos but he really shouldn't have been exporting whole chat files that were first in another language and second that he didn't even open and check any of the contents. Just about anything could have been in there. Googles algorithm doesn't know the context of why you uploaded the stuff or that you were unaware of what it contained just that you had done it. This is also why I don't upload anything sensitive and work related to a cloud. Same goes for anything that hold sentimental value like family photos which I have backed up more than once on physical storage

I loved this game so much back then and it was only bettered by the Master System version years later. I am all for a C64 version with improved graphics though.

Only two real recollections I have of the Atari ST was that first my primary school would host a games club on Thursday evenings and the teacher the teacher than ran it had a few of them set up for us to play.

the second one was my friends uncle used to mix music for adverts on the local radio station using one. I recall my friend taking me around there one day to get something and he had all of this music equipment and the Atari ST hooked up to it all. At the time I remember thinking it all looked so amazing but when I think about it now his place looked a chaotic mess.

@JayJ If it had come out in the 80s where people over here were playing games on 8-bit micros and having to fill in some of the blanks and use their imagination in text adventures and rpgs then more people may have been interested. by the 90s though gaming had moved beyond that and most people wanted a better gui even on something so simple.

As a child I never seen the appeal of this especially scanning random barcodes. The idea itself is fine but the really simplistic interface was even dated at the time of it's release. However if it had some compatibility with SNES games released in the west like it did in Japan I could have seen it being a bit more successful.

It's interesting Sega tried marketing it to stores like they would a general customer in the public. It is amusing they claimed to have unquestionable third party support though as Sony very quickly gained much more due to their much cheaper licencing system. As for their arcade game argument, well it quickly changed that generation that people wanted more than what was on offer in the arcades and much longer gaming experiences something that Sega didn't quite get either.

Also the end part where they specifically pick out negative quotes from magazines about the Playstation and only positive ones about the Saturn probably means most retailers more than likely rolled their eyes at it. Ultimately though if the Saturn had been easier to develop for and more third parties made the better version of a none 2D game for it customer demand would have been higher

It's not that surprising when they haven't made a game in 13 years they were essentially just a developer in name only because I can't imagine they have been able to pay that many people when they have little to no income over the past decade. There seems to be a lot of Japanese developers that are essentially dormant that had a high output in the 16 and 32-bit eras and then just almost disappeared by the time the following generations came.

@KingMike I know who owns the copyright but still going out of your way to port the game to a different system is a much bigger surprise than translating unlicenced games that were already on the system. Since they have never done something like that before I would say both are equally surprising ports.

@slider1983 That's the exact thing I thought looking at it. Has a very EA style to it. As for it being an unusual port, well that seems to be common for the system now after a random port of a MS-DOS fighter is also getting a port.

This is a baffling decision. Billy Mitchell is one of those people who lies so much it's hard to tell if he is ever telling the truth. Apparently though simple telling the truth even if it's all true means you are wrong for doing it because it harms his reputation further. Has Billy considered not being a compulsive liar all the time? May help his reputation going forward.

@slider1983 oh I read that completely wrong and it used to be quite a common thing in Victorian times and even for most of the 20th century. Both Morrisons and Sainsbury's are named after their original owners and originally had their first initial as part of the store names. Since they started out as small family businesses.

@slider1983 who said it was a store? That's what my work colleagues called me

@slider1983 no one ever uses their real name anymore let alone their full name. You expect people to use up all of their valuable time saying peoples full names? Pfft at work I used to go by Oi Mate.

@slider1983 it was named after the guys son who started it William Henry Smith after he took over from his father Henry Walton Smith. He also had a son himself named after himself as it was originally called W H Smith & Son.