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Shimomura is a genius. KH overshadows her huge body of work. She came right out of the gate with SF2, the best soundtrack in that entire series by far, and one of the best of all time… not to mention she did Mario rpg and so many more.

Ended up being some of toriyama’s objectively worst designs…

I wish the Americans had been a bit more pragmatic. We missed out on a lot of great games because they were so focused on the hideous early 3D. Europe boss had the right idea.

I loved the first Gabriel knight. It had the best soundtrack too, because it was more melodic, theme-based rather than cinematic. It was brilliant! Robert Holmes is awesome. The title track and bookstore theme are highlights.

Kinda weird. I remember it being popular to hate on it back when it first came out.

I hope it turns out. They’re always so hush hush about devs. If it’s grecco, I’m not sure what they’ve worked on besides the links awakening remake. I’m all in for an overhead Zelda, especially starring Zelda, but I hope it measures up to previous overhead Zeldas.

Either way I’d love a collection.

@Sketcz I bought mercenary force as a kid, thinking it was an rpg. I ended up loving it and miss it.

Bro id settle for a collection containing axelay, xexex, and parodius. I always wanted to play all 3.

@Poodlestargenerica did you read the article or just the headline? No one is saying it’s the one true way. They’re just stating why they like it. They’re not saying no one should play 3D games. They’re saying they don’t.

What a fantastic article. Julia Minamata’s thoughts on the abstractness of it took the words right out of my brain. EGA renders images the way metaphorical language renders concepts. Your brain has to connect the dots.

Can’t wait to play some of these.

@KitsuneNight would be really neat!

I’d like to try it. I’d like more non-hell shooters too

The parade of plastic fake consoles with empty innards is getting to be like the plastic guitars of 2008. As much as I love these old consoles…

Both the koshiro siblings have been heroes of mine since I was a kid, not just yuzo. They’re both geniuses too. Crazy the amount of absolute bangers. And not to harp on the youth thing, but they both started really young. Again, they’re prodigies. Their mom is pretty cool too. (I know nothing about their dad)

Did they ever fix the English cosmic fantasy collection translation bugs? I really wanted to support it, but… Just the same, I’d also like to play this one if it’s in English!

@PKDuckman yeah woulda been some bad timing for sure… “why didn’t anyone show up??” and “superspreader Xbox event” and not good headlines.

The past-tense of slay is actually slew. Slay/slain/slew. “Slayed” is like when someone tells a funny joke. “Oh, you slayed me!”

@Westone32bit Some definitely did! Final Fantasy VII did, for instance. But by the time of FF X, they were definitely localizing that, too; I don't remember which had that switched between those two release dates, though.

I remember Suikoden did have it localized, but they didn't just swap X and O; they swapped square and triangle as well! I remember that being pretty confusing.

Of course, these days, Nintendo games use A to confirm and B to cancel. Xbox is the same, but the A and B have their positions swapped (and X and Y)..., and meanwhile, of course, Playstation is X confirm and O cancel... so no matter what you do, your brain is always having to convert stuff around, unless you only play in one place...

@LowDefAl Woops yeah you’re right 😭 Altho now that that’s finally clear, I’m wondering why red means accept and blue means cancel?? Is that a Japanese thing I’m unaware of? Or did I get that wrong now? 😂

This seems like a ret-con to me. Originally, didn't the O mean true/yes, and the X meant false/no? That's why you used O to select and X to cancel in a lot of games, before Sony USA swapped. And now, officially X is "yes" and O is "no", which always seemed backwards from the Japanese maru/batsu (yes/no, true/false, circle/square), as Japanese is read from right to left (circle, X), not left to right.

But now they're saying Blue X meant yes and Red O meant no? That would have been back-ass-wards to a Japanese speaker.

@DestructoDisk This is true... All our pasts began a long tamago!

@DestructoDisk Yep, you got it, but you're missing the Japanese word for egg, Tamago (which is of course where "tamagotchi" comes from), and of course "tamago" sounds a little like the English phrase "time ago" Although I suppose if a person knows "Tamagotchi," then I guess they don't really need to know that "tamago" means egg, now that I think about it...

Hm. I have a few types of game boy (including one original) and several gba versions. And I’m broke. Too bad I can’t cash in.

Yay. Hope this isn’t like that Steam demo where they added AI that didn’t even work.

That title is brilliant for the twelve people who get it.

Console release plz

I don’t really understand the appeal of video game soundtracks on vinyl. Is it just because there are no longer any other physical media to play game soundtracks off of since cds are dead?

@Sketcz PS, thought that was you… thanks for your books! Looking at one of them on my shelf as I tap this. I’m grateful they exist. I know it wasn’t easy!

@Sketcz you’re doing gods work, as they say. I’m sure you’re aware there are some YouTube videos about it as well, which is how I first found out about it… I think???

I wish Nintendo didn’t suck, so that they’d translate this and release it worldwide. Hey, it might actually make NSO worth having.

@Spookles oh Mercutio. Methinks thou doth protestest overmuch.

I’m not normally a furry, but wowa wee wa, I’m in for the shooting action and cute cat girl. Consoles or it didn’t happen tho

Oh my god. How did I not know about this til now? Day one purchase for me. I was still busy hoping for a maniac mansion remaster. I daresay this is maybe even better.

@norwichred ugh that’s crazy. Definitely do remember the series, yep, and the reboot as well.

@norwichred wait what? Fred savage was like 11 in this movie.

I watched it recently, fully expecting it to not live up to my childhood memories and be terrible. Just the opposite. It was actually so much better as an adult than I remembered as a kid. Also, yay for Autistic gamer kid before that kind of thing was cool in movies. Represent.

@RetroGames This version appears to be based visually on the super famicom version of DQ3, not the sfc dq1+2.

Don’t suppose there’s much chance of DQ2 getting this treatment as well… Underrated!

Jane Jensen (Gabriel knight) deserves a lot of credit for her work on KQ6…

There was an NES version of KQ5, too. I agree about 4-6 being the good ones!

They do koshiro a lot I guess! Underrated musical genius

I wish sega would do this for their own games. It’s too bad it’s left to fans to do it. But bless them for doing so and making old treasures like this accessible.

The last Ancient game available in the US as far as I know was Gotta Protectors on switch. It’s hilarious and, of course, has great and authentic music.

Ancient needs to release some kind of compilation in the US. I feel like we’ve missed a lot. I want this and have no idea about Wada’s other games.

For the record tho her belly isn’t that plump!

It’s clearly yuji naka in the suit.

I butchered my American SNES to get it to play super famicom carts tho.

Hmm. But 1987 USA version 1.0 differs from the original Japanese release, which was a famicom disk system title. They had to basically invent bank switching and battery backup to cram Zelda into a cart for the US 1.0.

@smoreon apparently is a sharp LR35902 core based around a Zylog Z80… 4.19 MHz!

You know, he talks about the short loops on the lunar: silver star sega cd soundtrack. The problem with that is they were redbook audio cd tracks, so every time they looped, it would pause as the track went back to the beginning. It was not a good effect. I think he has some selective memory going on.