I purchased Retro-Bit's NES re-release of Battletoads Double Dragon a few years back, and like, it's cool that this even exists.. but the packaging and production design is so cheap, just a straight up amateur photoshop collage of Rash from the MD/Genesis Battletoads box art with Billy and Jimmy from the Super Double Dragon box art. It offends me as a gamer, as a collector AND as a graphic designer.
And of course I have it on the shelf next to iam8bit's premium re-release of the original NES Battletoads, which only serves to highlight how shoddy Retro-Bit's is by comparison.
To be fair, it was Ship to Shore that handled the vinyl production, not LRG directly (the TMNT vinyls were the last records they produced before going out of business). I have a few of their records - including Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth, Contra: Hard Corps, Contra ReBirth and THIS VERY TMNT vinyl - and yeah, they created and sold unique niche products with beautiful artwork that no one else was gonna press, but they definitely weren't going for the audiophile crowd.
I think the CD-R situation was inexcusable, but this? This is overblown expectations for something that was never promised.
@MrFox I think you're confusing Kid Dracula with Akoumajou Dracula Peke, in which you just walk to the right as an adorably deformed Richter whipping weird purple monsters for like 40 seconds until you reach the end
@LegatoSkyheart the Wii VC release was Rondo's unlocalized Japanese PCE release, whereas the version in Dracula X Chronicles was the first English localization in the west
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Re: Gallery: Unboxing Retro-Bit's 'R.C. Pro-Am II' And 'Battletoads & Double Dragon' Re-Releases
I purchased Retro-Bit's NES re-release of Battletoads Double Dragon a few years back, and like, it's cool that this even exists.. but the packaging and production design is so cheap, just a straight up amateur photoshop collage of Rash from the MD/Genesis Battletoads box art with Billy and Jimmy from the Super Double Dragon box art. It offends me as a gamer, as a collector AND as a graphic designer.
And of course I have it on the shelf next to iam8bit's premium re-release of the original NES Battletoads, which only serves to highlight how shoddy Retro-Bit's is by comparison.
Re: Limited Run Under Fire For "Horrible" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vinyl Release
To be fair, it was Ship to Shore that handled the vinyl production, not LRG directly (the TMNT vinyls were the last records they produced before going out of business). I have a few of their records - including Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth, Contra: Hard Corps, Contra ReBirth and THIS VERY TMNT vinyl - and yeah, they created and sold unique niche products with beautiful artwork that no one else was gonna press, but they definitely weren't going for the audiophile crowd.
I think the CD-R situation was inexcusable, but this? This is overblown expectations for something that was never promised.
Re: Castlevania: Rondo Of Blood For The Turbo Duo Is Finally Coming To The West In Physical Form
@MrFox I think you're confusing Kid Dracula with Akoumajou Dracula Peke, in which you just walk to the right as an adorably deformed Richter whipping weird purple monsters for like 40 seconds until you reach the end
Re: Castlevania: Rondo Of Blood For The Turbo Duo Is Finally Coming To The West In Physical Form
@LegatoSkyheart the Wii VC release was Rondo's unlocalized Japanese PCE release, whereas the version in Dracula X Chronicles was the first English localization in the west