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omg, you're right! I never knew the lyrics (or even the title) to that song, and I always referred to it "I'm an oooh, oooh, oooh baby Bounty"

@jesse_dylan Yeah, I felt there was more of a clean, characteristic diversity to the individual levels in SOR1. SOR2 was a little more chaotic in how the levels (and thus, the music tracks) would chop up the flow of it — if SOR1 was listening to a full album, SOR2 was more like having someone with ADHD fiddle around with the playlist control.

And SOR3 was like someone dropped the speaker into a food mixer.

@MysticWangForce Yeah, same — it was such a formative series for the original PlayStation (wasn't it a pack-in game for a long time?). I'd love to see a WipEout trilogy remaster (in the vein of Crash/Spyro) at some point as well (although I imagine music/licensing would make a tough ask)

@rjc-32 I'd like to see Tekken 1 and 3 made available in some capacity

@N00BiSH You can get R4 on PS5 — the pixelation is a bit smeary but it still plays great

Oh nice! I was just saying the other day that it's weird that OG Ridge Racer (or even the PS1 port) isn't available on modern systems

@BionicDodo Yeah that's literally what I'd love to see as well — maybe like four thick volumes with six issues in each one. EMAP Publishing are still around — I wonder if they still have the master copies backed up somewhere?

@slider1983 don't forget "exclamation point" (Genuinely curious — why does he do that?)

@bring_on_branstons Oh yeah, those are great and all, I just meant like a digitally-remastered, curated reprint of the mags (maybe it's too niche an idea!)

Man, if they release the original 24 issues in some sort of remastered volume binding/format I will be an extremely happy bunny. Hell I'll take a PDF of them

Absolutely love that late 80s/early 90s anime style - what a talent. Incidentally I was looking to finally play the Phantasy Star games the other day - had the first one sat on my Switch for a while. Apparently M2 have gone out of their way to make the game a lot more accessible and sprinkled a hefty dose of QoL updates to it.

@KingMike I believe they're meant to be Joe and Mike from Street Fighter 1, although I could be way off

Top marks for that intro reenactment.

@Kushan Lara Croft: Tomb Redialer.

What the hell are we supposed to use, man, harsh language?

@Deuteros Yeah I've got all of them from 8-24 inclusive, and a few odd ones from between 1-7. I forget what the last issue of Mean Machines Sega I picked up was, would have been pretty much right near the end...

@Deuteros D'you know Gary Harrod now works for Square Enix? His name popped up during the credits of Nier Automata and I pointed at the screen like Leo DiCaprio — I'm sure they could drag him away for a few weeks to whip up some art for it!

It would probably wouldn't have mass appeal to be financially feasible, but if they did like a remastered/reprint of the 24 issues of OG Mean Machines in a prestigue binding format or something I'd snap it up in an instant.

Kick monkey ass!

In today's episode, M. Bison tried to hypnotise Ken Masters by directly channeling his Psycho Power into Ken's brain, but he learned a valuable lesson in that you can only achieve your goals with hard work, discipline, and determination. Remember kids, the right way, is the best way. Sonic Boom!

I was a pretty solid Street Fighter fan back when the movie (live action and anime) came out, but it wasn't until years later that I learned of this show's existence. Does anyone recall it airing in the UK?

Ah I wish my DualShock 2 was in that condition.

@cakeashi Yeah I'm pretty sure I picked up the same one — a single cable which splits into four SCART sockets, runs my Mega Drive and PS2 perfectly with no discernible lag.

I'll let slide people of a certain generation continue calling it the Genesis, but anyone who still says Final Fantasy III when they're talking about VI should be banned from every game.

@smoreon Yeah i just got an email from MS saying that they're ceasing Win10 support as of 14 October 2025, and my current PC (which works perfectly well) doesn't pass the Win11 upgrade test. Think it's time to accept the inevitable and go with a Mac.

@-wc- Yeah, I'd buy a GoG Deck in a heartbeat.

Good ol' GOG.

Apparently my comment is too short. Doop de doot de doo....

@NinChocolate I'd never played the original Mega Man games, but I did notice a perceivable delay when turning around, which I'd always assumed was a design choice.

@ludotaku Ah really? Well they're bringing SFA3 Upper to that new Capcom Fighting collection, so fingers crossed it'll be on there

@-wc- How dare you instruct others on how to properly operate a comment section without having created said comment section yourself.

@KitsuneNight That Resident Evil port on the Game Boy Colour was some dark sorcery.

@ludotaku Came here to say exactly this — the World Tour mode in the PS1 version was awesome, and it's so unfortunate that no subsequent port, to my knowledge, ever included it.

@Moroboshi876 Do we know how big the ROM size is of Final Fight MD?

@Medic_alert Also I learned recently that "decadent" has a much bleaker original meaning — that you were so absorbed and lost in the pleasurable thing you were doing, that you would forget to pay attention to your own wellbeing and start to literally "decay"

@Medic_alert Yeah, the commercialisation of nostalgia has been sucking the fun out of entertainment for well over a decade now.

Man, can Sega pull whatever strings need to be pulled and get OutRun 2 back on modern consoles please?

I think it's somewhat subjective saying that early, low-poly models look bad; like with earlier, pre 16-bit sprites there is definitely a charm in seeing how developers worked with the limitations of the tech at the time

@slider1983 could be worse — you don't want the OutRuns.

That's odd, I've always called them "magical sound showers" — although don't force it or you might induce a splash wave.

Yikes, don't hold back mate.

Could we get a rerelease of the actual game as well, please? And a port of Daytona would be pretty sweet as well

@Bizzy I think that's probably the least of this particular driver's worries if she can't keep her eye on the road

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Yeah, same — while there are obvious benefits to both, and I probably won't lose too much sleep over an eventual all-digital universe, I will always choose physical if the option is there, particularly for bigger, AAA games.

@845H it looks like the concept rendering of a designer loft apartment.

@Azuris While I think Resi 2 is technically superior in that the gameplay is more refined and has more to see and do, 1 definitely has a special place in my heard — I find the setting and the situation so much creepier

It's really awesome that they're making the original games available, but I'd love to be able to play them on console as well (although the PS1 port of 1 available is on PS5...)

I was foolish enough to fall for Mean Machines' 97% review of EC back in the day (although ended up picking it up for £25, which was pretty cheap at the time), and while the game had some pretty cool designs and movesets, it had the unforgivable, game-ruining crutch of being completely unable to chain moves together in the same way as you could in Street Fighter. Any ground hit could be immediately followed by a block, and juggling didn't exist at all.

Inform the church elders! Human skin on display!

I always found it odd that this wasn't already the default ending if you initially said "yes" to joining Mr. X in one player mode.

Kick monkey ass!

@Blast16 Yeah, that reverb really gave the SNES a really rich, orchestral vibe. Plus I love how they sneakily managed to save on memory by shortening/echoing the samples for when a fighter is defeated, and the echo then became a staple in later iterations of the game!