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Yes! I vividly recall the surname "Bak" from RoboCod (I was that weird kid who would read the credits of every game/film/TV show and make connections across media) — good for Philip

@Digglerdig definitely — one of the things that drew me to FFVII was the quirky cartoony style that they went for (with the limited polygon budget they had) — whilst the hyper-realism of Remake/Rebirth was impressive on a technical level, I felt it was lacking the aesthetic charm of the original; FFIX felt like a nice balance of refined 3D artistry and improved graphical fidelity, with an art style that could be better realised with the tech they were working with in 2000.

Imagine if they could pull off a FFIX remake with the graphical style of that artbook?

@slider1983 glad I never kept up with it — after a while it kind of became white noise

@slider1983 and after hearing about it for multiple mind-numbing hours I'm genuinely still not entirely clear on what exactly the supposed drama was or why they were devoting so much coverage to it

@slider1983 It was indeed sarcasm of the saltiest order — I had to stop listening after a certain point because it had basically become The Amico Show

I would happily listen to a Bert and Ernie Gaming podcast.

As for Pat and Ian though — have they ever weighed in on the Intellivision Amico? I'd been keen to hear their thoughts.

If you don't fire up your 3DS games regularly, you'll start seeing roaches scuttling about.

@Zeebor15 in the US do you call him Phil the Philosopher?

@slider1983 I was gonna ask if you'd played the Retrospec remake that came out "a few years ago", but then I realised we're now further away in time from 2003 as it was from the 1987 original...

That's wild — imagine being tasked with recreating a videogame from the ground up using only existing copies as a reference.

Also I'm curious to know precisely why code/assets were never kept on some sort of server; even back in the 1990s, comfortably sizeable hard drives would surely have existed that could house at at least one master backup of each game in their library.

I really wish anniversaries of games' releases were celebrated with a re-release of the actual game.

I imagine the licensing rights might be a tough ask, but I'd love to see the PS1's Anna Kournikova's Smash Court Tennis made available on modern consoles

Ha Ha Hadouken.

Mishandling of the launch aside, I think a big thing that hurt the Saturn was that it was primarily designed with 2D in mind, but the gaming trajectory was already swerving into 3D by that point. Which is a real shame because some of those 32-bit sprite-based games looked absolutely phenomenal at the time, and still do. Everyone was still finding their feet with 3D, and very few of the games that attempted it at the time really hold up.

Did it take them long to arrive at the decision to use 16 colours? I imagine they must have been dithering for a while.

@MARl0 Yeah, the first thing that jumped out at me (not literally, that would be quite inconvenient) were the zombies in level 1

Those two skeletons grew up to be in Dark Souls, so they'll boggle more than just your mind.

I wonder if it'll make a big splash wave at the box office?

I couldn't imagine a worse game to play with any degree of skill on a mobile device.

@smoreon well Omega Collection is on PS4, so that's something at least. I would imagine that the music in the PS1 games might be a source of contention (when is it ever not?) — and it'd be a real shame if they had to change it; the music in WipEout is iconic and synonymous with the series

@mjparker77 yeah, it wasn't until years after that I realised Sonic 1 was playing at 5/6ths speed. When Sonic 2 came around, I just assumed they'd sped up the main theme.

In a browser, on Dreamcast, and now on 3DO — can we now get the WipEout PS1 trilogy on modern consoles please?

@Gamecuber bah, pesky normal sized suitcases — what d'you need to pack clothes for? You're already wearing clothes!

@Gamecuber yeah, my parents picked up Thunder Force III from Toys R Us and for whatever reason, they had the Genesis version in stock. Worked absolutely fine on our UK Mega Drive though; we never really considered that it might be an issue.

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.