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@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!

@Blast16 From what I've read, the CPS boards use similar sound chips to that of the Mega Drive, so porting the music over for SCE was relatively straightforward — for the SNES version of WW/Turbo they had to be re-recorded from the ground up, which is why they have such a distinct "SNES-y" sound to them. I think they both have their charm, but SCE sounds more faithful to the arcade.

@sdelfin yeah, the music in SCE I think more than made up for the iffy voice samples. What the heck happened to it in SSF2 though? It was like there was a whole sound channel missing; the bass and percussion were so pared down, it was like it was being played solely by the PSG

@Azuris better get cracking then, hadn't you?

@NatiaAdamo man that show was bizarre — it makes the Hotel Mario scenes look positively down to earth

@KitsuneNight I'd be intrigued to know what direction the animators/actors were given on the Hotel Mario cutscenes — as they do look/sound very similar to their designs on in the Super Show (except for Bowser, who looks a bit more faithful to the games)

@wiiware It's lovely isn't it? One of the first games I acquired when I got my Switch

Yeah, licensing in games always seems to cause no end of faff — particularly when trying to re-release anything.

I was also interested to know, is Streets of Rage 4, a French-developed game, called Bare Knuckle 4 in Japan?

@RadioHedgeFund You could absolutely cheese Syphon Filter by just sniping with the taser — hits its mark every time, regardless of distance or angle. Still really dug it, though — managed to pick it up before finally acquiring MGS for Christmas that year

@Sketcz Yeah, I think it was when I was setting up my PS4 for the first time, as soon as I saw the option to mute the notification I was like "get it the hell off" immediately. And yeah, nothing worse than being in the midst of a super emotional/gruelling final boss fight to have that stupid chime yank you back into reality

@KitsuneNight I'm right there with ya, but people REALLY seem to like them! Personally I only really go for achievements if there's some kind of in-game reward or unlockable element like a new character/ability/level to play; a number next to a nondescript trophy icon means nothing to me.