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@Deuteros This is an example of why I come here 10/10 👍

SEGA!!!!!

Not sure if I’ll blast To The Next Level with Crossworlds, but I appreciate the nod to the console war ads, lol. Well done!

SEGA!!!!

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@NoirConceit agree on all of that—well said! 👍

I’m glad these exist for those that want them, but I’m not the target for this feature.

I wouldn’t say that I eye-rolled when unlocking achievements on the PS5, but I have groaned when these constant interruptions blink and plink on my screen, so I turned the notifications off.

I don’t want my hobby time to feel like grinding a day job with the annoying chimes of email and other “worky” stuff, haha. Retro gaming is simplicity and it’s an experience I don’t particularly want changed if I can help it.

@KingMike yes, max two player only.

Edit: later games like Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, The King of Dragons and Knights of the Round allowed three players simultaneous.

Nintendo is scraping the barrel with this one, and tying this expensive accessory to the NSO sub just seems dirty.

A toggle for a 2D mode should be there day one.

Never played a Bubsy after the first one on my Genesis, with that unique cartridge that didn’t match the rest of my games. Enjoyed the first handful of levels but knew pretty quick even as a kid that it was a ripoff wannabe type game, same with Aero the Acrobat, Awesome Possum, etc. I like it now, for the one reason being it was one of the games in my small collection, but nothing more.

I’d never spend money on Bubsy now, lol.

@Exerion76 That'd be ideal, and I'd be happy to drop a tip to the dev on itch.io in exchange for the ROM. Looking forward to Final Fight MD!

I wonder when we'll hear anything new on Mega Splatterhouse. That demo from last October was amazing.

@PinballBuzzbro "Lives Again (in inferior form)" 😄

@Hexapus I wish I had been lucky enough to see Darkstalkers in an arcade! There were just so many 1v1 fighters exploding all around the same time and this was never one in my local arcades. What I remember is mostly SF, SNK, and MK taking up real estate where I was. Also, I had very limited access to arcades and until the mid '90s the family were the ones spending money on my home console games, lol. I played SFII, FF2, and MK 1-2 at home during that era.

It's funny you mention the first Darkstalkers game. Although I don't think that's one I've played on my Saturn, I think I might like it the most. It's got a beautiful art style and a simplicity to it that are different than the later games. I think the first might be my favorite, though once I played as B.B. Hood in a later title I couldn't help but just laugh at the ridiculousness!

I haven’t followed this too closely for a while, and I’m not sure how this will be distributed (patreon paywall or freeware) but I hope that some of these bonus additions, especially those that might cause slight issues be given a separate play mode on the title screen, so a smooth 2P arcade mode is still possible. The demo version from a couple years ago is impressive, so to see the technical limitations mentioned in action seems to maybe defeat the point of this conversion, no? Though, I understand it’s still a work in progress.

Either way, hats off to Xavier for all his hard work. I look forward to more updates and the release of this port. 😃

I might get this. I never got into Darkstalkers until about 10 years ago when I bought some import Saturn games, and couldn’t believe I missed out in the ‘90s! I’ve actually been replaying them recently with the Capcom Fighting Collection and having a ton of fun.

This was peak Capcom in my opinion along with X-Men vs SF through MvC1. Perfection!

I remember very little about Gizmondo except insane hype and then…POOF…nothing, at least where I am. Never saw one in a store, but I do recall the news broadcasts. Thanks very much for this interesting write up!

@Damo, you mentioned it could run MD games. Has anyone successfully run other emulators?

@Tom_Gamer I agree, and SEGA is absolutely useless when it comes to celebrating and making their back catalogue available, unless you count the same MD games. Heck, this last collection was poor. Look at companies like Capcom, SNK, Arc System Works, Irem, etc.

If anything I wish they’d just release the originals on a switch card in a collection with no downloads needed and some concept art and a music player. I’d probably get all of them, like the SEGA Ages 2500 series on PS2 (I missed out on all of those). The remakes of most games are just so soulless. I know the 2500 series had remakes, but lots of the original games were there too.

Even though they’re basic, I’m enjoying the ACA NEO GEO Selection series on Switch. If SEGA did this, I’d be so in. Similarly, if they rereleased their Saturn stuff, I’d be into that too.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant This was a very helpful review, thank you for posting!

@Scollurio Super shady. Somebody messed up bad but it doesn’t seem like it’s this guy.

Sounds like it’s time to call in ESWAT!

I went from NES to Genesis to PlayStation in the ‘90s. No regrets, what an amazing time!! Each was revolutionary.

(then to Dreamcast on US launch day 9/9/99, which is incidentally 26 years ago today!!)

I never had any of these but man, they look awesome!!

If anything, I absolutely love hearing everyone’s experiences of their own history in gaming. There’s so much to appreciate about another’s experience, and I personally find it fascinating to learn of these differences.

Also, OF COURSE we all have had different opportunities and preferences 😃

Good luck to the developer.

Sonic 2: Special Casino Edition II Turbo was my favorite game level for many months as a kid, then a little while later I gave it to my younger siblings and the whole cycle started again. In fact, I’m humming the iconic tune now!

RAIDEN WINS. FATALITY.

I’ll be honest, and I can’t believe I’m admitting, but I’ve never played a MGS besides the prequel to MGSV: The Phantom Menace 😅 (Yes, I know it’s The Phantom Pain). I need to give it a go but the backlog…it’s real.

I’ve been to a few local arcades, but don’t usually feel compelled to return, except to one location. It’s a cozy one-room arcade with a bar along the back wall. The food is decent, drinks excellent, you buy tokens for the cabs, and there isn’t a single space waster game in there. Games line the walls in an U shape and tables are in the center, with some comfy stools along the bar. It’s all very cozy and just big enough but not cramped. For more hardcore customers, they hold tournaments, showcase new local talent in some kind of game development meetings, and other weekly activities so there’s a small community there. They rent out for parties, etc. They have made it viable and have been open for almost a decade. I hope to return later this year or early next. Their equipment is well maintained and cabinets are swapped now and then. If you’re not a super hardcore retro fan it’s still a fully functional bar so the games could just be seen as a cool perk. I hope they’ll stay open forever!!

Another day, another emulation device. I’m not in the market, but hopefully it will turn out good so someone can enjoy!

But…thumbsticks below the d-pad is bad policy, lol.

@WaveBoy I got my everdrives for home consoles many years ago now, basically as soon as I knew they existed, lol. I think I thought at the time that a lack of interest or legal pushback would end their production.

At my college job, someone brought in a self-booting Dreamcast disc with every NES game. We had so much fun with that thing that when I realized you could do that with original hardware, a decade later, my mind was just completely blown! 😄

Mine are very early versions and look much more bootleg than the newest ones. I like the charm!

@Exerion76 I believe they lauded the 3D as running in 4K and seemed very confident, even arrogant in one of their social media posts, that it was no doubt by far the end all be all of FPGA.

The whole thing is very esoteric 😃

@Tom_Gamer keep telling the rest of the story, please! That is one hell of a text trailer, lol.

@WaveBoy lol, very nice!

I like a mv now and then, and this looks like an interesting run ‘n gun take with a setting we haven’t seen over and over. I’m interested! Put it on a switch cart and if it runs okay I’ll get it 😎

I’d love to check this out, but these are twice the price of the old ones. I’ll put it on the wishlist.

Also, never know about an eventual potential physical copy, so not knowing makes me hold off even more for a better value buy. This is way out of impulse buy territory for me.

Looking at you, ACA NeoGeo Selections vol. 1-8 (luckily I had only bought one of them on the eShop). Either way, cool to see a unique game I didn’t know existed!

@WaveBoy I had the pirate sets! And the Robin Hood one, among others.

Edit: that Genesis ornament looks about 300 times better than this Lego controller.

@mjparker77 I don’t know if I agree or not, but for some reason I’ve never finished this game even though I’ve set out to do so a handful of times.

I get pretty far in and then just move on for some reason!

My favorites are CV1, CV3, Rondo, SotN, Aria.

@Martin_H I had a similar SotN experience. A buddy loaned it to me soon after it came out and I just fell in love with it. I returned the game to him, bought my own copy, then sold it off to buy Dreamcast a little while after. Then I bought a green Greatest Hits copy, but hated the look, so I sold that one and got my current black label copy in mint condition. It’s a common game, sure, but one of my all time favorites. I play through about once a year.

Does it suck?

-SuperSega kid

@The_Nintendo_Pedant whoa, that’s some testimonial! Mine is still boxed, lol. How are you using it,? NSO, PC emulation? I’ll have to give it a go before the 3D is out although that’s why I bought it. I’m glad to hear it’s outstanding!

I’m looking forward to getting mine, but oooooh. What an exciting sizzle reel.

This isn’t pumping me up.

@Scollurio i suppose SEGA's 16-Bit High Definition Graphics (1988) is sort of a retro era of new 🤔 but it'll be a while before we get next gen blast processing!

@The_Nintendo_Pedant heck yeah! there's literally no point in being a jerk to someone online. i come here to enjoy myself, and the new era of retro 😂

that was my way of agreeing 😀👍

@The_Nintendo_Pedant new era of comments replies…not just a blank stare, but a legacy of filler 😅

Didn’t grow up with this one. On the list it goes!

Other methods, lol.

Like breaking and entering into someone’s home that has an Xbox and hard copy of the game? 😁

@sixrings and animate the In The Air Tonight drum fill as part of a special 😄

The famous SEGA scream seen in ads was actually hidden recordings of the development teams 😅

@WaveBoy great ideas for improvements 👍 I would put them on my everdrive 😃

Home sick as a kid = watch The Karate Kid 1984 on the VHS you taped from TV, attempt to beat TMNT, Bob Ross The Joy of Painting, reading comics, Cracked or Mad, and Nintendo Power, drawing my favorite comic and cartoon characters. Incredible healing abilities.

@BulkSlash lol, the game definitely has some cryptic stuff and it’s a tough as nails adventure. There’s a really excellent “U Can Beat Video Games “ episode on it.

Same exact experiences for me too! I think I only got to the base area a handful of times as a kid—that gap above the water shouldn’t be there! The dam stage was not difficult for me. I didn’t ever beat it until the collection a few years ago, though. If you don’t know where to go and which manholes to enter, forget about it! @bring_on_branstons

I wish SEGA would just release the game on consoles, in a SEGA arcade/console beat ‘em up collection. All they’d have to do is reference Capcom’s collections, as they’re a perfect template. Unbelievable that we don’t already have anything like that.

Also, I would consider backing a MD version.

@Peteykins That's a bummer. I was considering picking up BB4F since I’ve been enjoying the arcade port on Taito Milestones 3. How is the gameplay in BB4F?

I bought Arkanoid: Eternal Battle and it was just okay, too. It made me return to my NES with Taito Vaus paddle controller and the SNES sequel.

A similar case was Lode Runner Legacy. I enjoyed but it just made me return to the NES for the original experience. Both fun games, either way!

@Martin_H you and me both, lol. Just opened up my Marvel Capcom Fighting Collection and it’s so well done. Love these games but I need a lot of practice!! No online for me, though I forgot there are spectating modes so I may try it out.. the collection is so well done that I’m probably going to buy their other ones. I was not expecting this quality of gameplay, display options, game settings, and depth of historical documentation.