Thanks for the read. Hart sounds like a wonderful person and, like NinChocolate above said, its nice to read about positive experiences in the industry, especially in these worrying times.
If I was alive during the 80s (I was born during the 90s) and worked as an employe at Nintendo, I would have thrown a big 'calm' party at my house celebrating the anniversary.๐
I never watched the Darkstalkers cartoon so I can't comment on that. Regarding the Street Fighter cartoon; tbh, even without the other (more superior) SF animations in mind, I always found this show to be one of the more weaker 90's cartoons back then. Nowadays I mostly remember/watch it for the memes and the 'funny bad' bits.
Happy 30th anniversary SF '94 film!๐ I remember feeling a long time ago how the movie was one of my "guilty pleasures" but I wouldn't admit it out loud, nowadays I'm proud to say its one of my absolute favorites, video game-related or otherwise.
@KitsuneNight : I mean sure, that is obviously the case here but even that feels suspicious as Gioeli is known (atleast to most people within the Sonic community) as a chill guy, doing gigs for little to no compensation. I know that you could never be truly aware of people's true nature but for him to take up legal action like this so suddenly, and right before the Sonic 3 movie was released, is uncharacteristic of him.
But I wait until we hear something directly from Gioeli himself before fully forming an opinion.
There is something not right about this whole ordeal. I still find it hard to believe he's not been aware of the song's widespread use for over two decades until now, and the timing (right before the third Sonic movie's release) is a headscrather as well.
Okami sequel and new Virtua Fighter title were the top highlights for me.๐
As for the Secret Level-based Pac-Man game (even though its been in development longer then the show from what I heard), can't say I'm a fan of it. Gives me strong Bomberman Act Zero vibes. Overall, its a "maybe" from me.
Not much of a surprising list, although the lack of Persona 5 is noticeable. Then again this is a relatively short list (I get that its limited to thirty games only because its the 30th anniversary but still), I can imagine the game is somewhere within the top 31-50 atleast.
Not directly related to the topic but this (and the Star Trek comment by Maulbert) made me think a little of Takashi Iizuka and Shadow. I don't like how lizuka generally acts like he's been the sole creator of Shadow the whole time when there has been atleast three other people involved in the character's creation.
I know this isn't the first time HoTD gets the movie treatment but boy, another upcoming Sega IP-based live-action movie huh. How many does that make now, six? (not counting Sonic as that has already been an active thing for awhile now).
Can't they atleast try focusing on just one planned movie at a time?
In any case, HoTD is surely right up Anderson's alley considering his previous work. The real question is which role Jovovich will play this time lol.
@PopetheRev28 : I know which one you are referring to, but that was over 15 years ago and ArcSys has come a long way since then. Sure, not every single one of their current works today has been hits (looking at you DNF Dual) but they are still one of the better dev options imo.
So not only is a good underrated shmup series returning, we will (well we already are, as seen in the Twitter post image) see the lovely Mao Mao again? Score!
In another timeline Nintendo's museum has an open-at-night section that showcase some of the company's more "shadier" works back in the days, including these cards.๐
Oka is really talented.โบ๏ธ Also, I only played Pilotwings like one or two times before so I wasn't aware til now she worked on the game, thats great.
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Re: Taito Laserdisc Titles 'Ninja Hayate' & 'Time Gal' Are Heading To Steam Next Month
Thats nice, its been a long time since I played these two. Wishlisting now.
Re: Last Super Famicom Game 'Metal Slader Glory: Director's Cut' Gets English Fan Patch
Neat, I have seen a few video walkthorughs of this game before and have been wanting to try it myself.
Re: Namco's 45th Anniversary Plans For Pac-Man Include Games, Accessories, Live Events, & More
If they wanted to make this anniversary truly memorable then they should work on buying the full rights of Ms. Pac-Man.
@slider1983 : Great minds think alike.๐
Re: Bandai Namco Is Launching A New Initiative To License Out IP Like Ridge Racer & Soul Calibur
@HammerGalladeBro : Far as I can tell its a series of music albums for several of their classic titlesโฆI think.
Re: Feature: Meet The Canadian Voice Director Behind Some Of Your Favourite Capcom Games
Thanks for the read. Hart sounds like a wonderful person and, like NinChocolate above said, its nice to read about positive experiences in the industry, especially in these worrying times.
Re: The Relaxing Hot Air Balloon Sim 'Kaze No Notam' Has Got An English Fan Patch
This hits my 'cozy, relaxing' nerve just fine. I really wanna try this.
Re: This Promising Sonic Fan Game May Be Dead, But You Can Play A Version Of It Right Now
Wasn't aware til now that it got canned, thats a shame.๐ I will try the build later then.
Re: Review: Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog (Switch) - A Mech-Based Adventure That Plays As Good As It Looks
Thanks for the review, I love me a good adventire game made in this style.
Re: Interview: "My Job Is Largely Divorced From Reality" - Legendary Artist Katsuya Terada Talks Zelda, Virtua Fighter, & Prince of Persia
I have a lot of respect for this man and his work. Keep it up Terada-san!๐
Re: Jean Reno's Agent Says He "Would Be Pleased" To Return To Onimusha 3: Demon Siege
I would like to hear it from Reno himself, but still this is good to know.
Re: Steel Assault Devs Drop Steam Demo For New Wild Guns-Inspired Shooting Gallery 'Neon Inferno'
I liked Steel Assault so I will be checking this out.
Re: Nintendo Didn't Celebrate Its 100th Birthday
If I was alive during the 80s (I was born during the 90s) and worked as an employe at Nintendo, I would have thrown a big 'calm' party at my house celebrating the anniversary.๐
Re: Tekken Boss Katsuhiro Harada Reveals Decade-Long Beef With Tomonobu Itagaki - And How It Ended
This was honestly one of the most bizarre but still somewhat amusing 'gaming staff stories' articles I ever read, thanks!๐
Re: Street Fighter's Critically-Panned Animated TV Series Is Getting A Blu-Ray Release
I never watched the Darkstalkers cartoon so I can't comment on that.
Regarding the Street Fighter cartoon; tbh, even without the other (more superior) SF animations in mind, I always found this show to be one of the more weaker 90's cartoons back then.
Nowadays I mostly remember/watch it for the memes and the 'funny bad' bits.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpr-YU6Xf8g&pp=ygUcc3RyZWV0IGZpZ2h0ZXIgY2FydG9vbiBmdW5ueQ%3D%3D
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@Tasuki : You are right, they did have a Final Fight-based episode.
https://streetfighter.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fight_(episode)
Re: Osaka Retro Gaming Arcade Goes Up In Flames
So sad to hear.๐
I hope nobody was hurt.
Re: Celebrating Makoto Uchida, Golden Axe Creator And One Of Sega's Longest-Serving Staffers
Thanks for the read, I heard about Uchida before but didn't know much about him (other then his work on Altered Beast and Golden Axe) until now.
Re: Wonder Boy And Streets Of Rage Studio Lizardcube Turned Down Chance To Work On Metal Slug
Somehow, I never even imagined the possibility of Lizardcube making a MS game until I read this. Now I wanna see it.
Who knows, maybe one dayโฆ
Re: Flashback: Remembering David Lynch's Memorable Early 2000s PS2 Ad
Another great man taken from us,๐ RiP David Lynch.
I need to re-watch Twin Peaks again.
Re: Yes, Knuckles Was Supposed To Sound Like He Was Swearing In Sonic Heroes
Seriously? What a piece of shift.
Re: Retro Computer Museum Hit By "Devastating" Flood Damage
Thats terrible to hear, I really hope the best for the museum and its recovery.
Re: Japanese Arcade Closure Could Erase Over A Decade Worth Of Fighting Game History
Sad. Truly tough times for game preservation everywhere.
Re: Sonic Galactic Is So Good "It Could Stand As An Official Sega Product"
I remember seeing this fan game at a previous SAGE event, looks fun. Will download the demo when I have the time.
Re: Team17 Co-Founder Martyn Brown Has Passed Away Aged 57
Another 'too soon' loss of a legend.๐
RiP mister Brown.
Re: Best Of 2024: The History of Erotic Games In Japan
How in the world did I miss this top-notch article?๐
Re: Anniversary: Street Fighter's Live-Action Movie Is 30 Years Old Today
Happy 30th anniversary SF '94 film!๐
I remember feeling a long time ago how the movie was one of my "guilty pleasures" but I wouldn't admit it out loud, nowadays I'm proud to say its one of my absolute favorites, video game-related or otherwise.
One of my favorites is the "change the channel" moment with Zangief, I feel like thats one of the more underrated funny moments in the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olmkMs7314o&ab_channel=ShadowGeno
Re: Crush 40 Singer Suing Sega Over Ownership Of Sonic Adventure 2's 'Live & Learn'
@KitsuneNight : I mean sure, that is obviously the case here but even that feels suspicious as Gioeli is known (atleast to most people within the Sonic community) as a chill guy, doing gigs for little to no compensation. I know that you could never be truly aware of people's true nature but for him to take up legal action like this so suddenly, and right before the Sonic 3 movie was released, is uncharacteristic of him.
But I wait until we hear something directly from Gioeli himself before fully forming an opinion.
Re: Crush 40 Singer Suing Sega Over Ownership Of Sonic Adventure 2's 'Live & Learn'
There is something not right about this whole ordeal. I still find it hard to believe he's not been aware of the song's widespread use for over two decades until now, and the timing (right before the third Sonic movie's release) is a headscrather as well.
Re: Anniversary: Sega's '3D Reprint Archives' Celebrates 10 Years
One of the best game collection series ever.
Re: The Founder of Nihon Falcom Masayuki Kato Has Passed Away, Aged 78
May he rest in peace. Thanks for all your hard work mister Kato.
Re: Anniversary: 30 Years Ago, Elden Ring And Dark Souls Dev FromSoftware Released Its "Mind-Boggling" Debut
Happy 30th anniversary King's Field. Thanks to both you and your creators for everything that you paved the way for.
Re: Round Up: Virtua Fighter, Onimusha, Okami, Ninja Gaiden... The Game Awards 2024 Was A Good Night For Classic Gaming Fans
Okami sequel and new Virtua Fighter title were the top highlights for me.๐
As for the Secret Level-based Pac-Man game (even though its been in development longer then the show from what I heard), can't say I'm a fan of it. Gives me strong Bomberman Act Zero vibes. Overall, its a "maybe" from me.
Re: Interview: Secret Of Mana Composer Hiroki Kikuta Reflects On The Timeless SNES Soundtrack
Funny, I just happened to go through the Mana series' Wikipedia articles, Secret of Mana included, a few hours ago.๐
SoM has one of the best gaming soundtracks period, god bless Hiroki Kikuta.
Re: Japanese Gamers Just Picked The 30 Best PlayStation Games Of All Time
Not much of a surprising list, although the lack of Persona 5 is noticeable. Then again this is a relatively short list (I get that its limited to thirty games only because its the 30th anniversary but still), I can imagine the game is somewhere within the top 31-50 atleast.
Re: Anniversary: Need For Speed Turns 30 This Month
Happy 30th anniversary NFS!๐๐
Re: Talking Point: With Sonic's Movie Series Set To Cross A Billion Dollars At The Box Office, It's A Shame His Creator Doesn't Get Credit
Not directly related to the topic but this (and the Star Trek comment by Maulbert) made me think a little of Takashi Iizuka and Shadow. I don't like how lizuka generally acts like he's been the sole creator of Shadow the whole time when there has been atleast three other people involved in the character's creation.
Re: Capcom Art Account Shares Early Sketches of Street Fighter Alpha, Darkstalkers, Cyberbots, & More
Nice sketches, all of them.
I still wish for an actual "Capcom vs. Osamu Tezuka characters" fighting game though...
Re: Interview: Capcom Legend Harumi Fujita Reflects On Her Impressive 40-Year Career In Games
I still enjoy Fujitaโs work to this day. Have some fond memories of Tomba.^^
Re: Monster Hunter, Mortal Kombat And Resident Evil Director Paul W.S. Anderson Is Making A House Of The Dead Movie
I know this isn't the first time HoTD gets the movie treatment but boy, another upcoming Sega IP-based live-action movie huh. How many does that make now, six? (not counting Sonic as that has already been an active thing for awhile now).
Can't they atleast try focusing on just one planned movie at a time?
In any case, HoTD is surely right up Anderson's alley considering his previous work. The real question is which role Jovovich will play this time lol.
Re: Anniversary: Killer Instinct Is 30 Years Old
C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker!!!
Happy 30th anniversary KI.๐
Re: Have A Spare $35K? Someone Is Selling Animation Cells From The Battletoads TV Pilot
I would buy this if I had the money...T.T
Re: Gallery: Remembering Legendary Sega And Data East Artist Jun Satoh
May he rest in peace, his artistic talent was incredible.
I didn't know he also made the Alien Soldier cover, thats awesome.
Re: "You Donโt See Sega Enough" - Segaโs Transmedia Boss Wants To "Elevate" The Brand
"Scarpone has bold plans for the company. "My sights are set on trying to compete with the best the Hollywood studios when it comes to managing IP..."
That right there just gives me the chills and not for good reasons.
Re: Street Fighter 6 Director Hints At Canned Darkstalkers Sequel - Or Does He?
@PopetheRev28 : I know which one you are referring to, but that was over 15 years ago and ArcSys has come a long way since then. Sure, not every single one of their current works today has been hits (looking at you DNF Dual) but they are still one of the better dev options imo.
Re: Street Fighter 6 Director Hints At Canned Darkstalkers Sequel - Or Does He?
If only Capcom would join forces with a outside developer in making a new DS game (I'm thinking ArcSys, among other possible options).
Re: Lara Croft's Tomb Raider Series Has Sold Over 100 Million Copies
^^However impossible it is, I like to just imagine the possibility of the original timeline being continued in a new TR game.
Re: Classic Shmup Series Sonic Wings / Aero Fighters Is Getting A New Entry
So not only is a good underrated shmup series returning, we will (well we already are, as seen in the Twitter post image) see the lovely Mao Mao again? Score!
Re: Here's A Naughty Piece Of Nintendo History You Won't Find In Its New Museum
In another timeline Nintendo's museum has an open-at-night section that showcase some of the company's more "shadier" works back in the days, including these cards.๐
Re: Interview: Super Mario Kart & SimCity Composer Soyo Oka On Her Most Iconic Nintendo Soundtracks
Oka is really talented.โบ๏ธ
Also, I only played Pilotwings like one or two times before so I wasn't aware til now she worked on the game, thats great.
Re: Switch 'Hokkaido Serial Murder Case' Remake Retains NSFW Easter Egg From Yuji Horii's 1984 Original
A win for us "naughtyโ easter egg lovers.๐คญ๐
Re: Don't Hold Your Breath For A Tekken Collection
I would buy a TK collection in a heartbeat.