Guru_Larry

Aw, that's a shame, Ravi's a lovely fella too!

@roguetrooper That's an extremely thin line to tread, as soon as the press catches on to what you're doing, they'll either blacklist you at best, or completely turn on you.

@roguetrooper I did a video years ago on Cale's promises for the Putty Squad re-release. (here's the shorts version)

https://youtube.com/shorts/V354t9WqzK0

I'm kinda getting vibes of the game "Constructor" from it. The remaster of that a few years ago was pretty cool, they even hired Boysey from Only Fools and Horses to be the narrator/tutorial VO.

But will Americans get the name, or will it be renamed "Car Lot Capitol" there?

@KGRAMR Oh, I forgot about those.

@1040STF I wasn't aware of that? Was it the blurring of some textures for the 3DFX cards?

Had a feeling they were keen on the project, adding features not seen before, like the sound test Etc.

Hopefully they'll consider releasing some of their unreleased stuff like Dinosaur Planet and Dream Etc.

Wish companies would release unfinished/unreleased games, state that they're buggy/incomplete. The only time I can recall this is Twisted Metal Harbor City, Starfox 2, and the SNES Rayman in the recent collection.

Have you ever considered doing a retrospective on Ninja Baseball Bat Man? It's got an absolutely fascinating history!

Interesting they've using the Saturn version, rather than the PC release, as that fixed a lot of issues with the textures Etc.

But, it's already looking better than that "remake". eugh.

I've never heard that rumour before. I know it used death sounds from one of the Conan movies, that's been proven. And Sega were notorious for stealing audio and images from movies and magazines.

I was buying import games from CEX ever since they were just a single stall at Wembley Market!

I got stuff like Wardner on the Mega Drive, and Japanese copies of games like Batman and Streets of Rage. Also a US copy of Sonic 1 when it was literally just out.

Also the Harrow branch, paying £125 for a Japanese copy of Mario Kart 64 as it came with a two tone controller. and they wanted £150 for it a few weeks earlier.

@PKDuckman Quite a few celebs have managed to nerf pretty decent licensed games.

Costner should have been more concerned about putting his face on a game that's absolutely sh1te.

How could they be this dumb? Unless it's some kind of 4th level marketing tactic for free press.

I wondered what happened to this.

Also, the Master System port of the TMNT arcade game, where's that gone?

@happycodingzx Aah, that's great to know! Would explain why Piko wanted to rename the character all of a sudden!

I know he's pretty open to selling rights too, if you ever wanted it for completionist's sake! Eli offered me the IP rights to a game I did the anime/manga art on many many years ago as payment for another job.

If there's anything I can do to help out too, give us a shout!

@shiningpikablu252 adventures, SatAM was pretty good.

Sega Touring Cars was such a disappointment, Then again Sega didn't exactly do a good job explaining how to play the game properly. Took me years to discover you accelerate/brake with the gear shift more than anything else.

Regardless they'd have been better off porting Indy 500 or something in hindsight.

Oh, if you set the clock to Christmas Day 1997, the game completely changes to an online contest time trial game!

Well, let's hope it's not an AI generated sesspit like the planned Robocod/James Pond sequel is going to be.

But, Does Stewert own many of Gremlin's original IP's now? Piko Interactive snapped up a ton of them a few years ago. They even own Impossamole (Eli even got me involved to re-design/retcon Monty Mole out of Impossamole, so he could make sequels), so they don't even own the full franchiese.

@slider1983 Ninjabread Man was meant to be Zool 3.

It was that over the top early '90s rubberized American style of animation that the first Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon also suffered from. (also the Bubsy pilot)

If they had possibly comissioned the series through an anime studio, like TMNT, ThunderCats & Batman TAE Etc. were, it would have had a more grounded, serious feel to it.

But DIC pitched a few other NES games, and art has been leaked over the years, including CastleVania and Metroid (with a male Samus)

They even wanted to do a show based on California Games, so could that have been more like Hanna Barbera's Laff-a-Lympics?

Is TX-1 from the same developers as Buggy Boy? As it just looks incredibly similar.

@sbeng135 Indeed, they should also be wise enough to know that's the Japanese market. The Western market is an entirely different kettle of fish.

Even online only games, The Japanese prefer cooperative gaming, whereas the West favour adversial.

@Allahver_Fist Lol, same here, saw that image and thought "who TF is this guy? That's not the guy who made Callisto, that's his Dad!"

PS1 piracy was reasonably commonplace in the UK too I'd say, not quite as much as the SNES era, but since CD burners were crashing in price at the time, I'd often pop in to my local Blockbuster Video to "rent" a game (cough).

But even then I stopped, as Blockbuster's Ex-Rental bin, and CEX's unboxed game tray had games for pennies, so, it was literally cheaper to buy those than blank discs! Picked up a few all-time favourites of mine, just because of the price they were, that I'd have never looked at otherwise.

And there was always a bloke at the car boot sale with pirated PS1 games for a fiver. I still have my copy of Tony Hawk's 1, that was so early in development, literally half of some levels were missing, you'd just fall into an abyss.

@FR4M3 Indeed, I saw him in video interviews for The Callisto Protocol, and he looked a lot younger in them.

These past few years have really taken their toll on him!

I'd say It's more a case with Sony hiring complete and utter morons who scrapped all in-house IPs, single player and any creative games whatsoever, in favour of endless "Live Service" slop.

That not only no one wants, and no one is buying, but they're literally making their own competition draining the already tiny pond even further.

@AngelFox Indeed, there should have been a Switch port, same with Power Drift.

It's good, thing is Sega and M2 did such a stunning port of VR to the switch, that even the arcade game itself pales in comparison.

Removed all pop-in, renders the entire track, 60fps, and eight player racing, on the same screen!

I saw all the tweets, expecting an all new Neo Geo sequel in the old style

News Alert: Lenovo announces selling all remaining unsold stock of handheld to Soulja Boy.

@romanista Lol, that's a new one for me

@JJtheTexan I think the father is also the final boss of the second game, or something like Opa-Opa split in two and there's an evil version of him now, that's the real final boss.

It's all rather confusing.

Is Opa-Opa a sentient ship, or is there a guy inside controlling it?

Strangely, I stumbled acoss an import game shop on holiday, it was slap bang in the middle of nowhere, still can't remember where. and bought a Japanese copy there.

@weekendroady I did a video on why it was named Lylat Wars instead of StarWing 64 in Europe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etm1o8_twLM

Sorry, but even if he dropped the price to £50, I still wouldn't want one.

It's just an unappealing product. And completely tone-deaf to what Commodore enthusiasts would actually want.

"We approached Takahashi-San, and asked, "Does look okay to you?", and he said "yeah"".

@BellaGoth The spike glitch?

@Sketcz TBH unless it's Sonic, or Yakuza, Sega couldn't care less about their IP's... Alex who???

I bought an unboxed copy of Soleil from a Pawn Shop in the late '90s, and it was ridiculously expensive then.
Then again, that place was also selling a copy of Chu Chu Rocket for £20 when you could still get it for free

I understand the reproduction of rare and expensive games, but considering Sonic 1 and 2 are the two biggest selling games of all-time on the system (literally #1 and #2), you can't but trip over copies in the wild.

There's not even anything special about them. As least include all revisions and the prototypes on the cart FFS.

I found a copy years ago in Oxfam of all places! No idea what the story was there!

@Hehcuchebe Ask Matthew where it is!

@Deuteros I fell for that a good few times, especially a few Japanese games, as I couldn't even bloomin' read them!

So it was entirely judging the screenshots on the back.

@MisterStu Aw, bless you Sir! Thank you

@MisterStu I loved UK:R, submitted a few stories there anonymously over the years, but loved Gary, top bloke!

Blue skies forever!!!

I remember getting my US copy from a game stall at Wembley market (who later went on to become CEX).

I miss the magic of looking forward to games.

@KingMike There's a version without Senna's branding? I never knew that. It's a bit of a bad sequel as it's pretty much the same game as the first.

Why I suspect F1 by Domark was originally meant to be Super Monaco GP 3 at one point.

What was F1 doing at Donnington? I thought it's always been at Silverstone?

But I can't see that image of Senna holding the trophy and not think of the Super Monaco GP Easter Egg :S

@NoirConceit Interesting, I wasn't aware of that, I'd imagine that severely limits what's possible with the device then. No sideloading apps Etc.

But, like the C64U, I'd imagine Perifratic will try and block Jailbreaking as much as he can, he doesn't like other people playing with his toys.