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@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.

@Fanboy_Destroyer Picking his ball up and going home?

I collected STC as a kid, love the fact it was much darker than the Archie version, even if some of it's influence did infect the UK comic.

I did write to Kitching & Elson twice as a kid about advice for getting into comics and learning what to study Etc. Never got a response though sadly

Why a phone though? If you wanted to do something interesting with Commodore, why not a handheld C64? Or even a C64GS mini console?

This really should have been something in the late '90s, but a few other game mascots had pilots... Battletoads, Bubsy Etc.

But, Ultimately, it's really only Sonic that's had any kind of continuous success with a TV series.

@81632bit Thanks, it's a similar shell, but the Commodore phone is running Android.

@81632bit You don't happen to have a link to the phone, or know what the model number is perchance?

Be quite fascinated to know what they've used.

Sorry, but this seems almost as dumb as when Binatone re-released the original "brick" mobile phone for "retro nostalgia" a few years ago. At least lean into the Commodore aspect, put an app on it to play a couple of C64 games on it!!!

A few will buy this phone, realise that it can do absolutely f**k all in comparison to their current piece, then shove their SIM card back in their old phone, while the Commodore one goes back in its box for the rest of eternity.

@Luminous117 Sweet, yeah I "think" I picked up the whole collection, minus Encore, as they'd always fall into Blockbuster Video ex-rental bins quite quickly and cheaply.

But, I am honestly shocked (and disappointed) that no one has ever done a first person museum since in their collections.

Closest I've ever seen is that fan made Bubsy museum.

The PS1 Namco Museum series is by far the best example of every "retro compilation" ever made.

The fact you're given an interactive 3D museum to explore, rather than lazily slapping: "here, slide show", is something that hasn't been even remotely rivalled, even 30 years later.

Namco understood gaming history should be celebrated, not palmed off as a checklist of filler material.

Well it is an incredibly rare game, Nintendo only ever printed 30 million copies of it! XD

Wasn't there also a second FIFA in 2006? FIFA Road to World Cup?

I only remember it as we reviewed it on TV.

Thanking you kindly for the video link, Damo

How dumb do you have to be to assume no one would notice the Zelda Triforce logo?

I've never been able to put down my copy of Tetris, but it's because some ***** poured superglue on the back of it.

I do hope they cover some of Zool's forgotten history, I did a video retrospective YEARS ago on the fact it was developed to be a third title in the Switchblade series.

Also, that Ninja Bread Man was originally going to be Zool 3. (I believe that's where the animated intro derived from that popped up on YouTube in the early days of the site)

@FrowardCoast440 Kid at my school was arrested for nicking a chupa chuup from the local newsagent. We took the piss out of him for years over it

Interesting line up, shame there isn't anything to show off of the Amiga's 3D capabilities there, like No Second Prize, or Geoff Crammond's Formula 1.

@PinballBuzzbro I honestly thought there was something wrong with my copy of the game, when I first heard it.

BUT... Does it still give off an incredibly obnoxious BEEEEEP every time you turn it on?

@MegaManFan That is impressive, I don't have any western shows in my collection unfortunately

@MegaManFan thats awesome! I've a couple of anime cels from the 80s and 90s myself

"...and based in North America"

Awww, poo >