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@Soupbones Thats a bargain, Nintendo charges $120 for theirs!

It's sad, but it's a franchise Sega never released in the West, despite petitioning multiple times over the years. So it just doesn't have the nostalgia pull that their other IPs have.

Will this just devolve into endless "Kaizu" levels where you need to essentially glitch yoour way through levels, like with Super Mario Maker?

I once rang up Acclaim's hotline, as I was stuck on Krusty's Super Fun House on the SNES. They said they'd ring me back so they could find where I was in the game.

30 Minutes later, they were asking ME for help as I had gotten a lot further in the game than they had!

@Ruka You could check out keygen sites, they often have working codes for delisted games on Steam.

It's how I got my copies of Superfrog and that Rock N' Roll Racing knock off that Blizzard DMCA'd out of existence.

It just feels like another "that'll do" collection.

If it was an actual celebration of the Joe and Mac series, surely it would have at least included the arcade version, let alone other ports like Game Boy and Mega Drive. All it is, is two games, and a third that was stripped of its association to the franchise in the West.

And where is "Joe and Mac Returns"? It's not even the complete series.

Still, at least it's not covered in AI art, I suppose. It seems to be using the art from the SNES repro from 15-20 years ago, instead.

@PKDuckman You can also play them if you own an Xbox, PC or PlayStation, they're all available to play on AntStream.

@Agent_P I like her music, I was going to be named after one of her songs had I been born a girl!

@Uncle_Franklin Badum Tisch!

What an absolutely miserable week for well-loved celebs passing on this week

@foursider I've chatted with him briefly over the years, yeah, he's a lovely guy IRL.

He's also the creator of Medievil, so quite the talented chap!

"James Pond art lacks Sole says Creator"

You missed a great pun title opportunity there Damo

Elite never consulted the creator of Roller Coaster, nor paid him any royalties when flipping the game to Dragon's Lair???

That doesn't sound like something Elite would normally do.

Oh wait... https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/page.php?issue_id=2937&page=6

will it also include the original cheat codes?

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