Guru_Larry

I'd have thought on the British side, Sheffield would have a HUGE head start on the UK side of the industry, considering pretty much all the American museums have completely glazed over UK culture and seem to believe video games were only ever created in the US and Japan.

Heck, my storage locker has a more complete archive than US museums.

@GodlessPreservation Sephiroth? But, we could have had Lara Croft and Adam Jennsen, if Square hadn't sold the license to bank on NFT's, lol.

And for Taito... Rastan? The Cops from Chase HQ, they had their own Rolling Thunder esque game once.

Didn't someone make a Capcom Vs. Kelloggs game once?

I can see why Fincher didn't want it made. Vivendi clearly missed the point about the entire movie, just assumed it was a movie about fighting.

It's like buying the rights to Chariots of Fire, and making a game set in Rome where you race conflagrant horse-drawn carriages.

It was rebranded to Gizmondo, as there there was a PS2 controller system called the Gametrac already trademarked. (that thing with gloves attached to elastic pulleys, so you could punch Etc)

They "lent" me one to review when I was on TV, but I took so long getting a video out for it, by the time I had they had gone bust, so I kept it.

Also the "with ads" one was weird, I bought a with ads model about a year later as they were going for pennies then, and never once saw a single advert on it.

@ZenoEvil Yeah, Dragon's Trap itself only ever came out on the Game Gear in Japan, they never released the Master System port there.

@Eocene84 They should be doing that already, and if they're currently suing them, and it turns out they don't have any rights, they'd be committing perjury.

@ZenoEvil a recap of the final level of the previous game?

@Daniel36 Interesting, so they're nothing to do with maps being randomly generated?

@The_Nintendo_Expat Wouldn't "Single Screen Platformers" also qualify games like Donkey Kong, Lode Runner & Solomon's Key though? Even 3D stuff like Blast Chamber.

Arena Platformers are like 2D horde modes, you need to eliminate all the enemies before moving on.

@RZ-Atom Ah wow, was that just for a digital copy on the Wii U? I think I got it on Steam in a sale.

I like it, but it's not Road Rash to me. Then again, stuff like Jailbreak was veering quite away from Road Rash too.

@sdelfin Indeed, either it is, or it isn't. You can't have a "sort of" claim. There needs to be a better title for the genre.

And now Netflix owns the Warner Bros. share!

@RZ-Atom Sweet, did you get one of the characters named after you with your pledge?

Ah, I Just felt way too focused on the combat side, rather than the racing/avoiding traffic element.

@Grackler What is a Man? A Miserable pile of last Metroids in Captivity.

@Daniel36 So that's the difference between a Rogue-Like and a Rogue-Lite?

The most recent genre title I've heard is for games like Bubble Bobble/Snow Bros. Etc. Arena Platformers.

Let's hope it's better than "Road Redemption" which claimed to be the spiritual successor to Road Rash too, but completely missed the point.

I also hope the unfinished PS2 Road Rash Criterion we're working on sees the light of day someday.

Cheers for the tweet embed Damo!!!

@slider1983 They're always the default "younger brother/friend comes over" controller for them to use, while you have the good one

@slider1983 That must have been pure Hell!!!

It's a silly term anyway, Metroid established the concept long before Symphony of the Night existed, so why is it getting a credit for its creation in the first place?

Even Metroid wasn't the first to create the genre, just make it popular. Then again, we called FPSes "Doom Clones" and Sandbox games "GTA Clones" for years.

"Survival Horror" is also a head scratcher, So there's horror games where the goal is not to survive?

@mjparker77 Like if you want to play Return of Death Adder legitimately, you need to fork over £400 for an Arcade1Up cabinet.

I literally only buy the Yakuza games for the arcade machines, if Sega compiled all of them into a game, they'd be raking it in.

@slider1983 Well, that IS shaped like an arcade joystick. I really meant the quickshot ones.

Sorry, but I absolutely despised this era of British gaming. I could not stand these joysticks, ever.
They were shaped for aircraft, not arcades, were incredibly uncomfortable to use, and sucked even harder if you were left handed.

The day I discovered you could simply plug your Master System/Mega Drive pad into the same port, was the greatest relief of my young life.

I'm honestly surprised it's never appeared in any of the Yakuza titles.

I CALLED IT!!!

Basic Fun are somehow even more incompetent, did you see all the drama behind their WrestleFest cab???

@jtotal That's got it, cheers!

That looks awesome!!!

Is it Pac-Man again?

@jtotal "Content is not available in your region".

I heard Basic Fun was buying the company.

Just crowd fund it dude, you're rep, you'd be falling over the money!

Kinda hoping for another Namco 3D game to be honest.

Would that be licensing related, considering Intellivision are now owned by Atari?

IREM are owned by Square Enix now?

Then Sega calls in the baliffs to demand it back.

The only reason I know the game ever existed, was because I had a demo of it on some random PC mag I bought in the '90s.

But I loved the art style as a kid on the game, so grabbed this remaster day one. Love Nightdive's attention to detail.

Fun Fact: Cold Fear originally started development as a spin-off to Time Crisis. (not a joke)

Any news on the Summer Cart 64?

I always hate how they always zoom in on the footage too in TV shows/movies. The game was never that large on the screen regardless of the format.

Is this a sequel to the Oliver Twins' Amstrad game?

That's really cool they've gone for all modern games for the library this time, also (hopefully) gives new blood a foot in the door too!

Capcom, give this man a job!

...and a time machine!!!

@KingMike It's 100% there, I even made a video on it a few years ago! (might put it up as a short again next week)

The IPs are all over the place, I was even offered to buy the rights to Vexx for $700 at one point. ME!!!

(Still kicking myself I didn't. But $700 was an insane amount of money to me back then)

Hope he had better luck than the guy who proposed in the PS4 Spider-Man game

NBA Live 95 on the Mega Drive has an awesome Easter Egg too, an entire course from a cancelled PGA Tour Game!!!

@dodgykebaab I believe they also said the same thing about NBA JAM.

@Exerion76 The screens are ALWAYS too small on these things, So wish they'd give an option.

Bt I'd imagine they're 16:9 screens partially covered up, or custom 4:3 screens, which wouldn't be cheap.

Any ideas what future Namco titles are on the cards?

I think Cyber Sled is pretty much a given at this point. Maybe Alpine Racer, Tekken 1?

@Quick_Man Yup, Liberty City, Vice City Etc. based on real cities, but not named them.

@mjparker77 Ah, you're missing out on the voice acting alone

Fun Fact: It's the only game in the whole of the GTA series, that's set in a real world city! But, I'd love a re-release, and the PC follow up/add-on.

Also check out The Italian Job on the PS1, closer to the later GTA games post GTA3, and was even published by Rockstar still!