Guru_Larry

Seicross looks like what happens when a Deliveroo and a Just Eat rider meet each other on the road

I bought a job lot of 100 random Japanese PS1 games off eBay a few years ago, and literally 10 of them were copies of Aquanauts Holiday!

Also had a copy of Final Fantasy VIII, but the third disc was a bootleg japanise copy of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith!

I really can't help thinking these companies are REALLY scraping the bottom of the barrel for remakes nowadays.

There was a third Impossible: Mission released on the Amiga and PS2.

This is almost as bad as Taito constantly forgetting they already made a Chase HQ 2.

@Robocod a couple of games were originally pitched to be James Bond titles. The arcade games Sly Spy: Secret Agent, and Thunderjaws certainly were.

@slider1983 I thought Amazon owned the rights now? :S

Who'd have thunk, the ludicrous prices NES games were, kids didn't want to spend their Birthday/Christmas money on an education game!!!

Good job you didn't port the Popeye spelling game then!

@Hexapus If you like Sega Saturn, Shiro! You should definitely check out "Pandemonium" on YouTube, he works with them quite often and makes phenomenal in-depth videos on Sega Saturn releases.

@PKDuckman Indeed, a lot of these licenses Konami picked up were US based.

I can't even think of any Japanese licenses they did over the years.

I was wondering why I was seeing so many Jak videos on YouTube all of a sudden!

@bring_on_branstons AAh, thanks!

Was there no Super Goal 1 released in the west on the SNES, as Nintendo picked it up and turned it into Super Soccer?

@AllieKitsune That probably won't happen unless they go for re-releasing Sega's more well known games.

@PKDuckman What I meant really, the repurposed the premise for a licensed game. Like with Sunset Riders/Wild West CowBoys of Moo Mesa.

@Profchaos It looked more like a paper label on the cart too, which felt more authentic.

The Virtual Boy flash cart had a similar feature, but that used an e-Ink display.

@Damo Aah, I see it now, just so used to previous models orientating it from the other side of the screen!

@Martin_H Aah, I don't see the Tate buttons now, or am I missing something?

Surely, Sonic Labyrinth still holds the record for slowest Sonic game? 😜

Are they scrapping the Tate mode with the Nexus?

@ihaveallthecoins It'll probably a side mod, like the Analogue Pocket again.

There's already been one side mod, the feature to add labels to the on-screen carts.

The ultimate update will be when you can forgo the flash carts entirely, and use the in-built Micro SD card slot to play games.

Just like with the Analogue Pocket.

Zuiki's biggest issues are the ridiculously expensive asking prices for their hardware, and for the West, that none of their titles are translated. They've not even approached fan subbers for their ROMs.

I played Equinox recently, it was way ahead of it's time, it was a clear evolution of the isometric platformer, that even modern games like Lumo feel archaic to in comparison.

Software Creations, when they were left to create original titles, were absolute masters, more so when the Pickfords were involved.

But Software Creations only ever made ONE arcade port for Acclaim, Revolution X.

I had a good old chat with David Liu a few weeks ago coincidentally, Lovely guy!

Isn't this just a prototype, or non copyright infringing version of their GI Joe arcade game?

Then again, you could say the same with Wild West CowBoys of Moo Mesa/Sunset Riders. and their numerous beat em ups.

@slider1983 Oh, I didn't mean a collection, I meant a full on remake, using actual artwork/animation of the characters. Sort of like the DuckTales remake.

@HammerGalladeBro Yeah, they billed me for Switch copies of Blaster Master Zero 1 and 2, as well as some other game. :S

Worst thing was I HAD made an pre-order, which I imagine went to someone else, and when I asked for the stuff I had ordered, they said no, it was out of stock.

So, Not only was I billed for someone elses stuff, they gave my games to another person, and also doxxed me to them on the attached bill. That royally p****d me off about the company. Absolute clown shoes.

@Zeebor15 It's Butasan,

I've NEVER heard it called "Pigs & Bombers" before. It was called "Psycho Pigs U.X.B." on UK home ports, but Pigs and Bombers is probably THE most creatively bankrupt name you could have for the game.

It's not even a translation of Butasan, Butasan Is a Japanese Pun, "Buta" means Pig, as well as making a hole, so Butasan means "Mr. Pig/Hole Puncher".

But, it's essentially Bomberman without walls.

@Agent_P Well, you could buy the Evercade cart if you want to be legit.

But Aspyr are renown for being terrible with how broken their "remasters" are.

Any movie that casts Dexter Fletcher has to be a good one.

Especially the fact he played a "pinkie" pig monster thing in it

@Fallingshadow skins are alright for multiplayer games, give some variety. But single player, it just removes the atmosphere.

The new outfits are bizarre too, why not at least include the 2013 Tomb Raider outfit Etc.?

Well, if ignoring tickets and charging me for other people's orders is "trust", then they're extremely liberal with the term.

I'm honestly surprised we might be getting a Hit & Run remake before Bart Vs. The Space Mutants.

I'd have thought someone would have been on that back in the PS3/360 era.

@GordonBennet You can also do a pretty simple HDMI mod which gets rid of the fuzzyness entirely!

I wish there was an option to remove the grainyness in the graphical menu, I'm all for options to having it as authentic as possible, but it looks like complete arse on a 4K screen.

In hindsight, it was a bit pointless releasing an upgrade for the Saturn so late in the day when the Dreamcast was just around the corner.

Obviously they learned their lesson from the 32X.

What I said in your original article, rather than them remaking the game using the original artwork as it's inspiration (which I would have done if I had the rights)

They've made something that looks like something a kid made on Newgrounds in the early 2000's. That awful, souless overly airbrushed vector gradient artwork that the PS3 remake of GODS had, and that was released over a decade ago.

Awesome, the Retsuprae boys were working on a translation about 2009, but they've been quiet for years on theirs.

@slider1983 Interesting, so I can burn it to a floppy and have copy 51!

Well, it's not the first time Customs has destroyed a rare game, I think last year, they smashed open a graded Pokémon game, and tore the box apart.

That floppy disk had no writing on it, no label, nothing. So there's nothing actually "unique" to make it valuable other than the data on it.

So it could be easily replicated if one of the 49 other owners are willing to send the data. If it's not already online. And no one would ever be the wiser if he used old stock floppies to burn it to.

Are these new records, or the original records from 2001?

@AceGrace Nice, Can you still use it?

Did they just nick the retooling casts for the Gamestick or something?

My CEX was their original prototype, they had a market stall at Wembley Market in the mid '80s/early '90s. I used to buy Amstrad games from them! Then later on Master System and then import Mega Drive/SNES games.

Also found out recently that their HQ was literally next door to where I took my driving theory test a few years ago. You'd never know from the outside.

Is that Apollo Smile voicing her too? The original VA for Ulala.

It really reminds me of Psygnosis' Ecstatica.
Probably the art style.

I'd imagine the next step would be having wi-fi on the card and the memory card accessing a cloud based saving system.

Of course Sony won't give us a new WipeOut, they'd rather blow $400 Million on a live service game no one liked, nor asked for.

God forbid they'd give us a new instalment of a franchise they've hoarded over the past 30 years. What they did with Lemmings was downright criminal.