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@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!

@mjparker77 Well I was just comparing the Switch and the PS2. But that generation, as soon as I bought an Xbox, that's the only system I bought multi-port releases on as they were always superior. Aside from TimeSplitters 2 strangely.

@KGRAMR Lol, No worries dude, I thought you were responding to my second comment

@KGRAMR Sorry, what do you mean?

Out of the two systems, I certainly got far far mileage out of the PS2, and the games on it were far more creative IMO.

One of the last generations where publishers genuinely took risks.

@KGRAMR They did the total opposite recently in the US.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant He's in this mid-40s dude!

The Amiga version is essentially the same as the Mega Drive port, so too much of a loss there, but the Saturn and PS1 versions were each borderline sequels, and completely different games in their own right.

@PKDuckman Possibly, but it was mostly the original Worms ported to consoles of the time, future releases are usually the sequels.

No one ever has an issue with the original images looking pixelated.

Ten years ago it was devs insisting on putting bloody scan lines over everything, today it's AI.

@PinballBuzzbro Its odd that all these remasters are based on a crap later port of the game.

Like the "GTA Trilogy Definitive edition" are just a port of the mobile phone version.

I know the Japanese excuse is usually they lost/binned the source code, but Western devs usually hoarde everything.

But is that also the Xbox 360 pot of symphony?

Will we be seeing a crossover with Robocod at some point?

@MysticWangForce Yup, It's the Skyrim of the retro gaming world

@gojiguy I think some people still want to show support for the company, but if they're making the process as frustrating and obnoxious as possible, then what other choice do they have?

Hope they grab Psychic Detective, that was my favourite after Night Trap.

@Quick_Man Indeed, we also have access to pretty much an infinite amount of ROM space too today, codies back then had to be economic.

There's technically TWO versions of Robocod too, they bizarrely remade all the levels in the game when porting it to the PS1, and all games released after have been based on that PS1 port, rather than the Mega Drive/Amiga original.

So, a bit of a Mega Drive New Zealand Story thing going on there.

@sdelfin Ah wow, thank you! That's opened my eyes quite a bit.

You might want to check out Final Fight 1's code too on the SNES, Capcom left a ton of unused content in the files, including the scrapped factory level! TCRF has a great article on it.

Could the Mega Drive handle more sprites on screen than the SNES?

The fan made port of Batman Returns not only had far more enemies on screen than the SNES original, but also a 2 player co-op mode.