Guru_Larry

@MegaManFan Lol, noooo, I've been rather ill behind the scenes. so have taken some time off to get better.

But I will be back very soon!!!

I mean there's THREE American characters in SFII and only two Japanese characters, so it never came across as some kind of war.

I was more annoyed there were no Brits in it until Super. (well Vega was supposed to be English, and in an Assassins Creed-esque costume but that fell through)

Happened to me a few years ago, the cardboard boxes literally turned into mud in mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAUDJQCryIU

Still no Chase HQ???

Namco has the same rule too, none of the Arcade 1up machines have Namco's logo on them.

But that might also be because they're Bandai Namco now.

I'm still hoping for a leak for the "sequel" Rockstar were working on that was based on the movie, Quadrophenia.

I've noticed on licensed things like the Arcade1up machines, that Sega demands their logo removed from the product.

They don't like their name on 3rd party products.

Andy "Thicky" Dyer? He was one of my fave reviewers as a kid. Thats terrible news, Rest in peace Sir!

For you, it was one of the most profitable movies based on one of our IPs ever.

But for us, it was Tuesday.

Sega: "Yeah, um, we were kinda hoping you'd want a Master System mini next".

Did anyone ever find those stolen EverDrive EXP's?

The PC version of Bomberman had a ton of swearing in it that was removed.

Luckily it's still in the games files!

Loved Golvellius as a kid, annoyed that it ended on a cliffhanger for a sequel that never came. >.>

I'd be up for that, I never received my copy >.>

@amongtheworms Ronald McDonald has literally killed more people than Pennywise and John Wayne Gacy combined!

He's the world's most evil clown.

Molyneux: Well, when I was designing the game, I asked the question: Does the player want to be a good Ronald McDonald. or an evil Ronald McDonald? So I created a McDonalds God simulator where you play as Ray Croc himself and must fight supernatural beings, but that was later cut.

Not gonna Lie, but "NBA Superstars" is literally the most generic, thoughtless, "that'll do", Friday afternoon job name I've ever heard for a game

At least give it some Jazz, like "NBA Slammageddon", or just "NBA SLAM!!!" (as it sounds like NBA JAM). Something catchy that'll stick in people's minds.

NGL, I thought that old guy on the left was Jimmy Greaves scrolling past!

This is the Silent Hill Pachinko thing all over again!

BTW CEX started out as a stall at Wembley Market, I remember buying Amstrad and Master System games from them in the '80s.

They also heavily got into import gaming soon after, I bought a US Copy of Sonic 1 long before it was released here, Also Wardner, one of my fave ever arcade games.

All CEX stores are required to hire a miserable looking goth who stares at you like you're wasting their time, a tall, skinny, long haired guy who stinks of cigarettes, a fat guy who is actually knowledgeable about games that looks like Hurley from LOST, and a slightly overweight manager that resembles Ricky Gervais.

There was also another Escape.. Game developed, but sadly cancelled around the PS2 era, Escape from Earth, where the entire planet had been turned into a prison.

I didn't do this to my Mega Drive carts as I owned a Japanese console.

But I did try and fit a US WWF Super WrestleMania into a PAL SNES by sawing the sides off, then was gutted to discover they had extra region locking.

And I also sawed the tabs off the back of my Japanese N64 games to run on my US console (stuck a tiny square of duck tape over the holes to look nicer )

Love the CD-I Tetris soundtrack, It's '90s shopping mall as all Hell, but I do wish other developers would use this calming tone for soundtracks, rather than something orchestral constantly.

Also, it was refreshing for a Tetris game NOT to have some Russian sounding soundtrack for once.

Beyond the Ice Palace was pitched as an official sequel to Ghosts n Goblins to Capcom, which they rejected, then Elite tried it to make it into a ThunderCats game, hence why the main character looks like Lion-O and the final boss looks like Mumm-Ra.

I did a video on it many many moons ago.

@TeamBigRig All weapons were definitely underpowered online, having to put two full clips into an enemy to take them down just made the whole game frustrating to play.

I'm not a "sweaty" player or anything, but it had some serious balancing issues online. I do question if Microsoft were aiming it at a younger market, so it wasn't competition for Halo.

'Tis true, Americans have also taken all our copies of Mega Man: The Wily Wars and Shenmue II.

Then again, we've taken a load of their copies of Earthbound, Super Mario RPG and Chrono Trigger.

Exclusivity migration is an issue caused by the original publishers back in the day.

Also, That "you need a Japanese address" can easily be flaunted, there's loads of companies that will act as a proxy for you to ship stuff to them, and then them to you. I did that a few years ago for a Japanese auction site for a collection of Sega Titan Games.

@TeamBigRig The weapons being so underpowered drove me nuts in multiplayer, like taking 2/3 headshots with a sniper rifle to take someone down.

To be honest, not one of those celebs had any connection, let alone couldn't care less about video games, so no wonder why it bombed with marketing that completely missed the mark.

Then again, Gizmondo must have realized this towards the end, as they would badger the hell out of me when I was a presenter on Game Network to promote the thing there. They even loaned me a console to show off on TV, I say loan, as they went bust before I had a chance to return it, so I've still got the thing

I bought the first two back in the day, then collected the remain three years later.

But love all the hindsight stuff in there, unreleased games, like Hammerhead on the Konix and a Mega Drive port of Dynamite Dux!

Doesn't it also have the legendary image of a PC Engine's size being compared to a packet of Skips?

Def Jam: ICON was an awful game, and let's be honest, Vendetta only exists as EA lost the WCW license for the wrestling game they had in development, and slapped some another property on there.

Everyone's favourite game where you can go around murdering kids with a lightsaber with zero consequences.

@JackGYarwood Interesting, could it also be one of the reasons it was cancelled? They didn't want a to step on their own feet with a similar product.

Did this game have anything to do with Team 17's previous Zelda-like game on the Amiga, "The Speris Legacy"?

Awesome soundtrack BTW

No Impossamole in the collection as Piko Interactive owns the rights to it now (though not the name Monty Mole)

always remember that worlds of adventure battletech place on an episode of bad influence, with the promise if it coming to the UK soon.

Wasn't the Seymour games the reason why the Oliver Twins left Codemasters?

@Agent_P No Worries, I also bought a VHS player that could play NTSC videos and convert them on the fly to a PAL TV, (was into anime back then) and ran a few consoles through that!

@Zenszulu Aah, thank you!

@Woderwick I can remember getting Bubble Bobble and Ninja Warriors on the Amstrad there, and Jungle Hunt on the Atari, mainly as I loved Pitfall as a kid and it looked a bit like it.

Gremlin have lost the rights to a number of their games over the years unfortunately.

I know for a Fact Piko Interactive now own Impossamole, but not the Monty Mole name.

But, Loaded and ReLoaded are on AntStream, so I'm surprised they're not on here.

Richy Pitch's Blackstar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CkkV0pj2EM

And you can't forget Chris Sievey (Frank Sidebottom)'s, Camoflague - The first ever music video done on computer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u9ZyV-BHFA

@Woderwick I remember Makro, I used to buy heavily discounted Atari 2600 and Amstrad games from there!

They're still around, they merged with another trade chain about 10 years ago.

When did Sony's "This is Football" series begin?

I just love the fact the winner's "life changing" prize turned out to be being ignored for two years, then given a poster!

@Agent_P That's right, I had to spend ages explaining to them what the difference was, sending multiple photos.

Then they changed the price of the analogue stick, so I couldn't get a refund >.>

@TransmitHim I'm avoiding their site now, it's run by morons and scam artists.

Their website is the real gamble. I've been ripped off multiple times, like a copy of Snatcher with half the box missing, but still charged full price. and being sent the wrong analogue PS1 controller, then having to go through mutiiple emails to explain the difference between the analogue and dual shock controllers.

@Agent_P A lot of import stores modded Japanese/American consoles to accept PAL.

Most machines were both PAL and NTSC inside, one size fits all, you just needed to bridge the connector to change them.

That and a lot of TV's were also both PAL and NTSC in the UK.

@gb_nes_gamer I can't order from GAME after my account was hacked and had my card details stolen

Sort of been banned or something.