JJtheTexan

I first played this in the SNK 40th collection. It's very unique as scrolling shooters go, and quite challenging. Tough to recommend on its own, though.

Lots of great Taito arcade games that could be included in a fourth collection. Some I'd like to see:

• Space Invaders (somehow absent from all the earlier Milestones games)
• Space Invaders Part II
• Birdie King
• Jungle Hunt
• Qix II: Tournament
• Return of the Invaders
• Empire City: 1931
• Arkanoid
• Slap Fight
• Darius
• Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh
• Chase H.Q.
• Kurikinton
• Cameltry

I wish I grew up in an alternate reality wherein I had an OutRun cabinet at home.

Let's Go Away is one of my all-time favorite tracks. What a great story!

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Oh gods it looks so awful and yet I absolutely love it and want to play it

Acclaim is a cancer on the history of console gaming. This, stealing NBA Jam from Midway, a laundry list of terrible games

This is a really great review, but I want to shout out whoever designed the "comparison tool" - that is some GREAT work right there! I loved playing with it.

Beyond heartbreaking. I am glad she is at peace. An absolute legend of the gaming industry, and I hope the Time Extension team will provide an obituary that does her justice.

The smallest Nintendo Switch Game Card capacity is 1GB.
You could fit the entire NES and Game Boy library and still have enough room to fit more than half of all Genesis games.
$40 U.S. for a Game Card with < 5MB of data is a bridge too far. Maybe if it included, say, the entire Toaplan collection. But this is just absurd

What are the Medabots games like? Sort of a "we have Pokemon at home" knockoff?

Most people don't know this, but I too was in negotiations with Capcom to get exclusive rights to the home console port of Street Fighter II at my house.

I can't think of a single Acclaim original IP. I always thought of them as a licensed slop factory that also did some pretty decent ports of Midway arcade games.

I confused Motoyama-san with Yukio Sawada, creator of Super Mario-kun. I'm a little surprised to learn there were two Super Mario manga.

At any rate, I'm sorry to hear Motoyama-san is no longer with us. At least we have decades of his work to enjoy.

This is a great idea. I expect they'll rediscover a Crown 602 by the end of the week with that small bounty.

This is great! I was hoping for something like this since my NES consoles are both in storage at the moment.

@JohnnyMind agreed. It feels like we've been slowly getting it in bits and pieces via Nintendo Switch Online over the last few years. I keep holding out for the Conker games. Spectrum titles are probably never going to happen.

I love the idea but the game looks like something I could not enjoy... that rapid 90-degree snap when changing directions makes me very dizzy. I can't play the Sonic 3 "get the blue spheres" special stages for the same reason.

As an American, I enthusiastically welcome this! U.S. gaming history and perspective has been pretty much exhaustively covered. I look forward to learning how gaming developed outside the USA and Japan.

I would LOVE this. I admit the BAT gameplay has not aged particularly well, but I love the characters, and the first game's soundtrack is far, far better than it has any right to be.

Edia did a nice job with the Valis series and several other semi-obscure properties from the 1990s with modern ports, so I'm feeling confident about playing Battle Arena Toshinden again soon!

I'm holding out for the physical version, but I agree - this makes me even more excited to play NSG!

I never heard of Mr. Girvin before reading this, and now I realize he's something of a hero to me. I have adored the NES, SNES, and Game Boy packaging since I was a kid. Knowing so much of it came from the mind of a design expert and his team makes it even more meaningful!

@Themilkman thank you so much for sharing this. It brought me to tears. I am glad to know you had a chance to say goodbye. I lost a dear friend and mentor recently and we hadn't spoken it a while, and it still haunts me.

I hope you're able to finish your book on Itagaki-san. I've long thought of him as the rockstar of Japanese auteur game developers. I love his games, especially DoA 4 and Ninja Gaiden II, and I hope your efforts can help more Western gamers learn about this industry legend.

I played Donkey Kong Jr. Math for the first time only recently, after it arrived on the Nintendo Switch NES Classics app. It's pretty terrible!

Where's the guy who always vigorously defends generative AI as a "tool" in the comments of these Time Extension posts? Must be busy playing WANUS, I guess

I've recently been playing Joy Mech Fight on my Nintendo Switch. It's pretty good, and impressive for a Famicom game! A bit long, though.

I am completely floored. What an achievement! I never thought I'd see a SEGA X Board game running on a C64.

Coming soon, a Street Fighter 6 crossover with the 1995 PC Engine Super CD-ROM2 all-female time traveler space shooter, Ginga Fukei Densetsu: Sapphire

Missed opportunity to name him Sal Desunee.

@PZT that makes sense, and I doubt Konami wants to spend the $$$ to port it again, which is a shame, but who knows! It might be time for a full remake anyway, though I personally would hate to see the game in anything but the 32-bit pixel style.

I love these games so much. I really wish they'd get ported to Nintendo Switch / 2, but I thoroughly enjoyed the PlayStation 4 version.

I am one of the lucky few to have received a Virtual Boy as a gift the year it came out, and I still have it (and it works, though I had to have it "refurbished" by an expert). I can attest that, yes, as a 15-year-old, I did prefer to play while lying on my back, with the unit resting on my face. No, it wasn't comfortable, but it was much better than the horrible neck / back strain caused by trying to play it as intended, on a tabletop.

I did experience some mild eye strain back then, but I still enjoyed it to some degree. The last time I tried using it, about a year ago, I got a headache almost immediately, and the eye strain was so severe I had to stop after about five minutes.

Still, I am a Virtual Boy sicko and I will be purchasing the Nintendo Switch VB dock thing ASAP and look forward to wrecking my 45-year-old neck, back, and eyes further in February 2026.

I LOVE the aesthetic here. Hope this is a success, and comes to consoles too

I spent a couple dozen hours doing much the same in Super Mario Maker 2, and I was quite pleased with the result.

Another great backstory I never knew about an interesting game! This is why I visit Time Extension every day.

It would be fun to see Tekken Advance come to the Nintendo Classics line on Nintendo Switch. I think only three Tekken games ever came to Nintendo platforms; this, Tekken 3D on Nintendo 3DS, and Tekken Tag Tournament 2: Wii U Edition.

Wait wait WAIT. Bubsy indirectly led to Syphon Filter??!? I never heard this!!! @Damo I would really love to see a feature on this in the future!

I just recently picked up Gimmick! SE on my Nintendo Switch. The soundtrack is absolutely superb. I am happy to know he was aware that his work was finally getting the recognition it deserved before his passing.

@NatiaAdamo oh! I didn't know that... if they're going for authenticity, then bring on the weird grammar lol

Packaging with phrases like "BRING A REAL VECTREX AT HOME" and "MINI ARCADE PLAY HOME" does not inspire much confidence.

The "16-bit trilogy" of Super Castlevania IV, Bloodlines, and Rondo of Blood are among my favorite games. I cannot choose a favorite from among those three; all are equally-great and unique to me!

Next time: BBC marks the 25th anniversary of PlayStation 2 in Europe with a Dreamcast taped to a Nintendo 64 that has a PSP sticking out of its cartridge slot

Crossover DLC in both games seems inevitable at this point, and I am absolutely here for it

@PKDuckman true. I have Silpheed and Zanac. Loved Silpheed in spite of its 15fps performance. Zanac is good but the lack of sound effects is not great in a shoot-'em-up.

@LinktotheFuture EGGCONSOLE is a series of games for 1980s Japanese home computers, like the MSX2 and the PC-88 series, emulated on Nintendo Switch. I have a couple of them and they're very interesting, but definitely show their age. Most don't have English translations, so they can be tough to play if you can't read Japanese.

I backed this on Kickstarter and was sad for years about its apparent abandonment / cancelation. We'll never get to play it in any form unless someone leaks the build (if it even exists)

I really like the look of this one! Looking forward to future updates...

We truly live in the worst timeline.

It's like the old joke about the British guy who tells a friend he took his wife to a large Caribbean island.

The friend asks, "Jamaica?"

The Brit replies, "Nah mate, she came of her own accord"

(See also: Led Zeppelin song title D'yer Mak'er)

Ohhhh, this hurts. I've bought a number of items from RCG over the years.

(clears throat) The current geopolitical situation with respect to international import / export costs must surely be to blame, at least in part. Sigh