MontyCircus

For user scores, yes, I generally agree with you there.
I use Metacritic every day, but their user scores usually has very little # of ratings, so I never look at them.

Silksong has under 6,500 MetaCritic user ratings (all platforms).
On Steam it has over 130,000 user ratings, and you need to have bought the game on Steam to rate and review it.

I use RottenTomatoes every day.
While their "Verified" user ratings are from legitimate Fandango ticket purchases (I believe), the people that tend to "rush to their phone/computer to rate the movie" are generally bigger, more enthusiastic fans.

For wide-releases, CinemaScore polls theatres in 5 different cities each weekend on opening night. Movie studios have said they match their own test screening audience data.

Even pure Internet ratings like IMDb I find, usually, useful. When the votes are in the tens of thousands, any review bombing type of manipulation is usually negated.

For books, GoodReads, usually, gives me a good idea of book quality. Most of their "review bombing" nonsense is reserved for their annual "GoodReads Awards", where Twitter goes wild with voting campaigns. Though there are also excited fans giving perfect "5-star" ratings to books by their favourite Romantasy author that haven't yet been published.

Also, most or all of these sites with user ratings have mechanisms in place to catch when there are lots of "weird" ratings coming in, in a short timeframe.

This it turning into arcadeclosingnews.com

**** you Slippy!

addednonsensetomakemypostlongenough

@Daze_of_Reality

I have nearly every Sega Ages release on Switch. Skipped the Sonics like you said, 'cause I already had them on Switch (and would later have them again through ANOTHER Sonic collection), but own nearly everything else. And just like I do with Arcade Archives, I would keep on buying them if they would keep on releasing them.

@Coalescence

In the Def Jam days, they were being talked into the Beastie Boys starring in a haunted house comedy film, like Abbott & Costello "in the hood" or something.

I had this for ColecoVison. Never played the arcade original, so that'll be neat.

I already bought 4 of the 10.
You might say I should just ignore Taito sales because they'll be in Milestones collections. ....but what if they aren't!

Just announce Mega Man with a 12 after it and let me have it!

The only way I can play Scrabble is with a 5-minute turn limit.

Without one I just go over-and over-and-over all my tiles and over-and-over-and over-the board.

I can ponder a Wordle for a half an hour.

So if there's no time limit then I can't play this game.

I think it would be cool to own the original Puyo Puyo version.

"4-player beat 'em up in 1991? That's cool, I wonder if it was first..."

Googled and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Crime Fighters beat it by 2 years (1989), both from Konami.

Crime Fighters was first (April), but TMNT coming out 6 months later in October was, as we all know, an absolute smash success.

@PKDuckman

The original arcade game is included in Snow Bros. Special but only as an extra DLC.

It doesn't look like much now, but was innovative in the very early days of fighters. According to hardcoregaming101:

• the first fighter to feature multiple playable characters with individual movesets and properties.

It also introduced:

• block damage
• air blocking
• projectile attacks
• a modern "analog" health bar (as opposed to a health meter comprised of notches)
• the ability to execute multiple attacks while airborne
• and attacks of varying levels of strength.

And doing all that while coming out 2 years before Street Fighter, and 6 years before Street Fighter II.

I just discovered that Cho Aniki: Bakuretsu Ranto Hen is also on Switch.

Not a shmup, but a fighting game spinoff, where your characters...float?

The Shmups Forum has been making a "Top 25 Shmups of All Time" for 20 years.

Raiden Fighters Jet made the recent "Honourable Mentions" list, and has made the Top 25 list in the past.

Raiden Fighters 2 made the honourable list in the latest poll.

I looked on Steam for this. I found Sugar Girls. It's not the same game.

Let Digital Eclipse put the library on Switch 2 with all that wonderful documentary stuff and I'll buy it and enjoy it.

But I'm a 1 console under the TV kind of guy.

@tektite_captain

I googled, and they say it said "Master System" on all the consoles, but the initial marketing was "Sega Video Game System" or "Sega System".

@Blast16

Invincible Collection digital is currently on sale for 70% off.

@Blast16

Thanks for the kind words! Will definitely keep posting them.

A while ago I googled for lists of the best Neo Geo games. I looked for ranked lists at least 25 games long. I ended up finding 7 qualifying lists with 132 unique games and a total of 413 separate entries.

Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers was the #23 best Neo Geo game, and the #8 best fighter.

A while ago I compiled a list of retro video game YouTube channels in order of # of subscribers.

• Game Sack was #18
• My Life in Gaming was #23

An omnibus edition (think "thick") of the original manga is out this week as well.

I'm in for any previous Japanese exclusives, so count me in for the game. And it's Sunsoft, so even better!

And we just had that article this week about how when the President of Nintendo was told that Animal Crossing would be released in the West, he laughed his ass off, saying it would never work outside Japan.

Sometimes in business, no matter how knowledgeable or talented you are...you just don't know!

Yes! If you're remastering, remaking a classic game...INCLUDE THE ORIGINAL GAME!!!

Then, people like me, will happily buy the "new" game, even if it's crap, just to get the old one.

The day you posted this...

10 Taito games are on sale:

• 9 Arcade Archives
• 1 Neo Geo

You only need to answer it once, and it doesn't matter which site you do it on.

That was a relief!

Also, the question of how many indie games do we buy in a year? And the maximum was "15+"?

I do that in a month!

Was released exclusively in Japanese arcades...so gotta have it!

Ys Book I & II would be the star here among those listed.

Other top TurboGrafx-CD/PC-Engine CD games:

• Castlevania: Rondo of Blood
• Star Parodier
• Gate of Thunder
• Lords of Thunder
• Seirei Senshi Spriggan
• Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire

I'm interested in most Bitmap Books. This one especially.

@MegaManFan

"Mega ****ing Man, ain't a damn thing changed."

@DestructoDisk

It's on Switch too, part of the same Jaleco line:
JALECOlle Famicom Ver. Saiyuuki World

On the Shmups Forum's annual poll (they've done it for 20 years), R-Type Delta often makes the "Top 25 Shmups of All Time" list.

The original nearly always does.

Sounds good! I'm a sucker for Japanese exclusives.

Would love to see a list of the EGGCONSOLE releases that are recommended for non-Japanese speakers. I looked up the early games, picked up some more action-oriented ones, but lost the enthusiasm to sift through them.

Thanks for the reply. That makes sense.

These are waaaay down the list of SNES and Genesis games. Like hundreds down the list of top games on those consoles. Can't really imagine anyone would be interested in them.

I would need to know which versions of the games are included, as their quality varies wildly between original platforms.

Nice! Looks like this version and the NES version are practically the same, and the best way to play it.

"part of a 9,000-person cull across the Xbox family."

That makes it sound like the 9,000 firings are all from the gaming division, which is not true.

Better than free games like solitaire or minesweeper?

I'm not sure.

It looks like something a kid would make in school. And get a B+.

AdventureGamers' Top 100 All-Time Adventure Games list is fantastic: https://adventuregamers.com/article/top_100_all-time_adventure_games?cp=22

I really should copy that over in case it disappears some day.

Earlier this year I was wondering where the "Aggie Awards" (their Annual Adventure Game Awards) were. Found a Reddit thread where someone from "Adventure Game Hotspot" informed us that Adventure Gamers was going under. I think some of the Hotspot folks came from Adventure Gamers, etc.

Anyway, I was glad to see Adventure Game Hotspot's annual awards as a replacement.

GameFaqs put up a Top 100 PS1 Games of All Time poll.
Over 300 people voted and Final Fantasy Tactics ended up #6.
Just behind Symphony of the Night.

I'm a sucker for these early '80s arcade style games.

@KingMike

As I often say: Our childhoods would be illegal now!

I'll get the Saiyūki World 2 Jalecolle release
And the Arcade Archives version of Rod Land.

@sixrings

Imagine a game where you battled zombies at the 9/11 memorial freedom tower. Or at Columbine high school, etc.

@Gryffin

Yeah, for example, do you think a billionaire would care about a $1,000 speeding ticket? So for them, it is meaningless.

But there are some countries that fine you based on your income. In 2010 a wealthy Swedish motorist was fined $1 million in Switzerland, for driving his Mercedes at 290 km(180m)/h.

@NinChocolate

IGN just had a user poll on that question, Switch, N64 and Super Nintendo I believe were the top 3 (I can't find the poll at the moment to tell you the ranking).

NES support was miniscule. I suppose that makes sense, with people picking the SNES over it because it was the apex of 2D gaming (before everything went 3D).

But I would argue the leap from 2600/ColecoVision/Intellivision, to NES was an absolutely colossal jump, that changed gaming more than the leap from NES to SNES. The idea of an arcade game that you would play for minutes, to a console game that you would play for hours, or even weeks or months, was born on the NES.

@Mayhem

"Beginning with issue #65 (August 1984), Sim began collaborating with the artist Gerhard, who drew all the backgrounds while Sim, who continued to write the series himself, drew the foreground figures. Gerhard and Sim continued to work together on Cerebus until the series concluded with issue #300, in March 2004."

In CBR's latest poll, Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo series was voted the #80 best comic book run of all-time.

It's also the longest-running comic-book series by a single writer/artist, with no assistance from other creators.

He's won 8 Eisner Awards (known as "The Oscars of Comics") and is in the Eisner Award Hall of Fame.

Been confused about these Toaplan games for so long. Had them on my Deku Deals wishlist, staring at them from time to time just like...when the hell are these going to come to the West!?