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It's the same story with users on Gog. Games are unplayable.

Well, I certainly wouldn't want to play an RPG in Japanese. But the action games will do okay.

I read Time Extension.......for the articles.

Japan-exclusives must be mine!

@Hikingguy Just a Pac-Man rip-off is all.

Some games at the very top of the list have as few as 3 ratings. So this is very much a "list in progress".

As a wise man once said: "Don't boo. Vote."

he was involved with the seminal SNES title Chrono Trigger in 1995

Not his only...seminal...game it turns out...

One day my friend called me up and said: "I got a Sega Genesis!"
I got over there as fast as my BMX bike would take me.
It came with "Altered Beast" of course. We had all played it in the arcade, and our jaws were all on the floor at the huge sprites: "It's just like the arcade!!!"

It's only once the Internet came along that I "found out" this game is crap. It was certainly visually astounding at the time compared to NES graphics.

#2 was EGM's RPG of the year in '92.
Couple that with the Japan-exclusives and it's an easy buy for me!

I'm always interested in people "beating the game". That's how it was when I grew up. You needed that hi-score. Measuring yourself against the game itself. "King of Kong" was hugely entertaining.

I get nothing out of player vs. player esports. Who cares if "Team Purple" from Pittsburgh beats "Team Orange" from Chicago?

Never heard of them, but a couple of them seem well-regarded, so for me it's worth a few bucks on sale.

More like an...unloading screen.

Well...something has been extended.

I think this is what the kids call: "wholesome".

Going by PC reviews on MetaCritic, it sounds like the translation is crap.

My friends and I loved these. It was the closest we could get to playing video games in school.

Please let me play Kung Fu Master on Switch!

@KoopaTheGamer

So if I said to you: "Would you like to see Muhammad Ali's Olympic gold medal, Bobby Charlton's World Cup winner's medal, Marlon Brando's "Godfather" Oscar, Albert Einstein's Nobel Prize?

You wouldn't want a peek? Hold it in your hand? Give a fake acceptance speech?

Anyway, it would be fun if whenever someone mentions the BAFTAs, to say "I have one of those you know..."

Well, I can't say it looks very good. Doesn't look too different from some games I had on ColecoVision, but can't say it looks fun. Even watching a short clip, the music is mind numbing. Only way I would get it I think is part of a collection.

"I don’t think the quality of the graphics determines how fun a game is. It’s all about the gameplay system."

I still play 40 year old games.

I just can't believe it every time I read someone say: "I don't play indie games, I only play AAA". You hear it all the time, along with 4K this and 8K that and 60fps or 120fps. It's madness.

I have a friend of mine that only watches blockbuster budget movies. Won't even consider seeing an independent film, even if it's a crowd-pleaser.

It's just a strange mindset.

Today I learned...a Canadian international was once on the cover of FIFA...

(Tomasz Radzinski in case you're wondering)

Alphonso Davies will be next!

About a decade ago, AdventureGamers ranked Sam & Max Hit the Road #28 on their list of the Top 100 All-Time Adventure Games.

I run a weekly retro video game poll on Reddit.

Gunstar Heroes was voted the #17 best game of the SNES/Genesis/TurboGrafx-16 era.
Just above Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
Just below Earthworm Jim.

A little over a decade ago, this topped AdventureGamers' list of the Top 100 All-Time Adventure Games.

Thexder. Childhood memory unlocked!

I looked it up, saw the box art and it dawned on me that I had that game when I was 9. I thought "Hey...don't you transform into a plane or something?" Yup.

I'd love to have Cadillacs & Dinosaurs and The Punisher on the Switch.

They are both Top 20 Beat 'em Ups of the '80s & '90s.

I had the original Mr. Do! on ColecoVision. It was quite good at the time.

While we're talking about early '80s arcade maze games, give me some Lady Bug!

And do controllers have enough buttons to make Mouse Trap work?

A while ago I googled for lists of the best Neo Geo games (I have no friends 😎). 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 410 separate entries.

Art of Fighting 3: The Path of the Warrior ended up the #28 best NeoGeo game, and the 9th best NeoGeo fighting game.

Wish there was an "add all Switch games to cart" button.

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Atari's 1978 arcade coin-op Fire Truck

I was very young, but it was a 2-player game on a black and white screen. One person sat down in front and their wheel controlled the steering of the fire truck. Another person stood behind the seated player and controlled the back of the truck, the "ladder" part. It was soooo cool!

I knew about the BattleTech centers, I don't know if it was in a magazine or what. But I never got to see one. The idea fascinated the hell out of me.

To plug the funding gap, the firms took on several side contracts, such as making laser tag venues and working with Jeep to create driving simulators for the Detroit Auto Show. "We built Jeep cockpits using the actual Jeep steering and gearshifts and everything, so that was a fun project," says Weisman.

I ABSOLUTELY stood in line for that Jeep simulator at the Detroit Auto show. If you've never been, it's like spending your entire day at a car dealership. So any entertainment is welcome! I remember driving over logs or something, and it felt like running over bumps, etc.

I don't see this being offered digitally on the eshop?
Is it physical only?

I'll get it on Switch for Gaiares

1979 - No way Speed Freak is better than Asteroids or Galaxian.
1986 - I think Metroid runs Dragon Quest / Dragon Warrior close.
1989 - Super Mario Bros. 3 is better than SimCity.
1990 - Final Fantasy is better than The Secret of Monkey Island.
1992 - Hard to keep The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past off the list, though I was amazed by Wolfenstein 3D.
1995 - Chrono Trigger is better than Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest.

Has a stinky Xbox 360 MetaCritic score...

Made by Namco the year after Galaxian and a year before Galaga.

My friends and I were obsessed with Wolfenstein 3D, we actually hacked into our high school computer system to access it from one of our teacher's accounts. I would secretly play it from my computer at the back corner of the room in keyboarding class (I guess kids don't need that anymore).

Not long after that, I was lamenting that the video game industry was so dominated by FPS games, and I avoided them in favour of other genres. But now I'm happy to go back and discover those old classics.

Looking forward to the article that announces where this ends up available for streaming.

I'm not sure what you game on, but Switch has a collection called Namco Museum which includes Splatterhouse and 10 other games.

A much better value, though Hamster's Arcade Archives releases have more features.

I run a weekly Retro Video Game Poll on Reddit. Pole Position was voted the #14 best game of the Atari Era.

This is the last of the 5 Namco titles in the top 50 to be released on Switch (after Galaga, Dig Dug, Pac-Man and Galaxian).

I believe the SNES Rings game was what I played a bit of at a comic book convention back in the day.

Sure, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest has problems, most glaringly the "must-call-a-hint-line" impossible puzzles. But the first time the day turned to night, my friends and I's jaws dropped.

Those paperback covers really stood out in the school library.
I always brought a game book to our family beach outings.

The gameplay idea for the game is: what if your shmup ship is fully powered up from the very beginning of the game, and stays fully powered up for the entire game?

It turns out, that that is a very dumb idea for a shmup.

It seems now to have a bad reputation. But I remember going over to my friend's house the day he got his new Genesis.

We couldn't believe how GIANT the sprites were on the screen!

"It's just like the arcade!" we squealed with delight.

The SNES was 2 years away. It was graphically amazing at the time.

I run a weekly RetroGaming poll on Reddit. We just finished the Top 100 for the NES/Master System Era. Capcom ended up tied for second-most games on the list, with Sega, behind only Nintendo.

Here are the Capcom games that made the list:

Mega Man 3
Gargoyle's Quest II
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
DuckTales
Mega Man 2
Bionic Commando
Black Tiger / Black Dragon
Ghosts 'n Goblins
1943: The Battle of Midway
Mega Man 4
Mega Man

Iron Commando was a Japan-exclusive, so I'll pick it up.

A while ago I googled for lists of the best Sega Genesis games. I looked for long lists each at least 50 games long, that were ranked. I assigned points based on rank and added them all up. I was left with 16 lists, 396 unique games and 1,465 total entries.

Langrisser / Warsong ended up a top 70 Sega Genesis game.
Langrisser II / Warsong 2 ended up just outside the top 100.

This article reminds me of a recent article about the music industry. The writer said it was sad that 5% of musical artists make up 95% of all the stream listens, and that a perfect world, each artist would be listened to equally as much as every other.

Or...the fact that the most talented, quality output gets the most listeners/buyers/players is a better way to go?

Would have been smart to give a heads up press release BEFOREhand:

"Only 1 week to go before Strong Bad game is delisted on Steam", etc.

I would have picked it up.

A while ago I googled for lists of the best Sega Genesis games. I looked for long lists each at least 50 games long, that were ranked. I assigned points based on rank and added them all up. I was left with 16 lists, 396 unique games and 1,465 total entries.

James Pond 3: Operation Starfish cracked the Top 200 Genesis games. The other 2 James Pond games were not mentioned at all on any of the 16 lists.

NintendoLife users ranked this the #19 best Game Boy Color game.