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Well, as long as it comes physical it will somewhat scratch an itch for me, having missed the Taito Egret II Mini Arcade Memories vol. 2, which contained both Operation Wolf and Night Striker. But I fail to see how well the light gun games will play on consoles. I don't think they'll implement joy-con aiming.

Super Dodge Ball (NES) is better than the arcade original: special moves for every character, more teams, bean ball mode, and it just plays better.

Thanks guys, I've been basically passing on these things, but the announcement of an Out Run one made me raise an eyebrow like the meme woman. I'll think more about it. There is still time and reviews will come eventually.

@mr_benn The thing is a lot of people say that about Astro City Mini and Egret II Mini, yet they are comfortable to play in rather long sessions. But these MyArcade tiny cabinets seem smaller and with the stick and buttons very small and crammed.

But if you have one you know what you're talking about, so I'll take that into consideration. Thanks.

That debut is certainly interesting, but speaking as a mini cabinets buyer, are My Arcade ones even playable? Judging by the pictures alone they look really small and uncomfortable, but I'd appreciate real users' opinions.

I was going to buy the cartridge, but the price doesn't include VAT, which stabs you in the back when you go to checkout. Damn.

I guess they'll end up releasing it digitally, seeing other products they have that have indeed arrived to digital storefronts.

I was under the impression that this was an unreleased sequel. If it's "just" an unreleased port it loses part of the appeal it had for me, but anyway, it's a good fit for Retro-Bit, which has a penchant for Jaleco games and Mega Drive shmups anyway. Fingers crossed.

But is this a new game or just a remaster? With many revivals and the info they give during the production phase it's hard to tell.

Great, at least I'll have the chance of playing the original version of both titles with the upcoming PC releases, after failing to secure the Arcade Memories vol. 2, now impossible to find at the official price.

There is no point in comparing its price to the price of other mini arcade cabinets, it's way bigger, but I agree that Egret II Mini is the best one out there, with the rotating screen and the amount of available and purchasable games.

The Evercade Alpha is another beast, and is compatible with a lot of arcade games we already own. The bezels making the potentially very big screen smaller are the least appealing thing to me, though.

Anyway, I'll wait for a sale, there must be several, this would be the first Evercade product not being price reduced at some point otherwise.

Definitely on my wishlist.

@HammerGalladeBro It shouldn't be either, because Sasuke is a common name in Japanese ninja-related media.

Anyway, I love this kind of releases. I'd never hearf of these games, and certainly I will be buying them with the initial 20% off Ratalaika Games usually release.

I'm positive it will be double priced too, as Mazinger Z, meaning very few people will get it, after complaining about the usual price since the ACA / Arcade Archives series began.

I will use gold points or region swapping to get it, though.

It has been a while since the last major (=popular) release, so it's a welcome addition. Now, let's hope Violent Storm comes too!

@KingMike I assumed that too, because the remake / remaster released with them replaced by wholesome pictures, but in a specialized Telegram channel I read that this is not the case this time. Weird.

Anyway, Sky Shark as a "nostalgic twist"... I don't know. They had 5 games remaining and threw in the only console version of all the Toaplan licenses they have, just as a filler, I think. They didn't need to do that. In fact, they should have released all arcade Toaplan titles in 3 cartridges, but it's not 2020-21 anymore and they learned how to milk their licenses by spreading them in more cartridges than before.

Good thing they put some non-shmup titles here too, we hadn't seen them since Toaplan 1. Don't get me wrong, I love shmups, but like to see other genres too in my collections.

This should have a physical release on cartridge. I don't expect Sega's official support, but there have been cases of homebrew games turned into full physical releases, even though we won't find them on Amazon. But at least there should be a way to get them.

It's a shame, because volume 1 was easy to get, sold out and returned back in stock, and got discounted (that's when I grabbed it), but volume 2, once sold out never returned, and they say they're not going to produce more. So this one has been more limited than the first one or has been more successful somehow, despite including slightly less interesting games. Lacking this one in my collection I don't think I'll be preordering vol. 3, with arguably worse games. Taito should reconsider it and produce more, it's their loss if they don't.

Well, if it's a shooter it shouldn't be so problematic not having an English translation, should it?

Or is it text-heavy?

These releases deserve a physical collection down the line. I'll wait. Worst that can happen is that the titles go on sale sometime.

I do like lesser known for a reason titles when it comes to retro games. This volume, though, is less appealing to me than the second one, which had me on the verge anyway.

But if I would have been able to get a copy of that one, I'd feel compelled to get the third even for completionist reasons.

Problem is that unlike vol. 1, which I grabbed on a sale after some time out of stock, once the 2nd went out of stock didn't come back. It's been several months now. So I guess I'll settle for vol. 1, with games that I know I'll enjoy, especially Pu•Li•Ru•La.

They do need to amp these memories up, of course. They're not cheap and should come with at least a 50% of bangers.

@OorWullie I think it does have some differences, but I wouldn't bet my house on this release including the Japanese version, as a handful of Arcade Archives releases don't for some reason.

Anyway, I literally didn't know about this game until today. Is it any good? Would be a good candidate for my next gold points purchase.

The series is slowly coming again (or for the first time, depending on the title) to the West one way or another, which is great news.

I was there back in 2016, I knew it was probably the only store with reasonable prices in the tourist trap called Akihabara. Friends was a little hard to find, and I ended up not finding anything of my wishlist, but I enjoyed the visit nonetheless. Sad news.

Well, there's the Rare Replay Perfect Dark too. I guess they'll patch it, but as usual its reputation will remain tainted.

Nice! I guess in this case we won't have to worry about the in-game text being in Japanese.

Nice to finally see some love for the arcade line, but 2 cartridges (and I guess that's a wrap in that department to 2024) seems too little after such a long time waiting for it.

Anyway, it's better than nothing, but although I'm really glad to see some gems here that we can't have legally anywhere else, such as Edward Randy or Ghox, I gotta say that most of these games I already own them on Switch (Data East ones specifically, after repeated super discounts in Johnny Turbo's Arcade line) or in the Astro City Minis (standard and V) and Egret II Mini, so there is a lot of overlapping in my case. But... there we have those games not available before that I guess are worth the price of admission.

What I can't fully understand is that they've been linking the release of these two cartridges to the release of the Alpha models themselves... and yet many games are of vertical orientation, and that doesn't quite match with the cabinets' screens features.

In one, glad to know about these releases, but overall it could have been done better.

@LowDefAl I was under the impression, I must have read it somewhere, that those releases usually included the console versions, with a couple exceptions.

Thanks for clarifying it. Well, they definitely should have included them. I'm all about extra content in retro releases.

@Damo I see (but they should have included them, I think some of the M2 Toaplan Arcade Garage do).

Thanks

So the bonus versions and games come behind a paywall, not on disc/cart? Bummer.

@Pillowpants So far it doesn't. It does have save states, auto fire, basic screen filters, bezels (optional) and button remapping.

I'm an early adopter and have been suffering from backlog since the beginning -I already had backlog with all the other systems and very young children at home-, but I love what Evercade brought into the market. I love having the chance to own and try hidden gems and even not that good but somehow interesting games, the big names are already available on multiple other systems.

But I don't appreciate being left behind, and this Alpha naming suggests some kind of hardware which at some point will be the only way that some carts will work. With all the backlog I admit that I've not used the Evercade, nor the Evercade VS, as much as I would've liked, so if now they release a new and vastly enhanced version I will feel compelled to buy it and say goodbye to my current ones. And that's something that I don't like, because it's sad, but I don't want to keep unused systems either.

I've not jumped into the EXP, I stick to the OG handheld, but it seems that if I wanted to do it I should before it's too late. This budget versions also mean that premium ones are not in the cards right now.

If the EXP loses the Capcom games and the HDMI output, what does the VS lose? It's not been clarified, right?

Anyway, I want some cartridge announcements, please!

They also said that these bigger carts can come with more games, that this is better than releasing several volumes, and I totally agree. They started releasing collections with more titles but they seem to have settled in 6 games per cart. I prefer paying a little more but having 10+ games again.

That's more playable than previous releases for non Japanese speakers. To the wishlist it goes.

What about a sale in all their titles? For once. Just saying.

They should have made a Mai amiibo. Definitely my favourite female fighting character.

Why exclusively there and for a so short period? Seems a waste of effort.

Should be available internationally on Amazon.

That's great, I'm looking forward to boot it up. I was expecting another release about the making of of another single game, maybe Prince of Persia, but this is a fully-fledged collection, so I'm really happy.

I agree. As much love the series has received by Sega itself over the years, both with re-releases and Opa-Opa cameos, a third proper entry would be great.

@Westlondonmist Must be the SNES one. The Mega Drive version was the worst one graphically speaking.

I'd like more transparency as for what versions are the other games. Street Racer was on several platforms including 16 and 32 bit systems. Target Renegade was on Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad CPC. The footage doesn't seem to belong to any of those versions. Maybe it's the release of a cancelled version, that wouldn't be the first case in Piko's library.

I love obscure games, I like this cart, but I don't like the fact that this is a 4th volume while bigger companies have had only 1, such as Data East, Jaleco or Irem. It's about time.

Great cart if you ask me. Daze Before Christmas is one of the rarest and therefore most expensive games on the Mega Drive. Plus, the other games aren't half bad.

I've been buying Mega Drive, NES and Game Boy games from them and I gotta say the presentation of the materials is top notch (nothing to do with the cheap feeling Strictly Limited Games releases), although they drastically cut the goodies while mantaining the prices.

Anyway, this might be my first SNES game from Retro-Bit.

I've grown to tolerate and even like these glorified repros, at the end of the day they're official -something that does make a difference to me- and in Retro-Bit's case, I insist, ooze quality.

@Ristar24 No I haven't, the original was too expensive, and I look forward to getting it on Switch, because the Double Dragon Collection has too many games I already have, so it's great that you can pick them individually.

I've owned this cartridge since day one and I have to say -maybe it's my personal bias- that I enjoy discovering games that otherwise would be unknown to me. For me this is the beauty of the Evercade: a mix of well known gems and less known (and probably less good) games. And this cart delivers. Minky Monkey, for example, is a little addictive game in the vein of Donkey Kong Jr.

About Double Dragon: I also like the first one better, and feel like II is like an enhanced version of the first game, even recycling two stages, so it's not new enough to me. The third part is pretty awful. Aside from the microtransactions gimmick, the visuals, animations and story are far worse in my opinion.

I haven't played any Double Dragon on console yet, but people say DDII on the NES is top and III a little better than its arcade counterpart.

One of my favorites hands down, for the sheer quantity of games included but also for the games themselves. I love The Humans, The Way of the Exploding Fists and Tinhead, apart from the already highlighted by the post.

Not one of the 20 games is a legend, but who cares? That's the beauty of the Evercade.

@Steel76 Good thing I was late to get the pack with the 2 games, then. But it's an unforgivable mistake for the asking price of these releases, and it's unbecoming of Retro-Bit.

I own an A500 Mini, but here I must draw the line. I'm happy with Atari 50th The Anniversary Celebration with dozens of games coming from systems so old I can barely enjoy them, but that's history, doesn't take much space and it's way cheaper. But that's me.

I have never sought it on MAME because I knew that without a trackball it wasn't worth it, but didn't know it wasn't actually available anyway.

I hope this opens an opportunity to play it with the Egret II Mini trackball and paddle controller. Would be great if people made it happen.

These interviews are among my favorite pieces here in Time Extension. Congratulations on it and thanks a lot!

I love Irem, the more I know about them the more I want to experience games that I didn't pay attention to back when I was a kid, in no small part due to being a kid with an MSX and a Game Boy, and like many of us bought some random games that not necessarily ended up being the ones that nowadays are considered gems.

Anyway, I love the fact that there is a series of collections of Irem games coming out, not so much the way they're handling them, with so few titles in each volume. Come on!