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It’s the same tree.

In theory these would be great books to have. Very neat way to rally around a classic genre even if gaming and books don’t exactly pair in my brain. I think a magazine format would be a better fit for me

The genre style and period being imitated is right up my alley. I’ll have to look into the games from this dev

Games from outer space, like the rays of the sun to your SNES. Just heavenly.

Theyre calling him cool and he has all these friends.. I think they’re ignoring some facts about skunks here. Nobody’s buying into the idea that skunks are cool and popular..

@sdelfin wolf fang I’d had experience with through the PSP and it’s a great one, but Skull Fang I’d not heard of. I looked at both and it looks like the Saturn version is fairly downgraded from the arcade art. Wolf fang is probably more intact on Saturn but I’ll have to check it out next

There was also a for-mobile reimagined version of Jackal called Jackal Squad, but I’ve not played that

I hope more of these overhead run (or drive) & gun games come through hamster’s wheelhouse. Desert Assault, Gundhara..

@Honkshot that’s awesome

@Sketcz I had a look at that game. May have to try that one out, looks great

Retro racers don’t often hit for me but this looks maybe promising

Take me back, Yuzo.. back to the 1990’s

@Sketcz I love the 8-bit shmups on NES, GB, Game Gear, SMS. So any system can have a good shooting game within its limitations. The SNES wasn’t much of a breeding ground for shmup development so it takes on that comparison with Genesis. Clearly it very well could have had its it’s own flavor of shoot ‘em up

Takes on stuff like this can be wildly inconsistent. Someone can make an unlicensed and unsanctioned fan game and owe the original authority nothing for it, and then further, when it gets negative attention from that authority people get upset it can’t exist. This developer follows the business rules for making a product, but now there’s a take on it that their own vision isn’t sufficient and they owe the original creator some level of input. Some double standards out there it sounds like to me

Love that variant of the PCE. Hadn’t seen that model before. Cute.

Like if Burning Rangers got a PSP update.. very cool

Konami… renewing something?! Don’t get me started, Konami. Got a lot of back-catalogue just sitting there..

Really like the look of this project.

There was a cool looking game for mobile in development, ‘Shining Force Heroes of Light and Darkness’, that got canceled not long ago. The series doesn’t catch many breaks. They should keep the old art style going and give their fans a true Sega gaming classic with a new sequel

May the Genesis live on forever. May my Genesis live on forever 🤞 lol

@PKDuckman good suggestion! It be pretty cool to see Astyanax for NES get a rerelease that’s for sure

Thinking of bare-chested hack n slash games, I wish the PC Engine library would reemerge and we’d get gems like the Legendary Axe. Surely there’s enough interest among involved parties in Japan where it was a hit console

I have a little 8” CRT, but I’d love a tube in this form factor

I have the original MD Everdrive. I’ve been humming about upgrading to the newest version with more bells and whistles

Nobody makes a Sega game like a Sega fan. 30 years ago that would have made zero sense to anybody, now it’s becoming more of a fact than ever

@amongtheworms strikes again! lol

Caught wind of this on from Sega Lord but wasn’t clear on the details.

Yeah, that logo sure left its mark like no other. Seeing it was like the archway to an imaginative world. Still is, sure. Good for that designer even though it was perhaps the least of his impacts within his sphere.

I love the ‘classic platformer’ genre, or as I’ve seen elsewhere, kill-em-ups. Some did go beyond a single screen too. Anyone ever play Irem’s Yoyo’s Puzzle Park?

@KitsuneNight lol well I’m never out of the GB scene for too long, so chances good 👍

I have a couple of the original still in the basement. I did fire it up a few years ago and wasn’t feeling it at the time. I might just dust it off as I’ve had a hankering to play Balloon Kid

I am indeed firmly in the ‘classicvania’ camp. Something looking to gently pull away from that sounds neat for sure.

@Damo that’s fantastic. Will definitely look those patches up 👍

Lawyers have ensured that corporations have a lot of rights. We don’t have any lawyers ensuring that we have a lot of ROMs. Well, game publishers, including Nintendo, don’t have much use for the wealth of ROMs that exists. In fact, the trend in the industry for a while now is that more money has to be made from fewer games than ever. So, what’s happening? Well, if you’re an old video game, rightfully nothing.

I feel like the language barrier has stopped me from exploring these games in the past

Should’ve called it Mr. Pikiddy..

Really neat. Would be very interested in the GBA conversion for play on 3DS

@RetroGames i think for those of us who still run original hardware, this fulfills that feeling that NES support would have felt like a natural move with SNES but didn’t happen. I’ve added these conversions to my SD2Snes and it’s just cool running it on the hardware. It keeps the OG hardware scene active and that’s a good enough reason

@amongtheworms sometimes it’s a break, sometimes it’s a blast..

The hardware design is familiar but refreshing

Cool. I’ll look out for the genesis version demo

I wish I could be around old arcade cabinets but I live in a small town that did away with that type of thing years ago. Now I just read about arcade cabinets on sites like this..

@KitsuneNight their idea is narrow the marketplace to their own channels. They care infinitely more about google search results than preserving old creations. That’s why preservation can never be left to business. They would let all that creative history fade away even if it only magnifies their SEO. It’s crazy, but to their business, their handful of old games for official subscription, is all the public needs to know about old games. And again, that’s crazy. And that’s business.

That’s a lot of ultimate, indeed. Intrigued.

Anbernic really needs to spend more on their button design

Also, I love M2’s Sega themes, especially that Genesis one

I still take my 3DS everywhere, rain or shine, but it’s a dead console. 5 years ago random youngsters were telling me how they used to game on 3DS when they were yet little. I don’t know how many years it’s been since it could connect to public WiFi, but it’s totally alien to the 3DS’ internals at this point. There are many things you can’t take from the 3DS, including how much more pocketable it is compared to Nintendo’s modern range, but the small novelty of that blinking green light isn’t something that’s renewable for me in this day

I would take a rounded screen on a 4:3 display but that’s unhelpful for widescreen content

It has a certain appeal. Look out for reviews maybe in the future on a good sale if it pans out nicely

I wonder how much of an actual archive Namco has over there. Either way, preservation isn’t an agenda to these companies so the next link might be to find a former employee that could shed some light