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That Project Century game that was revealed at the Game Awards looks very promising. I actually wish it was the new 3D Streets of Rage game they're developing. A Yakuza style brawler would be a great direction to take the series.

Ah man ,this is superb news to read. Speedball 2 is one of my all time favourites. I've been asking for a new version for years. I'll hang off for a few weeks or months until it's in better shape. Or ideally , it's announced for Switch or the next console.

Impressive stuff. I never noticed the text saying there's extra parallax scrolling but I spotted it straight away in the video.

It's a game I want to love but it's just too annoyingly difficult. Those damn frogs!

@dmcc0 Ah alright, got you haha. Yeah that's a much cooler title for sure.

@dmcc0 The Japanese one has different fighters or it plays differently? It'll be included with this release, I look forward to playing it.

I'll be getting for sure. My Switch is sorely lacking in boxing games. Punch Out is great but it's not the same as proper boxing.

This looks superb. Hopefully it makes its way to Switch.

When a company treats its customers like LRG does, the only appropriate response should be to never use them. Making excuses for them or praising them for slightly improving in recent times, is not the way to go. The sooner companies like this go under, the better.

The Final Fight remake is due this year according to the Capcom leak from a few years ago.

I wonder at what point they'll stop releasing on the original Switch? They're at 370 now, 500 would be a nice number. Another 2 and a half years. Perhaps they will keep going till end, releasing them alongside Switch 2.

Superb. I was just watching some footage of this the other day and wished it was on Switch.

The video I watched was Evolution of Formula 1 games. Pole Position 1 and 2 really stood out from the other racing games of that era.

I came in here wondering if a game that I absolutely loved as a child but could never remember its name, would be mentioned... and there it is, Firefox F7. I even remember the box.

Caveman was another tabletop game I had and loved.

Great game. I go back to it every now and again, usually after being remembered about it. I think I'll play it over the weekend. I don't think I've even come close to beating it. I start to fall apart on the 3rd or 4th stage.

I really loved this game. Very impressive for its time.

Thanks for posting this. I've just downloaded it and played my first game of Sensible Soccer in almost 30 years. Noticed there's new stadiums and animations to download too. This is just amazing.

I have spent an absolute fortune on games across my 40 odd years of gaming. So in the rare times I want to play something that I can't or don't want to buy, I will do so without feeling in the slightest bit guilty. My conscience is clear. However ,I would never make illegally downloading games my main way of playing.

I can't wait for this to come out. I love the Aleste series. I wish someone would get around to porting the incredible Robo-Aleste, which is still criminally stuck on the MEGA-CD. It's likely only a few thousand have ever played this absolute belter of a shoot em up.

I remember the day well, I had a sore tummy that day. So sore, I was unable to go to school that day, which was a real shame. Fortunately for me, my sore tummy miraculously ceased to exist the moment the Dixons cashier handed me copy of Sonic 2 on that Tuesday morning.

I remember spending many hours playing Pit Fighter on the Megadrive. I knew it wasn't great, far from it in fact, but I had a good time with it. Perhaps the MD port was a little better than the SNES.one?

As bad as these games were at the time, I imagine it would be easy to find ten games on the Eshop that are much worse. You could blindly pick ten random games from Pix Arts enormous library of dross and you'd have a list that tops this one.

I've been considering an Anbernic handheld for a while but I've yet to pull the trigger. Would you say this is the model to go for over the others, or am I perhaps better hanging off for a revised model? They seem to get updated quite often.

@Ambassador_Kong It's Nintendolife not Switchlife.

@Kimimi You are a star for mentioning Robo Aleste. You've just solved a puzzle that has boggled me for a very long time. For many years I've been trying to remember what that excellent 90's vertical shmup involving a flying robot was called. I have asked on forums, searched through lists and even convinced myself that it was a different game. The biggest problem I had it turns out, was thinking I had played it on Saturn or Dreamcast, when in actual fact it was for Mega CD. As soon as I read 'Robo Aleste', I said out loud "That is it, THAT IS IT".

Thank you. Now I really want to play it again.

No Fantasy World Dizzy? That was my favourite one, from what I can remember.

It doesn't say which version of Dizzy they're releasing, Speccy, Amiga or something in between?

My first experience of Turbo Grafx games was on Wii VC,I think I bought most, if not all of them. Absolutely loved Lords of Thunder and Gate of Thunder. It's a shame the latter didn't make it, seems like a glaring omission. I'm sure it'll be hacked in time though, so that's not a problem. Rondo of Blood is my favourite though, superb game. Really tempted to get one.

To be fair, Nintendolife have been running articles on modern retro consoles for several years now. Retro-bit, Polymega etc etc. There will be articles when a new console is revealed, perhaps a hands on as its launch approaches and then finally a review by Damo. Considering how popular retro gaming is with many Nintendo fans and Nintendolifes original crew, plus the age of many of its members, I totally understand why these consoles are covered as well as others like the Neo Geo Mini and Megadrive Mini, despite having nothing to do with Nintendo.

It does seem this Evercade has been getting more coverage than most though and perhaps that is due to some staff being mates with its developers but does it really matter? I'm sure Damo will review it once it's ready and there's no doubt it'll be given an honest review, mates or not. I'm not interested in it myself but it's clearly a passion project rather than something slapped together to make a quick buck. I look forward to see how it reviews!

I wonder what the chances are of 8bitdo or this guy making these controllers compatible with Switch? They would be great for playing SF30th and the AGES games.

@Heavyarms55 Yep download all the way. Considering how the internet speeds are in my area I'm in no position to call for games to be streamed haha

Disappointed there's no Atari Lynx, 3DO or CDi support.

No seriously, I'd really love a machine that could play just Saturn & Dreamcast games,or even better an all in one official SEGA console with a Saturn pad and a Netflix style subscription with all their classics.

Cheers for this,I'll have a read of this later. I owned and loved the 32X. Me and my mate were huge fans of Virtua Racing and Fighter in the arcades so to be able to play both of them at home was an incredible experience. They were pretty decent ports too, Virtua Racing especially. If memory serves me right, I got VR and Star Wars Arcade with it day one and later bought Fighter and Doom. As much as I loved it though I did think at the time, what on earth are SEGA up to.

It might not beat the experience of playing them on original hardware but the portability factor Switch offers as well as the various options Hamster include with their ports means if I had the choice, I'd choose Switch any day.

Is that a Wii U Pro controller with a sticker on it?

Never did play this but always wanted to.I moved over to Holland for work a few months after getting my Gamecube and never took it with me.I didn't get back to playing on it till a coupe of years later and had a lot of catching up to do.Sadly never got round to this.

Great article,I had no idea this existed.

"The Japanese bubble had only just popped and Japanese companies were still flush with cash and no crazy ideas were too crazy. Look at the Sharp X68000 computer system, the Nissan Skyline R32, the Sony Minidisc"

I had a Minidisc player and Hifi and I absolutely loved them.,the sound quality was fantastic.At the time I first got my player I told everyone this was the future,even though I was the only person I ever knew who used them.Still didn't stop me from spending ₤450 on a hi fi that served me well for many years,it seemed to get better with age too.Good to know I was an owner of such niche items,just like the Dreamcast was and the Wii U will be.