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We do need more Apogee remasters and port them to consoles too. It's strange that on Switch all we got was Keen Dreams, the weakest Commander Keen game.

@Atariboy I greatly enjoyed the Top Racer Collection, since it's not just a quick ROM dump like the older standalone Qubyte games, but a port that greatly expanded upon the originals, with all tracks unlocked for quick races, plus leaderboards and online multiplayer. There's also a crossover between Top Racer 1 and Horizon Chase, where you can play vehicles from the latter in the former.

@MontyCircus Silpheed, Thexder, and Zanac EX are solid shooters, if you can tolerate the slower processing speed of old Japanese PCs.

Dragon Slayer 4 is another great one, it's the original version of Legacy of the Wizard on the the NES, with some map changes. It's not text heavy at all.

This game is kinda like Cadash...in that the Genesis version is mysteriously missing the extra characters classes.

The original MSX2 version is available digitally on Switch and is rather fun, and has almost zero Japanese text.

@MontyCircus It's likely based on the same versions in the standalone Qubyte Classics releases.

The SNES versions of First Samurai, Gourmet Warriors, Iron Commando, and Legend.
The Genesis versions of Second Samurai, Sword of Sodan, and Water Margin.

Which is unfortunate since several games have superior Amiga versions.

If only LRG could unearth the original version of Saturn Doom which is actually playable, unlike the final version which is just a bad port of PS1 Doom. It still bogs my mind why John Carmack allowed SNES Doom to run on a different engine but not Saturn Doom.

@VeganH Water Margin is actually a bootleg game which took assets from other 16-bit beat em ups like King of Dragons and Streets of Rage. Piko actually took out some of the more egregious elements when they localized the game, like the original intro which ripped off the FF6 theme.

@KingMike There is also an Amiga version but it's quite different, as it plays more like the first game. The Genesis version is closer to a beat em up with some shooting levels.

@RextheSheep I've read some reviews and the new emulator, which is used by the Accolade, Top Racer, and Visco collections, apparently fixed the issues with input lag in the standalone versions.

@mjparker77 And the awful Genesis version of Sword of Sodan. I guess an Amiga emulator is too much work for Qubyte.

@Zoinkity He also worked on an online-focused FPS called Severity during the late 2000s that was eventually cancelled.

Ironically some of his best work in the past decade are the Sigil campaigns for Doom.

The problem is that Romero's heyday has gone past him and for the last decade he mostly worked on mobile phone games. His last big budget game, Empire of Sin, is average at best.

Yep Telenet Japan's games are hit and miss.

@GMMXX No, people were cheering about the Activision purchase because it got rid of Bobby Kotick who fostered a culture of sexual abuse at the company, and pretty much forced every other developer to help with COD. And Sony paying them regularly for timed DLC exclusivity was such an anti-consumer move to begin with.

And as if Sony doesn't have their own problems with AAA development and trying to chase the live service dream, from mismanagement at Bungie to the Concord fiasco, not to mentioning multiple cancelled games recently with a multiplayer focus.

@Deway I don't think they're making money from Windows sales anymore either. IIRC most of the money from Windows actually comes from user data telemetry.

@OnePointZero I got mine from Amazon a few years ago but I'm not sure if it's still being sold there.

I was told that ININ which distributed the console in the West ran into financial issues and it sold below expectations.

@RootsGenoa They've been out since the beginning of this year.

What Arcade Archives is missing are the Taito F3 games, which are included in the Egret Mini and the old Taito Legends collections.

@no_donatello That has more to do with market changes during the 2010s, where the bigger publishers like Capcom and Konami all tried to Westernize themselves by giving their IPs to Western publishers. Pretty much all AAA JRPGs not from Square Enix vanished. MS's efforts in developing Lost Odyssey didn't work out to financial success, and even with a few successes like Tales of Vesperia, many Japanese gamers simply sold the console once they finished the game.

Is this really a Xbox issue, or an industry issue? Over the last gen we have seen increased game prices, growing dependence on DLC and microtransactions, increased casualization, and dependence on AI, all in the name of chasing greater profits to the degree that a game need multi-millions in sales just to break even.

Even Sony isn't immune to this. Last gen they started copying MS and began charging for online, and blocked crossplay in multiplayer games until users revolted. And now the suits admitted that they're more interested in chasing monthly active users than actual sales, explaining their recent trend chasing of GAAS including Marathon and Concord, which most of their player base did not ask for.

TBH the Google Play store is really bad with preservation. I've had several delisted games outright disappearing from my downloads list, like Ridiculous Fishing, despite paying money for it.

Just noting that the delisted versions are the Dotemu ports from 2015, which some people prefer due to having training mode and online multiplayer.

Hamster just dropped an English trailer complete with ESRB ratings. I assume since Macross 2 is not canon, it's not affected by the licensing issues.

https://youtu.be/1_ImfWmr-3s

I also hope to see Macross Plus later. It's MOSS's first shmup and laid lots of groundwork for the newer Raiden games.

Kinda strange that Hamster chose to skip the original arcade Air Combat.

@Kushan Yep. I don't why the devs even wasted money on his image when most Terminator fans don't know who he is, and his SA allegations could easily bring bad publicity.

@slider1983 The funny thing is, the theme of the Life Force movie was ripped off by the composer of the first Baldur's Gate.

https://youtu.be/EsV7TuNMr5M
https://youtu.be/Q5xyTZTlrXM

I'm pretty sure it will come to the Switch, since I don't recall Ratalaika doing any console exclusives.

@Blast16 I checked a few minutes ago and there are close to 30 ongoing games for Oriental Legends and Knights of Valour Plus. It's worth noting that the servers are hosted in mainland Chinese cities so unless IGS wants to implement servers elsewhere, you'd be facing significant lag.

Good thing is that the devs eventually re-added the 4:3 display options, since the original release has forced widescreen.

And I was surprised to find that multiplayer is incredibly popular for a bunch of 90s arcade games. You'd have no problems finding an online game of Oriental Legend.

Hamster is taking its sweet time unfortunately, since the 8-bit titles are far easier to port than 16-bit ones, and they also want to push out the ones from companies they bought such as NMK and UPL.

I'm still waiting for the rest of Konami's titles from the Mystic Warriors hardware, such as Violent Storm, Monster Maulers, and Gaiapolis.

Sega should just ported the the old Model 2 games on XBLA to modern systems.

@Kurokage Good news the PAL versions are coming in an update

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/06/gex-trilogy-adding-pal-versions-and-voices-in-its-next-update#comments

Nice. Fingers crossed for Astyanax and Shatterhand.

@kitestar Oh I remember he also drives the flying car from Turbo Force. And another team comes from the game Karate Blazers.

If you like Cabal clones like Dynamite Duke and Nam 1975, I also recommend Riot which is also on Arcade Archives. It starts off luke a military shooter but soon you start fighting wizards and creatures straight out of a Doctor Strange comic.

@firenze Sorry but what you're claiming are a bunch of false analogies and whataboutisms. MBS having a minority stake in Nintendo is far different from a 90% control in SNK. Furthermore, the difference between Misk Foundation and Tencent is that the former is directly owned by the ruler of Saudi Arabia through his NGO, whereas the latter is a public company in China that, like any other companies there, follow Chinese law. Using your logic, does that make Activision and EA extensions of the US government because they also follow US law, pay taxes, and have former politicians as lobbyists?

While there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, it doesn't mean people should complete ignore problematic direct ties between media and atrocities.

It's worth noting that as of 2025, pretty much all of the games besides AVP are available via cheaper options, whether Capcom Arcade Stadium, Capcom Beat Em Up Bundle, or Capcom Fighting Collection.

Hopefully this will lead to a Midway collection next in the style of Atari 50. Or even a Konami Animaniacs/Tony Toons collections akin to TMNT Cowabunga Collection.

Sigh, there are so many better Jaleco NES games they could've picked, like Whomp Em, Shatterhand, or Astyanax.

@Fighting_Game_Loser I assume Bandai Namco wants to charge more for their 32-bit games, and Nebulas Ray is one.

There is also a sequel that plays more like Capcom's Commando. Sadly it's being sold in Edia's overpriced compilation instead.

@XiaoShao Konami's 80s arcade game posters are just crazy. They used real life models with little connection to the game in question. Even Ripley from the Aliens game is a random blonde.

https://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.com/2013/05/konamis-arcade-flyers-1986-86.html

LRG should just focus on standard releases for current consoles. They're just wasting resources focusing on retro consoles and the extras for collectors editions, particularly in this economy.

And the best news is that Outfoxies runs on Namco's NB-2 board with similar specs. Hopefully this opens the gates to more 32-bit, 90s arcade game ports.

I just hope it's not another series of Nintendo VS games. Most of them are on the Namco Museum Archives already.

I'm assuming it's Super Xevious and Super World Court. The previously announced Macross 2 is also likely since Bandai Namco is also distributing Banpresto arcade games.

@KingMike I just hope they get a translation patch eventually. Interestingly the NES version of Sugoro Quest was rereleased by Ratalaika and it did get an English translation plus updated graphics.

I just bought the digital version on Switch, and it's good so far. It uses the same interface as the first collection of Kunio/Double Dragon NES games.

The annoying thing is that two of the SNES games aren't translated into English for some reason. It's also missing a few games like the other SNES Kunio beat em up, which is translated as River City Girls zero and has to be purchased separately. It's also missing two Technos Neogeo games, Double Dragon 1995 (based on the movie) and Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer.

@SlangWon Keep telling yourself that. Meanwhile South Korea and Japan already made a trade deal with China in response to Trump's tariffs. Meanwhile Trump's first term tariffs failed to stop countries from increasing their trade with China.

Do you still believe that manufacturing jobs are going back to the USA? Analysis has found that an US producers iPhone would triple the price.

@Crecca Suggesting that Chinese products are knockoffs by default IS xenophobia. Pretty much all reviews of Ambernic's products are positive. Come back when a Western company offers anything similar at the same price, instead of trying to rip off their own customers by claiming that they don't own digital content they bought.

@Zeebor15 Riiight because Sony totally doesn't censor video games like Martha is Dead and several indie games that Xbox and Switch allows through uncensored.

The cancellation sucks but is somewhat understandable. Some of the cutscenes especially on the original Japanese PC versions borderline on eroticized sexual assault.

A game so obscure that Gamefaqs doesn't even have an entry for it haha.