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@The_Nintendo_Expat Same here, except it was with Hellbender which came with the Windows 95 installation CD. I played the hell out of it and convinced my dad to buy the full game for me.

If only we can get remasters of the sequels Fury 3 and Hellbender.

Wow an AA Neo Geo game! The last one was Samurai Shodown 5 Special released back in April 2019.

Also for Console Archives we're getting another Video System game, Sonic Wings Special for PS1.

@mjparker77 Sadly Embracer owns both Aspyr and what's left of Eidos. They'd rather hand the game to a subpar internal studio than pay extra to Nighdive, which is owned by Atari.

About time! Now if only Nighdive can fix up Kingpin's atrocious port by Slipgate Ironworks.

TBH if you have the Switch, you're better off with the SNES version from NSO. It has even more content than the NES version.

If only we get the Parodius games on AA.

And sadly the 360 version, Raiden Fighter Aces, was never released physically in EU territories.

Raiden Legacy is another option if you want a cheaper option for casual play.

Ahh the good old Devil Rays, before they changed their name because some religious people complained. Even though it's named after a fish.

Do you expect anything else from Forever Entertainment? Their two House of the Dead remakes and three Front Mission remakes are equally panned. And most of their assets are either from the Unity store or AI Generated.

I regularly buy and sell games at their Australian counterpart. I just hope they can survive.

Backing the day, Game had an Australian branch and they assured me that the UK counterpart's bankruptcy won't affect them. A few months later the Australian branch closed.

No news about the English localization of the Flying Shark and Zero Fire collections?

Ugh it's expensive enough already on Switch, and most of the games are Japanese-only. I'm not paying any extra unless D4 is willing to fully translate the games or license a fan translation.

I'm still waiting for a port of Dragon's Crown, Muramasa, Odin Sphere to modern platforms like PC or Switch 2. I don't know what's taking Vanillaware so long after the Grim Grimoire remaster.

I just wish that Motion Twin stuck to pixel art. I was spoiled last year with the detailed 2D art of Ninja Gaiden Ragebound and Shinobi Art of Vengeance.

@belmont Yeah Hamster's release platforms are rather random:

AA Neo Geo: PC, NS, PS4, XB1
AA2 Neo Geo: PS5, XBS
AA: NS, PS4
AA2: NS2, PS5, XBS
CA: NS2, PS5

Is there any point of buying Ridge Racer now, considering that it's double the price of the average game on AA? From what I've read, Rave Racer has all of the features of Ridge Racer, plus multiplayer, more courses, and better controls.

@Zeebor15 I just got the Super Bomberman Collection, and it was developers by Red Art Games.

You mean Western-style ones in the vein of Eye of the Beholder? Because it remained popular on consoles with the likes of Etrian Odyssey and its derivatives, although they have far more RPG elements.

@Arcadia_Official Seems the Hamster decided to skip the XB1 altogether. Arcade Archives 2 games for PS5, Switch 2, and XBS, whereas Arcade Archives 1 games are for PS4 and Switch 1 only.

Finally AA is getting to the sprite scaling games. There's still the Chase HQ series, Aqua Jack, Continental Circus, Double Axle and several others.

Time for whoever owns the rights to the 20th Anniversary World Tour to update it, and include the missing episodes like Duke Caribbean, alongside the N64 and PS1 versions.

The PSP was also very popular in East Asian countries back in the day, but as hacked devices, and its multimedia capabilities were unprecedented until the iPhone surpassed it.

In Australia for instance, the DS was way more popular, but the PSP was super common among the international students I studied with.

I pissed myself laughing in the first game, when you give a book about friendship to one of the teachers, and one of the little boys claims that the best way to make friends is to "beat them up until they agree to be your friend". He's definitely going places.

Sigh, looks like Konami isn't going to release volume 2 of Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection.

@Sn0w Just because Prager U said so doesn't mean it's true. Capitalism is simply a means of production. It didn't create the technologies you mentioned, it merely determines who gets paid in the end. Which is why technological development still happened under feudalism, as well as the USSR which had embarked on its own space program.

And please learn the difference between personal property and private property.

Yeah right. I know why GW really banned AI - to stop the Men of Iron from rebelling against humanity.

@h3s Super Street Fighter 4 has a not very obvious option to turn off 3D altogether and play at 60 FPS.

@slider1983 I know right? And even many more are locked behind the 3DS series which are no longer available legally, and two physical collections are Japan exclusive.

@OorWullie That was me XD

@Teksette Yeah seems like the Namco's 32-bit games such as Air Combat, Mach Breakers, Nebulas Ray, Ridge Racer etc are all double the price of a standard AA game.

Had Arcade 1UP produced mini arcades similar to the Astro City and Egret 2 Minis, I would have bought a few.

Let's hope for Outfoxies, the Smash Bros before Smash Bros.

Yawn. These are still the poorly emulated and laggy versions also found on Switch.

@Teksette I was hoping for some Taito F3 games, including Kaiser Knuckle you mentioned earlier. Especially considering that Hamster is digging into 32-bit Namco games like Mach Breakers and Nebulas Ray. I guess we have to wait another year.

Speaking of which, Bubble Symphony was rereleased recently, but It's an emulation of the Saturn version locked behind a bundle with Bubble Bobble Sugar Dungeons.

We are also getting Taito's Arkanoid, Cameltry, and Syvalion next year, appearing on Taito Milestones 4 first then the individual AA releases.

@JJtheTexan You got a few right. The full list just got revealed.

https://www.youtube.com/live/SYMhHIgs-Rw

*Water Ski
*Field Day
*Typhoon Gal
*Arkanoid
*Bonze Adventure
*Kuri Kinton
*Syvalion
*Don Doko Don
*Cameltry
*Ninja Kids

I don't know why Atari is still gatekeeping the Blood source code. The game is nearly 30 years old and Monolith Productions is no longer in business.

@mjparker77 I want those too, but for some reason Hamster is avoiding the sprite scaling and 32-bit F3 games like the plague. M2 on the other hand ported the Darius and Ray games, alongside Operation Wolf and Night Striker.

Speaking of which, I've heard that Capcom wanted Dr Doom in Marvel Superheroes vs Street Fighter, but Acclaim also had exclusive rights for the Fantastic Four characters for their trashy 1997 video game.

That's nothing. As late as 2000 Baldur's Gate 2 has a manual the size of some textbooks.

TBH the secret character Hyper Armor War Machine is Iron Man in all but name.

@Sketcz Wow I didn't know you wrote the HG101 article! I regularly visit the website and actually got the game because of it.

Sadly my Xbox 360 is Australian so I'm still trying to get it working via alternate means. I'm roughly half way through the game. I had a rough started but I'm slowly grasping the game now. I completely missed the special reports unfortunately.

@Sketcz Yeah OD is a hidden gem especially if you're a tactics game fan, and don't mind the lack of hand holding as well as having drawn out battles.

It still boggles my mind why it got 46 at Metacritic. It's not as polished as Valkyria Chronicles but it's also not unplayable.

RIP Rebecca. Like most people I know of her through her work on Doom 3DO, and making it playable in spite of the CEO's ludicrous demands and utter lack of computing knowledge. He actually thought that you can get Doom's source code by purchasing a retail PC copy, and that you can also add new monsters into the game from simple image files. The only good thing that came out of his incompetence is the instrumental soundtrack, because he couldn't figure out how to add MIDI audio.

What about the superior Amiga Power?

I remember playing this on the Xbox 360's Game Room service and it was quite fun.

Speaking of which, there are still some games from Game Room which aren't on Arcade Archives, including Devastators, Konami GT, Missing in Action, The Main Event, and Special Project Y.

It's worth noting that if you have a Switch, the remakes of SB 1 and 2 contain the original arcade games.

@Zeebor15 Technically Ukrainian-Japanese, since Kogan spent most of his life in Japan.

He also had quite an interesting life, being an adventurer and businessman in China during the Japanese occupation, where he helped to formulate an ultimately unsuccessful plan to resettle Jewish refugees across China and the rest of the Japanese Empire.

A word of warning though. These games are ported by D4, and while their TG-16 emulation is mixed to decent, their Genesis emulation is known to be terrible due to audio sync issues.