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Wow this looks so much better than Aspyr's abomination of a remaster for Deus Ex. Eidos should just scrap that and let Nightdive remaster Deus Ex as well.

@AndorV Ever consider adding Hugo as a bonus character? IIRC back in the day some news sites claimed that he's playable but he's not in the final product.

Also it's worth noting that Atari just announced a remaster of Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee (and a compilation of Barbie games).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZ1-x9Tei4

Hey it's the game Sega copied in the Sonic bonus stages.

ININ should just release an emulated port of the original as an apology.

@HammerGalladeBro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a__4rHXmKJs

And ironically, Shadow the Hedgehog was the last Sonic game he had direct involvement in.

@StyrofoamCup Virtua Racing is available on Switch via Sega Ages though.

As much as I like Ace Driver, I have a feeling that Ace Driver Victory Lap will be out in a couple of months, and it pretty much makes the original game redundant, kinda like Rave Racer to the original Ridge Racer.

I see someone getting 15/15 in the leaderboards but it took them 23 minutes. Hmmm...

@KingMike Yep the first Glory of Heracles game is very experimental. Different weapon types are effective against different types of enemies. It also has a weird save system where only your stats and times are saved, but bosses and treasure chests respawn.

The sequels streamlined the series to be closer to DQ but storytelling got much better thanks to Kazushige Nojima who later went on to write FF7 and and KH. The fourth game is one of the better RPGs on the SNES due to the interesting system where your character can process different NPC characters.

Took me a while to realize that the Japanese Universal has nothing to do with the American Universal.

Oh great, I can't wait for the Zero Fire collection to be released internationally in 2028!

I still don't know why it took them 4 years to release the game outside of Japan, when they only needed to translate the menus. And now there's the cheaper Toaplan Arcade Collection series which took much of the momentum.

I wonder if we'll ever see footage of the tank version of Metal Slug.

I dunno why Drecom is still holding the rights to the Dark Savant trilogy if they're just going to sit on it and not rerelease them. They seem to have zero presence outside of Japan, and more interested in publishing NFT games.

Sucks about the delay, but since the physical version has the full game I'd rather have ININ/SLG include the entire game in the cartridge.

I'm still quite annoyed that LRG released the physical version of Shinobi AOV and it's missing the day 1 update which consists of over half of the game.

@AllieKitsune Cotton and Guardian Force do have significant lag, largely due to the ones from the original game compounding with the emulation. From what I've read though, the ST Boosted range including Batsugun and Wolf Fang have around 5-6 frames of input lag.

It's worth noting that the Saturn version is included in Wolf Fang/Skull Fang S-Tribute Boosted, and it has an extra stage compared to the PS version.

Carpathian Nights Starting Bela Lugosi is getting some stiff competition.

Also it's worth noting Street Smart is already in the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection, alongside some other recent SNK AA games like Touchdown Fever and Bermuda Triangle.

@bring_on_branstons Yep since NG2 Console Archives comes with both variations.

@Zeebor15 It's worth noting though that many backers of Project Phoenix are still upset that the game raised over $1 million on Kickstarter but it wasn't even made outside a poor tech demo. Hiroaki Yura maintained radio silence and naturally people began to suspect the company of diverting funds.

Sega was being extremely petty back in the day, and if Renovation already had the SNES carts produced and sent to reviews then they shouldn't have been cancelled as all. I'm surprised Nintendo back then didn't try to get these game published themselves.

@Teksette Off the top of my head, excluding NGCD games:

Double Dragon
Eightman
Fight Fever
Kabuki Klash
Legend of Success Joe
Matrimelee
Neo Bomberman
Neo Mr Do
Nightmare in the Dark
Panic Bomber
Pochi & Nyaa
Puzzle de Pon
Tecmo World Soccer
Viewpoint
Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer

Since Konami has its own range in AA, maybe they could be convinced to rerelease Bomberman and Kabuki Klash. Sega doesn't participate in AA, so I doubt we'd see a rerelease of Matrimelee and Viewpoint. Other Technos games are on AA but they haven't released on there for a while, and they recently released an independent compilation, so Double Dragon and Voltage Fighter are in limbo.

Several Neo Geo games are available outside of Arcade Archives, including Breakers, Rage of the Dragons, Super Dodgeball, SVC Chaos, Windjammers, and the rest of the Visco games.

Sadly WB is still gatekeeping the Midway back catalogue for some reason. Their last proper collection was on the PS3/360, unless you want to shell out extra for the Lego Dimensions version.

I hope the Goemon collection gets an international release. Or even the rest of the Shottriggers collection.

I hope it would lead to Arcus Odyssey seeing a rerelease next, since it's one of the other RPGs in the Renovation collection for Evercade.

Amazon also owns the Robocop IP now. James Pond 2 has more of a Robocop homage, and its title theme is a riff of the Robocop theme.

@JJtheTexan Yep SLG and other small physical publishers are somehow worse than LRG when it comes to delivering. They also have a habit of releasing a cheap retro compilation initially, then a more complete compilation down the line. They did it with Space Invaders, Turrican, Wonder Boy, and several other.

I'm willing to forgive LRG's shipping shenanigans if the end product is good and complete, but they couldn't even deliver on that front. Their Switch physical Doom collection requires an update of 2 GBs, and Doom Eternal only contains half of the game on the cartridge. Even their recent Switch physical Shinobi Art of Vengeance is missing the day 1 patch, forcing around 5 GBs of download. They could've waited for updates before manufacturing the cartridges, but no they wanted to rush them out of the door thus defeating the purpose of physical collecting.

@Moroboshi876 Most of the Sega Ages games are just adaptations of M2's prior work on the 3DS, and I doubt it would cost them that much to port them to Switch and other consoles. It's really annoying how they are no longer purchasable and two physical collections are stuck in Japan.

Speaking of which, many of their XBLA titles like Daytona USA, Guardian Heroes, Virtua Fighter 2, Virtual On etc are backwards compatible with later Xbox consoles, but they couldn't be arsed to port them to modern consoles with far more processing power.

Not surprising that the Japanese SFC version of Super Goal 2 is not included, since it features a real life football player Takeda Nobuhiro.

Speaking of which, there are two NES and one SNES versions of Bases Loaded left, but I wonder if they can be ported due to the real life licenses. Bases Loaded 3 features Ryne Sandberg and Super Bases Loaded 3 features real players under license from the MLBPA.

@Guru_Larry I did some digging and it's likely. The credits of Devastators didn't name the programmers but did credit Frank Pellegrini and Steve Kaufman, who were the then heads of Konami's American branch, and both of them were also credited in GI Joe. Perhaps Konami's US branch influenced the creation of both games.

I wouldn't exactly call Jaleco a "legendary" publisher lol. Their games are decent and quirky but always seem to lack something to elevate them to the top. They feel like a second rate Data East.

@Guru_Larry It's more of a spiritual predecessor since it came out in 1988 and runs on the same board as Aliens and TMNT, while GI Joe came out in 1992 and runs on the same board as Asterix, Bucky O'Hare, and Cowboys of Moo Mesa as you mentioned.

@AllieKitsune And also with Konami and Technos to bring in the missing games like Kabuki Klash, Neo Bomberman, Panic Bomber, Super Dodgeball, Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer etc. Interesting how their games are available on the main Arcade Archives but not ACA Neo Geo.

Other than that there are a few mahjong and quiz games missing, but since they were never translated I doubt SNK would bother rereleasing them.

I'll probably wait for Final Lap 2 instead. It has everything the first game has, plus four different circuits.

Interesting how the logo has the same art style as the Toaplan collections. Perhaps it uses the same emulator?

Anyways I hope to see some 32-bit games like Desert War and P47 Aces. None of them are on Arcade Archives yet.

That's what the project should've been all along. If I wanted to play the NES MM games with no sprite flickering I'd stick to one of the numerous modern day ports.

I had great fun with Devastators on Game Room back in the day, it feels like an unlicensed Rambo game, and the closest we can get to Konami's GI Joe game.

Speaking of which, there are still several Konami Game Room titles that have yet to appear on Arcade Archives:

Amidar
Blades of Steel
Gyruss
Hyper Crash
Iron Horse
Konami GT
MIA Missing in Action
Main Event
Rack Em Up
Scooter Shooter

Sadly most of the writers back then were boomers who either didn't know anything about video games, or thought that they never progressed beyond Pac-Man. So they often just project their own visions alongside the games' plot, as paying the game developers for advice costs money. Uwe Boll was notorious for this, and uses them to for tax write-offs.

It took a while for the people who played the games as kids to enter the film industry, and now we have the Sonic films which are far better than what we had in the early 2000s.

Meh, I enjoyed the Doom 2005 as a so bad it's good movie. Certainly more than Die Another Day, her debut movie.

@N-MCMXCIX Nice cherry picking. The article certainly do not entertain your motion that the bombing was somehow an Iranian false flag, which you've yet provided any evidence for. Meanwhile your misinformation has already been debunked, and some of the images used as "evidence" turned out to be from a city on the other side of the country.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/3/questions-over-minab-girls-school-strike-as-israel-us-deny-involvement

@N-MCMXCIX LOL sure thing buddy. Does Vietnam ring a bell? They just call it collateral damage of course.

And pretty much all independent investigators agree that the missile came from the US military, albeit because they somehow failed to update their maps due to incompetence.

The opening sewer level in Oblivion is just as annoying IMO

A shame the Saturn version isn't actually included.

@The_Nintendo_Expat Unfortunately it was a later release of the WIn 95 CD that removed the Weezer video for some reason, but the other video Good Times was kept. It also came with Hover and demos for Windows Movie Maker, Magic School Bus, and Pac Man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkKshUOaDIU

@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.