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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.

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.