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@Digglerdig Well, that's disappointing to hear. I was going by the mention of 2D animation, combined with the headline image (which I had thought was a preview of the show's aesthetic).

Wow, this sounds awesome.

I am extremely fortunate to have purchased my new top of the line PC (with 128GB of ram), juuuussssttttt prior to the shortage of ram hit the industry.

Wow, this sounds and looks amazing. I'm thrilled that the series is using traditional animation techniques, as I've never been a fan of the CG animated show / movie aesthetic.

Ridiculous for anyone to dismiss somebody's passion and display of talent as "pointless". Personally, I have no interest in homebrew 1:1 ports to other systems, but just because it's not my jam, that doesn't mean that it's nobody's jam.

I have immense respect for anybody with the coding ability to run games on systems they were never intended for. More power to such folk.

@metaphysician I don't think that LRG's core business model accounts for much of the hatred and ire they receive.

The majority of hate is due to a horrendous lack of quality control, poor customer service, and constant delays to due dates for shipping.

My own peeves with them are trading cards not being included in three of the collector's editions which I ordered (I reached out and was told that the cards would be sent to me. One year later, I reached out again to enquire when the cards would be arriving, only to be told that the company has higher priorities than sending out missing items... That was 6 months ago. I STILL haven't received the cards and doubt I ever will).

The second issue I had was with the collector's editions of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango; both of which had box art which was printed FAR too dark; comically so in the case of Full Throttle, where Ben looks like a silhouette (the company's response to my complaint about this obvious printing error? "There is no fault. It was an artistic decision").

Finally, when ordering said collector's editions, I had a fear of them being damaged during transit, as I'd heard horror stories of LRG using cheap bubble wrap, so I contacted support and asked whether they could ship the games in a cardboard box. They said they could but that it would cost an extra £30! Despite the high cost, I paid the money for peace of mind. Only later did I find out that collector's editions ship in cardboard boxes by standard!

Those are just my three own personal horror stories with the company. Many other people of reported countless others; including infamous cases such as the CD-R scandal, and manufacturing a cart which fries your console).

Given how cheap these retro handhelds are, I wouldn't trust this design not to break after a year of use.

"Blah blah blah."

I guess it's that time of year again; where Limited Fun Games promises to amend their terrible business practices ("this time we double pinky swear, honest").

The sooner they go out of business, the better.

@TonyHoro - It was YOU whom claimed that they didn't have anyone who could read Japanese on their development team, revealing that you hadn't taken the time to do the research yourself.

Yet, you have the audacity to tell me to "take my head out of my ass and do my research", despite the fact that I was merely countering the misinformed argument which you put forth in the first place!

An astounding lack of self-awareness.

Don't bother replying to me any further because I don't like to waste my time on egotistical kumquats like you.

People will hate me for saying this, but the game is grossly overrated. I get it; a lot of people grew up playing the game and have very fond memories of doing so.

It's not a great game though. It's mid.

Rosmaund Pike is wrong in thinking that viewer's were expecting her to be a bombshell and a version of Lara Croft. Her character was an original one, created for the movie. There were zero expectations for her character whatsoever.

There's a typo in this article...

"Linden explains that Bleem president David Herpolsheimer asked him about the idea of porting the emulator to the new console"

@tonyhoro

"1tonyhoro46 mins ago
I do believe that the guys behind Segagaga double-checked everything. They're not just tourists into rom hacking, but they lacked people who had japanese knowledge in their team."

If they didn't have anyone on their team who could read Japanese, then they had no business attempting to "translate" the game in the first place. End of.

This Major Nelson fella looks, quite literally, shady.

@metaphysician

"they want to ensure that they can still tell themselves that being able to draw makes them special."

Uh, what? If somebody is a talented artist, that does make them special. You ought to be aiming your ire towards the plebs who use generative AI to create a picture and think that it means that they're somehow talented.

I don't think that games need to be adapted into movies and TV shows. Sure, there's a financial incentive to do so, but games are their own thing and perfectly capable of telling complex narratives.

I'm a sucker for all things Frogger, and the trailer looks great, so I'll definitely be playing this game sometime soon.

"These machine-based translations are literally poisoning the well."

No, they literally are not, you illiterate kumquat.

Great news, as Rogue Squadron 3D has been busted for years now (on both Windows 10 and 11).

I already have my hand on a super knob in my pocket.

The first game looks so good on Jaguar. It makes one wonder what games the console could have been host to, had it not been a commercial disaster.

Outstanding work!

Lovely stuff.

I don't mean to brag, but I once made it two whole steps before being hit in the game.

Ah, dis is life!

@JJtheTexan I presume that he's busy pretending to have a modicum of artistic talent, generating a bunch of plagiaristic AI slop.

@axelhander - I get it; you're devoid of artistic talent, and you enjoy pretending that you have talent by using AI to generate plagiaristic slop. However, that doesn't make you morally correct, not does it invalidate criticism of generative AI itself.

Did I type Indiana Jones?! I meant to say Back to the Future III (the horse riding level).

In terms of future game nominations; I suggest the first level from the NTSC version of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade for the Genesis (not the PAL Megadrive version, which is slower and therefore easier).

@RupeeClock a that was my first thought too.

Fantastic article. I love reading interviews with the pioneers of the industry.

I have fond memories of visiting Sega World and Alien Wars as a teenager.

@h3s I'm not sure what you mean by patching the game to run on PC. It's an XBox game and as such not designed to run on Windows. One would require the source code to have the game natively run on Windows, hence why the decompilation efforts would allow this.

R.I.P., you legend.

It's sad to see but it seems that traditional arcades just aren't a viable business anymore.

I never really got into the stat gaming cards (though I did dabble with an ex of mine). I do have a complete collection of series 1 for both Garbage Pail Kids and Mars Attacks though.

I owned a copy of Zero Wing for the Megadrive when I was a kid, so was many years ahead of the meme. Good game!

*Arx Fatalis (stupid autocorrect)

I've spent the past 6 years working tirelessly on a creative project, so at the start of the new year, I resolved to finally start playing games again and start working my way through my retro backlog of unplayed games.

Thus far I've completed Outlaws (excellent - 8/10), Arx Fatalism (equally frustrating and outstanding - 8/10), and Veil of Darkness (great concept, poor execution - a high 4/10).

It's the first time I've been playing games for 6 years (despite considering myself a hardcore gamer) and I'm having a blast! The creativity can wait for a few weeks, I reckon. I've earned some downtime.

Worst console of all time? Not as long as the Game.com exists.

Awful company. Just awful.

Neat. I've never noticed this before.

@Arcadia_Official - I believe that it was a wink and a nod to Shenmue's origins, as the game started development on the Saturn (you can watch the prototype footage on YouTube).

Death Craw Super Mansion X

That pitch video looks rough.

This looks fantastic!

@jmbenetti I agree with all of your critiques of the game. The 'member berries were eye-rolling, and the "puzzles" were an absolute joke (not to mention creatively bankrupt. Just how many times did the player have to look up a safe code, or use their knife on an item?!)

Also, the ending was just a repeat of the ending of Monkey Island 2 (despite Gilbert lying for decades, saying that the was a real secret and that nobody had figured it out yet). Oh, and Elaine was way out of character, and the new voice actor for LeChuck was awful.

It's a really bad game and I'm convinced that the majority only praised it because it was made by Ron Gilbert. If the game had been made by some random German developer, then people wouldn't have been so kind.

@Jmbenetti - Oh heavens, yes! Return to Monkey Island was astoundingly awful.