profkross

If I was Namco I would change the site to simplify the groupings of IP, have all their racing games together in one place, and offer companies bulk licensing for a racing themed initiative. And so forth for other genres, like Dark Souls / Code Vein / Elden Ring etc. But then have one 'Legends' category which is Namcos big five, Tekken, Pac Man, Dark Souls etc and put that at the top of the page.

@Teksette I agree, a very well made, hidden gem.

@smoreon Great comment, thank you!

Am I the only one hoping the next episode is leading up to him faking a life threatening illness to get out of this whole situation? That would be so wild... but extremely fitting for this guy.

@Guru_Larry Do you know why the studio hated CEX stores? Werent they specializing in games back during that time and not general used goods?

@Digglerdig I feel sorry for these people, they must live in constant delusion or anxiety.

Surprised Pikachu face. 200 orders * 490 euros = 98,000 euros. Lets assume only 10% go through, thats still 9,800 euros for tanking your reputation, getting a lot of unwanted attention, and basically having to lie your way through the next 4 years as your product doesnt get released. Is it worth it?

@RejectedAng3L The value proposition was huge. Imagine if the original NES could play VHS tapes. It was basically on that level

Some next level trolling / scam baiting here, wonder how this guy has gotten all these publications to cover his stuff if so.

Why would you look at year 2000 reviews for a game from 1996 or 1997? You have to check the print publications as thats all most of us had.

@RadioHedgeFund Hard disagree, Croc actually got a very positive reception for Playstation owners. You might have your numbers skewed due to the nintendo bias at the time. Was it as good as Tomb Raider? Certainly not, but it was a free roaming 3D platformer that complimented Crash very well, and came out before Spyro.

In the pre internet days one or two video game magazines (gamepro, egm etc) were absolutely essential reading if you werent in the biz and wanted to stay updated on new games and tech. Dark times lol.

***** the wii-u.

Thats all.

Isnt FPGA just piggybacking on the work already done on software emulation, and adding a hardware layer to the emulation? Mame already began to offer support for various arcade boards 30 years ago, and surely it took a lot of reverse software engineering to get emulation on many games like Mortal Kombat up to par?

So what im asking is, are these FPGA developers building on the work done by software reverse engineering projects like Mame, or not?

Not a fan of the writer using the word 'steal' here. We all use references and then hopefully attribute those facts to references, and Gemini is already starting to do the same (like chatgpt and bing search started doing last year). Does that mean we are stealing too when doing that?

@Daggot When you play Outrun on a deluxe tilting cabinet it 'clicks'. But for every Outrun, there are many hundreds of arcade games out there that are hardly any different being played in mame with a modern Stick than on a corner store arcade without good working controls. Being content that things are not 100% is important to not get stuck on details. For example how will we ever emulate older electro mechanical games that used flourescent paint? We cant, all we can hope for is some reasonable approximation of the experience from youtube or info about the game and then guess whether the experience was that great to begin with or not. Some of my favorite experiences in gaming was playing Lost World with properly calibrated guns in that deluxe cabinet back in the day. I know that it wasnt a perfect game though, the guns lacked recoil compared to the cabinet nearby (L.A Machine Guns) and sometimes the arcade would be a bit noisy, but the experience was 'good enough'. I dont replay it on mame because I havent found a good light gun replacement yet (Sinden requires you to be too far from your screen). And thats fine, because there are hundreds of other games aside from Outrun Deluxe and Lost World that are worth playing, which didnt require lavish setups.

But more power to you, if you feel its worth re-building the outrun experience as it was intended, its a noble pursuit. But most gamers are just taking the low hanging fruit, and thats ok I think because it keeps a lot of those old games alive. For example Outrun played with a gyroscope / Accelerometer on switch (not sure if its possible but if so I can see it being pretty decent).

@JJtheTexan I think these things are mainly made for collectors, not casual or hardcore gamers that arent collectors. And of course the Japanese market, which being an outsider im not sure I will ever really understand vs a person who grew up in that culture. Guess that would explain the term 'memories' in the cartridge title.

Good old 'hollywood accounting' come soon to a video game near you.

Is it too much to ask just for a cheaper polymega at this point? Yet noones done it :/

@Sketcz My guess is just 'Hollywood Accounting' doing what its always done. Of course theres no proof, and I'm sure for most movie budgets and profits there wont ever be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

@fout21 Im so torn with Retro Games, you get that high from owning and engaging in a more authentic version of the past, but on the other hand by being into retro games you are now inadvertently part of a giant cluster ***** of speculators and scalpers, not to mention you're dealing with old antiques which usually have to be shipped / imported, and arent necessarily guaranteed to be in a working condition for too much longer without some kind of maintenance of upkeep. Then you have the storage space, the baggage (physically, and even mentally) for all this clutter? The convenience of digital technology is becoming ever more appealing by the day

Pretty fascinating stuff... Naka was a coding genius, who also worked on some early console emulators around that time too?

I only use mobygames nowadays for their review section since gamefaqs is quite unreliable and inconsistent. Mobygames have compiled lots of old magazine reviews for large numbers of games in multiple languages, and user reviews sometimes help too.