My favourite game of all time is coming back!!! Again! Wasn't too keen on the changes made to the console ports but the Amiga original is terrific fun. π
@Fallingshadow The version they ported was the Mega Drive version so here's hoping they have access to the original Amiga version this time and can get the Chupa Chups licencing.
I very much remember this game coming out. I remember it doing pretty well. The impression I get was that it was well made and it had some models doing the voices I think like Jennifer Walcott.
She's not actually wrong when considering the multimedia capabilities of the PSP. The people in the comments of the tweet are the ones who don't seem to know what they're talking about which I find funny. π
Portugal is a lovely country folks. Most of the time the weather is nice and the building architecture is not what you'd find in the UK or US. But I think there's room for Portugal and getting Spider-Man & the X-Men : Arcade's Revenge completed on time. π
One of the main problems as we all know is Japan just was very toxic to the American branch. That's ultimately why Sonic X-treme was never completed. What still baffles me to this day is they were clearly capable of doing a 3D Sonic game as Sonic Jam shows so why not just do more of that? π€
@Sketcz Yes it does look like Bug! which is great as a Bug! as that's a classic platformer game for Saturn but it doesn't fit Sonic well.
@KingMike I mean it was a technically worse console than SMS. I'm not trying to negate the popularity of the NES but it was very overrated compared to what the SMS could do. SMS had more potential but as you've stated was let down by not enough big third party support. What we got however was still incredible.
To be clear I'm also not putting 100% of the ignorance on North America. Nintendo made sure all gamers knew there about their console and nothing else. They created a drone loyalty that still exists today. Japan is guilty of this as well.
My position of being in Europe is actually beneficial because I was able to expose myself to many different regions of gaming, unlike NA and Japan.
@-wc- You know the saying "in America people didn't play video games, they played Nintendo". The success of the NES in America prevented people there experiencing of acknowledging other gaming formats. What's worse is since history is written mostly by Americans the importance of the NES is overrated.
There's nothing wrong with porting games but with new homebrew games it often feels like a lazy excuse to bring the same game to different platforms without taking advantage of the hardware. This isn't what they're talking about as they're talking about whether porting existing commercial games is worth the time.
But yeah if you're going to do a multi-platform release of a 2D game make it take advantage of the hardware otherwise what's the point of having a 2D game on Dreamcast, a 3D format when it's the same game that appeared on Mega Drive?
If Pike had done research she might have realised she wasn't even supposed to exist in the movie! They made BS up like they normally do with these video game movies. π€¦ββοΈ
@PKDuckman Honestly I don't see a difference. Video game movies today are just absolutely boring and STILL don't follow the video games they're based on.
"This loophole allowed not only the creation and release of Bleemcast on a standard CD, but also the Utopia bootdisk and self-booting CD-R copies of Dreamcast games."
Ah, that's why the Dreamcast ultimately failed... π²
@Guru_Larry I wouldn't mind a collection of Bart vs the Space Mutants games but nothing these companies they'd probably leave out the Sega and Amiga versions. π
@PopetheRev28 Small sprites?
@RupeeClock Don't change anything and just add a trigger warning.
@Edd-O I imagine the only thing we'll hear from Damien in regards to the ModRetro is any controversies that's happening with their N64 console, the same as what TE's new found friends the CUPodcast have been doing.
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Re: Feature: It's Tough Out There, So Check Out These Amazing Websites
The ones I recognise here are pretty good. The Retro Hour Podcast are nice people.
@PopetheRev28 Ooooo cheeky. π
@Hexapus I agree with most of these choices but not Rose Tinted Spectrum. I find his whole channel annoying.
Re: This N64 Flash Cart Has A Built-In Screen That Shows Which Game Is Running
April Fools right?
Re: Learning From The End Of i-mode, The "Life Infrastructure" That Revolutionised Japanese 'Keitai' Gaming
@romanista Awesome.
Re: New Analogue 3D Update Is Great News For People Who Use N64 Flash Carts
@N64-ROX Are we not allowed to talk about it I wonder? π€
Re: "My Way Of Giving Back" - Final Fight MD Is Going Open-Source
@PinballBuzzbro Learn how to port a game? That doesn't make sense, he created a game from scratch. π€
Re: This Game Boy Cart Uses ChatGPT To Create "Personalised Scenarios Tailored To Each Player"
Sustainability is the issue, the idea is frankly awesome! π
Re: This Classic Konami Racing Game Just Got A New Lease On Life, Thanks To The Sega Master System
@DanijoEX It was always awesome. Ignorance is mostly because of the NES.
Re: Learning From The End Of i-mode, The "Life Infrastructure" That Revolutionised Japanese 'Keitai' Gaming
Please someone save those games, especially Final Fantasy's.
Re: New Analogue 3D Update Is Great News For People Who Use N64 Flash Carts
I wonder how good the Mod Retro M64 is in comparison? π€
Re: After A Decade Of Attempts, One Of The Hardest PlayStation Platinums Has Finally Been Achieved
@Thad Like getting 100% retro achievements for Lemmings SNES. π
Re: "I Decided To Complete It As A Tribute To Him" - 'Alone In The Dark' Creator's New Genesis Game Comes With Its Own Controller
This is awesome! Here's hoping it takes advantage of the Mega Drive's capabilities. π
Re: Looks Like Zool Is The Latest '90s Mascot To Get A Revival
My favourite game of all time is coming back!!! Again! Wasn't too keen on the changes made to the console ports but the Amiga original is terrific fun. π
@Fallingshadow The version they ported was the Mega Drive version so here's hoping they have access to the original Amiga version this time and can get the Chupa Chups licencing.
Re: This Cybernator-Inspired Amiga Title Could Be Coming To Genesis And Neo Geo
I think this could be ported as it doesn't look that, that demanding. It's great that a quality Amiga game can be developed though.
Re: The ZX Spectrum Classic 'Jetpac' Has Been (Unofficially) Remade
Wow, this looks pretty good!
Re: Classic Cute 'Em Up Series 'Cotton' To Celebrate Its 35th Anniversary With New Japan-Themed Entry
I'm still waiting for the spin-off Polyester universe. π
Re: "Playboy Bunnies Could Never Take Their Shoes Off"
I very much remember this game coming out. I remember it doing pretty well. The impression I get was that it was well made and it had some models doing the voices I think like Jennifer Walcott.
Re: The Company Behind Evercade Just Teased A New Console
Hopefully they won't accidently send me the reveal in an email like with the VS. Also Blaze sort out your Discord! π
Re: Random: The Internet Dunks On Ex-WWE CEO For Claiming PSP Was "The Beginning Of Life On The Go"
She's not actually wrong when considering the multimedia capabilities of the PSP. The people in the comments of the tweet are the ones who don't seem to know what they're talking about which I find funny. π
Re: 'Dragon Quest' And 'Shining' Legend Is Creating A Famicom RPG With Characters "Left Behind" By The Late Yoshitaka Tamaki
There will never be another great tactical RPG like Shining Force. The game perfected the genre (chef's kiss).
Re: "I'd Never Seen My Boss So Angry" - How A Family Holiday Cost A Studio Mortal Kombat & "$40 Million In Royalties"
Portugal is a lovely country folks. Most of the time the weather is nice and the building architecture is not what you'd find in the UK or US. But I think there's room for Portugal and getting Spider-Man & the X-Men : Arcade's Revenge completed on time. π
Re: "This Is Going To Be The Slowest Sonic Game Ever" - Inside The Tortured Development Of Sonic Boom
Having seen the game it looks absolutely fine but it just suffers from being very boring. The co-op element just was explored enough.
@Digglerdig That's a huge generalisation and completely undeserved I feel. It's poor management in places that gave Sega an iffy history.
Re: "This Is A Regret In My Life" - Sonic X-treme Designer On The "Fork In The Road" That Killed Saturn's Most Famous Unreleased Game
One of the main problems as we all know is Japan just was very toxic to the American branch. That's ultimately why Sonic X-treme was never completed. What still baffles me to this day is they were clearly capable of doing a 3D Sonic game as Sonic Jam shows so why not just do more of that? π€
@Sketcz Yes it does look like Bug! which is great as a Bug! as that's a classic platformer game for Saturn but it doesn't fit Sonic well.
Re: "The [NES] Is Not Gonna Go On Forever" - Forget GDC 2026, Take A Trip Back In Time With Recordings From The 1989 Event
@KingMike I mean it was a technically worse console than SMS. I'm not trying to negate the popularity of the NES but it was very overrated compared to what the SMS could do. SMS had more potential but as you've stated was let down by not enough big third party support. What we got however was still incredible.
To be clear I'm also not putting 100% of the ignorance on North America. Nintendo made sure all gamers knew there about their console and nothing else. They created a drone loyalty that still exists today. Japan is guilty of this as well.
My position of being in Europe is actually beneficial because I was able to expose myself to many different regions of gaming, unlike NA and Japan.
Re: "The [NES] Is Not Gonna Go On Forever" - Forget GDC 2026, Take A Trip Back In Time With Recordings From The 1989 Event
@metaphysician That's funny, thanks for the comedy. π€£
Re: "The [NES] Is Not Gonna Go On Forever" - Forget GDC 2026, Take A Trip Back In Time With Recordings From The 1989 Event
@-wc- You know the saying "in America people didn't play video games, they played Nintendo". The success of the NES in America prevented people there experiencing of acknowledging other gaming formats. What's worse is since history is written mostly by Americans the importance of the NES is overrated.
Re: "The [NES] Is Not Gonna Go On Forever" - Forget GDC 2026, Take A Trip Back In Time With Recordings From The 1989 Event
@-wc- Master System, Mega Drive, SNES, Dreamcast, take your pick.
Re: "This Is A Full Circle Moment For Me" - Retro Gamer Veteran Returns To The Mag Full Time, More Than 20 Years After Launching It
I still don't understand why Martyn Carroll was replaced when the magazine was relaunched. π€
Re: "ο»ΏThe Wii Has Been An Incredibly Important System To The History Of Video Games" - RetroAchievements Adds Wii Support
@sbeng135 It does get a bit annoying at times and they certainly have achievements that need to be removed because they're impossible.
Re: "I Still Dream Of This Becoming A Reality" - This Alien Vs. Predator Concept Could Have Resurrected Capcom's Coin-Op Classic
It looks really good actually and hopefully gets picked up one day.
Re: Sega 32X Is Getting An Ambitious Elite-Style Space Exploration Game Called 'SignalFall'
No one appreciates 32X more than Jenovi. I wish him all the best. π
Re: "The [NES] Is Not Gonna Go On Forever" - Forget GDC 2026, Take A Trip Back In Time With Recordings From The 1989 Event
@EarthboundBenjy ...and drowned out better systems.
Re: Time To "Feed The Beast" Inside Your Body, Konami's "3D View" Run 'N Gun Shoot 'Em Up 'Devastators' Is Coming to Consoles
@Lanmanna It means I'm sad. See, πͺ
Re: "I Could Not Give Less Of A S**t If Anyone Else Plays Them" - Developers Behind 'Pointless' Homebrew Ports Defend Their Work
There's nothing wrong with porting games but with new homebrew games it often feels like a lazy excuse to bring the same game to different platforms without taking advantage of the hardware. This isn't what they're talking about as they're talking about whether porting existing commercial games is worth the time.
But yeah if you're going to do a multi-platform release of a 2D game make it take advantage of the hardware otherwise what's the point of having a 2D game on Dreamcast, a 3D format when it's the same game that appeared on Mega Drive?
Re: New Jaleco Arcade Collections Set To Bring 32 Games From The Legendary Japanese Developer To Steam
Extremely welcome. I completely forgot these existed since they weren't on Steam already.
Re: "Is This My NES' Final Form?" - Retro Gamer Shows Off The Most Pimped-Out Nintendo Entertainment System You've Ever Seen
@LowDefAl It does look like it's been locked away, yeah. π
Re: "AI-Coded Slop, No Thanks" - Animal Crossing's Native PC Port Was Made Using Claude Code
@BulkSlash Good points that I was unaware of, thanks. π
Re: Time To "Feed The Beast" Inside Your Body, Konami's "3D View" Run 'N Gun Shoot 'Em Up 'Devastators' Is Coming to Consoles
I miss models on arcade game covers... πͺ
Re: Final Fantasy IX's Animated Series Is Alive, And Currently "In Production"
This could be very good.
Re: "It Does Not Save Time Or Offer Anything Of Value" - Translator Hilltop Isn't A Fan Of AI
I mean it is better than nothing however, saying that people won't do anything to improve upon the translation is very short sighted.
@gojiguy A couple of the guys there are fans of AI.
Re: "We Know People Love It. We Know They Want It" - The Simpsons Showrunner Doesn't Rule Out 'Hit & Run' Remake
@Guru_Larry Ooooo that could be good.
Re: "We Know Trust Is Something You Earn Over Time" - Limited Run Games Reveals "Renewed Fan-First Focus"
@Saki-Endo We can hope. They'll have to call it the 'Extreme Maximum' Collection. π
Re: "We Know Trust Is Something You Earn Over Time" - Limited Run Games Reveals "Renewed Fan-First Focus"
Well they aren't off to a good start with new management considering their new Marvel game collection is missing like half the games people want. π
Re: DOOM Star Says The Movie Was "Probably One Of The Worst Films Ever Made"
If Pike had done research she might have realised she wasn't even supposed to exist in the movie! They made BS up like they normally do with these video game movies. π€¦ββοΈ
@PKDuckman Honestly I don't see a difference. Video game movies today are just absolutely boring and STILL don't follow the video games they're based on.
Re: Bleem Creator Says Sega Was "Thrilled" At PlayStation Games On Dreamcast, But Didn't Want "A Big Legal Battle With Sony"
"This loophole allowed not only the creation and release of Bleemcast on a standard CD, but also the Utopia bootdisk and self-booting CD-R copies of Dreamcast games."
Ah, that's why the Dreamcast ultimately failed... π²
Re: "Crystal Dynamics Should Issue A Partial Refund For Forcing This On Us" - Tomb Raider Remastered's New Outfits Aren't Going Down Well
It's like they made these outfits for the PS1 original graphics, not the new graphics. π€
Re: Xbox 360, PS3 And Nintendo Wii U Are "Officially Retro", Says GameStop
@Anti-Matter Just wanted to say emulation is great, get over it. Sorry, always wanted to say that. π
Re: "It's Been A Long Time Coming" - Mega CD Homebrew Development Kit Hits Major Milestone
We get shovelware today with Sega homebrew, I'm wary that the Mega CD will just be used for similar stuff to the 90's.
Re: "We Know People Love It. We Know They Want It" - The Simpsons Showrunner Doesn't Rule Out 'Hit & Run' Remake
Yeah but what about Road Rage?
@Guru_Larry I wouldn't mind a collection of Bart vs the Space Mutants games but nothing these companies they'd probably leave out the Sega and Amiga versions. π
@PopetheRev28 Small sprites?
@RupeeClock Don't change anything and just add a trigger warning.
Re: "War Is Not A Video Game" - White House Social Media Post Mixing Iran War Footage With Nintendo's 'Wii Sports' Triggers Outcry
@mjparker77 'Peado'? Source?
Re: Analogue 3D Firmware Update v1.2.3 Now Available, And Here's What It Does
@Edd-O I imagine the only thing we'll hear from Damien in regards to the ModRetro is any controversies that's happening with their N64 console, the same as what TE's new found friends the CUPodcast have been doing.