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@Asaki
Plus, with an official release, we'd never know about "Fighting the Frizzies at 11."

Question 1: Are you sure you're not just Tommy Talarico in disguise?

Video games have a Nintendo problem the same way Rock and Roll has a Beatles problem.

In other words, the only problem is silly people trying to be hip and edgy by pretending they aren't as important or monumentally influential over everything afterwards.

I'm predicting vaporware.

That was a really bad idea to paywall it at first. How are people still this naiive when it comes to working with IP you don't own? Maybe at least run it past a competent attorney? Yes, it's a little bit of a gray area since Patreon subscribers aren't technically paying for the game itself, but as an attorney myself i would have categoricaly advised against it.

Huh. As i clicked on the article, i thought "As long as it's not Vimm's Lair, i don't really care." That's a shame.

Oooh, i like. Going to keep my eye on this thing.

Glad i downloaded it sometime last year or so. Quite a good game and a worthy GA entry. Too bad, but not unexpected.

BLAST CORPS! Finally! I needed an excuse to replay it for the umpteenth time.

And RC Pro-Am is a personal fave. Spent many hours after school playing that way back in 88

@JayJ
Completely agreed. This art is well done, but i prefer the old school. Also, personally i'm not a huge fan of the silver-era 2600 cart releases vs the original black/artwork style.

@KingMike You are correct about the Flashback 2. It is essentially an "actual" 2600 in terms of the programming, and the programmers/designers of that model actually made it so if you open up the system there are spots ready where you can very simply solder a cartridge port to the board.

The first Flashback was the NES on a chip based system as you mentioned, as i believe some of the versions after the 2nd. Eventually they changed to a more "proper" 2600 emulation (which is better, but still off, especially if you're used to the actual system).

I'd like to know if this is FPGA or otherwise, but I'm still probably going to get it regardless.

I highly reccomend the "remastered" versions of these games if you can still find them online (i believe NL did an article about them?). They completely overhaul the experience and are enjoyable to play; they're actully not too bad once the horrible controls and such are no longer an issue.

EDIT: Ahh, i see they are mentioned towards the end of the article. That's what i get for commenting before finishing reading!

His response makes me dislike it even more. Gotta love the modern-day response of "Hey people who don't like this, your feelings are wrong and i have proof!"

Fun fact, nobody wanted a Poochie-fied prince.

I do rather enjoy the Valis series (Syd of Valis in particular is a lot of fun), but these collections are vastly overpriced for what they're offering. Especially when compared to things like the Castlevania or Contra collections.

This ... this seems like their business model was to walk backwards into a way to monetize a RetroArch-style system. Curious.

It really is a genuinely good beat 'em up. Like a lot of people i first checked it out after the AVGN video, but i was very impressed by how good the gameplay actually is — and of course the general cartoon-wacky insanity of the game make it a must-play for fans of the genre. And a comic seems like a no-brainer; i'm surprised no one did it earlier!

Very cool. The NES version is one of my all-time faves (and the only game that i ever speedrun, though we didn't call it that back in the day) and i played a lot of the arcade version when it was briefly in the same pizza place as Double Dragon. We hung out at that pizza place a lot.

I have not played this game, but because of this article, I totally plan on it now.

No.
Unnecessary.
Expensive.
Unnecessary.
Have fun, those of you who want to waste money on this thing
(that is to say, it does appear to be good for what it does, it's just that what it does is so unneeded and a waste unless you want to blow money on it).

Sounds cool, but I am extremely skeptical.

I was expecting this. Good.

The Retro VGS crew should really hang it up now, because no one is going to trust them with anything they attempt in the future after the repeated frauds they were perpetrating.

Ahh, revisionist history is always entertaining.

Especially when half-truths and untruths get perpetuated year after year by ignorant uninformed youngsters who basically just repeat what they've heard over and over.

The landfill was NEVER a mystery. It was well-documented. There were multiple articles about it from the 80s alone that spoke specifically about it. Never a mystery.

ET did not cause the crash. Neither did Pac-Man for the 2600. They've just become the iconic symbols of the crash over the years.

And if anyone genuinely believes ET is the worst game ever, i suggest you check out the literally hundreds of Atari, NES and other 2nd and 3rd gen games (and beyond) that are infinitely worse.

But what do i know. I was only around when it all actually happened. Obviously those who know nothing of the truth but what they've been told by others know better than i do.