Retro Gaming

[F-ZeroOne]

18 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

You guess correctly. Despite Microsoft's involvement, AFAIK there were really only two sold in the US, a Spectravideo model and a Yamaha one.  The Spectravideo flopped hard, and the Yamaha wasn't even marketed as a computer, it was marketed as a MIDI synth.

Now I think about it though, I suppose an argument could be made that the MSX did succeed in the US, but through a sideways route - that is the various titles that originated elsewhere on the platform but got converted to the NES.

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

Remember the Terminator game for the Sega-CD?  Now imagine a Terminator 2 game in the same fashion:

[davidwhangchoi]

4 hours ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

Remember the Terminator game for the Sega-CD?  Now imagine a Terminator 2 game in the same fashion:

looks great! i came here to post a different retro trailer but this is awesome:

 

 

[davidwhangchoi]

Join March 3rd 3pm PST for a special broadcast: 

 

 

[Hikuro]

On 2/27/2025 at 4:48 PM, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

Remember the Terminator game for the Sega-CD?  Now imagine a Terminator 2 game in the same fashion:

I'm gonna be totally honest, and I've commented to the developer on this as well. But watching this trailer and seeing the gameplay footage reminded me a ton of LJN's Terminator 2 game from back in 1992 just with better graphics and sprite animation. I would rather have a game that was more original with a new storyline of some kind rather than just a retelling of stuff 30 years ago. It's one of the big reasons I enjoyed Resistance so much. I think we could have had a similar style of game like Aliens Infestation on the DS but with the Terminator motif that would have been a lot of fun. Have a 4 member platoon fighting in the war, uncovering the plot of unleashing the T-800 infiltrators into the resistance camps taking out high level targets and plotting the assassination of Connor. Then when all is said and done one of your squad mates ends up being a T-800 itself or something and gets you, then the game ends. 

[JB0]

So this just passed across my screen today: https://www.videogamesage.com/blogs/entry/1132-game-boy-history-made-tonight/

Last year, the first-ever 16-player game of Faceball 2000 was played. With an asterisk because it required a slight modification to the retail release to fix a bug that caused the max playable to be fifteen, but because of that bug we know FOR A FACT that no one has ever done this before.  

(To make a long story short, the developers never tested more than ten players because that was all the GameBoys they had and Nintendo wasn't letting them release their adapter anyways, so they never found a couple of bugs that show up at very high player counts.)

[davidwhangchoi]

Suikoden broadcast in 15 minutes see link above^

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[Valkyrie Hunter D]

On 3/3/2025 at 2:45 PM, davidwhangchoi said:

Suikoden broadcast in 15 minutes see link above^

The remaster really could've been something extraordinary if the content from the Saturn port of Suikoden I was included.  I think it was a wasted opportunity to bring in that exclusive content.

[davidwhangchoi]

3 hours ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

The remaster really could've been something extraordinary if the content from the Saturn port of Suikoden I was included.  I think it was a wasted opportunity to bring in that exclusive content.

i was underwhelmed by the announcement too.

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

30 minutes ago, davidwhangchoi said:

i was underwhelmed by the announcement too.

There is THIS game though:

However, I've been quite wary of Konami ever since they went to the dark side of smart phone games, and I can only imagine the microtransaction bs they will insert in this one.

[davidwhangchoi]

21 hours ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

There is THIS game though:

However, I've been quite wary of Konami ever since they went to the dark side of smart phone games, and I can only imagine the microtransaction bs they will insert in this one.

was of those moments of excitement turned to ehh... when revealed it was for mobile.

[Black Valkyrie]

 

COMPLETE ! 

 

 

 

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

Capcom vs SNK 2 alone is worth the price of admission for me on this collection:

 

[davidwhangchoi]

$1.19, not bad of a price.

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[Hikuro]

21 hours ago, sh9000 said:

 

 

think I had this game as a kid on a floppy disk or disks can't remember. but it does look pretty familiar. course I didn't understand how to play it at all back then. 

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https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/03/earthions-soundtrack-has-surpassed-streets-of-rage-2-to-the-point-that-even-its-unused-songs-are-keepers

 

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

A new Gradius Collection is coming, along with Salamander 3!

[davidwhangchoi]

1 hour ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

A new Gradius Collection is coming, along with Salamander 3!

was talking all morning on shmups discord when it was announced on direct. 

 

though i'm not huge about collector's editions but may get this onc:

https://limitedrungames.com/products/gradius-origins-collectors-edition-switch-ps5-xbox

pre-orders open tomorrow

 

gameplay preview:

 

Edited Thursday at 06:38 PM by davidwhangchoi

[Black Valkyrie]

 

Finally 😃, always wished for a new Salamander/ Life Force game, since its my favorite game of all time. 

 

[mikeszekely]

I'm not super into schmups, but I'll grab it on a Steam sale.

Ironically, I put almost everything I liked in the new Nintendo Direct onto my Steam wishlist.

[davidwhangchoi]

3 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

I'm not super into schmups, but I'll grab it on a Steam sale.

Ironically, I put almost everything I liked in the new Nintendo Direct onto my Steam wishlist.

did you play gradius collection when you had your psp?

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Salamander 3 Prologue:
"Thanks to the brave efforts of Crown Prince Lord British and the hero of the Gradius Army, peace was restored to the watery planet known as Latis. 
However, that peace was short-lived as the seemingly defeated Salamander force regained it's strength and set out to conquer Latis once more.

Meanwhile, the Gradius Army found itself struggling against the Bacterian super weapon known as Dark Force, as the evil empire sought to spread its influence to the far reaches of the galaxy.

With no hope of calling upon their former saviours for help, Latis's imperial princess is forced to personally take the fight to the enemy in an upgraded version of her brother's beloved ship, the Lord British MK-III fighter craft.
She is joined by the Vic Viper Type-L, 
a brand new ship made with Gradius's technology and Latis's latest scientific advances."

 

[mikeszekely]

20 minutes ago, davidwhangchoi said:

did you play gradius collection when you had your psp?

 

No, I've only played a little of the NES and SNES games.

[davidwhangchoi]

pre-ordered Gradius Origins Premium Box off Amazon Japan.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/B0F28WT6QN?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Edited 11 hours ago by davidwhangchoi