Even though it’s not a Nintendo game, we imagine that many of you reading this will be aware that today sees the arrival of Hideo Kojima’s much-hyped epic, Death Stranding – which, according to our friends over at Push Square, is rather good. 10/10 good, in fact.
However, today also sees the release of the Capcom Home Arcade system, Koch Media’s officially-licensed take on the whole ‘micro-console’ concept popularised by the NES and SNES Classic Editions. To celebrate this fact, Koch has created a special launch trailer which shows a father attempting to pass down his love of classic games to his offspring.
Costing a whopping £200, this massive two-player joystick comes pre-loaded with 16 CPS-based arcade titles, including Capcom favourites such as Street Fighter II, Ghouls ‘n Ghosts and Final Fight – all of which will be instantly familiar to those old enough to remember the glory days of the SNES, a console that was well-supported by Capcom back in the day. However, for serious fans, the news that Progear and Aliens vs. Predator are also included – two games which have never been officially available outside of the arcade – is the real draw here.
We reviewed the Capcom Home Arcade last week and said: “while the Capcom Home Arcade is very much a niche proposition, the small sector of the market it's aimed at will absolutely lap it up.”
Let us know if you’re crazy enough to be considering a purchase by posting a comment below.
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Honestly, I'm not interested in this or Death Stranding. lol
That's some cringey advertising.
Death Stranding is the first game since Pokemon Y I’ve pre-ordered. It’s gonna be better than that anyway.
This is gold. I would love this. The twin quality arcade stick alone is worth the money.
I was on the fence about buying this, but after seeing that ad I added 5 to my cart.
It looks amazing, but if I'm being honest with myself I wouldn't play it nearly enough to justify the cost.
Where is the info on the US release. Ugh.
Haha that was a terrible ad. So bad it was kinda fun.
Non-Switch game and non-Nintnedo hardware in 1 article?
I smiled at the end.
A new low for Nintendo Life
I want it... but 16 games just isn’t enough for me at that price.
Do people really hold arcade sticks like that?
@nessisonett Hearing pretty lofty things about DS has me curious enough to purchase it. I can’t not check it out at this point. Getting it next week.
Can’t wait to not buy it!
Remind me again, what does this have to do with "Nintendo"? Death stranding is a PS4 game
This article > https://www.pushsquare.com
Who cares if it's not for Nintendo. I play other systems too. gasp Besides, Death Stranding looks ok but I don't have a PS4. I still want to know if it's a great game or not. Plus, I will never buy this Capcom thing for that amount of money but other people might want to buy it.
I do hope Progear makes its way over to the Switch at some point; possibly after this has made the most money it can using it and AvsP as “exclusives”.
On the subject of Death Stranding, I’ve no intention of buying it as of yet but remain intrigued. Will have to talk to some friends about it plus I have a feeling second hand copies may be available for “rental” in a relatively short time so may pick it up then.
If/when it becomes hackable, I will consider it.
Oh you mean the device that Capcom stole Final Burn Alpha's source code and made the team have to start an offshoot because Capcom are greedy jerks? No thanks, not worth it.
@NotTelevision Some of the ‘negatives’ sound like stuff I’d enjoy tbh, I’m way into Euro Truck Simulator so if it’s basically that but with combat, a mental story and Norman Reedus peeing on the ground, that’s money well spent.
@Xylnox They made a website for Sony games and systems and a website for Nintendo games and systems. (and others) Why should they put an article about a Capcom device and a Sony game on the Nintendo website? That's just weird.
I’d be really interested in this if it had more games on it. 16 is really underwhelming considering the price. Also that advert it terrible.
I like the idea, but I think there’s too few games on it. And frankly, it’s pretty damn ugly...
Hang on, Push Square gave it 10/10? IGN gave it 6.4 or something! That's quite a difference!
Another box popularized by the Nintendo's minis that kill the chances of more games appearing on NSO. There's an irony to that.
@Rect_Pola three quarter of the games on that thing have never been available on a Nintendo platform so they wouldn’t be on NSO anyway.
£200? Yeah righto.
Looks great, but I really don't like the design of the thing itself. I get it, but having the buttons blend in with the machine is just horrible
NL (particularly Damien) get very snotty if you dare mention some of their articles aren't Nintendo based, so be very careful!
They'll claim a loose affiliation between some random Capcom game also being on Switch....
So the guy looks good after 25 years but his girlfriend/wife has become a chubby mom with too much make-up on the face and clothes from my grandma.
That's a strange way to see things Capcom :/
@smashboy2000 Do you have to inject that dang poison into EVERYTHING? Good grief, leave us alone!
@nessisonett Yeah tedium is fine as long as I’m enjoying the environment and atmosphere of the game. There is a certain satisfaction to games that introduce mechanics to make you feel like you are proficient in operating a peculiar type of machine. I get what you are saying there.
I could go either way with Death Stranding, since I did “bounce off” a lot of what Kojima was going for in MGSV. I’ll just have to see.
From what I hear, Death Stranding's review scores are going to vary quite a bit.
I hope they have plans to make Alien vs. Predator available separately at some point. Cool that they were able to license it. I didn't expect that. I wonder what the licensing situation is with Caddilacs and Dinosaurs. I imagine they'd have to get the actual license, and deal with General Motors as well. Could be messy.
I'm not keen on this panel. The design is not my style. I also don't like that it's a two-player panel which is awkward in several ways. Not only does it force two people to stay closer than a typical arcade cabinet would, but just using it with another person can have one player easily interfere with the other, both intentionally and accidentally. I would have preferred a proper console box with two USB arcade sticks, along the lines of the Tatsunoko vs. Capcom sticks. That would change the design from the Capcom logo monstrosity, and they could have put nice artwork on the sticks.
@SwitchedOn_Games The original news story about the Capcom Home Arcade got 250K views, while the review of the unit itself is currently sitting at 39K views. That would suggest that (gasp!) Nintendo fans are interested in it, and (double gasp!) Nintendo fans actually pay attention to stuff that's happening outside of the world of Nintendo itself.
The Capcom Home Arcade is in the same ballpark as the NES/SNES Classic Editions (and the other micro-consoles from Sega, SNK and Konami) that have also all proved to be decent traffic generators for the site. Nintendo fans desire to know about other products that might be of interest to them, so we cover them (as well as the countless other posts, features and reviews we put out that are 100% focused on Nintendo). I've never quite understood why people would go as far as to complain about other interesting content being on the site... if you're not interested, don't click? Like I said, the traffic suggests there are plenty of people who ARE interested in this kind of thing, so I'm assuming you're a vocal minority.
And as for Death Stranding... the reason that's mentioned is because it's today's biggest game release by some margin. I assumed that would be made pretty obvious by the opening paragraph, just as I assumed that most Nintendo fans are aware of what is happening elsewhere in the industry.
@sanderev ya but there's no internet rules saying they can't.
@Damo
And if you don't review it/write about it, you won't receive a free unit either
@NotTelevision What poison ? I just comment what I see and have an opinon on it.
@shonenjump86 tell me about it. I spend 250 and built myself an arcade machine with 10,000 games on it. It's amazing.
I want this so bad despite knowing ill never use it
@Damo Good figures, though doesn't actually mean Nintendo fans viewed it exclusively. I'd imagine a lot of the views just came from general gamers searching for information.
But anyways, I'm definitely interested in the content and I watched your review of it on YT. I think the point I'm making (and have made) is people primarily come here for Nintendo content. If I want multi-platform game news, there's plenty of other places. I'd rather you guys put your efforts into making more Nintendo content personally, but that's just me.
Like I said, can see why you did it from a business POV from the viewing figures
@smashboy2000 That wasn’t me saying anything about poison. Watch out for that stuff though, hear it’s bad for your health.
@SwitchedOn_Games @sanderev @rjejr
If Gamer Network has multi-platform sites, I think articles like this would fit much better over there. This is almost like a pizza site covering pasta because it's also food.
To be fair, Damien isn't the only one who does this so not all the blame is on him. As for all the traffic, I'm guessing a lot of it has to do with curiosity rather than Nintendo fans looking for an article on a Nintendo site that's not really related to Nintendo.
NintendoLife is one of the most comprehensive Nintendo sites I know of on the web so that's why I come here a lot, but that doesn't make unrelated articles any less annoying. They're not a complete turn-off though and of course they can be skipped, and most importantly, they only make up a small minority of the articles covered here.
@DrDaisy To be clear, while we're part of the Gamer Network family, we have zero say in what other sites feature.
And I'm not sure why you view this kind of content as unrelated when Capcom has been supporting Nintendo consoles since the NES and some of the games included on this device got their first home ports on Nintendo systems? Maybe it's an age thing, but for me, the likes of Street Fighter II and Final Fight are forever connected to the SNES in my head, purely because that's the first system I played them on.
@SwitchedOn_Games While I don't doubt that a lot of the traffic came from outside our normal audience, the initial news post had loads and loads of comments, so there's clearly some engagement with our core readership there. And, as editor, my reasons for covering this are editorial, not business-led. I'm a massive Nintendo fan and I'm interested in this product - stands to reason others will be too, and the traffic figures and volume of comments certainly confirm this.
@Damo Cool that's your prerogative. 👍🏻
I love that Nintendolife covers SOME non-Nintendo stuff. It's not like they're covering PS4 and XBox stuff as if fully a multi-platform site with reviews and everything. I like that I can see news specific to Sega, Capcom, SNK, etc, along with indie stuff. Even more if it's classic and retro stuff. I don't think you'd have to stretch far to see how interest would overlap or how it's related to Nintendo in some way, as some of these games were major ports for the SNES. I think the balance of what is covered is rather good here.
Might be interested in this if it gets a bit of a price drop. Absolutely no interest in Death Stranding at all.
Big +1 from me for covering Retro stuff on here. I’d probably check the site a lot less if it disappeared. If it doesn’t interest you, don’t read it. Easy.
This is a day 1,000,000,000 for me!
Release these games digitally on switch Eshop please and thank you
@electrolite77 @sdelfin Thanks guys. Nice to know it's appreciated! 👊
They should fire whoever made that ad and come up with a better one.
@JayJ I liked the ad and the curves on the mom. Both wins in my book.
@DrDaisy My thought is, it's their site, they can do whatever they like.
But I spent some time making that so I'm going to post it when I like. 😁
Hey @Damo, you've got my two thumbs up vote as well. Too bad that there's always a couple of idiots or conspiracy theorists trying to poison the well in articles like these.
Apparently they don't understand that the point of being an independent Nintendo-related site is that you're actually not contractually obligated to exclusively feature Nintendo-related items and articles.
I for one love everything related to retro gaming, regardless of which platform it's on, so this item too is more than welcome, far as I'm concerned. Haters be damned...
Can't wait to get home and play Death Stranding.
Nice joysticks but 200$ is way too much. I can play Super Street Fighter II Turbo Revival in my GBA, so i dont see any reason to pay that much
@Kidfunkadelic83 that’s pretty awesome 👍🏾
I'd buy this just because I'm a sucker for goofy little retro micro consoles and lead an empty life that causes me to spend far too much of my disposable income. Too bad we don't have it in the US.
@Wavey84 25-30 would be great. And it’s like, 4 games on here are already on the Beat em Up Collection. I’m covered with Street Fighter on the Anniversary Collection and while not Arcade perfect, Strider and Ghouls & Ghost work just fine on the Sega Genesis Mini.
@ThanosReXXX
So not liking an article and criticizing it makes someone an idiot who doesn't understand? Well, at least now I know who one of the hardcore drones is.
@DrDaisy Hardcore drones? Seriously? I'd almost think you're new here, but since you're not, it surprises me even more that you don't know any better than that. All I am is a person who says things like they are, without filter. If you feel addressed by that, then no offense, but that's completely on you, and not my fault.
I never said I meant you, or specific people, but it is weird for a logical person to see people whining about an article that they
A. never had to click on or read in the first place, and
B. isn't nearly as out of place on an independent site as some people seem to think.
As I said in the comment that you're reacting to, they aren't under any obligation to exclusively publish Nintendo-related content, and being a member for as long as you have, you should know full well that there has always been a retro department on this site, mentioning all kinds of consoles and games.
Now, if none of that is of interest to you or to your liking, then fair enough, so that's perfectly fine, but why complain about it being on here? Why not simply choose to not read it or not comment, since it's not contributing anything constructive whatsoever, and only breeds negativity.
It's just as useless as commenting on and article about a Nintendo game that you don't like...
@Heavyarms55 ok boomer. /s
@TheAwesomeBowser Wow, that's cute. Okay, I'm the world's only 27 year old Boomer. Right.
I see a huge price drop for this after the Christmas holidays are over.
@rjejr - for many of us Capcom are synonimous with Nintendo. Cant say enough about what hype there was surrounding SF2 on the SNES, Final Fight, the Ghosts & Goblins etc (all exclusives on Nintendo machines for a while). So I think this is fine thinking back on the heritage of both companies
@Heavyarms55 It's sarcasm. That's what /s means.
@TheAwesomeBowser You kids these days and your new fangled shortened thingies!
@ThanosReXXX Thanks man, means a lot 😁
0:28 in vid lol "I asked her to teach me everything she knew." That better be the damn composer of street fighter 2, Yoko Shimomura. Otherwise it's just rewriting history to be feminist at the cost of "toxic masculinity". 1:06 they cucked him in the end. Wow that's just sad, I do pity those who get arrogant from not being challenged, or needing to be narcissists, at the center all the time.
@Damo You're welcome.
200 pounds?!
That thing better be able to play all of the Resident Evil games for that kind of money!
@Heavyarms55 I know. 😁
So long as Barry Harris is sharing the profit he made with all the developers of Final Burn Alpha team equally, all is well.
If he isn't, well that bodes poorly for everyone who put so much work into something that was never meant to be commercially licensed.
I think you'll find £200 is closer to $200 now....
There is no reason this doesn't have at least triple the games besides selling more in the future on a digital shop since it has internet.
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