Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story Delivers Playable Industry History Next Month

This is so wonderful. I've been a fan of his since Tempest 2000.
I'd urge people to check out all of DE's recent work. I hope they do something like this for John Romero.
Edit: or Treasure. Oh God if they did something like this for Treasure.

I’d only just heard of Jeff Minter within the last few years (what can I say, I’m a sheltered Yank who’s always gravitated toward Japanese games), but after playing Tempest 4000 and the recent Akka Arrh remake, I feel like I missed out on a lot.

Karateka didn’t entice me enough to buy, but I love my Atari 50 and surely want to get this Llamasoft Collection, too.
I hope it gets a physical release! I’m sure LRG will be all over it.

Day 1!

I love you Jeff ❤️

I hope this does decently. Atari 50, and Karateka I doubt lit up sales charts. Looking around online, it's not discussed very much in any major way, and I think only their Ninja Turtles collection (which is also strong) sold a million.

They get such strong reviews but people don't seem to give enough of a hoot because despite players saying otherwise, I never hear them being stuff they look at for nostalgia or how well something has held up today.

Oh my God, March 14! Thought I'd have to wait more months than that. Can't wait to play this. I also wonder if it'll run at higher frame rates on systems that support 90, 120, and higher frames per second....

@frenchtoastplease Karateka I don't think was huge but Atari 50 did pretty well for them I would guess. Without a doubt the best way to play well over 100+ old games and they recently said they're returning to it with free updates and possibly paid dlc (mayyyybe some third party stuff as well).

I think the reason people don't talk about them much is that they focus on the game history more than the game itself. For example, Street Fighter fans will tell you that DE's 30th anniversary collection is the absolute worst way to play these games and that's because they're right. Not that great online and some input lag. I bought it but more so I can just have the games and soundtracks on my Switch (and that it was $5 lol).

And the more recent games (SNK, Atari, and now this) are collections with some decent games here and there but it is mostly a playable history documentary, which I personally love but the wide appeal isn't there.

@IceClimbersMain Yeah! I just don't think people know what the collections are even among the more retro-community. I hope this one at least catches some eyes from the more quirky and weird games from Minter.

Have they addressed the strobing in some cough*most*cough of his games? I wanted to use Iridis Alpha in a panel not so long ago, but couldn’t in case of light-sensitive seizures. There was no off switch for it back in the day - we weren’t nearly as aware of such things then are we are now.

Tried asking Jeff himself if some kind of POKE could have done it, but he couldn’t think how to pull it off.

Do we have a Game list?? Looking forward to it either way!

Showing my age here, but I first played a Jeff Minter game on a friend's VIC-20 in 1982 and yes, it was Gridrunner.

My main concern is that they do a good with the emulation and keep the latency as low as possible. Most of his games are very twitchy, and too much lag would be ruinous.

I wanna touch the Llamas.

Wonder when Atari's going to do physicals of this. Karateka is a bit... sparse, but this is better than Atari50 in some regards. Becasue it's a bunch of stuff that's never been released anywhere else.

@joey302 Yeah, it's near as dammit everything Jeff's done, covering everything he worked on from ZX-81 to Jaguar, as far as Tempest 2000 - he was by far at his most prolific on the C64 - and Gridrunner Remastered. It's all listed on the Digital Eclipse website.

Akka Arrh was sublime to me and gave me a very good look into Jeff Minter's world as well as a nice throwback to a bygone but critical era in gaming. I'm looking forward to this.

@MeloMan great game. I gotta get back in to that.

Genuinely one of my most anticipated releases. Can't remember which of you I was talking to about Batalyx on here before but it is on the collection (went full sadman and slowed the video down when they wizzed through the game launch icons).

As for next, I would love for Psygnosis to get a collection like this but I think that Sony owns the rights to them. Delphine Software would be nice too but again I think there are scattered rights issues there.

I've got to post again about this! I think this will be my favorite release of 2024. Simply can't wait to play, watch, and gush about this release. I'm already planning to get it for Switch and on Steam. Come here March!

@Warioware Psygnosis would be an incredible release along these lines. The team that originally made Worms, and all interactions and other games they made, would be awesome too. Oh, and I would LOVE for Digital Eclipse to get access to all the old obscure Compile games from the 1980s!

I'm so glad this includes a couple of his light synthesizers. I got soooo much enjoyment out of the one for Jaguar CD!

@120frames-please Worms was Team17 as I recall and they are still very much around. I think a lot of people forget or don't know that former Psygnosis staff went on to create Rickstar. I think they are also responsible for the Driver franchise and Wipeout. But, like I said, I'm pretty sure that Sony bought them up along with their back catalogue. Still would be great though.

Another interesting one might be Sensible Software (Cannon Fodder, Wizkid etc). So much potential with these collections. Hell, Nintendo give them some money to do an "unsung classics" collection or something (grumble Star Tropics still exists grumble Pandora's Tower grumble)

@Warioware Yeah, all sounds good. Cannon Fodder would be sweet to have on Switch.
Wipeout 64 happened, so maybe old wipeout games could come to Switch. I still can't believe Sony hasn't released a 120fps wipeout on PS5, and Jumping Flash for PSVR.

@120frames-please there is the Wipeout on PSVR and I think they all run at 60fps out of VR necessity (although I can barely see the letters I am typing so fps doesn't much matter to me).

I am alao curious who currently owns the Commodore 64 games that I think were owned by Commodore Gaming when they appeared on the Wii shop. That would make a good collection too.

@Warioware Yeah, I used to play Omega Collection on PS5 and PSVR 1. It was only 60fps, and I think it is still limited to that frame rate. They finally added a 120fps mode to Gran Tourismo, so it seems like they'd do it for Wipeout...
Yes, there are tons of Amiga and Commodore 64 games that I'd love to see come to Switch. If Digital Eclipse does it, all the better!

@120frames-please yep Amiga too, which kind of brings us back to Psygnosis and Sensible!