Capcom Arcade Stadium Physical Features Five Cover Options, But Which Is Your Favourite?

The first one. Nice bright colour, lots of fun and covers a lot of games.

The Arcade Stadium Cover is my favorite

It's truly disgusting that Capcom outsourced this to Legendary ripoff games. Capcom, a multi-billion dollar legacy publisher with hundreds of games under their belt... 🤦‍♂️

I have the full collection already, love it. I've spent a few dozen hours playing it. Superb collection., especially if you love shmups. The 2nd collection is great too, although I've just bought a few individual games from it on sale. I wonder if the collection will include the fantastic border artwork, which normally requires a separate purchase? For $60 I'd hope so.

If I was interested in buying this physical, I'd definitely go for the Ghouls and Ghosts cover.

I wish SEGA had a similar collection.

I liked LRG back in the beginning not so much now, I must admit the Final Fight original art work cover is fantastic and gives me mega nostalgia vibes

Already have this and Vol. 2 digitally, so I can't say I'm inclined to get this, that and given that LGR seems to do questionable work these days just isn't appealing. The stadium cover seems to be the best option for this collection, though I do appreciate the variety of covers offered.

I'd go with the Final Fight cover. But just to check- this physical only includes the 32 games from Volume 1? Or are the titles from Volume 2 on there as well? Wasn't clear to me + I may have missed it

Definitely going to have to grab the Final Fight cover.

I'm not mad, I'm just confused

Original CAS cover for me.

@CammyUnofficial Just the 32 games from Volume 1. And knowing Capcom, they'll collaborate with LRG for a Volume 2.

I’ll take the cover of the one not published by LRG.

I’m biased for Final Fight’s cover, but damn if Captain Commando isn’t enticing

I really like all the other ones, but the standard cover is the best one.

@EVIL-C
with no official release in site through amazon, aside from being well over a year late to the punch, and having already purchased all of these digitally, couldnt be bothered. The cover art looks great though! And if i were to I'd roll with the Captain Comando Varient

I'm torn between the Ghouls 'n Ghosts cover and the Arcade Stadium one. Although if we had a Forgotten Worlds cover, that would have been my number 1, easily.

I've enjoyed dallying in Arcade Stadium vols. 1 and 2 digitally for a few years now, and always wanted these physically for the shelf. Between this and Zen Studios' Williams Pinball physical collections which LRG offered a couple weeks ago, I'd say the publisher is doing good work! I'd prefer regular retail releases, of course, but if this is the only way to get these physical games, I'll take it.

My personal experience with LRG has been fine - they've always followed through on my numerous orders over the years, even if it has been as much as a year's wait at times. But I'm located in the US, so their international service/rates are not an issue for me.

Basically having 5 SKUs for the same exact game is kind of absurd if the only thing that's different is the cover art. They could've just been some kind of timed bonus if they really wanted to hit at that FOMO angle...

I doubt those things are that expensive to mass print relative to everything else going into this.

@EVIL-C I suspect this is one of those situations where maybe LRG approached Capcom and asked if they could get the rights to make physical prints of a title that otherwise would never have gotten a print.

Which on one hand, is exactly the niche LRG and their contemporaries are supposed to fill. But on the other hand, it feeds into the systemic issue where major companies that can afford to do their own "print to orders" will pass the effort and expenses onto a 3rd party and consumers.

@CammyUnofficial
This physical collection is only the 32 games bundled into the original "Capcom Arcade Stadium."

I hope and would expect to see a second physical volume that will contain the 30 games that are part of the "Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium."

I think the standard Arcade Stadium cover is the best for the collection as it's representative of many games, but purely for the artwork, the Ghouls 'n' Ghosts cover is my favorite.

Also I love how they announce this THE DAY AFTER I buy the full collection DLC for both Arcade Stadium games >_>

Will pick this up, hopefully this new collab with Capcom means that Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection will finally get a physical release too, 5 years after its initial release.

Will stick to digital just to spite LRG. I can't with that company.

I like the biscuit one without the marshmallow

I clicked on the "related games" and the "review," is there a way one could see a list of all the games available in this collection? Is there any redundancy with vol. 2?

@VeganH This Wikipedia link has a list of all the games from each collection. There isn't any doubles across the collections but there's a few variations of Street Fighter 2 on there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capcom_Arcade_Stadium

Always loved that Final Fight illustration.

Are both Arcade Stadium 1 and 2 included? Or just the first game?

I’ll stick with the digital version. A great collection of games, and it’s great that there will be a physical copy, but there is no need for me to double dip.

Capcom just recently released a Capcom Arcade Stadium & Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium Bundle 'Code in Box' version. Argos (UK) has it available for £12.99 which seems a really good price for both 😁👍 it contains 2 download codes, one for each bundle.

Here's to hoping since it's such a small footprint and been out forever it won't have the issue that NEOGEO Selections Vol 9 just had, which is a day one 202mb download. Defeats the purpose. Either way, I think I own these collections in at least 2 or 3 formats... but I'm always down to buy it again if it's actually physical.

Would have bought this if it was the full collection.
Absolutely no reason for it to not contain everything in one bundle. Big 👎🏼 from me.

It seems silly to me having a solo game cover for a compilation. What they should have done is had the standard art as the cover but the reverse a choice of a solo.

@OneArmedGiant It is the full collection, what do you think is missing?

@Paulo No, obviously not. Two will be a separate release.

The classic cover is my favorite, but the Captain Commando one is great too!

Wait, this is only Arcade Stadium 1??

Easy skip for me. I already have the digital version, and at $60 it should include both volumes. Perhaps Capcom should have just released a physical edition back when this game originally launched, because then they could have sold that standalone, and then sold Volume 2 as its own separate package, but doing this multiple years after it released? Get outta here! I will never understand why these companies go to LRG to do business several years down the road after a game launches.

The standard cover is nice and probably my second favorite. For me, the best one is Captain Commando. That's basing it purely on being a cover. The standard cover at least communicates it's a compilation.

@jco83 That's fantastic value. I think each download is only around 1.5gb, so £12.99 versus $59.99 should be a no brainier for anyone interested in picking it up.

Here's the link for anyone interested...
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8484460?

@OorWullie you can delete everything after the item number in that link if you want to remove all that guff lol 😁

yeh it seems really good value, according to dekudeals the cheapest they've ever been on eShop is £8.99 for the 1st bundle, and £9.89 for the 2nd bundle. so that's £18.88 combined

@jco83 Fixed it 😎

@OorWullie 😁👍

@OorWullie thank you.

This is much better on Series X (input lag and when it is in the mode where it shows the machine 4k is better overall).

Strider is my favorite, but I’d go with the standard cover. I always thought it was a little strange to have a cover for one game when it’s a collection.

It got physical copies?

@The_Nintendo_Expat Riiiight? What's up with that?

@EVIL-C I agree

@Tempestryke

For better or worse, its a simple case of "Capcom doesn't necessarily want to publish a physical copy for everything". Not if they don't think it will sell enough to be worth it. A third party offering to publish it doesn't necessarily change their mind, since that third party is shouldering the risks rather than Capcom. Plus, that third party might have room in their production schedule where Capcom does not ( without Capcom displacing other items that they view as more important ).

@YANDMAN
Stadium 1 & 2.

It's double the price of most games so you would assume it includes both volumes but no only volume 1 at $60 no thanks not when you can get both volumes here in the UK with a physical box from Argos for peanuts.

I'll probably just get the yellow one with the dragon on the top to match the icon on the menu of my Nintendo Switch.

@wizzgamer The Argos physical release of both only gives you a code in the box so you still have to download all the 64 games. The purpose of buying a physical edition is so you don't have to download anything. This Limited Run Games edition will include all 32 games on the cartridge. Likely they'll announce a physical version for the second one later this year so that all 64 games will be on cartridges.

Definitely nabbing the Ghost n Goblins cover. Hope they do vol. 2 as well.

I hope limited run goes bankrupt. I'm tired of them. I've asked for refunds for everything i had with them.

Can they at least touch up some of the games for some QoL before going gold? Like add faster weapon rotating settings in ECO fighters (CAS2) and Forgotten Worlds? And the ability to start as player 2 on Forgotten Worlds without a 2nd controller present and without starting a 2-player game? How about some motion interpolation on fullscreen? I know no MI is kinda M2’s trademark but still!

That said, Capcom could/should have published this themselves. Instead they turned to the FOMO distributors. Even if the projected sales is lower than the fighting game collections, they have strong enough brand recognition to keep these collections around as an evergreen option (as they should with all their physical collections up to this point). I hope everyone that wants it gets their copies within 4-6 months.

@Serpenterror hmm . . . £120 vs £12.99 . . . that's a tricky decision ! 😂 (joke) 👍

@Serpenterror Were aware 😂😂😂