BionicDodo

This actually looks great. I'm really hoping for a NGPC Collection Vol.2 release. Also really hoping they can do a deal with Sega to get Sonic on there.

I have noticed that there is a lot of crossover between games released on Evercade and the non-Nintendo developed Switch Online NES/SNES games. I guess some license holders are willing to license out their games to all comers and don't charge too much.

I understand why Ms. Pac-Man is missing, but why they chose the original CE over CE DX+ is beyond me. That's my favourite Pac game by far.

People keep making the 'folde.. er.. groups' jokes, but there is a reason they're not called folders. You can't really put something into multiple folders, but you can include things in more than one group. As games can go into as many groups as you like here, the name makes perfect sense to me.

Is it perfect? No, but it's a huge step forwards. The main feature I'd like to see added is the ability to open the Groups page by pressing L on the home screen.

I wonder if they have to pay licensing to Williams (makers of the original table), Paramount Pictures (owners of the original films), Disney (owners of the franchise) and also Harrison Ford. If so, that is a lot of licensing to pay.

I'm on a (self imposed) game buying ban at the moment and had decided that this table would be an exception... until I saw the price. Really want it, but will definitely wait for a sale. The value compared to the Aliens, Star Wars and Universal Movie Classics packs is just not there.

I never got this back in the day as it always looked a bit sparse to me, but when I picked it up years later I was shocked at how much fun I had with it. GX is still a beautiful game even now, but I think I may actually prefer playing X.

@mike_intv Their marketing has confused me from the start. Are they showing that just to remind people of the games that used light guns and that can be played in emulators? Or because you can put that game disc in a PC and play it on an emulator using the gun? Because they're going to add support for Polymega? Who knows?!

@mike_intv It works on Windows and Linux, so I assume most of his videos and screenshots are of games running in emulators on a PC.

I had been debating dropping the cash on one of these (and they're not exactly cheap) but I've seen several reviews recently that said the lag is an issue. If you make the reticle visible and can see it moving across the screen after you've pointed the gun at the opposite side of the TV then it's closer to a Wiimote than an original light gun. For £85 I think I'd like to try before I buy, but no one I know other than me will ever buy one!

@HeadPirate I referrenced Rare Replay as a title that I thought would be popular on Switch. It's not something I care about seeing personally as I own it for Xbox One. I didn't know about it being in development for Wii U, but if it was I'm surprised they didn't move it over to Switch. I'm sure if Microsoft wanted that done they could ask another studio to help out if Rare were busy. How much is a lot of support from a company like Microsoft is subjective. We clearly don't agree so there's little point in wasting so many words going back and forth on it.

@HeadPirate How do you know what does or doesn't appeal to me? That's an odd comment as I happen to be a fan of the Ori games. Minecraft I'd say is something of a special case as it was agreed when they bought it that it would be kept multiplatform and is available on every format imagineable. Otherwise, I'd say that Microsoft releasing anything that wasn't already in development when they bought the studio is surprising, so in that context their support is impressive, but overall I'd still call it fairly limited for a company that owned double figures studios even before they bought Obsidian and Zenimax.

@fenlix The vast majority is something of an exaggeration. 22 of the 30 games are emulations of N64 and earlier hardware. I take your point that the Xbox 360 games would have taken a lot more effort than was required for Xbox One, but I'm sure they'd have been doable too.

@HeadPirate I'm aware that Microsoft has shown some limited support for the Switch, but I still don't think it is a big priority for them and think that a niche game that is a pain to port would be seen as a waste of effort for Switch where they might make the extra effort for Xbox as they need to be seen to support all genres and gamers on their own platform to make sure it is the platform of choice for as many gamers as possible. That said, I agree that if a studio struggles developing for a platform they're highly likely to gloss over that fact in a press release. Let's be honest though, if Microsoft were all in on Switch support they'd have ported Rare Replay by now.

Given that they're part of Xbox Game Studios, I can't imagine there's much desire to spend a lot of time and resources getting round issues with projects on non-Microsoft devices, even if it was just in supporting another dev who was doing the porting. So this news isn't exactly surprising. I assumed it had been cancelled years ago.

@Duncanballs Just been reading a review that says they're a bit on the laggy side too, so definitely not willing to put up big money for one.

@Duncanballs Thanks for the heads up, but I've been considering one of those for a while. Shame it's Windows/Linux only. Also, the reason I mentioned wanting a cheap solution is that the £160 required for two of those is a bit out of my price range right now. £260 if you want recoil. I'd buy them without a thought at £50 each, but I understand that their costs must be very high right now. I'm sure I'll buy one soon anyway and then get a second down the line.

Gyro is a pretty poor substitute for a proper old school light gun for me. Shame they never nailed a cheap way to do that properly on LCD TVs. The best solution I can think of right now would be VR and a motion controller, as Pistol Whip was brilliant.

@Spider-Kev Haha, I've actually always rather liked reading through comments sections filled with references to something that has since been edited!

After several attempts to hit the NSO icon with my toe my Switch fell off the table and broke. All Nintendo's fault.

I will definitely be getting this, but it's such a shame that the DX+ version of Championship Edition isn't included. I would love to have that on Switch. Thankfully I'll at least be able to play it on Steam Deck soon.

@HamatoYoshi I'm not sure if mine has been dispatched or not. I've had about five emails from them, including the link to the digital version, so if it hasn't been dispatched then it surely will be today.

@HamatoYoshi "I literally can't wait for this to be delivered"

I now have an image of you (not that I know what you look like!) using a tracking link/GPS location to try and catch the delivery van early on its route to try and claim your book early!

Good to see KOF XV made the top 10. I've been enjoying it so far. But then I love SNK fighting games..

I've never really been a fan of FIFA games, but I'm intrigued to see how this plays out. Are EA genuinely ready to dump the license or is this all a game of chicken to try and see who swerves first?

@WiteWulf 'Atari' are... odd. Can't see Jeff working with them again.

@Mando44646 To be fair, Liam over at Push Square says he doesn't think it's any easier or more welcoming to newcomers than their previous games!

@PharoneTheGnome I believe the dev Jeff Minter wanted it to have PSVR support (all of his other PS4 games support it) but Atari thought it wasn't worth the extra development cost.

@Mando44646 According to Yasuhiro Kitao, the game's producer:

"[Elden Ring] is the perfect title for those who have been interested in our games in the past but who have been put off by concerns about the games being too difficult"

Edit: I get that you weren't just saying that you don't like their games as they're too hard, but it sounds from this, and other things I've read, that this one has a different approach to the challenge and frustration.

@AG_Awesome This being Atari I expect it will be the same £24.99 as the PS4 version. Unless they add a Switch tax! The PS4 version is currently £12.49, which is one of the only times I've ever seen it on sale (digital that is, it's always around £9.99 on disc).

@mike_intv I believe Jeff openly criticised Atari for their pricing of Tempest 4000. Think he said they priced it £10 more than he thought they should, or something like that.

Well this came out of the blue (given how long ago it released on other formats). I love Jeff Minter games and buy them all, so this too will be mine on Switch, even though I have it on PS4.

@Magician If I'm not misremembering, Jeff and Atari got into a row over TxK (for being so close to Tempest) and they eventually agreed to leave the game be if he agreed to make Tempest 4000 for them.

I would love another NGPC collection, but I'm not sure it would work without some of these Japanese exclusives being included. Might need to do some negotiating with other companies too, as you'd at least want Sonic in there.

It's funny how I was playing Vampire Chronicle on Dreamcast yesterday and then Capcom went and announced a Darkstalkers release for the first time in nearly 10 years! A very happy coincidence.

Given it's essentially just a decent spec pc in portable form, of course it can run Dolphin. If you want you can remove Steam OS and stick any OS on you like, so it can do anything a traditional PC can.

@BloodNinja I never said that what I originally stated was the core of the issue. I just saw (and have seen across the multitude of articles about this) lots of people stating that if we bought only physical games then this wouldn't be an issue. I was merely pointing out why that isn't a solution as in reality it would kill off more games than it would save.

@BloodNinja You're not really replying to what I said. My comment was not that we shouldn't care about access to game libraries and game preservation, but that shouting everything should be physical wouldn't solve this issue as physical packaging and distribution was always a huge barrier to many small devs getting games out in the first place and many of these games would never have been available if no one bought digital.

As for my library, I do want to keep access to digital games, but you make it sound like when they shut the storefront I will immediately lose that. I get that one day I might need them again and they will have turned off the servers hosting my purchases, but for the foreseeable future I have all of my games downloaded to my Switch/sd cards and those games won't go anywhere unless the Switch/card dies. Now I get why Nintendo doesn't want me to be able to backup my own games, but a solution like on Vita where I can backup my games to encrypted files on my PC (tied to my PS account id) would suit me as then I can rely on myself for preservation of my game collection.

I think there are two separate arguments here though. One is about whether Nintendo should forever maintain all games on servers that allow us to redownload our purchases, and the second is whether Nintendo should maintain storefronts for all their out of production consoles and allow for new games to be purchased forever. I believe that Nintendo should provide a service for the first of those issues (in comparison to archives of uncompressed video, these game collections must be relatively small), but I'm not sure the second is really realistic.

People can shout "Physical Physical! Physical!" all they like, but that wouldn't help most of these games as most wouldn't have existed in a physical only world. People can call digital evil etc, but all the tiny simple 3DS games that cost about £1 wouldn't exist in a physical only world. And if that wouldn't be a great loss, then neither should their disappearance here be.

@KITG_GROUP Thanks for the detailed advice, but I've tried disc cleaner unfortunately. Cloudy probably isn't the right word but it looks like it's under the surface, not on top of it.

Personally I'd rather Square (and everyone else) made some new bloody games than devoted resources to making these available on yet another format. So many remakes, remasters and ports on all consoles these days and people lap it all up and beg for more.

"Homage To Final Fight, Streets Of Rage And Double Dragon"

...and... er... Vendetta? Surprised that one didn't get a mention given the title and general look.

There's something of the Kunio-Kun about the slightly deformed character art here too I reckon.

I tried to play a PS2 game the other day and it just won't load anymore. Disc has been kept in its case (at room temperature) all times when it wasn't in the PS2 itself, but the underside of the disc looks a little maybe... cloudy. Anyway, my point is that a digital game stored on an SD card or a console's internal memory may have as long a life as one stored on an optical disc. Sony aren't offering me a free replacement for my degraded PS2 game all these years later, so the idea that digital is somehow a super limited rental that can be taken away at the want of Nintendo et al and physical releases are all wonderful things that will live forever is a definite oversimplification.

Edit: Don't get me wrong though, I still play Master System games on cartridge and they all seem fine.

@Madao Thanks for the info. Really need to get round to trying this series!

@GrailUK I love that game, especially the ambulance! I wish there was a new version of it like the NHL 94 update they released for modern consoles.

I'm British and, while I don't care that the accents in the game are British, I did think the voice acting sounded pretty terrible. Especially the gruff Lahndan voice. Do the Xenoblade games offer the option to have subbed Japanese or just the localised audio?

Heinz should collaborate with someone who can teach them how to make stackable tins.

I enjoyed it, but it continued the trend across all formats in recent years of being packed full of remasters and re-releases of old games, and I feel like we've got to the point now where we're getting remasters of games that weren't even top tier in their day (like Force Unleashed).

Every blade of grass in my garden is a one off and therefore as rare as it gets. Who wants to open the bidding?

Yes! Fabulous game. Can we get the sequels too please?