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I hope Super comes with the Japanese version, regarded as better, too. Advance is great to have as the original is way too expensive.

Collection including the four numbered ones and the aforementioned two is also great news. But I already own those four, three of them inside the Kunio-kun collection on Switch, so I'll be watching it and if the extras are good enough I'll semi-double dip. If not, I'll have to settle for Super and Advance on digital sadly.

@Vyacheslav333 I didn't know about that, but I don't usually take mobile phones into account as consoles.

Thanks for the info anyway.

It should include the original ROM for it to be complete, right? I hope it will. This is a game that we can't buy currently.

@Yosti If it's possible I'll order all 6, I just assumed that it wouldn't be, because Nintendo. I'll check that, thanks.

And soon they'll all be available on Switch, thus making the 3DS purchase useless. I hope at least it means we'll finally get the Japan exclusive ones too, at least in Japanese thanks to the region-free Switch.

They should allow to group these posters with the GB ones for those who haven't already bought them in order to make the shipping cheaper.

Problem is this content is what should have been released one year ago, as well as the physical edition itself. They pulled the trick with Sonic Mania and did it again.

@SpringDivorce It's strange, though, because those releases usually include domestic ports, all of them when there are several. Well, I'll keep an eye on the Japanese physical release of S-Tribute, as usual, too.

Well, now they won't have a sale from me, because I know I can have it on the next console. Thanks.

Good thing I didn't buy them last minute on 3DS! I knew it!

In fact, I shouldn't have bought the original trilogy on 3DS, but it was on discount.

Weird. A physical edition of a game that has been around for such a long time usually is an edition available in normal stores, and LRG and the likes specialize in releasing physical games relatively shortly after the digital release (and sometimes after a few years it does also appear an edition for anyone to grab at normal stores). This combination here is new to me.

This game has had physical non limited editions on Xbox One and PS4 for years. Releasing now on Switch and by LRG is what I call late and wrong.

It's sad to see that it has so many flaws. I was eager to get it if it was released physically at least in Japan...

Well, setting back the same amount of money than the physical version, I'll go physical.

@KingofRedLions Yes, that's what I did, and then Toad said he would show me the DLCs or something like that, I gotta say it was a very clever way to make it part of the game. But then it would only allow a credit card or an eShop card as payment methods...

Just to be sure: even merging funds it's not possible to make in-game purchases anymore, right? I made some purchases yesterday, but they were from the eShop website (and for some reason the automatic download didn't work, although after searching the bought games on the console's eShop it said "download again").

I tried to acquire the Mario Golf season pass, which isn't possible directly from the eShop, but it prompt me to add a card, and it wouldn't get the money from the merged funds I had.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Thanks

Great list, although 1990 should have been for Trio the Punch

I'm definitely interested in these collections, although I agree that they've been managed horribly.

The thing is I have entries 1 and 3 on the Evercade, Mega Drive versions. Now Retro-Bit releases those and Syd of Valis on physical for the Mega Drive, yet the Switch collection has the PC Engine versions, the fourth entry and, aside from Valis 1 and Syd for the MD, also the MSX game, which is a surprise. Novelties are my soft spot.

But! In Japan they have the two collections (sadly separated also) on Switch cards, which would be my choice if those releases came translated, and it is not the case.

I guess the way to go is buying these collections on a Western eShop, plus they get on sale every now and then. And you can pick individual titles too, which is a welcome possibility.

@Tom-Massey Well, I can't say it 100%, but someone on Twitter made a comparison and I did see a list somewhere with all the contents in the Japanese version too and the western versions didn't appear, whereas the Western release does have them. Maybe we'll have to wait and see.

@Tom-Massey Oh, I see... But this is the same edition that will be available on Amazon Japan, more reliable in terms of customs and delivery speed. And cheaper down the line.

The problem is this Japanese edition doesn't include the Western versions, and from what I checked they do have differences in terms of difficulty, for instance.

Thanks for your answer, though!

So who's selling it 10 bucks cheaper as the article says?

Because SLG doesn't do discounts, and the standard Switch edition is sold out anyway.

This is one of the ugliest moves I've seen in video game publishing.

But reading the review I'm under the impression that aside from the digital and the SLG versions there is a retail one too. Physical, I mean. Is that right? Because I can't find it.

I know it's going to release on Amazon Japan for everyone, not limited, but that will be in a few months and it doesn't include the western versions (by the way, are there regional differences?)

In case there is a comprehensive retail version I would consider buying it on a sale, because I already have all of this one way or another (minus the SG-1000 version), but having it in a single package would be nice too. Still on the verge. If this would have included the PC Engine entries, though...

That's what should have been in the first release, even in the retail non-limited one.

I don't know if I'll get it, though. I have all the games elsewhere, some of them more than once. It wouldn't be worth it just for the SG-1000 version.

@Fighting_Game_Loser It might be, certainly after looking at the pictures, but the headline is misleading, right?

But it does come in Atari 50 The Anniversary Celebration...

Nice, but Nintendo, don't you do more than 30% even in the case of old classics? Come on...

Why shouldn't it arrive to the West? Except from a couple remaining titles that came to the PS4 Arcade Archives before the Switch even existed all of them have been coming regularly.

I for one salute this release, which the article fails to say, although Hamster did it on Twitter, that marks the 300th Arcade Archives release.

A standard edition in normal stores, please.

Unsurprisingly 40 games from Atari 2600, but I'd like to know more about the extras. That's what make Digital Eclipse releases appealing.

I love these games, but playing them on Xbox One I had the feeling, seeing textures, animations and vehicles, that I was playing a PS2 game in HD.

It's a nice touch that you can upgrade from the standard version. I mean, it's the way these things should go, but they usually don't.

And what about those who bought the first edition on Switch, which theoretically came with everything? What are the specific differences in terms of content?

For all those people who complains about the price, are you guys aware that it comes with 20 more games than the first Mega Drive Mini? That one cost 80 when it was released. It seems reasonable.

At last! This development was announced ages ago, it looked like it was never going to be but hell, here it is. Day one purchase, I love the original.

It bothered me that no release date was announced for months, but I guess it was in order to not harming the release of Shredder's Revenge. Once it proved successful, "mysteriously" the release date of what I for one consider the best of the two releases surfaced: August 30th.

It's the most anticipated release of this year for me, no kidding. Digital Eclipse makes great collections -I bought them all- and this is really a comprehensive one. Several other classic collections leave some versions out, especially portable ones, it's something that happens in Disney Classic Games Collection, for undisclosed reasons, but Cowabunga Collection gets it right at last.

Bubble Bobble 4 Friends got lukewarm reviews, but Puzzle Bobble is a series I absolutely love. I won't rule it out for now.

They should make several and massive sales, but they won't, because they know people will buy any remaining games on their wishlists for the asking price last day.

That's very Nintendo, but come on, third parties... Where are the 3D Sega classics' sales?

So we'll just have to wait for the complete physical edition down the line, it already happened with the first game.

@RainbowGazelle Maybe, but up until now they were saying the Mini 2 would feature 50 games, no word on European release until today, and when they said there would be 60 titles I must have misinterpreted it.

@RushDawg Yeah, that's weird coming from their presence on the first mini. And pretty disappointing, I was hoping to finally get Rocket Knight in a legal way.

Still don't know why we Europeans get 10 more games.

@MeloMan Once you learn what to do it's a less than half hour game, though.

Impressive music, I agree.

Sunsoft also lost a Superman license for the NES, had to change sprites into what would have been Sunman and it got canned anyway. Recently learnt about it. That's sad.

A Sunsoft Collection would be nice. Don't forget about Journey to Silius, which I played and beat for the first time a few days ago thanks to Nintendo Switch Online.

Damn review embargo, it kept me on my toes, but I preordered it anyway because otherwise I would have lost the benefits of preordering on my go-to store. Now I'm relieved.

We all did see that coming. Like the first time, it will include already released single titles plus some games exclusive to the collection, probably. I hope one of them is Sonic Pocket Adventure and another one, Cotton.

Surprised to see no reference whatsoever to Turrican Flashback, a physical release that not long ago covered these games plus Mega Turrican, available on volume 2 this time around.

That volume 2 is the one to go if you already own Turrican Flashback, because you'll get Mega Turrican again, but also Turrican 3 and Super Turrican 2, missing in Turrican Flashback.

Wait a minute. The headline is misleading. This is the arcade version, right? In this case I'll pass, because I'll have it on the aforementioned Jaleco Arcade 1 Evercade cartridge.

If it was the Game Boy version with color added, though...

@Friendly That must be it, because Live a Live doesn't make any sense.

I guess that, like Panzer Dragoon Remake, it's one of those cases of poor day one releases continuously getting fixed but people just losing interest and keep saying the game is bad.

Maybe these cases deserve a little post with a quick review about to what extent have the patches enhanced the game.

I wish Nintendo Life hadn't abandoned reviewing these weekly Arcade Archives releases. I honestly miss those reviews so much.

Performance issues in Switch version? Color me surprised.