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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.

@RainbowGazelle That's the kind of thing I guess they will address after getting feedback from users.

Bought day one, the collector's edition which is surprisingly cheap, and liked it.

Free DLC for sure will include options such as continues enabled/disabled, training mode from the beginning...

Don't understand the hate this game is getting, even considering the bad timing of its release, which to be honest I don't understand either: Shredder's Revenge being such a hit was a possibility, not a certainty.

That's really good news, but I didn't expect any game available on one of Mega Drive Mini 1's region variants to repeat. That's a first.

That's what I call a homage.

@RupeeClock I can understand that retro collections, which I absolutely love, are more complex than just dumping roms. What I'm saying is these Mega Man collections are physical in Japan, all of them, but in the West we have partial mandatory downloads. That's a decision made in Capcom, it's the usual Western treatment, but surprisingly enough they're gonna shift with these new release. It's good news, but it leaves you feeling sad for what could have been done better.

@RupeeClock But are you suggesting that the original Mega Man games didn't fit into the tiniest 8GB Switch cart? I think they did, and as a matter of fact Japan has a box of all these Legacy titles in carts, no downloads required.

10 games physical in one cartridge. So it was feasable after all. Yet they didn't do it with the most emblematic titles.

This one does get a physical release, huh?

Not the collection full of games with a target that grew up buying physical games.

@Serpenterror You're still missing the point, let's leave it here.

@Serpenterror That's not the point. Importing is more expensive than buying on local stores, plus it makes no sense this collection doesn't appear physically in Europe after Street Fighter Anniversary Collection.

@Serpenterror Not in Europe

@somebread Yeah, but not in Europe

No physical release, no buy.

Anyway, I looked forward to this release, but most of the titles will be in Capcom Arcade Stadium and other Capcom Collections, so I don't know now.

I just want a release date for Cowabunga Collection

I don't think it's overpriced, on the contrary. In Europe at least it has a collector's edition for less than what games usually cost.

Maybe it's not the best beat'em up ever, maybe it's derivative (like a lot of games of this genre), maybe the one credit thing is a put off for many people (I suck at these games, yet I love them, and I don't regret preordering it, maybe it's time for me to truly make an effort), but people is reading a 7 like it was a 4 here, and that seems unfair.

Is there a review embargo or something? Any media has published the review, and we would like to know that we preorder decent games...

Interesting, but these collections should have been physical too, and the line-up massively overlaps with Capcom Beat'em Up Bundle and the upcoming Capcom Fighting Collection, so I'll end up picking some games up individually.

One game nearer the Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection vol. 2

Maybe it's because I love beat'em ups, I'm discovering many of them now because I didn't when I was younger, and that includes the ones less polished, but I recently spent many hours on this game and I kind of love it. Nice stages for sure. Definitely would give it at least a 6, and that's keeping the time into consideration. As a kid would've been even better.

@Joe-b Well, I didn't buy it precisely because with SLG waiting is mainly what we customers do. The record in my case is in 13 months between payment and having the game in my hands.

The collector's edition containing all Wonder Boy games and more importantly all console versions is already sold out on Strictly Limited Games. This article is very old news actually.

Problem is there will be a physical copy on regular stores, just with the 4 titles that the digital version will contain. So it's a hard pass from me.

It's going to have a collector's edition at a very reasonable price in regular stores, but it's been coming for so long that I fear the end result won't be that good, despite that title designed to make us think it's the third part of a series it doesn't actually belong to. I hope I'm wrong because I really look forward to getting my hands on it.

What stops me from buying anything there is that even though a EU Sega Shop exists, when the time to pay comes there are taxes that make price skyrocket, on top of shipping, so the prices shown are without taxes. And no, I wasn't trying to buy in the UK shop from the EU. It was the EU shop. A shame.

Announced in 2020 as an "upcoming" release, it has been more than a year and a half but finally, after Namco releases cutting the line, we'll get this bizarre Data East classic. Day one (or almost) for me.

They noted it, but who would have expected that people would want it physical, right? Facepalm.

So still no physical version in the West...

The second time Ace Attorney games are on sale in the US after the 3DS and Wii U eShop closure announcement, Europe still waiting.