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If we're talking full price games then about 6-9 titles a year. However this year I saved myself for the Switch 2 launch and have only purchased 3 this year so far...

• Mario Kart World (included with the Switch 2)
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles

Do Nightdive not have Switch 2 dev kits yet?

@martynstuff So it's not just me who thinks Jenny may be autistic.

@stephalear Smash TV was a Midway product and is therefore owned by Warner Bros. Games.

@springer17 You won't get any Burnout from Acclaim. EA bought the Burnout IP from the creditors in 2004, round about the same time EA bought Criterion Software from Canon.

@Simu001 Sounds like that report about only certain developers getting Switch 2 deaf kids (or was that dev kits? 😉) in advance was true after all.

@Supadav03 I'm getting the MKW bundle. That's all I'm getting for now. Will look into carry cases and Micro SD cards next.

Preordered from Nintendo early doors with Mario Kart World bundled in. It's coming tomorrow morning.

@Supadav03 Mine's coming by 1.30pm tomorrow. Pre-order invites FTW!

@RappinRootbeer Codemasters are now an EA studio. Which also means that EA also own Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer.

Codemasters bought Sensible Software from Jon Hare and Chris Yates in 1999.

@Suketoudara Who owns the rights? EA/Codemasters or the Oliver Twins?

Oooh, a free upgrade? Noice! Cheers, Jops!

In the UK we had an ad with someone dressed as Link running around a temple, as Tom Baker provided narration.

@dew12333 Looks like they're struggling with the new game engine. That they created.

@WiltonRoots The rights to Smash TV and Total Carnage are now held by Warner Bros. following their acquisition of the Midway catalogue.

@TheBigBlue Takara are listed as the publisher on the app rather than SNK, they handled the SNES port (and the Mega Drive port for that matter).

Jovial Jops (Jon Hare) no longer owns the Sensible name. He and Cuddly Crix (Chris Yates) sold Sensible Software to Codemasters at the end of the 90s. So it's owned by EA now.

@Ooyah There is a new song using the words of "Goal Scoring Superstar Hero" in the game. Sadly not performed by the lovely and talented Jackie Reed.

@andyg1412 You can change the camera angle so it's more like Sensi.

Should also mention that Huey Games are responsible for the console ports of Sociable Soccer 24.

@Joriss To paraphrase The Simpsons, "I don't recall saying 'thank you'." That's what these awful business practices sound like to me anyway.

@Vyacheslav333 You don't get the reference? Of a game you mentioned?

Ahh, never mind. I was very drunk when I wrote that original comment anyway. Sounded funnier in my head. Much like Plumbers Don't Wear Ties sounded funnier in that game's writers' heads. 🥴

Disgaea 2!! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

@Vyacheslav333 They were searching for me... for you...

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Oh we gotta keep that in the script!

@Bydlak Because they're likely not mentioned in the press releases that Nintendo of Europe give them.

This is the same Steven Radosh who also created the successful "say what you see" game show Catchphrase. Where did it all go wrong? 😅

This interview by Digitiser with James Interactive and Edmund McMillen has all the questions you need answering about the game, such as: "Do you like beans?", "Does Bum-Bo like beans?" and "Is Bum-Bo your son?" https://youtu.be/SDlCLrQL5_I

Plok on SNES. Great platformer with colourful graphics and great music by the Follin brothers. That would be a great addition.

@mike_intv Both developed by Dinosaur Polo Club, just Mini Motorways is their first self-published game on the Switch.

id Software just keep on giving. First the DOOM & DOOM 2 mods, now this big Quake update.

@Tasuki Uncle Phil was more of a father figure to Will than Lou ever was.

@Snatcher The Players' Guide was included with the game itself, doubling as the game's instruction manual.

It's almost as if the English lyrics to the opening theme to My Neighour Totoro also applied to Pokémon...

Hey, let's go! Hey, let's go!
I'm happy as can be
Let's go walking you and me
Ready, set, come on, let's go!

Over the hills, across the field, through the tunnel we'll go
We'll run across the bridge and down the bumpy gravel road
Right beneath the spider's web
Ready, set, let's go!

Hey, let's go! Hey, let's go
I'm happy as can be
Let's go walking you and me
Ready, set, come on, let's go!

The foxes and the badgers too all come out to play
They all want to explore the deep and wonderful woods all day
Look at all my many friends
Ready, set, let's go!

Look at all my many friends
Ready, set, let's go!

@nhSnork I'll second that. Come on Square Enix, give us SoulBlazer, Illusion of Time/Gaia and Terranigma!

I hope that these two opens the door for more Namco arcade games as part of the Arcade Archives series.

Downloading Quake from the eShop as I write.

Here are the review scores given by Super Play magazine:

Claymates - 79%
Jelly Boy - 61%
Bombuzal - 48%

@TeamRocket47 That little thing is called Lofty. Like Drippy in the first game, they cast a Welsh actor to voice it in the English dub. Owain Arthur got the gig.

Arcade Paradise sounds like it's an Arcadecraft clone, only you can play the games on the machines.

I'm playing my physical copy of Hades.

Anyone remember the ZX Spectrum title Advanced Lawnmower Simulator. It came free with copies of Your Sinclair as a covertape. It was made as an April Fools' joke, as well as poking fun at Codemasters adding the world "simulator" to its game titles. I bet you'd have more fun with that than with these two doggy landmines.

@Ooyah Would you trust this man now he's the punchline to at least one joke in every video from Larry Bundy?

@Bass_X0 Issue 7, reviewed by editor Matt Bielby, bringing his rapier wit and scathing criticism with him from his Your Sinclair and Amiga Power days...

"The one thing that appeals to me as a reviewer about import games is the enforced omission of plot: I can no sooner read Japanese than I can hover across the room without crumpling the Axminster. As far as I'm concerned, the game's called Psycho Dream and it stars a blokey, Ryo; or a girlie, Maria (depending on your personal preference). The rest of the story doesn't count.

"However, even avoiding a quick peek at the pictures in the instruction manual, it soon becomes apparent that the person responsible for Psycho Dream must be a very light sleeper. You could say that the gameplay is shallow, but 'not there at all' would be much more apt.

"What happens is that you walk from left to right (and occasionally from right to left)* and you kill everything that comes within reach of your flashing blade (or glowing whip - see Ryo/Maria above). And that, as they say, is it: stroll, stroll, kill, slaughter, meet boss, die.

"I guess there's a market for this sort of game, but I don't think Europe is it. Unless you're easily wowed by a few transparent guardians, or excited by parallax scrolling, you're not going to break into a sweat, let alone a smile, over this one. And just in case you have any niggling doubts that refuse to die on the edge of my rapier-like comments, slap it on easy mode and you'll see the entire game in one sitting. As long as you aren't overcome by boredom first.

"So there you have it: limited gameplay; infinite continues; long, bland levels; and a soundtrack which is just like any other soundtrack, on any other Japanese beat-'em-up, anywhere.

"Producing games like this for the SNES is like owning a Turbo Esprit and driving everywhere at 20 miles an hour. What a waste of time and plastic.

"* Sorry, I lied. You can walk diagonally up and down stairs too."

Graphics - 67%
Sound - 62%
Gameplay - 35%
Gamelife - 28%
OVERALL SCORE - 33%

VERDICT: "How do games of such startling banality ever get off the drawing board? And who the hell buys 'em? Not you, hopefully."

@RIC616 Arcade Archives: Cosmo Police Galivan?

Stick to the Samyang buldak ramen, peeps. I know I will. 🍜

4 different emulations of Gradius III included:

• Japanese Version (OLD) ORIGINAL MODE
• Japanese Version (NEW) ORIGINAL MODE
• Asian Version ORIGINAL MODE
• CUSTOM MODE

@Retro_Player_77 @somebread The Firemen was released in PAL regions, it's playable English, French and German. And yes, it's a much better game than The Ignition Factor.

Yeaaaah! Love me some Serious Sam!

Still waiting for an Ashens game.

Nice to know there are logo & ident fans in the Nintendo Life team. The Thames skyline ident is legendary.

@Tasuki The band always owned the rights to those songs.

The European trailer wasn't censored, only the North American one.