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I had a hunch this wasn’t going to receive the greatest review and what are they smoking asking $35?? Sega you still have a chance to plug this hole. Crazy Taxi 1,2 Lost in NY and 3 High Roller from the OG Xbox pretty please! Now THOSE 3 I’d pay $35 for the whole bundle!! Cmon Sega Jeez!! So frustrating!!

Absolutely love the Dirt series!! I pray it continues onward!!

@KingMike good point. And I would’ve traded off a few titles for some more obscure others. I mean I already have Final Fight in 15 different console formats lol 😂 so I wouldn’t miss that one here

@kingbk a lot gamers keep mentioning the Midway/Atari Arcade games lately and for good reason. There’s just sooo many great games we don’t have on the Switch!! I’d kill to see it happen lol!!

This is a nice collection (are you paying attention Sega for the love of God???) at 32 games. Very nice. But that said, there’s plenty of Capcom classics missing like Super Buster Bros/Pang, Giga Wing 2, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, king of dragons, Magic Sword and many many others so I hope it does well enough and Capcom adds another 10 pack or two! ALSO- I’m on the fence about a digital purchase only because I feel like 6 months down the road a physical version will be announced! This happens a lot and forces me to double dip!! So I may hang back a little bit. If I DO go digital then I might actually opt for the Xbox One version first which will also be playable on series X!! But at LEAST Capcom hasn’t forgotten about its classic library....unlike other companies we know....ahem SEGA

Just scored it yesterday at Gamestop! Going in the vault for the next 15-20 years lol

$35 is a bit steep but as long as it doesn’t suck and it does fill the gap that Sega refuses to plug! I thought we’d see Crazy Taxi in the ages line but nope! Denied!!

@Anti-Matter Ty 2 was announced so I’d assume Ty 3 not to far off 😊

@Atariboy you stole my thunder! Lol I’d LOVE to see an Activision anthology again! The one they made for PS2 is an incredible collection but nothing since! Wishful thinking, they can even take it a step further and add titles from other consoles like Atari 5200 version of Megamania & River Raid, and 5200 exclusives like Dreadnought Factor, Zenji, Zone Ranger, Worm Whomper from the Intellivision console and maybe even Toy Bizarre that they published on the C64 computer!
Never happen though lol 😂

@TempestStotm Assuming you ARE aware it’s already available, if your waiting for sunset riders to go on sale you’ll probably have to wait a long while as it’s relatively new and a big title in the Hamster lineup. To many of us, it’s well worth the regular asking price of $8. So Don’t wait it’s such a great game well worth $8 IMO and so much fun with 2 players!

With Hamster having 240 or so games on the eshop this is a small selection of games here and I KNOW for a fact I grabbed Double Dragon during a previous Hamster sale way back and I’ve seen the weird Japanese game on sale a few times before too, so they need to increase the size of games on sale AND shake up the lineup a little bit too.

@sixrings yup I agree but I’d pay 10-15 bucks for games like crazy taxi, power drift, sega rally etc. I was actually shocked when Virtua Racing hit for only $8.00!

Doh!! Why this version??

@Crazydiamond2112 yea who ever put that Ages line up together was drinking lol. We didn’t need 2 Puyo Puyo games for one thing. My Sega wishlist is Huge! After they gave us Virtua Racing, G-Loc & Outrun I thought they would finally give us more recent Sega arcade games! How could they possibly NOT give us:
Crazy Taxi
Virtua Cop 1&2
House of the Dead 1/2/3
Virtua Fighter 2&3
Sega Rally Championship
Daytona USA
Zaxxon
Congo Bongo
Pengo
Virtua Tennis
Power Drift
Afterburner
Scud Racer
Turbo Outrun
Super Hang On
Golden Axe Revenge of Death Adder
And sooo many others! IT JUST DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE!

@sixrings I agree! And in case you didn’t know that Switch Genesis collection has 50 games on it and Golden Axe is on there and if I recall Golden Axe II as well.

@sixrings yea Sega baffles the hell out of me! Would be awesome if Sega and hamster can strike an agreement but i don’t see it happening.
My Midway/Atari arcade games wish list is VERY long indeed!! Lol

@Crazydiamond2112 I forgot that AT&T owns Warner! But hopefully with Warner still running their own games division maybe we will get lucky....maybe. Omg don’t even get me started with Sega lol. That ages line could’ve been 50 games easy!! Unbelievable

I think Hamster is doing a fabulous job no complaints here. As knowledgeable as I thought I was on the arcade classics, there’s definitely been a few they put out that I never heard of or are turds.
But as far as licensed games like Turtles etc, we will most likely NEVER see most of them ever!
Good thing I have my modded original Xbox, Nes and Snes classic & Genesis mini loaded to the gills with classic arcade games!! 😁

Not selling one old game ever! Trying to educate my son on the value of my collection which goes back to the 2600, but all he plays is call of duty lol. But he shows some interest here and there. When I die I told him sell it all and use the money for you and your sister Unless you want to keep some of it lol.

@Bass_X0 Capcom yes but has Hamster has put out quite a few Konami games like Frogger, Scramble, Super Cobra, Contra, Sunset Riders and others
Besides Capcom has their own collection coming up in February. Looking forward to that! 😊

@AtlanteanMan good points. Problem is though for any hope to see the Midway/Atari Games classics Hamster would have to strike a deal with Warner Bros who hasn’t done anything with the old games since the Midway Arcade Origins disc on PS3 and 360. Luckily I can play that title on my Xbox One and Series X Thx to BC! As far as Sega goes they had a chance with the Ages line on switch and for whatever stupid reason just ended the line. I was Very disappointed they did that. After Virtua Racing showed up, I had high hopes we were gonna see some real good ones from Sega but nope! 😞

As usual with most Collections, Turrican is razor thin and missing quite a few versions Snes version comes to mind.

@sixrings yea! I guess we’re not getting it?? That was announced like last summer! What the heck!!

@RushDawg I just don’t get it at all! Who the hell is making the decisions there?? I remember SOJ was constantly breaking SOA’s shoes about many decisions but SOA is totally responsible for the success of the Genesis in the USA.

@WaveWitch don’t even get me started lol My Sega Ages wish list is longer then your leg 🤣
When I saw Virtua Racing hit I got high hopes for fresh Sega arcade oldies but nooooooo! If ONLY they would’ve done what Hamster is doing! Oh the possibilities! 🤨 😌

@FragRed absolutely makes no sense to me at all! What’s even more baffling is the games that did make it to switch didn’t even make it to PS4 another tremendous audience! Sega really must not like money! 🤷‍♂️

Nice but I’m still pissed that Sega killed the Ages line!! Soooo many great Sega arcade games left in the vault!! Terrible decision IMO 😞

Not the same Konami for sure! I had some hope when they did the Anniversary collections but that came to a abrupt halt! If it wasn’t for the boys at Hamster we wouldn’t be getting ANY of Konami’s classic games on the Switch and PS4!! Ya gotta love ❤️ those Hamster fellas!!! 👍👍

Way way too many games to even digest! Not complaining just making an observation. I’ll have to watch some trailers as usual

A great list no doubt! I count about 7 games that still aren’t available elsewhere.

Would love to see crime city, Operation Wolf, Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands hit the Switch. A few Taito shooters like Flying Shark would do nicely as well!

Like a few here mentioned, a huge chunk of the Sega arcade catalogue is missing I guess Sega killed the switch ages lineup cause they don’t like money??? So still a big gap
ANOTHER big gap is the lack of Midway/Atari arcade classics!! HUGE GAP- way too many awesome games to list!! Sorely missing! Cmon Warner Bros!!

@Beaucine Ahhh Moon Patrol! What a classic! Never forget the first time I saw it in the arcades. Later bought the Atari 5200 cart and was a pretty darn good port. Great game!

Was always a player for 40 years and still play today but due to life demands i have evolved more into a collector more and more. EVERY SINGLE TIME I promised myself I’m gonna dive into a game I bought it doesn’t happen. I own more than 7000 retail games with more than half probably still factory sealed with many more in mint condition and thousands more games downloaded so my backlog is insane! I try to play whenever possible but with having a family with 2 kids in college, an English bulldog puppy, watching after my health AND 50 plus hours a week running a business it’s nothing close to when i was a teenager with zero responsibility. Damn I wish I was 17 again!! Sooo many games to play and no time to play them!
Some of my physical collection highlights included:

Complete Atari 5200 LIBRARY
177 Atari 2600 games
63 Atari 7800 games
36 Atari Jaguar games
Over 425 Sega Genesis games
77 Sega CD Games
52 Turbographx games
197 Sega Dreamcast games
212 Sega Master System games
85 Sega Saturn games
73 Wii U games
Over 900 Wii games
212 N64 games
233 Snes games
115 Nes games
363 Switch games
473 PS4 Games
323 Xbox One games
485 GameCube games
377 original Xbox games
623 Xbox 360 games
611 PS3 games
477 PS2 games
Over 100 PSP games plus 97 UMD movies
77 PS Vita Games
377 DS games
217 3DS games
100’s & 100’s of GBA, GBC, GB carts
Definitely leaving some stuff out lol

Wow! 250 stores?? I’m 54 and gaming since I’m 12 and never heard of them. Perhaps they were west coast only?? Regardless a complete shame to see this happen! Another blow to the retail video game’s very existence. I wish them well.

@Gerald would be great if Hamster can do a deal but sometimes I feel as if Hamster is not interested in securing American made arcade games for their line up. Again would be awesome because Warner bros isn’t doing anything with that classic IP. 😌

@Gerald Joust, Robotron 2084, Hydro Thunder, San Francisco Rush, Satans Hollow, Smash TV, Tapper, wizard Of Wor, Gorf, Marble Madness, Total Carnage, xenophobe, Xybots, and many others!! Would love to see it happen but Hamster will have to knock on Warner Bros door for permission. Would be awesome though!

I still maintain that the Switch eshop store just plain stinks! If only Nintendo can at least mirror the layout of the Wii U eshop - just that move alone would be a tremendous improvement!! I just don’t get why they don’t improve the Switch eshop 🤷‍♂️ And Navigating 1300 games on sale is a big huge pain in the butt and takes too long!

I have to get it just because of Extreme alone! I ordered the invincible bundle from Strictly Limited but yes I agree 3 titles is really skimping out! At LEAST throw in the various classic iterations??

Thank goodness for Hamster!! 200 straight weeks of retro games! Although I’m still wondering where the hell Raiden is??

Would love to grab Space Invaders but NOT at $30!! $15? Sold

Another stupid blunder by sega! Ending the Sega ages line when games like Crazy Taxi are begging to be on the Switch! I just don’t get their logic!

Yea there’s no doubt this is great just $40 is a bit steeply priced!

Great news!! Super pumped to see Carrier Air Wing, Giga Wing & Progear in the mix. LOVE carrier air wing! On the downside, many titles missing from previous arcade collections. Still awesome though and I assume will see this on Xbox & Playstation! Meanwhile the Switch is such a retro arcade classic beast!! It’s awesome!
SEGA are you paying attention?? THIS is what you should be doing!!!

I’m sorry but my opinion is Puyo/Tetris is way overpriced! What are the boys at Sega smoking?? Cause I’ll take a hit! 🤣🤣

@sixrings yea what you said!!! What the hell!! They announced that what back in July??

WHERE would us retro gamers be without Hamster’s efforts on the Switch? 😊 countless arcade classics available and many lesser know titles reintroduced as well! And according to Hamster, hundreds of titles yet to come!!!
My only gripe is the availability of the Hamster line up on Xbox is limited for some reason to Neo Geo games only and I’m not sure sure why!! With Xbox’s excellent backwards compatibility efforts all these classic titles can’t be brought forward to the Xbox series X and that just stinks. Otherwise, Hamster is a retro beast!!
And by the way what happened to Raiden?

Outrun for sure was my favorite release along with Virtua Racing. Matter of fact, I assumed with the release of Virtua Racing I thought for sure would finally be the start of seeing more “newer” Sega arcade games like Power Drift, Virtua Cop 1&2, Crazy Taxi, House Of the Dead, Sega Rally Championship, Virtua Fighter series, and Sooooo many more but obviously not going to happen right now! Still scratching my head over this decision to pull the plug at a mere 19 titles! Cmon Sega!!

Shadowman and Star Wars episode 1 racer. 2 more reasons in my getting closer to hopefully unhooking my dreamcast one day - NO THANKS TO YOU SEGA!! 😡

@Lionyone the $40 price tag has put me off lol. So as much as Queen is my all time favorite band I put it on my wish list for now and will wait on a sale down the road. 😊👍