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Dandara for a fiver. That game is great.
Carrion is great too.

Imagine if cordless power tools had built in and non-serviceable batteries instead of normal common sense modular battery packs? There would be murders. Tablets, phones, all-in-one computers and now handheld video games are all living in a strange fantasy world where this bs is supposedly ok. Except..it’s not a fantasy...the consumers are somehow ok with this.

@ImBackBB

Well, the good/bad news is; the very same court at some point provided contradictary opinions of the law. And, across the board; US courts have been contradictary on the matter. So, the precedent is there is no precedent (even though, there have been enough cases already).

Honestly, I've seen some crazy music publishing related civil cases where the verdict went the way of not at all logical in recent years, so I am not suprised. I've seen outright and provable theft thrown out of court. I've seen people win publishing royalties because two songs had the same sequence of two notes at a random point of the song. I've seen 100% of royalties given to a corpse over a style homage when the "infringing" piece of music was utterly not the same as far as any of the actual notes were concerned.

It starts to make more sense why I'd just buy out something I don't want people seeing.

@ImBackBB

I'm more curious about why the internet is filled with the question of whether or not it really existed until Something Awful got ahold of a DVD rip. It was seriously at every vhs rental store I had ever been to. In the meantime, I'm going to go down the google rabbet hole to learn about the legalities of porno parodies. I know I don't have the full picture.

All I know is, ever since he ditched that silly hat, Link's femboy charms invariably destroy everything I knew about my sexuality.

@fox_mattcloud

That would be pretty dope, tbh

@ImBackBB

I'm no gambling man, but I wager that the rights to Super Hornio Brothers were signficantly less than their lawyers' retainer. :0
Lawsuits can drag on for years and the publicity would draw attention to it, so, if they did buy it out (which is, remember, only according to Ron Jeremy..and...Kotaku), it was probably the quickest way to nip it in the bud.

@ImBackBB

But it actually really doesn’t. Legally speaking, you need to be meaningfully critiquing the original work with your satire/parody. If you go over old Mad and Cracked comics, you’ll find they shoehorned in a lot of criticisms if the property had anyone without a sense of humour attached to it. Things like porn parodies and erotic fan art just happen to be infinitely lower on the priority list than say full scale piracy operations. There’s also the fact that copyright law is mega convenient. The copyright holder can choose to let people infringe on their copyright if they don’t mind. 99% of the time, you’re not seeing “fair use”. You’re seeing the copyright holder not caring about it.

There is no such thing as brown, only dark orange.

This can only mean that the rumours are true: Gameboy Advance and GameCube are coming to XBOX.

So they're saying I pay for the DLC now and get the DLC later, essentially?

@Pally356

All of the Wonderboy games, all of the Wonderboy games and...all of the Wonderboy games.

@OldManHermit

Everytime I beat him it was pure luck.

@Sinton

I'm not a fan of the mini systems (I find them wasteful), but I would definitely be all in favor of a Master System/Mark III collection. I'm surprised Sega has not ever bothered with one or the other. It may not have been a sucess in my neck of the woods; but it was the only..ahem...game in town...in plenty of areas. I'm an Alex Kidd hater, so, I'm not exactly clamoring for the latter, however.

@Duffman92

Well, does the stereotype of someone that plays video games all day; collecting figurines, wall scrolls, steel boxes and other worthless merch carry with it traits such as self awareness and a sense of humour? 😜

Mario will be resurrected as four separate and unique Marios (one them to be played by Shaquille O’Neil) but then it will be revealed that none of them are actually Marios when the real Mario shows up with holes in his hands and feet and then at some point he’ll shed the red and blue costume for something more dark and gritty and appropriate for brooding atop the rooftops during a torrential downpour. Also, they’ll painstakingly remove his moustache with $100 million dollars worth of CGI.

I thought Hamster already had this for sale? Or was it just PlayStation and Xbox? Where’s Raiden?

I want a Lizardcube treatment Shinobi.

@Highonda_H_S

LOL. You’re missing out on the greatest beat em up ever because you’re not satisfied with it only having THIRTEEN unlockable characters (of which, you’re going to mostly play as the first one: Adam Hunter).

I don’t want DLC, I want Ninja Gaiden or Shinobi 4.

I don’t know anything about these newfangled polygon games but I do want a dotemu/lizardcube Ninja Gaiden 4.

@rockodoodle

To piggyback on what @mlj11 stated, one of the millions of updates drastically lowered the difficulty (and monotony) with the addition of a customization menu. That said, the game always worked like an RPG. By replaying the levels (which do at least gradually change) you’re essentially farming for precious experience points in the form of health buffs.

The game deserves 5 billion copies sold.

Until recently, I hadn’t known SNK actually finished Samurai Showdown 64 (let alone a sequel) nor actually released the Hyper 64. Now I know of the three different machines and the awful rail shooter and driving games. Woof.

I’ve been playing the crap out of SOR4 this week. Diving further into the difficulty modes, arcade mode and so forth. I don’t believe another beat em up out there stands a chance.

@BloodNinja

Oh no, it’s not at all a “soulsborne”. It’s definitely still a modern indie 2D metroidvania with a HEAVY Spanish Inquisition vibe. You backtrack all day long while getting pummelled with 15th century Catholicism vibes.

Not sure what the complaints are about the music. It’s a dark ambient take on classical Spanish stuffs. The sound design is pretty dope, tbh.

@BloodNinja

Nothing like Symphony of the Night. More like a Monster World lite or Hollow Night very lite. Controls are fine, not the best ever, but not at all bad. ACTION RPG more than anything. More Simon’s Quest in nature but with runes and secrets and whatnot. A word of warning: the game is really cryptic unless you go deep into the lore...and even then...you can tell they designed the game with the internet community in mind. If you want to find/do everything (including some mandatory things); you’re going to be googling for the answers.

@Wavey84

What’s funny is I love this game (warts and all) and many of the modern “metroidvania” me-toos but I absolutely could never and cannot get into Symphony of the Night (Super Metroid is my jam though).

This game is flipping great.

Old Darius game from Taito, you say? I have not looked at the price but I will take a stab in the dark. Seven Million US dollars?

@JayJ

By the time I finally proved that I was a bad enough dude, it was on the NES and the prez asked me to read his lips.

Craziest thing, I was scrolling through Hamster’s 2020 releases and I can’t find Raiden 1 or 2 anywhere. Can someone point out to me where I can find it on the eshop? Thanks.

@Ryu_Niiyama

It plays into the power fantasy. On top of all of the other things the player gets to pretend they can do; they also get to pretend that they’ve actually had sex in their lifetime. 🥳

Psycho Dream = drugs.

@FluffiestP1llow

I’ll petition to make that our state slogan.

“Illinois: Kind of Comfortable in a Weird Way”.

@shazbot

Katana Zero is rad. Meanwhile, The Messenger is definitely in a class of it’s own. Shinobi had to be a disappointment if you were expecting something like Cyber Shadow. The good news is it stands on it’s own merits. Because of the handicaps, the Switch port is probably the best way to play if you’re not fanatical about it.

Dude needs to come back into the game and open up a shop called Lovelace's.

@shazbot

Just a heads up, the original Shinobi is a straight up Rolling Thunder clone. I like Shinobi and Rolling Thunder but they have nothing in common with games like Cyber Shadow (although I've only played a bit of it). This stands for the Genesis/Mega Drive and Arcade sequels (although they gradually become more 90's action platformer with Shinobi III feeling like a different game alltogether). Ninja Spirits is an (albeit unique) IREM quarter muncher that actually does have some similiarities to console Ninja Gaiden with it's onslaught of respawning enemies. If you haven't already, I'd pick up the Messenger. It's everything Ninja Gaiden wishes it was and so much better.

Much of what TheWingedAvenger mentioned is available on Switch.

Ninja Gaiden and Shadow of the Ninja - NES Nintendo Switch ONLINE

Shinobi - Sega Ages

Ninja Spirit - Hamster Arcade Archives

Revenge of Shinobi, Shadow Dancer, Shinobi 3 - Sega Genesis/Mega Drive Classics

Rolling Thunder I and II - Namco Museum and Namco Arcade Pac

Taito felt we weren't impressed with their offering of 3 old Darius games for $50. They've looked into user feedback and have responded by offering 2 old Darius games for $65.

@Zanzox

What I'm getting at is I agree with you. It is graphically confused. The graphical assets are redrawn from many disparate and unrelated pre-existing works. It's developed by someone who's previous work was a Mario clone that Nintendo had pulled from shelves and an R-Type clone that cloned R-Type so good, he was taxed with porting R-Type in exchange for not geting sued.

@Zanzox

“Graphics is confused”? Are you suggesting that everything onscreen is traced over a hodge podge of other peoples work including a Manowar album cover, random Rob Liefield drawings of Stryfe, Moebius panels and Aliens production stills? 🤔

Twenty three ninety nine

@Sszx09

I think I have had 20-30 crashes by now. But that is more indicative of how much I’ve been playing Turrican games the past two days. 😂

Update:
My lord, I can’t play Mega Turrican without it constantly crashing. And saving is dangerous because that may trigger a crash , also. 🤪

@Sszx09

I noticed a lot of care was put into refining these games controls. Turrican II is especially responsive. They also bothered not to recreate the performance deficiencies of the games. They play without a hitch whereas some of the more spot on emulations of other games I’ve played feature all of the nasty sprite flicker and slowdown of the real thing.

Just a heads up, these games like to crash a lot. Mega Turrican particularly likes to crash after saving causing an infinite crash loop trying to load and then crash and so forth. Played through all of the games in one sitting, except Mega Turrican, which I keep creating save states like a dolt, and thus, having to start over again and again. 🤪. Particularly do not save near or after murdering the not alien queen from aliens.

@Mr_Horizon

I was teasing. Amiga only gets press here in the states when it is specific to a video game being ported from it (and the CD32 doesn’t help). Just as the Atari ST only gets mentioned in interviews with British electronic musicians.

Reality is that Amiga and Atari computers did way better here than internet historians would have us believe. They didn’t take America by storm, but the sales numbers were in millions and not tens of thousands. Apple did eventually eat up the niche the other two A’s had carved for themselves, however.

I would have loved to have an Amiga but my mom made those kinds of decisions at the time and she was so into budget IBM clones that we were like the only people in NA with an Amstrad 1512/1640 (1987?). 😂

@Ventilator

It’s almost as if they’re only interested in marketing to weirdo collectors? 🤔

@Lordplops

I knowww, I knowww 🤪

@RowdySunstrider

You know what else is so much better?

Raiden.