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@Retro_Player_77

We've gotten to a stage where there's the world video game market and then there's the Japanese video game market. I guarantee you that Microsoft doesn't care if they sell zero systems in that market because they don't have Role Playing Games featuring 10 year old school girls having sex with an octopus to a soundtrack of some woefully out of date 1980's glam rock.

@Arkay

I think a lot of it has to do with fans of a certain age range who aren't familiar with 99.9999999999% of Rare/UPG's prior output. I also have to imagine that the Nintendo IP games involved a certain degree of hand-holding.

@Razer

You’re making a good choice on the Xbox Series X. I have been planning on upgrading to one from my One X but the combination of COVID economic woes, the likely ‘new console’ availability issues leading up to Christmas, and my satisfaction mostly coming from the Switch means I’ll likely wait a bit longer.

@StuTwo

😂 On point.

@nessisonett

You took the words right out of my mouth.

Actually, I’ve always wanted to try scat...the nintendo game.

When your entire business concept is that you are the destination for roast beef yet you serve up the worst tasting imitation roast beef ever tasted by mankind...

@Northwind

“ When McDonald's has their periodic Pokemon toys in stock, they mostly sell them to adults.”

The most depressing sentence ever written.

Looking forward to the cease and desist letter the next time I wake up with a monster boner.

@Zuljaras

😂

I wonder if collectors would come over and clean up my house under the condition that they get to collect all of my garbage. 😂

My daughter is obsessed with Jack Black and so I promised her I’d unlock him in Tony Hawk....before I investigated the requirements for doing such. I’m proper <explicative deleted>.

Ubisoft? My copies of Prince of Persia all say Broderbund on them. What did I miss?

I’m pretty sure the idea is for each kid to ask Santa for one for Christmas and then they can play against each other and their parents/grandparents are going to watch the trailer and go into “whoah that’s super rad” mode just like my daughter’s grandfather did. Again, y’all discussing about “$200 for ‘co-op’ “ got some serious issues...
Then again, I don’t wet my pants when I see gawdy IP skinned special edition controllers, plastic figurines and Nintendo themed garments, so perhaps I’m just not one with the “fandom”. 💅

All-Stars has the benefit of eliminating annoying sprite flickering which makes all of the difference for me, myself and I.

I’ve been exposed to good old covid19 and have what I thought was a cold, so I’m currently playing a game called “find a testing facility in the US that isn't closed until Tuesday”.
Congress is playing a game called “GOP and DNC bi-partisan virtue signaling” so since I’m working as much as they are I’ll be playing game called “find a roof over my head” by next week. 😂

That said, probably Tony Hawk as a self reward after I clean up my house.

I did randomly decide to play through all of the NES/SNES Castlevania games this week. I must say, I’ve been wrong all of these years. Simon’s Quest isn’t as bad as I had remembered. Castlevania III is boring and overrated and Castlevania IV is boring and overrated.

I also randomly beat Mario and Mario 3 whatever day All-Stars dropped. I’m not into Mario games (did play the first one a million times back when), but I have to say, SMB 3 is damn impressive.

I’m just over here watching people over the age of 9 years old proclaiming the results of their consideration over whether or not to purchase the Mario RC car game for...themselves.

Just when I think I’m out, they drag me back in.

@KingMike

They already had it available on PS and Xbox for awhile so it was probably for the heck of it (same with Gradius).

@The-Nate

Thank you. Looking forward to playing the de-materialised version.

So is there going to be a digital release or not?

@TYRANACLES

Their gamepads are rad. They’re not known for joysticks.

If it’s the same game, then I’m sure it will be fine. Monster Boy has weird flash like visuals I really don’t like and it’s hands down the best game of the series by a long shot.

The NA one has a dope ass young adult sci fi ninja fantasy book cover vibe.

@Not_Soos

Breakout is the one that started it all. That one has a wild backstory. Wozniak programmed (literally from the PCB design and up) it when Steve Jobs “worked” at Atari. That board ended up being the framework for the Apple IIE (I think). Arkanoid was certainly the most popular competitor.

@Jokerwolf

Actually that would great. Cross our fingers.

I’ve been curious why they haven’t just dumped the bajillion Sega Ages collections from Saturn-PS2 onto the Switch.

A remake? With 3-D graphics? Pfffft

@EarthboundBenjy

I totally had to Google half of those. I only really knew the Turbo ports and Hudson’s Adventure Island from memory. This is the first time I’ve heard of Whomp ‘Em.

Edit:

Holy moly: Whomp ‘Em is a re-skin of Saiyuki World 2 which is a sequel to a re-skin of Wonderboy in Monsterland. My mind is blown.

@TrevorMcD

Aggelos has the downward stabs you seek. It also happens to be a shameless WB/MW clone. It’s quite good.

@SmaggTheSmug

Yeah, they’re taking advantage of the newfound Wonderboy name recognition while delivering a direct sequel to a game that had dropped the Wonderboy name because...well..the obvious. 😂

Monster World IV was never exported and fell between the cracks as a Sega Saturn era Mega Drive game. It wasn’t until the 360/Wii era that anyone outside of Japan had access to a legal english version of the game.

I may have had a turbografx and was familiar with the series, but I too literally never played a Wonderboy game (outside of Hudson’s Adventure Island) until the Dragon’s Trap remake, myself. I literally only knew Monster World IV existed because someone at Gamefan wrote an article about it.

Fire up a different platform and go for some cut-rate BOTW with Assassins Creed Odyssey or Horizon Zero Dawn.

@GravyThief

Puzzle platformer and no backtracking, if I recall. But that has no say on what this new one will have in store.

@Caryslan

Because 90% of sales will be on Switch, 10% on Playstation and 0% on Xbox. Surely they asked for the Dragons Trap and Cursed Kingdom numbers.

@EarthboundBenjy

Escape/Westone owned the game and Sega owned/owns the title. Consequently, the base games were released on various platforms with new titles and character sprites. The original games themselves have a confusing title order. All games are considered part of the Wonderboy franchise. Meanwhile, the first (Wonderboy) and third (Wonder Boy III Monster Lair) arcade titles are not considered part of the Monster World series. The Monster World series consists of the Wonderboy games that feature action-rpg/metroidvania/platformer gameplay.

Wonderboy

• Ported as Adventure Island (adventure island had it’s own sequels)

Wonderboy in Monsterland (first Monster World game)

• Ported as Bikkuriman World
• Ported as Saiyuki World (had it’s own sequel: Whoop ‘Em)
• Ported as Super Wonderboy in Monster Island
• Ported as Super Adventure Island (not to be confused with the SNES game of the same name)

Wonderboy III: Monster Lair (third arcade game)

• Ported as Monster Lair

Wonderboy III: Dragon’s Trap (third master system console game) (second Monster World game)

• Ported as Adventure Island (not to be confused with the above)
• Ported as Dragon’s Curse
• Ported as Monster World II
• Ported as Wonderboy: Dragon’s Trap
• Ported as Monica’s Gang

Wonderboy V: Monster World III (fifth Wonderboy title, third Monster World game)

• Alt title Wonderboy in Monster World
• Ported as Dynastic Hero
• Ported as Monica’s Gang in Monster Land

Monster World IV
(Wonderboy - Asha in Monster World should be a direct sequel to this. )

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Spiritual gameplay successor to Wonderboy III: Dragons Trap and can be considered part of the series (specifically Monster World). Simply lacking the name (owned by Sega).

Wonderboy - Asha in Monster World
Presumably a direct sequel to Monster World IV, featuring the same protagonist.

@mr_eman

Monster Boy is the newest Wonderboy/Monsterworld game and is definitely the best (and half off right now). Wonderboy III: The Dragons Trap was the fan favourite before Monster Boy took it’s crown.

@SmaggTheSmug

Shantae more or less is a knockoff of the protagonist from Monster World IV.

2/12 and I beat Super Metroid without a guide.

The only thing I know about Gamescomm is that it involves cosplay and I’d rather swallow cyanide....

@YANDMAN

No, it is not that graphic. It looks like a snes game. 🤪

@TheBigK

You don’t need a map and you don’t need to backtrack. You technically return to areas, but your boxed off to where you’re supposed to be at that level. It’ve very linear.

The game hand-holds you with sign-posting and roadblocks. You cannot get lost if you don’t turn around and go backwards. Keep moving ahead and you will never need a map. To say otherwise is to complain because you went left while playing Super Mario Bros.

@retro_player_77

The first two (the second being vastly superior) are the ones to play if you play any of them.

@Reaast

It could be worse. You could be buying PB Baumann tools at the US list prices with an American salary. 😂

Those aresome sweet deals on Hotline Miami, Mother Russia Bleeds, Pikuniku and Broforce.

@TG16_IS_BAE

If you’re looking for it, Dangun Feveron came out, too, as part of the same series of “shotriggers” ports. M2 supposedly has a whole bunch of shooters coming out in the series but I haven’t seen anything materialise as of yet.

The only thing in that presentation I found to be appealing was Shruti Gosh’s on point 💅 manicure.

I totally forgot that Carrion had been coming (let alone, came out already), I so I enjoyed about three playthroughs of said game this weekend. Not at all hard, and backtracking is completely unneccessary to finish the game. The signposting is next level.

@tourjeff

I keep recommending certain Devolver games to my friends only to find out that they’re Switch/PC exclusive and not on their PS4. The 13 year old edgelord fan base is going to find that all of the PS5 and XBOX system sellers are delayed, indefinitely. The kids are going to have to decide between portable Mario Kart and Lego properties and I’m betting the farm on the former. There’s not a compelling reason for someone to buy a PS5 this year, and the compelling reason to buy an Xbox Series X is if you own an Xbox One . I’m planning to get an Xbox Series X. I’m sold on it. But I’m also not planning on buying any new games for it anytime in the next year.

Don’t be surprised when Switch outsells PS5 and Xbox Series X/S fourth quarter.