General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

Is that roguelike Doom Infinite any good? Seems like a really interesting idea for a roguelike actually.

Was just playing a bit of this over the weekend, it runs so smooth! Really nicely done. If it was a Nintendo IP it would probably be gone by now 😯

He released a game on PS5 recently that is compatible with PSVR 2 too.

From a convertaion in the office around funky beat'em ups, someone brought up that they saw a video about Buriki One on the Hyper Neo Geo 64 and how the controls are funky. You seemily just have a forward/back button for movement and the combat/attack buttons are a joystick. Thought, Ooo need to check that out to see that its only just been emulated well in MAME in the past year so no need to break the bank to try it out :D

I have buriki and one of the same shos buriki used to get a bit of play but haven't had it in a while, still not sure I'd spend good money on it

yeah snk were banjaxed financially by the time it was released fingers in way too many pies ,remember they had just released cd system as well that was horrendous and and was up against the ps and saturn a pocket system as well up against the gameboy. 3d Gaming was in its infancy and they mad a balls of it really as well and didnt stick to what they were good at .Its a odd system and I still don't know what they were thinking. never say one in the wild untill the mid 2000's and why would ops buy into this when the ng was still doing ok business !

One of the games has a bit of a following think its one of the samuari shodowns but not sure which one

i reckon it must have been pig of a system to design for as no other developer released anything.

Don't think I've ever heard anyone claim that , Jesus the system was mythical

To think games like The Last Blade and Metal Slug are running on hardware from 1990 is pretty insane.

^^ Ultimately, did Sega of America kill Sega as a major player on the console/gaming space? Had Sega of Japan been left to run global operations, would things have ended differently? It was Sega of America who wanted the 32X if I recall, and there were serious differences of opinion on how top proceed a lot of the time...

There are so many alternative reality questions when it comes to that era of gaming. Same with the Sony/Nintendo debacle, how would everything look now in a world where the Nintendo Playstation existed?

It's possible it might have flopped (as most addons do). Imagine a combination of that with Sega not releasing loads of silly Megadrive add ons and just going straight to the Saturn.

Actually speaking of Namco, one fascinating angle to the PS1 too (which I'm sure again added to their success) is how many arcade boards are based on it. Things like the Taito GNET and Namco System 10 are basically Playstations on a board with additional boards mounted on top of it.

Check out the base PCB with the Sony logo on it.

Taito GNET

Namco System 10. Revised on the above (with Namco Branding) but you'll notice the layout is practically the same with the silver heatsync in the same place, as well as the jamma edge.

Capcom were at it too. Street Fighter EX PCB. You'll note the Sony Playstation hardware on the bottom here too. Actually this one look far more similar to the GNET board above.

So three different arcade manufactuters effectively using the same hardware but with different media. Shows you have versatile it is as a system. GNET being out there using PCMCIA based games and everything.

Video Game Esoterica did a great video on it:

The funniest PS2 one I saw was the Konami 'Python'. Didn't even decase the PS2 😁

Yeah it mostly all became the same in the Ps1/PS2/Gamecube era besides maybe sega stuff, then PC hardware killed all the imagionation all together. It became easier/cheaper to develop in a shifting market where arcade sales were falling so it made sense to go that way unfortunatly. I know a few brave smaller devs tried original hardware. I've never seen a Konami 'Python' that looks like a nuts setup.

Inspired by the Game Gear thread, are there any hidden diamonds on the system you'd all recommend? It's a library I've wanted to get into for a while, but never really found the time.

This is a thing of beauty!

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/28/24113566/8bitdo-commodore-64-retro-mechanical-keyboard-specs-release-date-price-features

Absolutely sorry state of it too unless you want Evercade carts or the overpriced single player bartop Arcade 1up machines.

Iirc it was €280 each for the TMNT and the SF II Countercades. Pity the 2 player MvC one never came here as it can be hacked, that went on clearance in the US for $100 at Black Friday.

What are peoples thoughts on Contra Operation Galuga?

Anyone played it?

Random question - are there any Vewlix arcade cabs in any locations around Dublin? Have a notion I might look into getting one, be great to see one in the flesh

Is Base Arcade in Belfast still a thing or was that just a short pop up event? Remember seeing they'd a nice few Japanese cabinets in the mix.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1227901365264669&set=pcb.1227901485264657

Sounds like a trip needs to be planned

I went to Base last December. Pretty good little setup tbh.

No Viewlix when I was there. Maybe 4 candy cabs. Aero and (New) Astro City.

Was a nice day trip on the train.

Was not expecting Golden Axe to get an animated comedy series.