The Wonder Boy remake was top to bottom fantastic, so I’m willing to put faith in Lizardcube for this one.

I have a memory of me and my dad playing this with graph paper by our side to make maps. Not something people would do today, but it’s a nice memory.

Except Amazon implements an Uber style service where they contract drivers to do their deliveries:

And as we all know, 4 months on the internet is like 40 years or something.

From my understanding M2 is working on these, and they’ve done a fantastic job bringing a lot of different Genesis games to the 3DS. Not only do they make a great 3D mode, they added your choice of Japanese or US versions of the game (each with their own difficulties), modifiers that stand outside the standard options…

That’s cool.

If their only solutions peddled to consumers is “pay us incrementally over a long period so we can still get that $90 or more out of you” or “we want to build a universal platform where you don’t own shit” to offset the costs of $100+ million budgets, maybe they need to cease to exist?

I laughed pretty hard, here’s a star!

Considering that the additions being promised aren’t some catch-all but are designed uniquely around every game they release, I think that’s okay. There’s real work being put into elevating each game into an experience that goes above and beyond the originals.

Their Genesis ports on 3DS are stuff of legend too.

I know I was bummed when the Collection was announced for anything-but-Switch. The PC version is a really cool way to have all those classics in one program, even if they’re just ROMs with small improvements.

All I know is the Hat in Time dev said the same thing, and just yesterday announced their Switch port. I can wait.

Games haven’t seen a price hike in about 2 generations. We’re talking from the days of 360 in 2005, until today. Keeping games $60 for about 13 years ignores the combination of exploding development costs (with or without 4k), and doesn’t adjust for inflation.

Waiting for it on Switch!

Yeah, I’ve NEVER had that experience. The best they do is tell me they’ll give me a free month of Prime.

I do, and using it helps a LOT. Yet for some reason, they refuse to ship certain items (such as all videogames) to the locker near me.

And? I’d rather they charge what they thought it cost, and then have to adjust it over time to match demand, than release it as ‘episodes’ that they’re aiming to do now (and will probably cost more than $120, when all is said and done over the course of...3 years or so)

Games aren’t a right.

Because they should.

I live in a big city and 2 day shipping is usually “watch this driver arrive, count to 10, and leave saying they tried to deliver it even though that’s a lie, because you were home all day, and then watch them say they sent it back to the warehouse and now it’s sold out and whoops you wanna wait 3 weeks?”