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see this alsoThe Core Grafix PC Engine is already a PC Engine mini!
I was wondering if the mini turbo would be bigger than the original pc engine. Still can't believe the made it unncessarily huge back then. Can just picture all these Japanese engineers proud as punch with their efforts on getting it so small and then told "the stupid yanks want it huge"
think all 3 are similar vids EDIT- actually the pc engine one shows some different games
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/11/18662198/turbografx-16-mini-console-announced-konamiThe games announced so far are:
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New Adventure Island
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Konami " we're bringing out the PC Engine mini.."
Everybody "Yay!"
Konami " Its a pachinko machine"
Everyone " Boo"
European release though , hopefully they dont mean " places in Europe that got the PCE back then "
Was never really released in Europe officially. It was grey importers buying us machines and modding them for power and 50hz with Hudson/nec just turned a blind eye.
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Bugger , I could have sworn it got a release in France or the Netherlands?
"It also had a limited release in the United Kingdom and Spain in 1990, known as simply TurboGrafx and based on the American model, while the Japanese model was imported and distributed in France in 1989. "
That explains it
It was the Telegames crowd, IIRC, that bought up the UK PAL stock (after NEC bottled it) and sold them via mail order, though I think one of the smaller retail chains got a supply from them as well.
Can't say I had the pleasure at the time, and TBH, I don't know how anyone could fancy a similar styling to the US model over the classic PCE design.
Edit - scan of the box art
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Thought I'd finally get around to posting a few pics from my trip to Toronto last month.
First up is Tilt, a nice little barcade. Leaning more towards games and beers than food. Food is more snacks and less sit down meal. €5 nachos, €8/9 sandwich/burger with fries. Deep fried Mars bar was lovely. $5/€3.20 in, 2 for 1 Monday, $2/€1.30 Tuesday, all free play.
Not a single broken button or joystick. 2:1 parent to kid policy, limited times etc. Had a few booths setup with Mega Drive, NES with Everdrive. GameCube with Mario Kart, a few cocktail cabs, some skeeball, foosball, basketball. One machine had Pandora 5.
Nice selection of pins too. Full list of games on their website for anyone interested
Next is the TV Museum. One large room that you do a loop around going through the history of TV, very interesting to see some of the first TVs and how they work. Probably only took about an hour, a bit longer if you use the app/site audio guide. The GF was tired so didn't stick around too long
Then I saw this in the Scotiabank Theatre after seeing a movie, it was nice to see an older machine among Time Crisis 4, Aliens Extermination, Fast & Furious etc.
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For anyone that doesn't think M2 are the best I just read that the Secret of Mana 3 translation in the Mana collection is coded into the game at such a low level that hackers have copied the rom from the collection and it works perfectly on a SNES.
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Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »Great writeup here on what potentially goes into translating a games text. Earthbound was a complete pig it seems.
Apparently Seiken Densetsu 3 was even worse as the entire script was encrypted in a way to try and squeeze as much memory as possible out of the game. the fan translator said it was an absolute nightmare. Amazing that M2 probably went through that process to translate the game for a retro collection when the reason Square wouldn't release it as a full game for years was that it would cost too much to hack the encryption.
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They still had a sit down deluxe HOTD2 in Bray bowl the last time I was there.
Only bad thing about them really is, with the rear projection screens in them, they're mostly all unplayable at this stage.
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The Switch needs some kind of Tate mode stand, would be a great little console for shmups.
There's always the Flip Grip. I don't have one myself but I heard they're very good.
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The Switch needs some kind of Tate mode stand, would be a great little console for shmups.
I got one of these a few months ago.
The Flip Grip for the Switch.
A nice little holder that lets you play Tate mode games either in the hand or with a card as a stand so you can play with your arcade stick or similar.
Kickstarter Flip-Grip
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Might be a long shot here but there was a shooter in the M2 Complete Works documentary that I'm trying to suss out. You control a ship and it's in the style of Space Harrier perspective. I think it's the Mega Drive generation...
Do you have a screenshot or a minute of the video?
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Think it might be this
Galaxy Force II, remade for the 3DS by M2 as part of the Sega Ages 3D series, a conversion of the arcade original.
This is the original Megadrive version
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Think it might be this
Galaxy Force II, remade for the 3DS by M2 as part of the Sega Ages 3D series, a conversion of the arcade original.
This is the original Megadrive version
That's the one! It was late last night so didn't have a chance to scrub through an hours worth of video 0 -
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Nor retro but certainly arcade,
Radirgy Swag is out on Switch, from the Japanese eShop.
Cost me about €16 or so.
Only thing is the borders on the left and right are a little big, particularly in portable mode, and I don't see a Tate mode, but then I don't read japanese!
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Retr0gamer wrote: »Didn't like Radirgy on the Dreamcast so not sure about that game.
I'm hoping it is a good sign, maybe we'll see some more Shmups making their way to the format, hoping for Cave to make an appearance.
Who knows....
Maybe Under Defeat...
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Shapey Fiend wrote: »Just looking at their wiki they'd 158 employees in 2012. That seems like an awful lot for such a niche genre.
They did a lot of mobile games then and ramped up that division. I think they were also still supporting Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine at that time which was a MMO.
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