Season 3 Episode 15

Episode 87

 

News:

• Sonic the Hedgehog Fans Are Furious About Sega's NFT Announcement 
• Street Fighter 2 as a tech demo on the Amiga
• NES Tetris Players Call It 'Rolling,' And They're Setting New World Records
• The Noid gets back into video games with Crash Bandicoot crossover
• The Man Who Invented Majora's Mask Reflects on 30 Years at Nintendo
• Hands On: The EverDrive GBA X5 Mini Solves The Only Real Issue We Had With The Original
• Everything you ever wanted to know about Street Fighter history
• Super Mario Bros. 2 Japan + Super Mario Bros. 2 USA = My Dream Game
• Sega Sells Its Western Arcade Division
• Typing of the Dead: Overkill to include Yahoo Answers custom dictionary 
• Software Developer Tracks Down Code for a Beloved 41-Year-Old Text Adventure
• Sinden Light Gun Support Added to PS1d
• Playstation 1 In-Game reset mod 
• PlayStation Portable Architecture

Topic: Ports that are better than the original

• Contra
• Bump'n'Jump
• Rygar
• Legendary Wings
• Bionic Commando
• Ninja Gaiden
• Late 16-bit Frogger and Space Invaders ports
• Punch-out (original arcade vs NES)
• Super Mario Vs
• Klax
• Paperboy
• Soul Calibur on Dreamcast 
• All Neo Geo games. They are the same game, but you are at home.
• Also debatable: Strider on NES, very different yet better game than the arcade 
• Controversial opinion: some 7800 ports are more fun than than the original game despite being technically inferior: Food Fight, Commando, Galaga is really close

Game Club Discussion:

• Bump’n’Jump
• Pac-Man Arrangement

New Game Club Games:

• Gauntlet: Legends / Dark Legacy
• Time Pilot

Game Club Master List

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