Tomorrow is April Fool's Day... and it's also Easter. Any chance we can skip the former and go straight to the latter, internet? It'd save me from a lot of unnecessary heartache and dumb jokes. I know, I know, it's a tradition, but just give it some thought, would you?
Anyway. Since the Genesis Flashback HD was a bust and a hack to make it live up to its full potential has yet to be released, I've jumped straight to the Super Retrocade. It's a plug and play console that runs not only Genesis games, but titles for the Super NES, NES, and Game Boy as well. As the name suggests, it also plays arcade games, with big names like Bad Dudes, MERCS, and Strider baked right into the unit. It's been getting high marks from reviewers and the SD card slot expands its scope well beyond the ninety included games, so I should be happy enough with it when it arrives. (Even if it looks like a high-tech tissue dispenser.)
Speaking of the Genesis! There's a guy named Andy Grind who's hard at work on a Genesis conversion of Cave Story. It's not finished yet, but it's surprisingly close... unless you're gunning for the Sacred Ground and Ballos, you can beat the game without realizing anything is missing. Between this and Paul Koller's Commodore 64 port of Spelunky, it looks like 2018 is shaping up to be a great year for indie de-makes.
Random observations on the classic gaming scene, courtesy of the former editor of The Gameroom Blitz.
My reaction when I realized that April Fool's Day and Easter Sunday would be on the same day this year was "Oh God no..."
ReplyDeleteAnyway, aside from Talking Time I'm gonna try and stay offline on Easter Dummy Day. We already have enough actual stupid bullshit going on these days without having to worry about being tricked by the made-up kind.