Retro Gaming Australia

The Bouncer is another collaboration between DreamFactory and Squaresoft. It was heavily anticipated during the early days of the PlayStation 2 due to the high quality of previous DreamFactory/Square collaborations and impressive early footage. However the game was scaled back during development and the final product failed to match the vision. It is not a bad game, it is just short and bare.

Once upon a time, they used to release real time strategy games on consoles for shits and giggles – some of the early Command & Conquer and Warcraft games made their way to the PlayStation, Saturn and Nintendo 64. In some cases, they actually supported mice.

Xbox Live Arcade
Darkstalkers Resurrection (Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge & Darkstalkers 3) – 1200 points

Nintendo eShop (Australia, Europe)
Nothing

Nintendo eShop (North America)

3DS Virtual Console
Mega Man 3 (NES) – $US4.99

PlayStation Store (Australia, Europe)

New Releases
Darkstalkers Resurrection (Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge & Darkstalkers 3) – $AU21.95
Resident Evil Super Bundle (Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Resident Evil Code Veronica X HD, Resident Evil 4 HD, Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition, Resident Evil 6, Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles HD, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles HD and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City) – $AU99.95
Resident Evil 1+2+3 Bundle – $AU21.95
Resident Evil 4 HD & Code Veronica X HD Bundle – $AU24.95
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer (PS2 Classics) – $AU14.45
Monsters Inc: Scare Island (PS2 Classics) – $AU14.45
Warriors Orochi 2 (PS2 Classics) – $AU14.45
Maken Shao: Demon Sword (PS2 Classics) – $AU7.35

Discounts
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection for PSVita – Free for PSPlus subscribers

PlayStation Store (North America)

New Releases
Darkstalkers Resurrection (Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge & Darkstalkers 3) – $US14.99
Favorite Dear – Enkan No Monogatari (PSOne Classics Import) – $US5.99
First Queen IV (PSOne Classics Import) – $US5.99
Mahjong Uranai Fortuna -Tsuki No Megami Tachi (PSOne Classics Import) – $US5.99
Motorhead High Velocity Entertainment (PSOne Classics Import) – $US5.99
Oz No Mahoutsukai -Another World- Rungrung (PSOne Classics Import) – $US5.99
Sentimental Graffiti (PSOne Classics Import) – $US5.99
Trump Shiyouyo! Fukkoku-Ban (PSOne Classics Import) – $US5.99
Kessen II (PS2 Classics) – $US9.99

Discounts
Ubisoft sale: 20% off for all, 50% off for PSPlus
Prince of Persia HD Trilogy – $US27.99 / $US19.59
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell HD Trilogy – $US27.99 / $US19.59
Prince of Persia Classic – $US6.99 / $US4.89

Good Old Games

New Releases
Magic Carpet II: The Netherworlds – $US5.99
Omikron: The Nomad Soul – $US9.99
Catacombs Pack – $US5.99

Discounts
60% off Enlight games

Steam
35-50% off all Ubisoft catalogue titles
Jet Set Radio HD – 75% off

Samurai Shodown for the 3DO is arguably the best non-Neo Geo home release of the game. Shame you have to use the ghastly 3DO pad to play it.

This is a dual game ad from Konami, featuring Snake’s Revenge and Super C (or Super Contra) for the NES. Before the release of Metal Gear Solid, most in the West treated Snake’s Revenge as the sequel to Metal Gear, not knowing of the existence of the MSX only Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. There seems to have been a backlash against the game in the years since as a result of its non-canon status, and lack of Kojima involvement.

Rambo for the NES is a fairly typical licensed run and gun platformer upon first glance, but it actually shares quite a bit in common with Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. The game is based on Rambo: First Blood Part II, but deviates from the film at numerous points.

Wizardry is widely held to be one of the most influential games of all time. It is often credited as being the game which inspired the creation of the Japanese RPG, as Dragon Quest designer Yuji Horii lists it alongside Ultima as being a major influence in the design of the first game in the series. While the Wizardry series ceased in the West with Wizardry 8, spin-offs continued to be produced in Japan.

Sunset Riders is one of Konami’s more successful 90s arcade releases that wasn’t a beat ’em up. The SNES version is a bit closer to the arcade original than the Mega Drive one, but was released in smaller numbers. That makes it an expensive cartridge to acquire.

Dragon Power is a great example of what used to happen to games based on anime licenses in a time before anime was popular in North America. It’s actually an adaptation of the second Dragon Ball game for the Famicom, with Goku replaced by a generic kung fu fighter. In France and Spain, where Dragon Ball was adapted well before it was in North America, Britain and Australia, the game was released intact.

Both the NES and the WWF were at the top of their game at the end of the 1980s, so it was only natural that the two forces would collide. WWF WrestleMania Challenge is the second WWF effort for the system, and features eight WWF superstars, including favourites such as Hulk Hogan, The Macho Man Randy Savage and the Ultimate Warrior.