Retro Gaming Australia

Another week, another bunch of games beaten. Resident Evil 3 has long taunted me with its affinity for making you run through narrow corridors while chased by a huge mutant that can kill you in a scant few hits, but I finally beat that bastard. I was hoping to be able to spend some time with Pokemon Heart Gold, but the mail service has forsaken me yet again.

All is quiet on the retro front again, unfortunately, but there are a few interesting pieces I managed to stumble across this week.

Interview: Mike Dietz at Sega-16

In the glory days of the Mega Drive, Virgin was among the best studios when it came to animation. Mike Dietz was the supervising animator at the developer back in the day, and Sega-16 caught up with him to chat about Virgin, Shiny and Earthworm Jim.

Slayers Translation Patch Complete at Romhacking.net

Slayers is a traditional 16-bit RPG, released for the Super Famicom. Like many of its contemporaries, the game stayed in Japan, but a team of romhackers and translators have worked their magic on the game to bring an English version for your consumption.

Star Fox 2 at SNES Central

Star Fox 2 was set to be one of 1995’s big SNES games, but was cancelled towards the end of the year. It was believed that many of the features of the game were worked into Star Fox 64/Lylat Wars. SNES Central has put together a fantastic article detailing the story behind Star Fox 2 and some background information on the release of a near final version of the game ROM a few years back.

Malice (PSX), Metamor Kid Goomin (SNES), Deathtrap Dungeon Beta (PC/PSX), Zoiks (PC), Akira (SNES/MD), Dominion (PC/Xbox), Fallout Tactics 2 (PC), Project Dagger (PS2/Xbox) at Unseen64

Good variety of updates from Unseen64 this week. Never knew Malice was in development for the PSX – always thought it was one of those silly looking and eventually cancelled first party publishing deals Microsoft made out of desperation in the early days of the Xbox. Interesting to finally see pics of THQ’s Akira game, even though nothing good ever came out of THQ in those days.

This week’s Virtual Console release: Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Calibre (N64) and Fatal Fury Special (Neo Geo)

Virtual Console is really starting to come along – we’ve got our first third party N64 game available on the service now. Since Ogre Battle is somewhat popular game on eBay, I’m hoping that this release drives down the price and cools the demand for a while.

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