Retro Gaming Australia

After Burner was a smash hit in the arcades, prompting Sega to license and/or port it to every format under the sun. This flyer is from the release of the Mark III/Sega Master System version. While technically deficient, the SMS version of the game does have some rather neat boss fights.

Excuse our unintentional recent absence!

Xbox Live Arcade
Flashback – 800 MSP

Nintendo eShop (Australia, Europe)

WiiU Virtual Console
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (SNES) – $AU10.40
Street Fighter II’ Turbo: Hyper Fighting (SNES) – $AU10.40
Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (SNES) – $AU10.40

3DS Virtual Console
Solomon’s Key (NES) – $AU6.50

Nintendo eShop (North America)

WiiU Virtual Console
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (SNES) – $US7.99
Street Fighter II’ Turbo: Hyper Fighting (SNES) – $US7.99
Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (SNES) – $US7.99

3DS Virtual Console
Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos (NES) – $US4.99

PlayStation Store (Australia, Europe)

Nothing

PlayStation Store (North America)

New Releases
Kessen III (PS2 Classics) – $US9.99
Naval Ops Commander (PS2 Classics) – $US9.99
Dragon’s Lair Trilogy (contains Dragon’s Lair, Dragon’s Lair II and Space Ace) – $US19.99

Discounts
Metal Gear Solid HD Edition (PSVita) – $US20.99 ($US14.69 for PSPlus)
Preorder digital edition of Grand Theft Auto V, save up to 75% off selected Rockstar digital games

Good Old Games

New Releases
Thunderscape – $US5.99

Discounts
The Thinking Gamer’s sale – 50% off various strategy games

Steam
75% off the Fallout collection (Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics) – $US4.99
50% off Another World 20th Anniversary Edition – $US4.99

Crazy Taxi 3 is the somewhat maligned final numbered entry in the Crazy Taxi series. Originally an Xbox exclusive, it was released to Arcades as the Chihiro driven Crazy Taxi: High Roller, with a PC release following years later. The game takes some of the maps from the first two games and throws in the new Vegas-inspired map, Glitter Oasis.

Got some rare things on sale today, stranger!

Snatcher (Mega CD)

Worms Armageddon (N64)

Sonic Compilation (Mega Drive)

Yoshi's Story (N64)

Alien Soldier (Mega Drive)

Killer Instinct + Watch (SNES)

Sega Saturn

Terranigma (SNES)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (SNES)

Spanish artist Abel Alves has posted a trailer for a new creation that will have many of you excited – a free 8-bit style game based on the popular Game of Thrones TV series.

The game features four different characters (Jon Snow, Daenarys and Tyrion are shown in the video – each with different abilities and attacks) from the TV show as well as awesome chiptune renditions of the music from the show created by Floating Point. There are four levels in all, based on different parts of the book and TV series, some of which were provided by pixel artist Carl Olsson.

You will be able to the game here soon.

Japanese translation blog Yomuka has posted an English version of the three way interview between Shigeru Miyamoto, Satoru Iwata (then HAL Laboratory President) and Mother series creator Shigesato Itoi which was posted not long after the official announcement of the cancellation of the Nintendo 64 version of Mother 3 (known to us as Earthbound 64).

The interview is long, but goes into a lot of detail about where the game was at, what was going wrong with it and why the cancellation occurred.

It’s a fascinating read.

Capcom will be releasing a 2-disc, 40 track soundtrack set in celebration of the company’s 30th anniversary on September 25th.

Entitled Capcom 30th Anniversary Music Best: Original & Arrange, the CD contains tracks from popular Capcom classic franchises such as Ghosts’n Goblins, Mega Man and Street Fighter, as well as modern hits Sengoku Basara, Monster Hunter and Dragon’s Dogma.

So far the CD is only planned for release in Japan, but you can easily obtain it from AmiAmi for the RRP of 3150 yen.

Via Siliconera

Back in the 1990s, Nintendo licensed Donkey Kong Country out for a CG animated TV show produced by France 2 and Nelvana. The result was not pretty, and most people have tried to forget about it.

However, those of you with a morbid curiosity may be excited to know that a new DVD featuring three episodes from the short-lived series will be released in North America in October. The DVD is called Donkey Kong Country: Raiders of the Lost Banana and will set you back $US10.

This may be the first release of the series on DVD in North America, but a couple of single episode DVDs and one collection have been released in Australia and can be found for cheap.

Via GoNintendo

Another kind of below par week. There’s some good stuff out there, but it’s way overpriced.

Saturn with Virtua Gun and four games

Snowboard Kids 2 (Nintendo 64)

DuckTales (NES)

Sonic CD and Mortal Kombat CD (Mega CD)

Street Gangs (aka River City Ransom) (NES)

Shenmue and Shenmue II (Dreamcast)

Sega has finally announced that Castle of Illusion HD will be hitting the PlayStation Store on September 3, with the Xbox Live Arcade version to follow on September 4.

As an added incentive, Sega will be giving away the Mega Drive version of Castle of Illusion with digital preorders on the PlayStation Store. It is our understanding that this will be the only way to get the classic version of the game, as plans have not been announced for a separate release.

A local price for the PSN version has not been revealed (it is £9.99 / €12.99 / $US14.99 elsewhere), but it will set you back 1200 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live.