Retro Gaming Australia

This is the best week in a long time – totally unexpected!

Nintendo eShop (Australia, Europe)

3DS Virtual Console
Metroid (NES) – On sale for $AU5.25
Metroid II: Return of Samus (Game Boy) – On sale for $AU4.50

Nintendo eShop (North America)

Wii Virtual Console
Real Bout: Fatal Fury (Neo Geo) – 900 points

3DS Virtual Console
Ninja Gaiden (NES) – $US4.99

PlayStation Store (Australia, Europe)

New Releases
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2 Classics) – $AU21.95
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSOne Classics) – $AU15.95
Spyro the Dragon (PSOne Classics) – $AU8.45
Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer (PSOne Classics) – $AU8.45
Spyro: Year of the Dragon (PSOne Classics) – $AU8.45
Spyro Trilogy (PSOne Classics) – $AU15.95
Um Jammer Lammy (PSOne Classics) – $AU8.45

PlayStation Store (North America)

New Releases
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2 Classics) – $US14.99

Good Old Games
GOG Holiday Sale – over 475 games on sale – ongoing until January 3

Spanish independent developer Locomalito has released a new game called Maldita Castilla, which is his ode to the arcade platformers of old, such as Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts, Black Tiger and Karnov.

The game mixes the platforming action of the aforementioned games with European mythology and draws inspiration from the landmark novel Amadis de Gaula, one of the most influential series in literary history.

You can download the game here. It’s free, but you get a few extras if you donate to the author.

Classic PC game store Good Old Games has started its 2012 Holiday Sale, with over 475 games on sale for 50% off.

That’s not all – over the next two weeks, the store will also be running daily promotions where select games will be discounted further, starting with a selection of Bullfrog favourites.

On top of that, the PC gaming classic Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition is free for the next 48 hours – hop to it!

The Konix Multisystem was an ambitious British made console originally intended to go on sale in 1989, but never eventuated following years of delays and the death of its parent company. The 16-bit 8086 driven system essentially acted as a dashboard with a variety of peripherals (steering wheels, joysticks etc.) available. Unfortunately the combination of the company’s ambition to use floppy disks and media combined with the system’s low RAM doomed it in the eyes of most developers.

For many years, the only way you get could a taste for what the system was like was through some old VHS footage of the games. However now through the hard work of a programmer called Savoury Snax, Phil Bennett, Slipstream – the Konix Multisystem archive and legendary British programmer Jeff Minter, a Konix Multisystem emulator is now available.

Currently Slipstream has source code for two games: Robocod and Attack of the Mutant Camels 1989. Although the games are from different eras of the Konix Multisystem hardware (as it changed a lot in development), the fact that they are playable at all is simply amazing.

Via RetroCollect

The author of the most accurate SNES emulator, bsnes (now higan), byuu, is selling off his US SNES Collection. The emulator author rounded up all 721 commercial releases for the system to ensure that perfect dumps of each game were released, that they were 100% compatible with his emulator, and that the boxes and manuals could be scanned and preserved.

The last part of that plan looks like it’s going to the dogs – byuu is selling up so that he can start work on the PAL and Super Famicom sets – though apparently he’ll give you a discount if you let him hang onto those boxes and manuals so he can scan them.

The buy it now price is currently a cool $US25,000 – about $34 per game. Considering that the vast majority of them are complete, that’s actually not that bad a deal when you factor in the high price of most of the system’s RPGs.

Capcom has announced that they have approved the release of a fan made Mega Man and Street Fighter crossover game in celebration of each series’ 25th anniversary. The game will be released on December 17, drawing the Street Fighter 25th Anniversary celebrations to a close, and kicking off the Mega Man series 25th Anniversary celebrations. Yes, Capcom has actually decided to do something for Mega Man’s anniversary.

As you can see from the trailer, the game essentially plays like your bog standard Mega Man game, but replaces the usual robot masters with eight of the finest fighters from the Street Fighter series.

Capcom’s Christian Svensson says they have more planned for the Mega Man anniversary, and that celebrations will take place over the course of the next year. On a post on Capcom Unity, he stated “I don’t know that there’s more substantial [things] for me to talk about but there’s a TON more things we have in the works, only some of which will be shared on December 17th.”

At this stage, the only other known Mega Man anniversary plans are the Virtual Console releases of Mega Man and Mega Man 2 for the 3DS in Europe in Q1 2013. Get to it, Capcom!

The BBC is reporting that long-serving work for hire developer Eurocom Entertainment Software will be shutting its doors after 24 years.

Eurocom is best remembered for their high quality ports during the fifth generation era such as the Mortal Kombat series, Duke Nukem 64 and Hydro Thunder.

They also spearheaded the Wii-based reimagining of GoldenEye, which was a big success in 2010. However, it seems Bond did them in in the end, with the recently released 007 Legends lack of success being a major contributor to the studio’s fate.

Xbox Live Arcade
Nada

Nintendo eShop (Australia, Europe)

Wii Virtual Console
The Last Blade 2 (Neo Geo) – 900 points

3DS Virtual Console
Wario Land 3 (Game Boy Color) – $AU7.99

Nintendo eShop (North America)

Wii Virtual Console
BurgerTime (NES) – 500 points

3DS Virtual Console
Might Bomb Jack (NES) – $US4.99

PlayStation Store (Australia, Europe)

New Releases
Sega Model 2 Collection Vol 1:
Fighting Vipers
Sonic the Fighters
Virtua Fighter 2

Discounts
50% off the following (PS Plus only)
Breath of Fire 3 (PSP)
Capcom Classics Reloaded (PSP)
Capcom Classics Collection Remixed (PSP)
Capcom Puzzle World (PSP)
Power Stone Collection (PSP)
Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX (PSP)

PlayStation Store (North America)

New Releases
Under Defeat: Deluxe Edition – $US29.99
Chulip (PS2 Classics) – $US9.99
Art Camion Sugorokuden (PSOne Classcs) – $US5.99
Finger Flashing (PSOne Classics) – $US5.99
Lup Salad (PSOne Classics) – $US5.99
Makeruna Makendo 2 (PSOne Classics) – $US5.99
Vehicle Cavalier (PSOne Classics) – $US5.99
Zanac X Zanac (PSOne Classics) – $US5.99

Discounts
Jak & Daxter HD Collection – $US19.99 (Permanent drop – invidiual games $US7.99)

Good Old Games

New Releases
Duke Nukem 1+2 – $US5.99

Discounts
Myst Series – 60% off

Ruffian Games, developers of Crackdown 2 for the Xbox 360, made the above prototype video as a pitch for a potential downloadable Streets of Rage sequel.

The video is obviously very rough (“pre pre pre Alpha according to the studio), but shows a bit of promise. Perhaps one day Sega will get off the pot and do something new with Streets of Rage.

Xbox Live Arcade
Sega Model 2 Collection Volume 1 (400 MSP each):
Virtua Fighter 2
Fighting Vipers
Sonic The Fighters

Nintendo eShop (Australia, Europe)
Nada

Nintendo eShop (North America)

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

PlayStation Store (Australia, Europe)

Discounts
Nights into Dreams – $AU10.25 ($AU8.71 with PSPlus)
Jet Set Radio – $AU10.25 ($8.71 with PSPlus)
Sonic Adventure – $AU6.25 ($4.38 with PSPlus)
Sonic Adventure 2 – $AU10.25 ($8.71 with PSPlus)
Space Channel 5: Part 2 – $AU8.71 ($8.71 with PSPlus)

PlayStation Store (North America)

New Releases
Sega Model 2 Collection Volume 1 ($US4.99 each):
Virtua Fighter 2
Fighting Vipers
Sonic The Fighters

Good Old Games

New Releases
Screamer 2 – $US5.99

Discounts
Weekend Sale – Nordic Games