Posted April 16, 2024
At $3.50 each, they're overpriced for what they are, straight emulation. Mame has been a thing since the '90s. https://www.mamedev.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAME
ValamirCleaver
Paladin
Registered: Dec 2012
From United States
cyxceven
MAX 330 MEGA
Registered: Apr 2009
From United States
Posted April 17, 2024
Good. These were terrible. Forced filtering and no integer scaling made these the worst way to play them. Not even Reshade could save them. Here's hoping they come to Arcade Archives instead.
Locoweed
New User
Registered: Sep 2008
From United States
Posted April 17, 2024
12 of Retro Classix games (titles developed by Data East and re-published by Ziggurat Interactive) are going to be delisted on April 30th, 2024. The silver lining here is that each of them are discounted -50% until the time of the delisting – here's a link to find them all: https://www.gog.com/promo/retro_classix
And here's a list of the titles:
BAD DUDES VS DRAGONNINJA
Break Thru
Express Raider
Gate of Doom
Heavy Barrel
Joe and Mac: Caveman Ninja
Joe and Mac Returns
Night Slashers
Super Real Darwin
Super Burger Time
Two Crude Dudes
Wizard Fire
https://www.gog.com/en/promo/retro_classix Mentions "leaving digital stores", So did Ziggurat Interactive lose their licenses or something?
Post edited April 17, 2024 by Locoweed
mk47at
There's only one Phil Taylor…
Registered: Jan 2011
From Germany
Posted April 17, 2024
I think I might regret it later if I do not buy the two Joe & Mac games and maybe Super BurgerTime…
wolfsite
Canadian
Registered: Sep 2010
From Canada
Posted April 17, 2024
12 of Retro Classix games (titles developed by Data East and re-published by Ziggurat Interactive) are going to be delisted on April 30th, 2024. The silver lining here is that each of them are discounted -50% until the time of the delisting – here's a link to find them all: https://www.gog.com/promo/retro_classix
And here's a list of the titles:
BAD DUDES VS DRAGONNINJA
Break Thru
Express Raider
Gate of Doom
Heavy Barrel
Joe and Mac: Caveman Ninja
Joe and Mac Returns
Night Slashers
Super Real Darwin
Super Burger Time
Two Crude Dudes
Wizard Fire
https://www.gog.com/en/promo/retro_classix Mentions "leaving digital stores", So did Ziggurat Interactive lose their licenses or something?
In the other thread covering this it is mentioned they are being pulled from Steam as well, another person stated they have been pulled from consoles as well, I don't have a console so I can't confirm this however.
Update: Went over to Steam and they are indeed being pulled from there as well.
Post edited April 17, 2024 by wolfsite
Alexim
Dark Lord of the Sith
Registered: Mar 2015
From Italy
Posted April 17, 2024
Could you also add this collection to the promotion with a nice 50% discount?
https://www.gog.com/en/game/data_east_arcade_collection_1
https://www.gog.com/en/game/data_east_arcade_collection_1
BreOl72
Gamer since Pong on the Atari 2600
Registered: Sep 2010
From Germany
Posted April 17, 2024
https://www.gog.com/en/game/data_east_arcade_collection_1
Why not ask for these bundles, too?
- https://www.gog.com/en/game/data_east_coop_pack_1
- https://www.gog.com/en/game/data_east_arcade_pack_1
These two bundles together contain the same eight games as the Arcade Collection.
Of course: anyone who is interested in owning all twelve games, will still have to buy:
- BreakThru,
- Joe & Mac Returns,
- Night Slashers,
and
- Wizard Fire
individually.
So - simply buying all twelve games (or even better yet: only the ones that you like most) from this page https://www.gog.com/en/promo/retro_classix (which has the 49% / 50% discount applied to all twelve games), should be the preferable option (imho).
RawSteelUT
Happy the forum seems to be calming down.
Registered: Oct 2008
From United States
Posted April 18, 2024
Yeah, defeinitely seems like a licensing issue. Data East's games have been all over the place since they went bankrupt. At least it's not like these games are hard to find.
WinterSnowfall
Bastard Lunatic
Registered: Apr 2012
From Other
Posted April 18, 2024
Sad to see these go, but on the other hand we did get a massive SNK Neo Geo catalog release not long ago. What's that saying? Retro beggars can't be retro choosers? :P
kakiss4
New User
Registered: Dec 2013
From Germany
Posted April 19, 2024
https://www.gog.com/en/promo/retro_classix Mentions "leaving digital stores", So did Ziggurat Interactive lose their licenses or something?
In the other thread covering this it is mentioned they are being pulled from Steam as well, another person stated they have been pulled from consoles as well, I don't have a console so I can't confirm this however.
Update: Went over to Steam and they are indeed being pulled from there as well.
I guess on the Evercade they are licensed directly by the Makers of that Device.
So i am further guessing they could get rereleased some Day by another Company.
neumi5694
Survived the human apocalypse
Registered: May 2011
From Italy
Posted 5 days ago
At least we can't really complain about missing games preservation.
These games had never been available on PC before, it's all emulations that were brought back to live after Blaze Entertainment revived the licences for their console.
Rather than emulated arcade games a collection of the old DOS and Windows classics would make more sense.
But yes, I bought them all for PC too :)
These games had never been available on PC before, it's all emulations that were brought back to live after Blaze Entertainment revived the licences for their console.
Rather than emulated arcade games a collection of the old DOS and Windows classics would make more sense.
But yes, I bought them all for PC too :)
BanditKeith2
New User
Registered: Jun 2018
From United States
Posted 4 days ago
Thanks for the heads up and sale for em ,got all that I was interested in as a result