Oh yea R-Type was on Master System and was considered an amazing port at its release. This is a rad trailer! It looks like it's story or character focused, I hope it does those well!Google is telling me that R-Type was on SEGA systems so yeah.
This is a sick SEGA console throwback anthology.
It looks great so far. Excited to see more.First of all, thanks everyone for your interest in our pixel passion project. We are first and foremost trying to recreate the feeling of playing arcade games – and the atmosphere around them – in the late 80s, even if we use a few tricks that might not have been technically available on December 31, 1989. But all our major inspirations in terms of games and genres, were definitely released sometime in 198X.
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Yeah! I can't get rid of the bitter aftertaste. Call me childish and whatnot, but I'm not going to support them because of all that. I wish I could let it all go, but apparently I'm very buttheaded about all this.So while this game looks good, I can't help but feel a bitter taste just looking at it.
First of all, thanks everyone for your interest in our pixel passion project. We are first and foremost trying to recreate the feeling of playing arcade games – and the atmosphere around them – in the late 80s, even if we use a few tricks that might not have been technically available on December 31, 1989. But all our major inspirations in terms of games and genres, were definitely released sometime in 198X.
We're not expecting this to include full fledged games for all those genres, are we ?
I grew up in NYC and went to arcades in flushing. All types of people of all ages played games. During the Street Fighter 2 craze when having a big screen machine in an arcade was common you also had fights with some escalating into stabbings. Even in pizza shops, bodegas, and laundry mats you had fights over street fighter. At like 9 or 10 years old I got sucker punched by like a 16 year old kid for low and high tiger spam in Hyper Fighting and had to get my cousin to beat his ass.When I hear stuff like this I feel like I really missed out, in a way. I'm almost 40 and the only arcades I regularly visited were in malls and pretty chill. Even the rare cabinet I'd stumble upon was in a pretty normal gas station or Walmart.
Maybe it's a small town thing.
That's beautiful! Thanks for sharing that.I grew up in NYC and went to arcades in flushing. All types of people of all ages played games. During the Street Fighter 2 craze when having a big screen machine in an arcade was common you also had fights with some escalating into stabbings. Even in pizza shops, bodegas, and laundry mats you had fights over street fighter. At like 9 or 10 years old I got sucker punched by like a 16 year old kid for low and high tiger spam in Hyper Fighting and had to get my cousin to beat his ass.
I used to go to the Super Amusements (had a few names before it went under) in queens. You had a lot of fighting game machines in there, especially a ton of street fighter. You also had a race track betting place next to it and the area was just overall a scummy place. You had good people mixed in with some real scum bags and arcade gaming was the reason for this. I was around when one stabbing happened (I didn't realized what happened) and a second incident happened but I missed it by like half hour because I left. There were some I heard of and I'm sure a bunch more that I didn't.
I made friends because of arcades. Smoked my first cig and joint near an arcade. Got into fist fights due to arcades. A decent amount of my young life arcades had something to do with it. There were good folks at arcades. But there was also really scummy people who brought legit bad shit with them. These types brought with them extreme violence and addictions to hard drugs and/or gambling. You had nerds, athletes, tough guys, asian gangsters, black gangsters, spanish gangsters, drug addicts, gamblers, suits, teachers in training, paramedics, amish seeing what life is like outside their bubble and whole bunch of other types of people that I can't remember. I rub elbows with all types of people at arcades. People socialized with people they would never usually socialize with. Because of this I saw some people fall hard and some people rose up that I never expected to, greatly improving themselves.
I don't know of any current social settings where different types of people can gather like this. Where different types of people can have a huge effect on each other.
Very interesting story. I had a similar experience growing up and going to arcades.I grew up in NYC and went to arcades in flushing. All types of people of all ages played games. During the Street Fighter 2 craze when having a big screen machine in an arcade was common you also had fights with some escalating into stabbings. Even in pizza shops, bodegas, and laundry mats you had fights over street fighter. At like 9 or 10 years old I got sucker punched by like a 16 year old kid for low and high tiger spam in Hyper Fighting and had to get my cousin to beat his ass.
I used to go to the Super Amusements (had a few names before it went under) in queens. You had a lot of fighting game machines in there, especially a ton of street fighter. You also had a race track betting place next to it and the area was just overall a scummy place. You had good people mixed in with some real scum bags and arcade gaming was the reason for this. I was around when one stabbing happened (I didn't realized what happened) and a second incident happened but I missed it by like half hour because I left. There were some I heard of and I'm sure a bunch more that I didn't.
I made friends because of arcades. Smoked my first cig and joint near an arcade. Got into fist fights due to arcades. A decent amount of my young life arcades had something to do with it. There were good folks at arcades. But there was also really scummy people who brought legit bad shit with them. These types brought with them extreme violence and addictions to hard drugs and/or gambling. You had nerds, athletes, tough guys, asian gangsters, black gangsters, spanish gangsters, drug addicts, gamblers, suits, teachers in training, paramedics, amish seeing what life is like outside their bubble and whole bunch of other types of people that I can't remember. I rub elbows with all types of people at arcades. People socialized with people they would never usually socialize with. Because of this I saw some people fall hard and some people rose up that I never expected to, greatly improving themselves.
I don't know of any current social settings where different types of people can gather like this. Where different types of people can have a huge effect on each other.
This looks beautiful! I tried to find a link for this game on Steam and didn't find one. When do you expect there to be a page up so I can put it on my whitelist?First of all, thanks everyone for your interest in our pixel passion project. We are first and foremost trying to recreate the feeling of playing arcade games – and the atmosphere around them – in the late 80s, even if we use a few tricks that might not have been technically available on December 31, 1989. But all our major inspirations in terms of games and genres, were definitely released sometime in 198X.
Steam page seems to be up now:This looks beautiful! I tried to find a link for this game on Steam and didn't find one. When do you expect there to be a page up so I can put it on my whitelist?
Since it's not available on the mac I'm waiting for the PS4 version. Wasn't this supposed to be out today as well?
Thanks, haven't seen that. Looking forward to next week then.Looking forward to playing this myself, the PS4 version has been delayed a week:
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'Kid's journey begins tonight... The PS4 version will unfortunately be a week late, but 198X releases on PC in just a few hours.'
Looks like it. Steam reviews stating it ends with a "to be continued."
think about the 3rd back to the future, how Marty was dressed when he went to the wild westIt's amazing how after 30 years the '80s have been distilled down to this one particular aesthetic, but if you actually went back to the '80s you wouldn't really see it much at all, since it's an amalgam of several things.
Of course, in the '80s we had our own version of a '50s aesthetic, which this new aesthetic includes and perceives as an '80s thing, so this is just time repeating itself.
Thanks for sharing this incredible piece of your life and arcade history. I never got to experience it (and with stabbings as part of it, I'm glad), but it does sound wonderful and weird in a way that as you said cannot be found elsewhere.I grew up in NYC and went to arcades in flushing. All types of people of all ages played games. During the Street Fighter 2 craze when having a big screen machine in an arcade was common you also had fights with some escalating into stabbings. Even in pizza shops, bodegas, and laundry mats you had fights over street fighter. At like 9 or 10 years old I got sucker punched by like a 16 year old kid for low and high tiger spam in Hyper Fighting and had to get my cousin to beat his ass.
I used to go to the Super Amusements (had a few names before it went under) in queens. You had a lot of fighting game machines in there, especially a ton of street fighter. You also had a race track betting place next to it and the area was just overall a scummy place. You had good people mixed in with some real scum bags and arcade gaming was the reason for this. I was around when one stabbing happened (I didn't realized what happened) and a second incident happened but I missed it by like half hour because I left. There were some I heard of and I'm sure a bunch more that I didn't.
I made friends because of arcades. Smoked my first cig and joint near an arcade. Got into fist fights due to arcades. A decent amount of my young life arcades had something to do with it. There were good folks at arcades. But there was also really scummy people who brought legit bad shit with them. These types brought with them extreme violence and addictions to hard drugs and/or gambling. You had nerds, athletes, tough guys, asian gangsters, black gangsters, spanish gangsters, drug addicts, gamblers, suits, teachers in training, paramedics, amish seeing what life is like outside their bubble and whole bunch of other types of people that I can't remember. I rub elbows with all types of people at arcades. People socialized with people they would never usually socialize with. Because of this I saw some people fall hard and some people rose up that I never expected to, greatly improving themselves.
I don't know of any current social settings where different types of people can gather like this. Where different types of people can have a huge effect on each other.
Don't be sorry. It should get more attention. It's really short but rather unique. The music and visuals are really great and it's a nice experience. Really liked the story they tried to tell.I just found this on the Japanese eshop! I need more impressions. It looks really cool!
Sorry for the bump, but making a thread to say "I found out about a game" seems silly.