Black Squirrel, just noticed you posted some MD guide books on retro cdn. I've wanted to see that Switch one for a long time - thanks! It has a nice long interview at the end. Do you scans these yourself or are they coming from somewhere else?
https://archive.org/details/@kitsunebi77 It's a collection of "not good enough for Retromags", apparently. They're good enough for us! p.s. yes there are too many for one person to upload
Nice! Reminds me of the person who sells books on Yahoo Auc JP with the binding cut (obviously scanning). I don't know if they're still at it, but a few years back, I would come across auctions for pretty much every retro gaming book (even the expensive ones) with cut binding. Someone out there has an incredible collection of scans.
I don't know how to feel about the fact that I have inadvertently been to both the Kearney Mesa and Rancho Bernardo offices they mention (albeit with their current occupants, obviously). One's a biotech place now and the other does engineering.
Gerilsoft posted these in Discord for M.U.S.H.A.: https://mobile.twitter.com/gosokkyu/status/1177901628856262657 https://mobile.twitter.com/U1_Toyama/status/1177876938817323008 https://mobile.twitter.com/U1_Toyama/status/1177935647132147713
So I've come to fund out that "Wonder Boy Returns" was delisted off of Steam some time ago and a new version of the game called Wonder Boy Returns Remix was released in August in it's place. So we need a page on the original for Sega Retro ASAP.
It has it's own Steam page, forum, app id, as well as a new release date. Mania Plus on Steam is just DLC. Wonder Boy Returns: https://store.steampowered.com/app/523810/Wonder_Boy_Returns/ Remix: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1112240/Wonder_Boy_Returns_Remix/ EDIT: Apparently Wonder Boy Returns had a Switch release and that was pulled a week later because Remix came out. I can not confirm this.
Oh right, hadn't seen the original page was still there. I was about to say that they seemed to have changed things around after learning from their mistakes (those terrible bosses are being replaced by the classic ones) but I see that this "new" game only has one plane of scrolling while the previous had at least two. Yikes.
It might as well go on record - if you see the old Sega logo, upload first (or at the moment, hold onto it), ask questions later. https://picclick.com/Arcade-Lotto-Biglietti-Astrodata-Sega-Italian-Version-New-392468717255.html Here's some Italian cards for the arcade fortune teller, Astrodata. I don't think there's any record of Sega even selling things in Italy around this time (if not Europe as a whole), nevermind this game specifically, localised and distributed from somewhere in Florence.
"Money, Adventure, Risk, Health & Humor, Voyages, Love, Work" ... Astrodata tells you all ... pretty cool...
Adding the the pile so I don't forget: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...ind-the-biggest-coin-op-conversion-of-the-80s case in point, I've forgotten to post this for two days.
And from the comments of this article comes this: http://reassembler.blogspot.com/2010/05/interview-with-alan-laird.html?m=1
An interview... cool ... this one will be preserved in "Sega Retro style"... so they programmed it with the PDS (Programmers Development System ... developed by British programmer Andrew "Andy" Glaister) ? ... I knew this would be useful ... I will save those tech docs at Retrocdn ... they're quite rare ... Edit: Thinking better... this tool deserves a page at "Sega Retro"... let's wait for its "resurrection" ... I have all the docs safe with me and we already have good info... so it will be easy to create a page for this...
That's quite wonderful. Do we know where this video is from - it's something the world really ought to have archived in colour. Can't tell if they're pretending 32X games were Saturn-bound, but some of the material in there is shockingly early - the sort you wouldn't normally put on display. You can use your imagination with some of the sports games and Metal Head, but Tempo looks like an absolute mess with all that visible debug information. There's quite a lot of information out there about early Saturn titles - enough to write some pretty detailed essays about their development. This is an excellent hting to see.
