Don’t think there are any games missed, but there might be some patches missing from the game pages (for instance Insmouth doesn’t have its recent translation available in the game section).
Squeegor wrote:
Another great title often over-looked is Ninja Gaiden Shadow. Although despite the name it isn’t quite a Ninja Gaiden game, it appears to have been renamed that for the NTSC region from Shadow Warriors.
Actually Ninja Gaiden Shadow is the original (western) name and it was renamed Shadow Warriors for the European release. The NG arcade game, most of its ports and the NES title were also originally renamed Shadow Warriors.
You’re correct to say it isn’t quite a Ninja Gaiden game however, as it was originally going to be a Game Boy Shadow of the Ninja title. Play Shadow of the Ninja (NES, re-released in recent years on Wii/Wii U/3DS) and you’ll notice the similarities.
These look so cool; I hope I’ve made it into the finalfornow batch. It’s amazing to think the red and black wonder finally has a link cable. I imagine two-player Mario’s Tennis and Hyper Fighting are great fun and it’ll be interesting to see what future projects will do.
Lester Knight wrote:
I just wish the eBay auction expressed more of what the game actually is. It’s so vague that and the listing looks like it was a retail game that no one knows about, and that is the only part that bugs me. He even filled in the MPN and UPC.
To be fair those have been grabbed off the back of the box. The seller’s also put a release date of “2013”, which whilst incorrect should clue people in that this isn’t something from back in the day.
This is something that comes up a lot whenever something like this or a Bound High repro turns up on eBay and I think it could be avoided by not making the boxes look like they’re from the mid-90’s.
Even if someone really wants to use that hideous NA boxart template, just stick the correct date on (2012, 2015 or whatever) rather than 1995.
Fascinating article. Learned a lot of new information.
I’ve always wished the VB had a Battlezone-type game, so it was interesting to read about the Private Eye tank demo they created.