Well, yeah, but it's only 50p a game if they work. So you can scratch Bubble Bobble and Thunderfox off that list, because the one's buggered up and the other's unworkable. You can also count out the lightgun games, because they're pointless without a lightgun. Scrub the ones that are kind of rubbish, too, because you'll get about five minutes out of them once, then never play them again.
I know I'm sounding like a massive hypocrite now, but I think you're excused a moan or two when Empire are effectively getting an awful lot of money for something that won't have taken them very much time to stitch together at all. I'm tired of lacklustre presentation in these things now. It's a bit disgraceful that Sonic Jam, eight or so years old as it is, is still the best classic gaming compilation around in terms of the love lavished on it. TV ads, artwork, design sketches, music rooms, screens from pre-release versions - these things really should be standard inclusions by now.
Hell, I only really bought it for Rainbow Islands and New Zealand Story, so it's still well worth the cash, but it's like Kubrick says - if Bubble Bobble's more serious problems only become apparent in its later stages, then who's to say that the same isn't also true for those two?
I hung on for this because it was a hell of a lot cheaper than the Japanese packs. Whether or not I buy the second depends on whether or not Empire include some of the games that are missing from both Japanese packs - Arkanoid, mainly. If not, then the hell with it. I'll get the imports instead. At this rate, I may simply do that anyway - no guarantee that they won't also manage to make a bit of a mess of that one, too.
Just to clear up what I said in my last post about the jumping in Bubble Bobble> I fired up the Saturn version and I was wrong, it's meant to be like that. I was right about the bubbles going out of the level boundary, though - that's an added extra for this collection. Yay.
On the brighter side of things, how ****ing good are Zoo Keeper and Exzisus? I'd never played either of those before, but now I love them.
I know I'm sounding like a massive hypocrite now, but I think you're excused a moan or two when Empire are effectively getting an awful lot of money for something that won't have taken them very much time to stitch together at all. I'm tired of lacklustre presentation in these things now. It's a bit disgraceful that Sonic Jam, eight or so years old as it is, is still the best classic gaming compilation around in terms of the love lavished on it. TV ads, artwork, design sketches, music rooms, screens from pre-release versions - these things really should be standard inclusions by now.
Hell, I only really bought it for Rainbow Islands and New Zealand Story, so it's still well worth the cash, but it's like Kubrick says - if Bubble Bobble's more serious problems only become apparent in its later stages, then who's to say that the same isn't also true for those two?
I hung on for this because it was a hell of a lot cheaper than the Japanese packs. Whether or not I buy the second depends on whether or not Empire include some of the games that are missing from both Japanese packs - Arkanoid, mainly. If not, then the hell with it. I'll get the imports instead. At this rate, I may simply do that anyway - no guarantee that they won't also manage to make a bit of a mess of that one, too.
Just to clear up what I said in my last post about the jumping in Bubble Bobble> I fired up the Saturn version and I was wrong, it's meant to be like that. I was right about the bubbles going out of the level boundary, though - that's an added extra for this collection. Yay.
On the brighter side of things, how ****ing good are Zoo Keeper and Exzisus? I'd never played either of those before, but now I love them.
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