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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
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.
Posted April 17, 2024
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king_kunat: Hey everyone! My apologies for not posting this yesterday, I should have done that.

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
Is this delisting for GOG only or does this affect other stores as well?

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
Posted April 17, 2024
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BreOl72: Well, I only had a marginal interest in them, and I own the only two, that I have any real interest in, as cartridges for my consoles already, so...shrug.
Sorry, I have to say I hate it when people make such unspecific comments… Which of them do you own in physical form?

I think I might regret it later if I do not buy the two Joe & Mac games and maybe Super BurgerTime…
Posted April 17, 2024
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king_kunat: Hey everyone! My apologies for not posting this yesterday, I should have done that.

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
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Locoweed: Is this delisting for GOG only or does this affect other stores as well?

https://www.gog.com/en/promo/retro_classix Mentions "leaving digital stores", So did Ziggurat Interactive lose their licenses or something?
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/last_chance_for_retro_classix_961f1/post6

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
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
Posted April 17, 2024
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Alexim: 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
Good question, but why stop there?
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).
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.
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
Posted April 19, 2024
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Locoweed: Is this delisting for GOG only or does this affect other stores as well?

https://www.gog.com/en/promo/retro_classix Mentions "leaving digital stores", So did Ziggurat Interactive lose their licenses or something?
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wolfsite: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/last_chance_for_retro_classix_961f1/post6

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.
It seems Data East has the Games licensed to different Companies, on Switch for Example, Joe and Mac Returns is published and ported by another Company (Johnny Turbo's Arcade).
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.
Posted April 20, 2024
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 :)
Posted April 21, 2024
Thanks for the heads up and sale for em ,got all that I was interested in as a result
Posted 2 days ago
LAST CHANCE.
1 hour remaining...

edit:
NOPE.
They pulled it early. It's gone. :-(

I guess, sale duration and delisting weren't synchronized.
Post edited 2 days ago by g2222
Posted 2 days ago
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g2222: LAST CHANCE.
1 hour remaining...

edit:
NOPE.
They pulled it early. It's gone. :-(

I guess, sale duration and delisting weren't synchronized.
Yeah, this is pretty weak sauce. I was still thinking of grabbing one or two when the games all got delisted early. What gives, GOG?
Posted 2 days ago
Huh? The individual games are gone, but the bundles are still there?

https://www.gog.com/en/games?developers=data-east

Be aware, though, that the pricier "collection" is the same as the two cheaper "packs" combined
Oh, and only 8 games are available that way. Another 4 were never bundled.
Post edited 2 days ago by g2222
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