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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 1h

iirc MD does, NES didn't at first but now does, N64 doesn't, GB does, GBA doesn't

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 2h

...so, if they did go under or were otherwise forced to divest, who knows where some of that stuff might end up

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 2h

one reason you should absolutely not want that to happen is that D4E/EGG (which evolved out of Bothtec) straight up owns the catalogues of a couple dozen significant Japanese computer devs—culturally important stuff, not Pxko-tier trash—and their consolidation has helped keep them in circulation...

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 2h

hard to say: before the last couple years, their reputation was stellar, and they continue to acquire & sign deals for all manner of releases with and from reputable companies, so I don't think this is enough to do them in, but if it snowballs, who knows...

bsky.app/profile/cold...

Cold_ @coldcomfort.bsky.social · 2h

So I guess it's time to buy everything egg before they get sued out of existence

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 3h

all the other versions were delisted from EGG proper, too: not just PC88 Joukan but PC98 Joukan+Gekan & MSX Joukan+Gekan as well

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 3h

well, aside from brazen theft, but I'm trying to shoot em some bail here

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 3h

between this, the MEG-DOS stuff & other issues, I wonder if there's been some sort of mgmt/personnel shift at D4E that's genuinely unaware that they don't have perpetual, all-encompassing licenses for anything they might've once licensed for PC, bc I don't know how else to explain these blunders

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 3h

ahh just caught that myself... what's odd is I remember them being happy about it at first, so I wonder if it even took them a minute to realise they hadn't authorised it

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 3h

the plot thickens: Iijima's chimed in to say that D4E didn't so much as ask before releasing the EGG Console version & has been unresponsive so, after ~1yr of requests from Mebius to let them resolve the issue to no avail, they went straight to Althi to get the EGG version pulled 🇯🇵

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 4h

ofc ppl also wonder if EGG might've screwed up somewhere, given recent events... whatever the case, don't expect the PC98 versions anytime soon, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 4h

...I don't think anyone buying Burai in 2025 is suffering from version paralysis, and the reaction so far has been "why can't they coexist?"

Mebius is posting a physical two-pack with both MSX2 parts, so I presume they &/or IIjima pushed to clear the deck in favour of their own versions

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 4h

I would say it's /mildly/ confusing, inasmuch as Mebius came behind EGG's PC88 release many months later with a version of the game that many (but not IIjima, perhaps) consider inferior, reissued at a substantially higher price, and bc the second half of the game never made it to PC88, but...

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 4h

Riverhillsoft catalogue owners Althi have apologised to players & original creator Takeo Iijima for the "confusion" caused by there being two reissues of Burai Joukan on the market (EGG Console's PC88 reissue & Mebius' MSX2 reissue) and have pulled the EGG version in favour of Mebius' reissue

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 6h

tbf the first ~yr or so of the initiative probably got about that much attention, which is why they switched from "¥500 games every week" to "variable-priced games at whatever pace is most sensible", with a focus on mobile tie-ins to big console games &/or episodic ADVs (some of which do super well)

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 7h

well it's unlisted and I grabbed it off a press release that only went out within the last hour

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 7h

this week's G-MODE Archives title: the technically ambitious STG, Gekidan Musume Akane & Aoi www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxDa... G-MODE announced this a while back, with one caveat: they couldn't identify Akane's VA, & asked the public for help identifying them so that they could clear the voice samples

G-MODEアーカイブス58 激弾娘あかね＆あおい　紹介動画

YouTube video by GMODE PR

www.youtube.com

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 8h

oh and the initial release of this comp was paired with an interview from a bunch of former Telenet devs that was ostensibly about the games but mostly them dishing on precisely why so many of the broader Telenet family's games were so shoddy (insane dev times/resources, indifferent mgmt, etc etc)

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 8h

icymi, the included games: Avenger (PC Engine CD), Gaiares (Mega Drive), Granada (Mega Drive), Psychic Storm (PC Engine CD)

say what you will about these particular games but Japan just got a second Telenet STG collection on Switch that makes this one look like a DDP comp

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 8h

Telenet Shooting Collection's coming to PC on November 10 store.steampowered.com/app/3888230/... as with the Valis comp PC port, it's a free launcher with individual purchases for each game (& only $5 each, not the $15 they're charging on Switch)

Telenet Shooting Collection Launcher on Steam

Welcome to Shooter Heaven! The classic Telenet Japan & Wolf Team shooters are back! Note: The “Telenet Shooting Collection Launcher” is a free game launcher that lets you play titles from Telenet ...

store.steampowered.com

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 10h

also, props to not defaulting to patreon for subscriptions—if you're targeting a niche & want to keep prices down (& you should, esp. given how sub-heavy the world is rn), we gotta at least try to start ducking some of these increasingly troublesome intermediaries www.designroom.site/about/#/port...

About this site

Design Room is a subscription-based website producing oral histories and behind-the-scenes coverage of the video game industry. Launched in October 2025 by Matt Leone, a 30-year games media veteran fo...

www.designroom.site

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 10h

I don't think I'm speaking out of school when I say features like that one, as well as all those pxlygxn-era oral histories you might remember, are the summation of years of work, so signing up would not only hasten more published pieces but also allow the author to like, think about something else

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 21h

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 1d

NeverAwake's one of the more thoughtful attempts to bridge modern design with classic STG, by someone who's actually played one in the last 30yrs (rarer than you'd hope...); you can read some of the dev & design process here web.archive.org/web/20250107...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpG4...

【2025年12月10日配信決定】「NeverAwake FLASHBACK」Trailer

YouTube video by Phoenixx Games / フィーニックスゲームズ

www.youtube.com

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 1d

NeverAwake FLASHBACK, the single-session expansion to Neotro's nightmarish twin-stick STG NeverAwake, has been dated for December 10 on PC, and there's a demo up atm store.steampowered.com/app/3072510/... this was originally planned as DLC but, for various reasons, was spun off into a separate game

NeverAwake FLASHBACK on Steam

A twin-stick shooter is based on the nightmare world of “NeverAwake” and has been reborn as a roguelite shooter!

store.steampowered.com

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 2d

I'll be very surprised if they make it beyond Aretha reissues, but we'll see

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 2d

the Aretha series started on GB & migrated to SFC; I've only played the GB ones & my impression was that they were beneficiaries of being early RPGs on GB, but they certainly had their fans

the OG creator was at the 35th event: his studio's still active & he's still a frontline dev, apparently

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