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ACA Magician Lord is back up for sale on the NA eShop!

TTI cheated us out of getting Military Madness 2 on SCD.

Two more TGM 'Our Man In Japan" installments. This guy was awesome. Definitely the UK's equivalent of EGM's Quarterman / Gaming Gossip.

I'm sorry about the TGM April 1990 article on the SuperGrafx, clearly there should be another page to it, but everywhere I've looked (internet archive, retro cdn, etc) it is the same deal, whoever originally scanned it, there is an Ad page sitting on top of the second page of the article. I haven't been able to find a different scan of it in hopes of having the rest of their SuperGrafx review.

Lots of PCE articles.

http://www.monsterboy.com/blog/ Man finally, release seems to be pretty close. It's gonna be great to have Monster Boy along with the already-released Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap remake.

I can't edit the OP, this is one of the arcade reviews I didn't put image tags for. Not that it matters, it's not in English but here it is anyway.

Here is the Japanese Mega Drive Shadow Dancer commercial, I forgot to include it in my OP. Also, this great video: Shinobi: The Complete History

I hope you all enjoy these scans and other material on Shadow Dancer, the System 18 arcade game, and the Mega Drive / Genesis exclusive version. Shadow Dancer The Secret of Shinobi. The first time I had ever heard of Shadow Dancer was in the Letters section of EGM #10 May 1990. Shadow Dancer was released in arcades in late 1989, just prior to The Super Shinobi / The Revenge of Shinobi on the Mega Drive / Genesis, so there was some degree on confusion as to Shadow Dancer coming to Sega's 16-bit console. GamePro later featured Shadow Dancer in its Hot At The Arcades column, along with ESWAT. UK magazines also featured the coin-op. This one is from Commodore User, February 1990. ACE magazine. Amiga Joker https://i.imgur.com/MozQxSl.jpg At last, Shadow Dancer was coming to the Mega Drive in Japan, but it was a different game. The first preview from EGM #13 August 1990. Note the non-final title screen. Another EGM mention of Shadow Dancer, with the unused title screen. This websites describe more about the prototype screenshots http://rq87.flyingomelette.com/RQ/SS/S2/qa.html http://hiddenpalace.org/Shadow_Dancer:_The_Secret_of_Shinobi_(Oct_2,_1990_prototype) A later EGM Fact-File Mega Play issue #2 Video Games & Computer Entertainment EGM's review Another EGM Letter, this one noting the prototype title screen and final title screen of Shadow Dancer. Sega Visions GamePro (this time, the Genesis version) Computer & Video Games / Mean Machines Arcade flyers Mega Drive Japan and Genesis U.S. boxart. Also, the owner of Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, IL, (suburb of Chicago) talking about hisShadow Dancer arcade cabinet https://youtu.be/YyVgyaV16xM?t=15m27s 1 credit clear Shadow Dancer at Galloping Ghost Arcade Here is the Genesis Does commercial featuring Strider and Shadow Dancer

Hey Anthony, anytime! I wish I could get GameFan's review of Pulstar, but all I can find are tiny, blurry scans in Google images.

Maximum issue #2 - Pulstar - Extended Play & Review.

Anthony, it's fun reading these articles, often for the first time.

Computer and Videogames (CVG) - their first two reports on the Neo Geo.

Ninja Combat and Magician Lord were the two games that got me into the Neo Geo in arcades. From UK magazine, The Games Machine, their first report from Japan on the Neo Geo and also their review of Neo Geo launch lineup TGM went away but another magazine seemed to take its place for a bit. RAZE. Here are their reviews of The Super Spy and Ninja Combat.

Video Games & Computer Entertainment - November 1990 - review of Neo Geo Ninja Combat.

No proof, but I'm willing to believe at least the spec existed at SNK, and just never got used in a product. Imagine for instance, the Hyper NeoGeo 64 arcade hardware and the handful of games made for it never reached arcades, but we had heard reports and rumors about it, such as the specs (below). If we had learned the specs and then nothing ever came of it, would we even believe it existed? That's the point I'm trying to make. Maybe the Neo-Star 32-bit console never existed, who knows. http://system16.com/hardware.php?id=870

Sega Genesis & Sega CD in Sliver (1993, William Baldwin, Sharon Stone)

Yeah, that's a sketch of the SNK "Neo-Star" 32-bit CD-ROM/Cartridge system, news of which predates the Neo CD's reveal. Official Neo Geo Newsletter #5 https://archive.org/details/officialneogeonewsletter

I know that. Dreamcast is based on NAOMI hardware, or rather, NAOMI is based on Dreamcast hardware. Model 3 was a totally different architecture. but that wasn't the point really. I was more impressed with Model 3 games for their time and the majority of them never came out on Dreamcast, especially the best of them like Daytona USA 2, Star Wars Arcade Trilogy.

I absolutely agree with everything said in that video. Sega could have easily modified the cars in Scud Race aka Sega Super GT for Dreamcast, and it should've been a pack-in game to show off the hardware, like Altered Beast was for Genesis.

Yeah I see it on Nintendo's website, but on the Switch eShop itself, it's not there at all. I did a few searches like 'Magician Lord" and even just "ACA" which brings up all the other Neo Geo games. And now I've read elsewhere that ML was indeed removed from the North American eShop for something to do with its ESRB rating. https://www.reddit.com/r/CensoredGaming/comments/6xil8i/aca_neogeo_magician_lord_removed_from_the_eshop/

Hey Anthony, I was wondering if you or anyone else might know why Magician Lord won't show up on the Nintendo Switch eShop (NA) ? I could've sworn it was there earlier this year but I can't find it now. Thanks for any info!

So I was listening a weekly podcast I always listen to, CPR's Clubhouse Dance Music which is broadcast out of New England in western Massachusetts and the host was talking to a couple of artists in-studio...Then out of nowhere, the NEO GEO comes up in the conversation. If you wanna hear it, the audio starts here: https://youtu.be/eoSDZ-3RiwE?t=39m8s Edit: It's not as if those guys really know what they're talking about (mainly prices) so expect to have a laugh! Anyway, I know fdurso will appreciate this. I did, because it was so random.

What the heck is going on with NeoGAF ?