Data East Retro Classix

[Daj]

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/retro-classix-collection-1-data-east-switch/

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/retro-classix-2in1-pack-bad-dudes-and-two-crude-dudes-switch/

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/retro-classix-2-in-1-pack-gate-of-doom-and-wizard-fire-switch/

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/retro-classix-4in1-pack-sly-spy-shootout-wizard-fire-and-super-real-darwin-switch/

 

etc, etc...

 

These are out there now, almost escaped my notice. Any chance these are even a tiny bit better than the same games in the Johnny Turbo line? Those don't even allow button reconfigs so the bar's set pretty low... I mean they're not even coordinating the sales, so it's cheaper to buy the games separately in a lot of cases. Ah well.

[DavidD]

I don't know, although I'm suspicious they are just the Johnny Turbo emulations put into bundles with a new title screen.

• Golem Entertainment has the publishing rights to the "Johnny Turbo" Data East titles now.
• Golem Entertainment appears to have no contact info anywhere.  I tried getting in touch with them, but the best I could do was contact a PR group for an older release -- and they never got back to me.  Golem appears to be a holding company with a single employee/owner.
• The screenshots on the Golem Retro Classix versions all appear to have the same blur-"scanline" effect.

If Golem would do an ownership discount for owning any of the Johnny Turbo titles, I might consider grabbing one of these packages.  The 2-in-1 packs seem rather overpriced, though -- but that might just be because I'm used to the Johnny Turbo versions being on sale for $1.99.

[DavidD]

As a side note -- I find it interesting that Super Burger Time was released as a Johnny Turbo title, and now in the Golem pack, while the ORIGINAL Burger Time was released by Hamster as part of the Arcade Archives series.

 

[Daj]

These are all on sale now... still can't find much info about them. I don't ask for much but I have to assume the worst about the quality of this, I've gotten burned before.