Retro Re-release Roundup, week of December 31, 2020
This description box can't handle an ASCII shrug emoji, so feel free to imagine one for yourself.
Come on, d'ya think this year deserved to go out on a higher note?
ARCADE ARCHIVES
- Platform: Nintendo Switch, (worldwide)
- Price: $7.99 / €6.99 / £6.29
- Publisher: Hamster / Sunsoft
What's this? One many, many solitaire mahjong games produced by Sunsoft, this one developed by Success and distributed in arcades in 1993; in addition to the standard single-player mode, this version also includes a turn-based co-operative multiplayer mode and a split-screen versus mode for two players. (This is a catch-up release for Switch; PS4 got this game way back in 2015.)
Why should I care? I have not played Shanghai III but I feel confident in stating it's probably a perfectly adequate simultator of solitaire mahjong. (The audio hardware is clearly not up to 1993 standards, however.)
Useless fact: Nowadays, Sunsoft's gaming endeavors are mostly limited to licensing out their old games and properties, but they did make a return to direct production and publishing in 2018 with the original Shanghai Refresh for Switch,
LIMITED-EDITION PHYSICAL PRINT RUNS
Limited Run Games Blowout Sale 2021
- Platform: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 (worldwide)
- Price: from $24.99
- Availability: from January 1, 10AM Eastern
Limited Run Games is clearing out whatever loose stock they have lying around on first-come, first-served basis, much of which is classic & retro-adjacent; highlights include Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap (PS4), Battle Garegga (PS4), Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon (PS4/Switch) Game Tengoku CruisinMix Special (PS4), Blazing Chrome (standard & "VHS" editions for Switch and PS4) Turok Dinosaur Hunter & Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (Switch), Freedom Planet (deluxe editions for PS4 and Switch) and the i Sega CD-themed variant of the Snatcher soundtrack.
