Console Turf Wars

Genki Greetings. It been a while old beans. 
The Sakura Wars Dreamcast demonstrates Sega's love of its fans by inking its delightful design. Last Blade 2, Capcom vs SNK, Street Fighter and Virtua Cop 2 demonstrate its dream architecture. 

Fantasy Zone for the back in stock Mark 3, Tatsujin & Darius 2 for the Mega Drive, Silky Lip & Devastator for the Mega CD and Vampire Savior on the Saturn risk turning this into a console wars skirmish from the 90's. 

The Nintendo formats gather the gang with Ninja Spirit and Splatterhouse on the Famicom, Super Smash Bros on the N64 backed up by the celebrity triple-A releases of F Zero X, Mario Kart 64, Super Mario 64 and Wave Race 64 on cut-price cart only and the GameCube dark horses of Metroid Prime, Gotcha Force and Chibi Robot. 

Strong showings from the understated PC Engine with Gunhed, Tales from the Monster Patch, Mr. Heli and those Burning Angels back in town. Dodonpachi on the PS2 is a pixel perfect version. 

Happy Genki gaming. 

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Sega Astro City Christmas

 Hope the wee man is equally impressed with an Astro City as he would have been with a #PS5 Not sure I believe in the #PS5even at Christmas! 

Sega celebrates its sixtieth anniversary and gets in on the SNK act and releases its very own arcade style mini mean machine with one of the finest back catalogues imaginable of thirty-seven titles. Cotton, Thunder Force AC, Sonic Boom, Shinobi, Rad Mobile, Golden Axe... Sturdy and responsive joystick with intuitive six button layout as you would expect from such a fine stable with rich, thoroughbred heritage.  

Last call for #Sega #AstroCity pre-orders: shipping to us in the UK from Japan on release day next Thursday....

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US Shenmue: Coversational Japanese Ahoy!

The huge budget opus of Yu Suzuki requiring no introduction. Set in a Japanese town complete with Snack (hostess bar) and game centre (arcade) including Space Harrier and Hang-On. Try not to get too distracted on the quest for vengeance! US Shenmue is a curiosity item in that the game box included in the outer card sleeve is the USA version, but with Japanese subtitles to help study English. And it really is a treat to assist language study with the conversational language being the sort gamers with a keen ear for linguistics will lap up. Even if some of it has a twinge of sailor speak.