Yep and it’s hard to keep track of everything, the same Saudi parent company that owns SNK, also has a stake in Capcom and the Saudi P.I.F. Is in the process of acquiring EA.

I won’t be picking up the new console, but equally I am typing this on an Apple phone, I own a Microsoft console, almost everything is linked to companies that have supported or continue to support fascist governments, mass murder, and genocide

That’s before you get to investments and shareholders.

I think it comes down to not trying to replicate the sport iteself but trying to place the player at the centre of their own experience of the sport, which mostly would have been from watching it on TV.

It's slightly weird to thnk that "authentic commentary" was actually a selling point.

I've said it before and I'll say it 'till I'm blue in the face, if I can't walk into a shop and buy one new, then it's retro as it's literally "of the past."

I liked Jonah Lomu Rugby, it's only real drawback was that you couldn't create an entire religion around it like you could with Brian Lara Cricket '96.

"We're going to ban smartphones in schools."

"Okay, I guess you want kids to engage with the lesson and not resort to whatever slop chatGPT spits out"

"Exactly, now let me explain how we're planning to intergrate AI into the classroom."

Samurai Showdown 3 in Blockbuster Video rental amaray.

Whilst the PlayStation didn't have the best conversion of the game, it still holds a special place in my heart, as I liberated it from Blockbuster Video back when I worked there, hence my copy is in a rental amaray rather than the normal case.

I was all good with catholicism when it was about homophobia, transphobia, antisemitism, subjugating women, harbouring Nazis, banning contraceptives, and the systemic cover up of the sexual abuse of minors.

And the president can do all those things better than any church could.

"The rights of a child" unless of course their beliefs contradict your prejudices, then it's "The rights of a parent" unless of course their beliefs contradict your prejudices, then it's "the rights of the state" unless of course their beliefs contradict your prejudices, then it's...

And so on.

I think deep down regardless of nationality, all techbros really want is to prove that plebs are replaceable.

The goal after that will be to prove they're disposable.

Although governments have already been doing that since the dawn of time.

It's a 1:1 replica, everything is designed to be interchangeable with the original machine.

If you can find an arcade that still has the original cabs even the memory cards will work.

This isn't impressive. it's a machine.

If you ran a headline saying a radio controlled car did it faster than a human, people would laugh at you.

Outside of resigning twice over allegations of sleeze and resigning from the Europen Commission over the Yachtgate corruption scandal, and the dozens of headlines over the past 30 years detailing his involvement and lobbying for Rusian and Chinese interests (and Palantir)

Why would anyone even ask?

"look at Italy, for example, where you see a rollback of rights for LGBT people"

Or, you know, look at the United Kingdom, but I guess when you've decided due to your own prejudice that advacocy has limits and entire groups of people are expendable then this is what you get.

Usually closer to £200.

yeah, it's not like there haven't been dubious products in the past, but SNK is involved and the claim is legacy ASIC chips, but as you can overclock, change display modes, and it has an HDMI out, it's not a true 1:1 replica, but close enough.

Even the peripherals work with original consoles.

Part of my wishes they'd also have done the CDZ with a faster drive speed.

But I guess the nostalgia is always going to be for the original.

*Correction the RRP of the ultimate bundle is $999.99/€899.99/£799.99.

Neo-Geo AES+ Ultimate bundle.

It's hard not to be tempted, even at a grand it's a heavy saving over picking up second hand originals.

Sometimes I’m just not in the fucking mood.

Although it is that time of year where I tend to consider shutting down all socials and walking off into the sunset.

Over the years I just bought games I liked.

These days those games are kind of memory talismans, I can pick a game at random and be flooded with memories of places, people, and shared experiences that bring me joy.

Slightly tangential, but it’s one of the things I always liked about Smokey and the Bandit.

A film about a man with a lot of friends who have his back, he hardly does a thing, it’s all the friends helping him who carry the majority of the work.

I don’t understand pork pie hats, surely they should have crimped edges and be lined with jelly.

Otherwise it’s just a truckle hat.

UK has detained 76 ‘age-disputed’ children under one in, one out scheme Concerns raised over minors placed in adult detention centres since removals began under scheme in September

The pernicious cruelty of the current Labour government will be the enduring legacy of the Starmer era.

Funny how successive governments who claim there is no money for any social services, always find money to wage war.

I would guess they were cooked at least 8 hours ago and then stored in ice water.

And have all the texture of mashed potato.

It's why the British are so happy that Kraft bought Cadbury and changed the recipe from that old Dairy Milk rubbish to the palm oil and corn syrup goodness they have now.

As a bonus they now do it with Oreos in it, the worlds bestest chocolate with the worlds bestest biscuit.

Happy days.

"Chopper, sic balls"

I can't believe it's Power Plant and Bridge day on Tuesday, it seems to come earlier every year.

"It's easy, you just flip them upside down"

"These ones can self-right themselves"

"Not if they're in a fucking river they can't"