Things Just Got Interesting For Retro Gaming...

After a recent announcement this week, things could change heavily for retro gaming going forward.

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[Yu__Narukami]

I've always been of the opinion, at least for the major console manufacturers like Nintendo and Sony, that they should have a made-to-order section on their website where you could pay for them to print out and send a copy of one of their retro games, be it from the NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, etc. I get why games eventually go out of print and why they don't mass produce older titles, but I feel like having a made-to-order model for their legacy library couldn't be anything other than lucrative for them.

[alvfaria]

I have a dream. A wicked dream. I dream with a new generation of consoles that uses cartridges again. And with all the bug fixes and updates being saved IN THE CARTRIDGE, not in the console's memory.

[RaspyCh]

The problem with LRG is that even buying the regular edition of a game, just the game, takes way too long to make and ship. Like you will see retail versions of a game that you pre ordered in stores before YOUR pre order gets shipped

[MedalionDS]

Cartridges are both a weakness and a strength but they're never going away

[handlerwithcare]

Shame how physicals is gonna be overrun with LRG. Been seeing them so much lately in almost everything including bigger companies. “Limited run” meaning those items will be flooded by scalpers sooner or later. Not to mention their $200 collector editions are usually awful items most of the time and then 1 item that’s decent

[duthrimoki]

I’d rather buy another type of “mini” console with built in games officially approved rather than from limited run garbo. The price is not worth it

[TheTyisawesome]

Upgraded Super FX sounds quite interesting to me

[strawb]

Capcom already did something like this with LRG. They released new Genesis carts of Mega Man Wily Wars that fixed the original's slowdown.

[cfitz]

It sounds like people don't understand how limited run works. you're not ordering an in-stock item off amazon. Limited run prepares a project then puts up a pre-order for a month or so, then produces an amount of the item proportional to the orders. It is more like a kickstarter but with a guarantee that you will actually get what you ordered within six months to a year. not a service for impatient people.

[Sleepysnorlax]

I guess it depends on how you define “resurgence”. We’ve been getting new SNES, NES, Genesis and GBC games for the last several years. Several indie publishers are putting them out (LRG, iam8bit, neofid studios, pixel heart, etc).

Doom seems to be getting more attention than most of the previous releases but new cartridges isn’t a recent trend

[mistermittens]

Welp 13 hours later it is sold out and going for over 600$ on ebay... Love modern gaming

[Hypershell]

Not only did LRG sell burned CDRs, not only do their wait times suck, they also fired an employee for who they follow on Twitter.
Hell to the no.

[shawntaylor]

Limited Run is a cool idea, in theory. Having to wait 8-9mo for a game is ridiculous. Quit buying from them long time ago

[yepievelux]

>LRG mentioned
who cares nothing is gonna be interesting with them involved

[itchyisvegeta]

I love this. But I hate that I have to give LRG business to buy it. Gonna pass on it.

[GalacticCODE]

Sick of only download games … need physical copy…

[thestuff]

Now that the quick news is outta the way, let’s get into the bigger stuff…

[inceptional]

I'll tell you this right now, if Nintendo released the original SNES but just with added HDMI output like the SNES Classic Mini and also re-released a whole bunch of original physical SNES games again, maybe with added FastROM to all the games that once used SlowROM and some extra QoL tweaks and features where it made sense too, I would buy those in a heartbeat. And, if they were smart, they'd just make the cartridge slot universal this time around too, so whichever model you buy you can use the carts from any other region too.

In a heartbeat I tell you.

And, because of the original 60 million NES and 49.1 million SNES sales, plus the 3.6 million NES Classic Mini and 5.28 million SNES Classic Mini sales in modern times too, I think those retro systems make more sense than any other retro systems to do this for in modern times.

[shadex]

An enchanced, sped up version of Starfox woud be interesting.

[yellowblanka]

I don't think you can claim there's a new trend based on a single re-release, and there have been a few SNES re-prints over the last couple years, and it hasn't led to some torrent of re-prints of games.