Please! Do not ask for these! This was a personal job, not
outsourcing the work to other people. If you want me to work out
something for you, I will do so for money only.
These last ones are just for me. I wanted a proper SoR 4 Mega Drive
mockup game case, which I started from the Limited Games bonus cover.
And a Dreamcast Sonic Frontiers using some very cool art I saw on
twitter and using Sonic Frontiers Dreamcast mods for the screenshots.
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So I meant to work on this post this entire year, and finally end up writing this the last two days of 2021.. But at least it's still 2021 so it's technically still the year-long celebration of Sega's 60 years of activity. Aka #GOSEGA
This year I didn't bother (yet) with the new consoles. I didn't bother as much with current game releases, outside of compilation collections. I mostly bought and played on old Sega systems. I played a ton of Sega Master System and Mega Drive/Genesis. I had my Saturn sessions here and there. And I kept going back to the Dreamcast whenever.
But I knew this year I had to finally get my hands on all remaining Sega Systems. You see, I started with the Sega Mega Drive (1, then 2), got a Master System and a Saturn later, was here for the launch of Dreamcast. Game Gear, Nomad, heck I even got a Sega Pico at some point. But I noticed I was only missing a few odd iterations (only counting official Sega-licensed systems and partners such as Atari Games and TecToy).
I gotta admit it... So I've been really into JoJo's Bizarre Adventure lately. Starting reading the manga. Checking stuff about the lore and all.
And I finally grabbed a copy of the Dreamcast JoJo's Bizarre Adventure game. A game I remember seeing several times in stores back around the DC days. I remember seeing the games a few times: when I bought Street Fighter 3 First Strike on its release day. During holidays in a supermarket in the gaming section. At the airport even.
But I never grabbed it since I wasn't particularly interested in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure back then..
..and now I kinda regret it, considering how much the Pal release costs nowdays.
Anyways, I grabbed the Japanese release recently:
I dig the story mode, it actually follows the manga pretty closely. Plus it looks gorgeous.
Please! Do not ask for these! This was a personal job, not
outsourcing the work to other people. If you want me to work out
something for you, I will do so for money only.
Here's a few custom cover art I made this past month, for all kinds of reasons.
I saw this fantastic render of Ethan from Resident Evil and I knew I had to make a mockup for the Dreamcast as well.
I love me some H.P.Lovecraft-inspired games. Here's a mockup I did for a recent Steam release.
One of my favorite Sonic 1 hacks, the Rouge sprite is juste super cute. I
got a custom repro cartridge, so I decided to make a cover for it.
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After looking for it for ages, since I missed a copy of it in a local
game store over here about 18 years ago, I’ve finally managed to get my
hands on a copy of SEGAGAGA!
The meta SEGA RPG Simulation game! A tribute and last hoorah to my favorite gaming console!
I
used to check ebay every 2-3 months for a copy of it at a reasonable
price. But these usually went super expensive. And last month there it
was! And I won it! And it finally arrived!
Now I feel legitimate enough to actually try the (half-finished) fan-translations.
Recently, youtube channel DigitalFoundry recovered some huge news, for Sega fans.
I've been really enjoying the re-release of Shenmue I & II. It's nice to have an excuse to replay these all-time classics.
But originally Sega planned a much bigger more ambitious project. That's why the Shenmue I & II HD remaster had been rumored and then announced a couple of years ago. Considering the final product, a pretty simple widescreen HD-scaled release of the original Dreamcast games with minor additions, there's an explanations for such a long development period.
Originally Sega wanted to make a Yakuza Kiwami-style remake of the original games, in anticipation of Shenmue III.
DigitalFoundry got some exclusive pictures and animations from the scrapped game.
Story goes, the project was starting to take too long and cost too much for Sega Sammy. as is common with Shenmue games, as history shows. But they probably feared the games couldn't be released on time before Shenmue III (which, ironically, just got recently delayed). And this project would have cost as much as a new games instead of a remake...
Oh well...
As fans we can only dream... and wish for a new crowdfunded campaign, maybe..
It’s almost - ALMOST!! - like Shenmue III’s a reality. Almost!
Here’s my PS4 copy next to my original Dreamcast copies:
Also, bonus swag!!
Reversible cover!
Gorgeous!!
And a double-sided poster!
(I’ll put it right next to my NiER ones.)
I
never noticed how well the PS4 front art goes well along the classic
European Dreamcast label. Just look at the mockup manual inside the PS4
edition next to my DC copies:
I can’t believe how nostalgic it has become now in 2018 playing Shenmue on my PS4...
If I could only summarize QUAKE III in one way, I'd say it's an id Software All-Star deathmatch crossover pitching against each
other the characters and the universes of the Doom trilogy, Quake 1 and
Quake 2 - only really missing a representative from Wolfenstein - which is a shame - and at least
a cameo or references to the Commander Keen series... sigh.
Hell awaits your soul, will you dare face more id Software reviews through the following links?
