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The Capcom Retro Station makes the PS1 Classic look good

ShakeWell

ShakeWell

Slam Master
(he, etc.)
Capcom is entering the mini-arcade cabinet market with the Capcom Retro Station. And, boy, if you thought the PS1 Classic was a boondoggle, Capcom is asking Sony to hold their beer.

It contains TEN games. Only ten. Five are Mega Man games, five are Street Fighter games, with seemingly no rhyme or reason to the selection. I mean, look at this:
-Mega Man Soccer
-Mega Man: The Power Battles
-Mega Man: The Power Fighters
-Mega Man X
-Mega Man & Bass (SFC version)
-Street Fighter II
-Street Fighter II Champion Edition
-Super Street Fighter II
-Super Street Fighter II Turbo
-Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo

And the price? A nice and tidy... $200?! It's Japan-only and coming this March, and while it sounds like the unit itself has some good hardware (an actual 4:3 8" screen, nice speakers, no news I saw about the quality of the joysticks and buttons, though), that's a butt-ton of money to ask when half of those games are readily available on modern consoles for a fraction of that price, and probably with better emulation. I'm honestly just baffled at who this is even for? Casual Street Fighter or Mega Man fans aren't gonna bite at two bills, and hardcore fans almost certainly have other ways of playing all of these on better set-ups. Am I alone here?
 
WildcatJF

WildcatJF

Let's Pock (Art @szk_tencho)
(he / his / him)
This was confirmed for Western release iirc...yay?

*would much rather have the Astro City Arcade unit get localized*
 
ShakeWell

ShakeWell

Slam Master
(he, etc.)
madhair60 said:
And the Astro City Mini boots and is fully playable in English
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The menus are in English, but many of the games are not. Which is fine, they're still playable, but they're not the US/World versions of the games, they're the Japanese versions with no option to change. It's also more expensive to import from Japan than it would be to buy in your home territory.
 
MetManMas

MetManMas

Me and My Bestie
(He, him)
I really wish that Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo and the Mega Man stuff that is not X* would show up on modern console compilations.

Even if this didn't have a control layout that look unfit for Super Famicom games and had a multiplayer solution other than "there's a port for something" it'd still feel disappointing that this $200 thing with only ten games is 40% different versions of Street Fighter II. Capcom's 90s output is diverse even without factoring in the Iicensed stuff, and if they still wanted to dedicate 2/5ths of the compilation to punching shit there's other fighters they could've thrown in instead of yearly iterations of one game.

* Not to single the game out, it's just already on a modern console compilation.
 
Phantoon

Phantoon

I cuss you bad
madhair60 said:
Also the PS classic is super good
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I buy all the mini consoles and I'm not touching this thing with a badge pole. Even if the whole "let's half fill it with Street Fighter II" made sense (it doesn't) why not put Hyper Fighting on there? That and Super Turbo are the best games in that branch of Street Fighter. It's super expensive, doesn't look like anything, and has an insane selection of games. And as the whole hacking scene around these things has ground to a halt it'll likely never get good.
 
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