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I consider Medal of Honor: Allied Assault to be one of the greatest war FPS games ever made. A relic from back when EA still stood for quality. It's got a substantial campaign and that's not even counting the expansions.

The problem is that I just can't seem to get into it anymore. The gameplay just feels so stiff and dated now. I mean, you can't even aim down the sights, and compared to games that came out a few short years after, the enemy AI is pretty dumb.

Are there any classics you have a hard time getting back in to?

When it came out on home video, I hated it, but having watched it again decades later, after experiencing the Canadian-produced series, the Alpha Commando cartoon, the Sci-Fi channel miniseries and the 2014 reboot, my opinion of 3 has greatly improved. I no longer judge it as "objectively bad", just the weakest part of the original trilogy.

I see a lot of people still insist on the "real hardware", but then they'll talk about their Dreamcast having an aftermarket PSU, a custom shell, aftermarket controllers, replacement boards, a VMU Pro and they're playing all of their games via a GDEmu or Terraonion MODE. At what point do you no longer consider that "real hardware?"

Master of Darkness/Vampire: Master of Darkness, is a Master System/Gear Gear game that was Sega's very ambitious attempt at an Castlevania by way of Hammer Horror. It's an incredibly competent game start to finish, and was made in response to the fact that Sega had no Castlevania to call it's own...That is until Konami delivered Bloodlines on the Genesis. As good as MoD was, I can't help but feel like getting an official Castlevania game stopped a sequel from ever coming out.

For my 12th or 13th birthday(I've slept since then), I spent $10 of my birthday money on two games I couldn't believe existed! Mega Man 1 and 3 for the PC, and they were compatible with my Tandy 1000! "Score!", or so I thought.

When I got them home, the reality set in: These were NOT Megaman 1 and 3 as I knew them. The graphics looked...wrong ,there was no music and very few of the classic Mega Man enemies weren't there.

Mega Man 1 has only three very unusual Robot Masters and you had to beat an intro level before you could select a stage.

Mega Man 3 had proper roster, but the robot master all looked like weird bootlegs. Mega Man can swim now, for some reason.

Now, when you spent money on something back then, you played it, even if it sucked, so I soldiered on with these. Managed to beat 3 at one point.

Looking back, I have some weird fondness for those terrible old games. Why is that?

The action is fast and frantic, occasionally pushing a button or flipping a level to open something, there's no fussing with cosmetics, the only "loadouts" are what you find laying around the level and the name of the game is "Kill everything standing between you and the exit!" So would these two games lean into what we consider boomer shooters?

I think a lot of people would agree that the Part 2 dub cast is pretty great, and over the years the only change to that cast was Doug Erholtz taking over for Dan Lorge(Who's Zenigata is just perfect). But which of the other English casts did you like the best?

I like the Funimation cast for the 90s specials.

• Sonny Strait as Lupin.
• Chris Sabat as Jigen.
• Mike McFarland as Goemon.
• Meredith McCoy's as Fujiko.
• And Phillip Wilburn as Zenigata.

Their vocal chemistry is so good, you'd think that the recordings were done ensemble style.

There is no legitimate way to watch Captain Harlock: Arcadia of My Youth outside of owning a physical copy. It's out of print an streaming nowhere(legal), meaning you have to pirate this anime movie about a space pirate.

People getting into the franchise now have it so good, but I remember being so confused by Dragon Ball Z back in the day. As an American I only knew Dragon Ball from the single season we got, so when this sequel series shows up with all these new characters (Krillin, Tien, Chaozu, Piccolo, etc) talking about Goku like they've know him for years, I was like "...what?", because all these new characters were from the seasons we wouldn't see dubbed until the early 00s.

In fact, I don't think I got to see all of Dragon Ball until AFTER Dragon Ball Z had completed its final season on Toonami.

Anyone else remember seeing these in retail?

X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse is always the one that stuck out to me. Mainly because it was officially licensed. Was Marvel really that cash strapped back then?

Raze is a nifty drop-in source port for Build Engine games. Duke Nukem 3-D, Blood, Poweslave and Shadow Warrior, just to name a few. A couple of the Build Engine games NOT supported are Witchaven 1&2. Apparently those games are so broken, adding support to them would prove detrimental to the code base, lol. Meanwhile those terrible WW2 and NAM games make the cut. How badly designed is your game when it gets passed over for WWII: GI?

I recently found out about his work via a Captain Harlock retrospective on YouTube. He somehow acquired the license to dub a bunch of vintage anime in the 2000s, and they're all really weird. I saw his Fist of the North Star and Harlock dubs on The Internet Archive. He basically Sandy Franked a bunch of episodes into compilation films, with huge chunks of important plots excised and really bad voice acting. Did anyone ever run into these in online shops, retail, or streaming?

When I was growing up the Sci-Fi Channel came into existence, and one of the things they were quick to embrace was anime. One anime that was a network exclusive was "The New Adventures of Gigantor", which was the Fred Ladd dub of Shin Tetsujin-28. Fred Ladd had also dubbed the original Tetsujin-28 as "Gigantor" back in the 1960s. The New Adventures was actually presented as a sequel instead of a remake. Sadly, it never got a home video release, so the only way to watch it is via off-air recordings someone posted to The Internet Archive, with episode 35 being lost to time. The voice acting talent is a who's who. Barbara Goodson, Doug Stone, Tom Wyner, Jeff Winkless and Gregg Berger(Who had also been in the US dub of Mazinger Z, Tranzor Z)

I'm an American Gen-Xer. I grew up on Battle of the Planets, Starblazers, Voltron, Robotech, Tranzor Z, Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years, etc. Beloved childhood classics. Yet so many people from my age group revile these shows as adults. To those people I ask: Why? Because they're "butchered" versions of something that you otherwise would have not gotten to watch back then, in the first place? You wouldn't even probably care what a "Macross" is had you never experienced it as part of Robotech.

Mine: I don't understand the Snatcher glazing. It's a glorified visual novel, with a shooting gallery minigame tacked on.

Part 5 has, sprinkled between the story arcs, stand alone filler episodes. I find these much more compelling than said arcs. These include:

• A whacky pink jacket episode, where Lupin's friends try to give him brain damage so he can defeat a safe that won't open if your brain power is too high.
• A green jacket Miyazaki-style episode, where Lupin takes up the mantle of private investigator to solve a murder mystery.
• A red jacket adventure right out Part 2, where the hunt for a South American drug lord's treasure trove leads to a haunted car race and Fujiko getting some comeuppance.
• An episode where a blackout drunk Zenigata gets amnesia, thinks HE is thief and ends up being better at it than Lupin.

Honestly, these are some of the best episodes out of the second trilogy.

It's like if a Lucio Fulci zombie movie was a video game. That statement will make more sense when you play it.

At some point GOG updated Blake Stone Aliens of Gold, and possibly it's sequel. This broke the digitized sound effects. Has this been fixed yet?

This song does not appear in the original Japanese version of 8-Man After. I realized this after seeing that version on Retro Crush. This is exclusive to the dub and it goes SO hard.

This wasn't a simple case of a PC game being ported to consoles, or vice-versa. Two completely unique games using the same audiovisual assets were being made by the same developer. The Saturn version, running on Slave Driver Engine was ported to the PS1, but the PC version is a whole different animal. It was originally going to be the showcase for the Build Engine until 3D Realms pulled out of the publishing deal.