Isaac

That is quite possibly some of the worst music I've ever heard.

East is generally better than West at this kind of thing. I'm constantly surprised how much Brad sounds like he's just winging the Bombcast every week. We have to hear him googling up stories, scanning a press release for the most relevant bits, and fact checking various things they say. It seems like they do barely any prep at all beyond a basic list of what they want to talk about. At least Abby seems to be on top of her brief when it comes to emails and the general running order of the show. The latest episode was a perfect example - Brad mentioned the Nintendo direct, but hadn't pulled any of the big announcements out of it, so we had to hear him go to the Nintendo website, then search down the page and read all the big announcements off the list, double checking to make sure he hadn't missed any. How hard is it to pull that all into a google doc before the show?!

SNES controller icons have been datamined from the 6.0 patch, I'd be very surprised if we don't see SNES emulation next year.

I don't get why you'd buy this when there's a whole collection coming out in a few months including this and 19 other games.

According to this Reddit thread, changing regions works exactly how you'd expect it to (i.e. unchanged):

Good question. I've signed up in the SA store, and it's working fine, but not tried to change region yet. I did read the T&Cs, and it seems to say that you can so long as you have automatic renewal turned off - if it's turned on you can't change region. Not sure whether you lose your existing sub though.

Streets of Rage is now coming to Switch, so this is a bit redundant.

Also includes Landstalker, Streets of Rage and Shinobi. Day one for me too.

The Anno series are some of the most under-rated games of all time. Every single one has been an absolute belter. The DRM has been a bit dodgy at times, but other than that, nothing quite beats slowly building an empire.

That Mario movie is a far more interesting and better film than it had any right to be. Seriously, rewatch it. If you divorce it from the source material, it's not bad at all. It's brave as fuck too. Can you imagine a studio now making a dystopian version of a children's video game property?!

Thank you, you've just saved me 15 quid. Hopefully they patch it.

They're releasing good games each month too. I'm looking forward to Metroid in November, I've never played NES Metroid.

Also, the pads genuinely look brilliant: Going to be very disciplined and not buy a pair, mainly because I'm holding out for the inevitable SNES versions.

Urgh - upscaled?! Get away with you. If they upscale my SNES games there'll be hell to pay.

I don't read it like that at all, but I guess we will find out soon.