The official Retro Core / Battle of the Ports thread

Better late than never as they say.
Thanks for watching the show all these years.

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Do you take requests? I’d love to see a battle for Ultima IV.

I do indeed take requests. I’m not very keen on covering Ultima though. I’ve never been able to get in to the series. I’ll add it to the list. After all, this week’s Battle of the Ports is a game I can’t stand but a viewers request.

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Well, don’t put yourself out just for me! Appreciate the honest response.

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Coming up later today is this week’s Battle of the Ports but I wonder if you have seen this great little tablet I bought?

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One of the biggest none EA sport games of the time gets the round up this week.

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It’s pretty crazy that some Game Gear games weren’t straight conversions of their Master System counterparts. In this case, it probably would’ve been a lot wiser to just convert the MS version than letting Tiertex create it from scratch and bungle everything up.

The same also happened with the Streets of Rage games, didn’t it? At least the GG versions of those were pretty decent.

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Same with Shinobi, Fantasy Zone and Alien Syndrome. The GG games are completely different.

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Oukitel sent me a phone, and it’s a BEAST!

Oh yeah! Nerd bag time!

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Check out the Anbernic RG503 with the Samsung OLED screen!

We are going all modern, well kind of. This week on Battle of the ports is Rayman 2.

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Wanna see my city’s p*nis? Or how about the cool cinema lobby? Those and more in the new Retro Core Life in Japan.

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Yay, Dreamcast wins!

I had a demo of this game back in the day. It was on a cover cd of the official Sega Dreamcast Magazine, if I’m not mistaken.

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Toaplan time again on this week’s Battle of the Ports.

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As much as the NES version doesn’t live up to the arcade, it’s still a great time. I played it a lot as a kid on one of those 31 in 1 carts, and was happy to get a real copy a few years ago.

Fun game for sure, and it’s legacy cannot be understated.

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Oh yes. This game was famous for being on multi carts. I reckon that’s how most people know this game.

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I’m getting in to these cheap smart phones. Here’s another which wasn’t too bad for gaming plus has nice features such as a Sony camera and NFC.

Umidigi F3

Is this a game about a Club DJ who becomes a police officer?
TechnoCop on this week’s Battle of the Ports

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I remember ogling at pictures of this game in magazines and being intrigued by the (for the time) excessive gore. I wasn’t used to seeing enemies explode into bloody chunks in this pre-Mortal Kombat world.

My interest in the game subsided when I read the scathing reviews, though.

Anyway, nice video. Seeing the Speccy and Amstrad versions come out on top was quite surprising!

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