I mean, all Tom needs is a bunch of neck and back tattoos and he's basically Kazuma Kiryu. He even wears a shirt similar to the one that Kaz wears in Yakuza 3 when he's on Okinawa.
In Animal Crossing: NH, Tom Nook comes off as a G-rated mob boss/loan shark. Dude constantly keeps you in debt. They should have kept Resetti in the game as Tom Nook's debt collector. There's even a dude on the island who fences stolen/counterfeit artwork.
I have, in the past, referred to Ys 8 as Gilligan's Island: The RPG. The princess is pretty much Ginger, and Sahad is the Skipper.
Ultima I (or at least the 1987 remake) had the same sequence in it. In Ultima 2, you could visit all planets in the solar system, but only Planet X had anything of importance on it. Neptune was a grassy plain with a computer camp in it.
That's probably not going to happen. I looked up Konami's market cap. It is worth $20bn USD, which is larger than any Japanese game company other than Nintendo and almost as big as EA or Take-Two (and EA, as of this writing is about to get bought out by the Saudis and a consortium of venture capitalists including Kushner).
Boulder Dash has been a nearly lifelong favorite of mine, since i first played it on the A8.
Alleyway was the first Game Boy game I bought. I got mine at Christmas, along with the pack-in Tetris game and Super Mario Land.
I love Gaplus. I have it on Switch.
Saturn emulation was notoriously difficult in the past, but it is much better now, though I still had to work on it a bit to get it running well on EmuDeck.
I prefer original hardware where possible, but the Astrocade and its games are a bit hard to find in the wild. I've also got this set up for the Atari 8-bit (though I still have my Atari 400 mini, which does emulation a lot better than EmuDeck does), the PC-Engine CD, and the Saturn - mostly for English language versions of games like Far East of Eden and the Saturn Sakura Wars games and Shining Force III Scenarios 2 and 3.
Thanks for this tribute. Rest in peace, Michael.
This was emulated through MAME. There's even a site that tells you everything you need to know about the Astrocade and emulating it, Bally Alley, and that site helped me get it running on EmulationStation on my Steam Deck, which is what I was playing it on. Bally Alley actually has the entire Astrocade library on it, including homebrew games that were released long after the console itself was discontinued.
I have seen Astrocades in the wild at Fallout Games, a Phoenix-area used-game store. Unfortunately, I failed to take advantage of them. Next time I see one I will definitely buy it even though I have it running on emulation.
