Now, Sega has taken to
re-release classic arcade games on the PSN (Daytona USA and House of the Dead 3 being the ones before) and their newest endeavor is none other than HOtD4, making its first appearance on consoles, and in this case the PS3.
Not exact matches
According to information received by Siliconera, the 2 ToeJam & Earl
games «ToeJam & Earl» and «ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron» are set to be
re-released via SEGA's Vintage Collection; a series of upscaled ports of
classic SEGA
games made available on Playstation Network and X-Box Live
Arcade.
Maragos goes on to check out Valve's Steam content distribution system («For titles with little chance of success in the Darwinian (no pun intended) world of retail, Steam is more and more an attractive alternative»), and also discusses Xbox 360 Live
Arcade, particularly mentioning the
re-releases of
classic games («Digital downloads of cheap, legal emulated
games could fill a niche that no retail channel has yet been able to provide, and ensure that yesterday's generation of seminal
games isn't gone forever.»)
The
game which is released on Xbox Live
Arcade and the PlayStation Store today, is a
re-release of the
classic title... Read more
Natsume has announced that puzzle
game classic Bust - a-Move 4 (originally released in the
arcade, PS1, and Dreamcast back in the day) is getting a
re-release this spring on the PSN.
Arcade games or
classics are also getting their fair share of
re-release, the last of which, Gauntlet, being a remaster of the original Atari Gauntlet
Arcade which came out in 1985.
Thanks to the digital era of video gaming, we've seen a lot of
game publishers
re-release a ton of
classic arcade games.
The
classic ’88
arcade game, Bionic Commando, recently
re-released on PSN, now receives the true remake treatment, and is available for the cut - price of # 9.95 from Zavvi.
Nintendo's insistence on
re-releasing NES ports instead of the
arcade versions of their
classic arcade games is so frustrating.
The
games range from
classic arcade games to modern
re-releases to completely original
games designed specifically for XBLA.
You might be surprised to hear that Nintendo, a company that
re-releases many of its
classic games on a regular basis, has never taken the opportunity to port its
arcade software.