What's this? The first-ever reissue of Technosoft's seminal mecha-themed real-time strategy game, originally released for the Sega Mega Drive in 1989 in Japan and 1990 elsewhere in addition to the usual Sega Ages enhancements (save states, screen settings, replays, etc) it also adds game-specific features like additional info displays on the screen borders, helper/handicap settings, options to reduce slowdown and automatic password saves, as well as a brand-new "Herzog Academy" tutorial campaign and support for online multiplayer.
What're these? The leader of the DKC crew, an extra-strange localization of a competent but already-weird Jaleco brawler, a scrolling shooting game whose quality is utterly betrayed by its awful name and, for the first time in North America, the Super Famicom follow-up to Nintendo's original picross game for Game Boy.
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NSO September '20 update #2: Donkey Kong Country 2 (SNES), Mario's Super Picross (SFC), S.C.A.T.
Helpful tip: This game was and is marketed as the capstone on a trilogy, but they made a fourth one in very short order and I don't believe it's a gaiden or reboot, so search me. Why should I care? You've played and could read the first two, I guess. What's this? The third in G-MODE's successful mobile-optimized RPG series, originally released for Japanese feature phones in 2009 the incrementally-increasing hardware & data specs allowed for ever-so-slightly better and denser graphics and content, with the big innovation in this entry being a massive broadening of the party system, allowing for larger parties, more potential party members and more team customization overall. Useless fact: Bump 'n Jump was sold both as a dedicated PCB and as a game foe the DECO Cassette System hardware I believe this reissue is based on the ROM version. What's this? An overhead driving game centered primarily around bumpin' and/or jumpin', released in arcades by Data East in 1982 and subsequently ported to Intellivision, Colecovision and NES players are tasked with bumping the constant stream of rival vehicles off the road while dodging obstacles and occasionally jumping over treacherous over-water sections of each track.
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The arguable headliner for this week's pleasantly diverse round-up is somewhat bittersweet: Sega Ages Herzog Zwei is not just the first-ever re-release of an extremely influential and long-in-demand Mega Drive game, it's also the final release in the current Sega Ages line for Nintendo Switch, a reissue series that delivered a lot but had the potential to do so much more.