Konami's classic shooters coming to PSP |
Because of the warm welcome and sizzling sales that Konami got with Gradius Collection, and with the evident anticipation for similar classic collections such as Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded, we can see that classic games are making a huge comeback in the current-gen and next-gen gaming industry.Now, Konami joins the nostalgic bandwagon as they resurrect and bring their classic shooter games to the PSP in three new bundles. The first details on this classic release are found on the latest issue of Famitsu, and the Japanese magazine gives us a glimpse of the titles included in each of the three collections: Salamander Portable, Parodius Portable, and Twinbee Portable.
Each collection reportedly has five titles, but Konami is still keeping mum about three titles that will be included in the bundle. Famitsu shares with us the titles under each collection that Konami has announced so far:
Salamander Portable
Salamander (1986)
Life Force (1987)
Xexex (1991)
Salamander 2 (1996)
Parodius Portable
Parodius da! (1990)
Gokujou Parodius: Kakou no Eikou wo Momomete (1994)
Sexy Parodius (1996)
Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius - forever with me - (1996)
Twinbee Portable
Twinbee (1985)
Detana Twinbee (1991)
Twinbee Yahho! Fushigi no Kuni de Ooabare!! (1995)
Pop'n Twinbee (1996)
Famitsu has also revealed that Salamander will features original and wide
modes of play, while Parodius will offer a gallery mode, allowing users to listen to the classic sounds of the series. Whether these modes will be available on all three collections, we have still yet to confirm. Also, Twinbee will require the PSP to be held in a
rarely used vertical mode to remind users of the long aspect ratio of
the original arcade machine.
All three collections are said to be scheduled for release in Japan January next year, and will sell for 3980 yen. Whether the game will have an American version and/or a U.S. release is still unconfirmed. We'll let you know as soon as we find out.
Via IGN
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Omar VAsquez OWNS YOU!!1
there's no f'n way those games wouldn't fit on one umd, talk about corperate greed. thats scummy of konami trying to rip off gamers like that. i hope those games fail myzerably and they lose a fortune.
These games are a rip-off. They keep pumping out the junk. It is not a phenomenon. I played them in the arcade...then on the snes...then on the PS1 then the PSP2. There is no way anybody should be buying these for their PSP. The companies spend all their time giving us all their old S#!t and not producing new games. It is easy and cheap. DOnt ever buy a comilation - ok maybe if you really..really...really liked them. But then, why not just emulate them on your computer?
^^ you're silly.
'cause is ilegal?.
The retro compilations rule but i dont remember anything other than contra and mgs (That they didnt include,thanks alot).That truly shined those days,also why they cant bring a contra PSP in 2.5D?.
That would sell,From capcom i know some truly good old school classics from konami mmmm only Contra,MGS and Castlevania wich they didnt include.
I dont like this game but lets see i liked gradius collection.
if no one bought these stupid repacks of old'd games, companies would stop making them.
so all these games they keep pumpin out for psp are just ports of old games. why don't most developers wanna make new games, specifically for the psp rather than bringin back sh***y games from the ps1 era? at least port some worthwhile titles...but seriously, we need new games.
No Axelay!? That was an awesome shooter and deserved a next gen sequel. The lava boss still looks cool today.
axelay was not an arcade game, whilst all the games mentioned are arcade games and then were converted to home systems. Except Xexex, which is getting its first ever home conversion - Not quite a Salamander game, but still worthy in it's own right of a conversion. I'll but all 3 packs as barely non of these games can be run via any emu on a PSP. A PC, Yes, but thats defeating the point a little bit.
Can't help thinking that they coulda' crammed ALL of these into ONE UMD, but they're obviously milking us a little...Not that WE have to worry about it. I don't know about the UK, but most of these games never had home ports in the U.S., and I think the majority never experienced much arcade success, here, if they were brought here AT ALL. Doesn't sound like they're likely candidates for release outside of Japan on PSP. And on the notion of porting OLD stuff, I don't think our little swiss army handheld gaming/gps/camera machine has much life left in it, beyond our beloved homebrew scene, really. Anyone remember the post about EA considering focusing efforts elsewhere, because of the indecisive target marketing of the PSP? Think about that; They're the world's largest third-party software developer, so, if anyone can afford to take a risk on something, it's THEM. I don't think they're the ONLY ONES re-thinking the PSP. Look how long PSP has been out, and look how slowly the third party games are still trickling out. Why NOT repackage old games, rather than waste time, effort, and money developing games that will drastically undersell console efforts and even DS games, in many cases?
Hell, I'll buy all of these. More fun to me than 95% of the $hit that sells these days.
Konami, where's the 2-player WiFi? It was sorely missed in Gradius Gaiden.
Where's Castlevania Collection?
"But I already emulate those! For free!":
Well, if you buy these, technically you are paying for the binary contained on the ROMs (only now it's on UMD.) So at least you have some argument you are legally emulating it on your PC/PS2/Xbox/whatever.
I'm looking forward to these. Playing shooters on the go is always fun. Brings out the old-skool gamer in me. This is going to be every classic gamer's dream.