Capcom Arcade Stadium

なかなか移植に恵まれなかった【１９ＸＸ】と【プロギアの嵐】が同梱されているだけで、かなり価値のある逸品。 これらのゲームをプレイしたい人は、買いましょう。 ただ、気になる点を挙げると、 アーケードスタジアム全体で、【セーブスロットが３２個しかない】ところ。 せめて、これの１０倍は欲しかった…。 それでも私としては、ベルトアクションもりもりなので、大満足ですね。

I'm gonna give the Capcom Arcade Stadium a passing score for one reason and one reason only: the games are good, they run well and it's a decent bang for your buck overall. That's three things. If you just want to boot up the arcade classics from your childhood or explore a world before your times in case you're a younger peruser, then go ahead and enjoy. I did too, don't get me wrong, but when looking at the whole picture there's quite a lot of stuff that i have issues with. I wasn't a fan of how there's no explanation anywhere of what differenciates the japanese and international ROM of each game. And on one hand i can understand why, as most descriptions would boil down to either "the japanese version was a wreck and we had to fix up so much ♥♥♥♥ that there's not enough space here to list it all up" or "we have made this game worse for the west for absolutely no reason" and that's not the most flattering way to present a product you've charged money for, but on the other hand... who gives a ♥♥♥♥? These games are 30 years old at their youngest, you can put on your historian hat for a second and be honest about your own work, Capcom. And since we're on the topic of history and what-have-you... would it have killed you to include any kind of old promotional material in the collection? Flyers, magazine ads, commercials, that kinda stuff. I know this is the Capcom Arcade STADIUM and not the Arcade Museum like i erroneusly called it in one of my earlier reviews for the games here included, but after playing Atari 50 every kind of game collection out there seems so low effort in comparison. I'm not asking for in-depth developer interviews or exclusive factoids or 3D renders of the arcade cabinets with the accurate stickers attached on, just the bare minimum. I know you're keeping all this stuff stored in some hard drive already, it's an afternoon's work. Come the ♥♥♥♥ on guys. You don't even have to translate the japanese stuff if that's somehow too much effort over the same games you've been reselling for the 20th time. Since there's no flyers and anything of the sort, the games are explained to you through digital manuals, digital manuals that suck ass if i might add. I've found them to occasionally be incomplete or even incorrect, for example in Captain Commando its mentioned nowhere that you can sprint by double tapping the movement input, and in Forgotten Worlds there's an explanation for a mega attack that's not actually doable in the game, and if i dig more i doubt i won't find more examples like these. Default inputs sometimes wil need to be remapped, as they can be counterintuitive or clunky, like in the case of Dynasty Wars or, once again, Forgotten Worlds. Challenge runs are a genuinely neat inclusion, unfortunately i suck at videogames so just getting at the credits is enough of a challenge for me, but if you're looking for a way to spice up your playthroughs and to swing your big gamer ♥♥♥♥ in front of the world it's somethign you can do. You can also edit the dip switch settings of each game if you want a more personalized experience, another thing i liked there. But i'd hate to end this technically positive review on a positive note, so here's why save states in the Capcom Arcade Stadium are weird and stupid: first off, all games share a limited amount of save slots, which is less than the total amount of games included, different versions notwithstanding, secondly there's no quick button to reload a save state, thirdly saving each still takes a few seconds which depending on how you wanna use them can be annoying, fourthly i wish there was a way to turn off rewinds altogether because it's an unrelated feature i've only used once that's clearly meant to replace the practicality of save states but absolutely does not. Post scriptum just to laugh at the people in the Steam reviews who dowloaded this for free and are complaining that there's only one game in it, duh ♥♥♥♥♥♥?