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[jshackles]

Welcome to your all-digital future guys!

 

[Deft Beck]

I can't imagine it sold all that well, in any event.

 

[64bitmodels]

what game is this again?

 

[jshackles]

Links in case anyone actually wants to buy this:

Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection

Two games based on those two bodacious dudes of movie fame Excellent - Bill Teds Excellent Video Game Adventure - History has been all screwed up and only the San Dimas Duo can set things straight. Awesome responsibility, man. Ride the Power Phone Booth to six different worlds. Galactic...

store.playstation.com

Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

 

[Fake]

Digital works as intended.

 

[Drizzlehell]

Maybe if it was cheaper but 10 bucks for some ancient NES games that probably aren't very good anyway?

I'm okay with missing out on this.

 

[Smether]

I tried to find some reviews for this earlier, seems like none of the big outlets even took the time. I'm all for game preservation, but I think LRG gets a bit too niche sometimes.

 

[Krathoon]

The games were kind of crap, if I remember correctly.

Not really worth a purchase.

 

[ReBurn]

Delist LRG next

 

[simpatico]

Maybe one day we can blend blockchain tech with Denuvo style DRM to make truly limited edition digital games that cannot be copied.

 

[poppabk]

Welcome to your all-digital future

Can't you just play your originals on your Gameboy and NES?

 

[bender]

Someone might want to create another thread but Friday the 13th delists on January 1st.

 

[ManaByte]

$10 is too much for two really shitty ROMs.

If they included the Lynx version I’d buy it on both PS5 and Switch.

 

[Shake Your Rump]

I feel bad for anyone tricked into paying for this. This should have been delisted from the start. Just play the original games (physical or emulation) and be done with it.

 

[KuraiShidosha]

I feel bad for anyone tricked into paying for this. This should have been delisted from the start. Just play the original games (physical or emulation) and be done with it.

I agree with this mentality. The only games worth scrambling to buy before they get delisted are actual original copies like the original GTA 3D trilogy, Prey original, Escape from Butcher Bay etc.

 

[Mr Hyde]

I just recently noticed that Forgotten Anne was delisted on PS4. Lucky for me I bought it but it's shitty that publishers just delist games like this. The digital future is scary.

 

[diffusionx]

 

[Rayderism]

Huh....the compilation wasn't even released a year ago. Odd that it's being delisted so soon. No big loss really. They were kind of classically bad games anyway.

 

[Soodanim]

OP missed out the vital context from one tweet up in the thread. It's not so much a "Welcome to the digital future" as if anything malicious has happened like when companies remove perfectly good games in order to replace with something worse, it's just the side-effect of digital distribution being that you don't get second hand copies.

 

[justiceiro]

Living up to the "limited run" name

 

[Neff]

Licensed games always have a finite shelf life, for legal reasons. At least we got a heads up as opposed to it simply vanishing.

 

[Astray]

Welcome to your all-digital future guys!

Dude wtf it didn't even last a year! Released in Feb 2023.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection

BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT VIDEO GAME ADVENTURE: An NES game based on those two bodacious dudes of movie fame? Excellent!!! History has been all screwed up and only the San Dimas Duo can set things straight. Ride the Power Phone Booth to six different worlds. Search for famous Historical Dudes...

www.metacritic.com

Licensed games always have a finite shelf life, for legal reasons. At least we got a heads up as opposed to it simply vanishing.

This strikes me as a pure FOMO tactic. Buy our game or you won't be able to anymore.

Otherwie, what kind of publisher doesn't get a license for more than a year?