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"Emulated title screen."
Forgot the pterodactyl is only vulnerable while its mouth is open. = O RaAAAwr!
I originally got this almost exactly 15 years ago, according to my PSN PS3 download list--it was the 14th thing I downloaded on the shiny new OG PS3 I had then.
Can I get back to the level I was (apparently!) at back then???
It's really addictive! And the sound is so good! (And this port is super-loud and has no volume control. ; ) The sidebar art (from the sides of the arcade cabinet, originally by Python Anghelo, whose primary prior work was on Williams' pinball machines) is so wonderfully minimalistic!
It was a very early game on PS3, but it's still a really solid port by Backbone Entertainment, even if there's a very slight glowy fuzziness about the sprites, and occasional small brown bits near the left edge of the screen--does that happen in the arcade version?; two years later--PS3 Joust was 2007--they did the widescreen MvC2 PS3 port that I've been playing lately. : ) It's in 1080p! This and Gran Turismo HD Concept gave me what turned out to be an incorrect idea that most PS3 games would be in 1080. ; )
Weirdly published by SOE. I was working in their Bellevue (Seattle area) studio at the time (on The Matrix Online). Did they tell us about this release, much less give us discounts on it? Nope. ; )
Note: the birds are actually cyborgs--robotic legs! = o ( https://smbhax.tumblr.com/image/686006697348726784 ) Player 2's bird is a pelican rather than an ostrich--you can see it on the screen in the menu background @ 22:48. |
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| | | In the emulator RPCS3 (see entry 1745), some blur of the playfield graphics is noticeable, especially next to the unblurred sidebar graphics. Dang.
(The version of Joust in Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits Volume 1 for Dreamcast appears to play without blur in flycast, so I think I'll be sticking with that.) |
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| | | This came out in 2007, and was one of the first PS3 games I bought and downloaded at the time. I was working for Sony Online Entertainment on The Matrix Online at that time--they'd bought my dev team from Warner Bros in 2005--and so was surprised to see the SOE logo pop up almost first thing when running Joust PS3! But the actual publisher was Midway Amusement Games, LLC. The small print following the logos says "Portions of this software are (c)2006-2007 Sony Online Entertainment LLC."
And "Developed by Backbone Entertainment, a division of Foundation 9 Entertainment, featuring Digital Eclipse emulation technology." |
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| | | The full circle for me in this weird convergence is that WB bought Midway's assets, including Joust, after Midway's 2009 bankruptcy.
And as far as I can tell, WB Games (WBIE) still owns Joust--but haven't done anything with it since the 2012 LATE PS3 disc-only game, which I'd missed because I was sick of disc games by then, called Midway Arcade Origins with 31 games. And it LOOKS like that version doesn't have blur so I guess I'll have to get it. = oo
As far as I can see from Mobygames, the only thing WBG aka WBIE has done with the Midway properties since that 2012 compilation is the tons of Mortal Kombat stuff they churn out. : P |
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