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candycanearter07 wrote:

Lane W <[email protected]> wrote at 20:21 this Thursday (GMT):

Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:54:52 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant) said
this thing:

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sStbBtfGaLA

2 free legal episodes, but might be region blocked outside of USA:


1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9uwggyOnQ
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tskEfWuQQc

I haven't watched the episodes yet! My https://www.reddit.com/r/goldenaxe/ people seems to like it.

Meh. CBS productions. Also, I was hoping for something a bit less
kidified (and maybe with better art. Something more akin to the recent
"Ghost in the Shell" anime).

My first experience with "Golden Axe" was playing the PC port in...
1990? 1991? Sometime around there. I hadn't seen it in the arcades or
on console before that so I went into the game eyes wide-open. I
remember being impressed by the colorful graphics and 'amazing' sound

The best experience I can point to is not going to the nickel arcades,
but rather hoping you have a pal with a Raspberry Pi and the collection
of arcade games. My roommate had these.

We had a lot of differences so I didn't spend much time complementing
him on it, but aside from the basic joysticks he had for the games, it
was a solid experience.

Mostly he played but I got to play Golden Axe, Rastan, Battle Chess (I
picked this up on Steam since), Wizardry 5, and a few others. I kept
trying to get him to load up Block Out, but we couldn't get that one
working.

At the time I didn't know the name Tiger Road of the video game that I
left behind and still haven't played in almost 40 years. I would assume
this is on there too.

He said it cost him a bunch but never was willing to nail down the
precise amount.

was it a MAME setup or something more specialized?

Unfortunately, I didn't catch what it was explicitly called, but it
basically had every coin op from 1982 (I specifically remember Pole
Position & Dig Dug being on there) up to Oct. 1989 (Block Out was on
there but not functional). This was all on a Raspberry Pi. It had a few non-coin-ops too, like Wizardry 5 and Battle Chess.

He hit Rastan, Golden Axe, Shinobi, and an Arkanoid clone on heavy
repeat. He really liked that Arkanoid clone. Actually more likely a
precursor. He would turn the thing on, fire it up to the video game he
was going to play then leave the room for a long time and come back and
sit down to whatever he'd set up. He didn't mind leaving it sitting on
and went through a couple bulbs in his wall projection setup.
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Lane W wrote:

candycanearter07 wrote:

Lane W <[email protected]> wrote at 20:21 this Thursday (GMT):

Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:54:52 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant) said >>>> this thing:

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sStbBtfGaLA

2 free legal episodes, but might be region blocked outside of USA:


1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9uwggyOnQ
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tskEfWuQQc

I haven't watched the episodes yet! My
https://www.reddit.com/r/goldenaxe/ people seems to like it.

Meh. CBS productions. Also, I was hoping for something a bit less
kidified (and maybe with better art. Something more akin to the recent >>>> "Ghost in the Shell" anime).

My first experience with "Golden Axe" was playing the PC port in...
1990? 1991? Sometime around there. I hadn't seen it in the arcades or
on console before that so I went into the game eyes wide-open. I
remember being impressed by the colorful graphics and 'amazing' sound

The best experience I can point to is not going to the nickel arcades,
but rather hoping you have a pal with a Raspberry Pi and the collection
of arcade games. My roommate had these.

We had a lot of differences so I didn't spend much time complementing
him on it, but aside from the basic joysticks he had for the games, it
was a solid experience.

Mostly he played but I got to play Golden Axe, Rastan, Battle Chess (I
picked this up on Steam since), Wizardry 5, and a few others. I kept
trying to get him to load up Block Out, but we couldn't get that one
working.

At the time I didn't know the name Tiger Road of the video game that I
left behind and still haven't played in almost 40 years. I would assume
this is on there too.

He said it cost him a bunch but never was willing to nail down the
precise amount.

was it a MAME setup or something more specialized?

For some reason the first time I saw this, I read that as NAME.

Yes, I remembered seeing MAME in a number of the menus on his system,

MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is one of the most popular ways
to turn a Raspberry Pi into a retro arcade machine. Because the
Raspberry Pi is compact and power-efficient, it easily powers classic
arcade games like Dig Dug, Pac-Man, and thousands of others.

The most common ways to run MAME on a Raspberry Pi are through dedicated gaming operating systems or standalone packages.
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Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

So not DOS 4 then ;-)

MS-DOS 4.x used more memory than MS-DOS 3.3 did but didn't have the all
the options MS-DOS 5 added to free up conventional memory for programs.
That ment that downgrading from 4.x to 3.3 could result in more free conventional memory. Since 4.x didn't really add much over 3.3 this
was win for most users and the 4.x versions never got much use.

From what I recall, the 286 /did/ support expanded and extended
memory. But the Lotus-Intel-Microsoft expanded memory standard
(epitomized by himem.sys and emm386.exe) wasn't supported by all 286 >motherboards / memory boards, and the alternative drivers weren't
always compatible with programs expecting a LIMS XMS/EMS driver.

The 80286 supported extended memory (memory directly accessible by the
CPU above 1M but requiring entering protected mode to access) without additional hardware, but expanded memory (bank switched blocks of memory
mapped into the conventional memory address space) required the use of
an add-in card. These expanded memory cards even worked with the 8088 processor in the orignal IBM PC.

The 80386 (and later CPUs) supported extended memory just like the
80286, but could also implement support for expanded memory completely
in software using programs like EMM386 or QEMM.

Honestly, even back in the day I only worked with 286 computers a few
times. Most of my experience is with 386 and above. From what I can
recall, you technically could get EMM386 working with a 286, it just
wasn't a guarantee.

It was completely impossible to get EMM386 working with a 80286, since
it uses the 80386's virtual memory capabilities to map extended memory
into the conventional memory address space.

As mentioned before, you could have expanded memory on the 80286 by using
an add-in card, but you could also impelement another EMM386 feature,
upper memory blocks (UMBs), with certain motherboard chipsets. UMBs took advantage of areas of memory above the 640K limit but below the 1M limit normally reserved for BIOS ROMs and add-in cards, but were unused and
used them as additional non-contiguous blocks of conventional memory.
EMM386 just used the virtual memory capabilities of 80386 CPUs fill
in these unused blocks, but certain motherboard specific drivers could
also provide access to the RAM that was normally hidden underneath these
upper blocks.

So Ant with his 80286 PC running some version of MS-DOS 4.x his best and simplest option to free up more conventional memory for games was to
downgrade to 3.3. Even if he had a 80386 CPU this might still be his
best option becaue MS-DOS 4 didn't provide any means of reducing its conventional memory footprint, though third-party memory managers like
QEMM could do this. An add-in card providing expanded memory wouldn't
have helped, becase it would only have slightly reduced the ammount of conventional memory available once the EMS driver needed to access the
expanded memory was loaded.

On the other hand if upgrading to MS-DOS 5 was an option back then that probably would have been the best choice. While MS-DOS 5 couldn't
take advantage of UMBs on a 80286 (not without a rare motherboard
specific driver) it could use the high-memory area (HMA), a 64K region
of memory above 1M that is accessibly on 80286 and later processors
without entering protected mode. Loading MS-DOS into the HMA basically
freed up 64K of conventional memory programs, probably freeing up more
memory than downgrading to 3.3 even accounting for MS-DOS 5's even bigger memory footprint.
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Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

On Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:09:28 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant) said
this thing:

The problem was with 286s, you couldn't use EMM386's EMS. So, I was >missing a lot like in X-Wing, Wing Commander, etc. 386s had no issues.

So not DOS 4 then ;-)

From what I recall, the 286 /did/ support expanded and extended
memory. But the Lotus-Intel-Microsoft expanded memory standard
(epitomized by himem.sys and emm386.exe) wasn't supported by all 286 motherboards / memory boards, and the alternative drivers weren't
always compatible with programs expecting a LIMS XMS/EMS driver.

I think.

286 couldnt' do EMS. It could do XMS. Lots of games wanted EMS. :(

Honestly, even back in the day I only worked with 286 computers a few
times. Most of my experience is with 386 and above. From what I can
recall, you technically could get EMM386 working with a 286, it just
wasn't a guarantee.

Hmm, I don't remember that.
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Ross Ridge <[email protected]> wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

So not DOS 4 then ;-)

MS-DOS 4.x used more memory than MS-DOS 3.3 did but didn't have the all
the options MS-DOS 5 added to free up conventional memory for programs.
That ment that downgrading from 4.x to 3.3 could result in more free conventional memory. Since 4.x didn't really add much over 3.3 this
was win for most users and the 4.x versions never got much use.

For me, it was IBM-DOS that came with my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC.

From what I recall, the 286 /did/ support expanded and extended
memory. But the Lotus-Intel-Microsoft expanded memory standard
(epitomized by himem.sys and emm386.exe) wasn't supported by all 286 >motherboards / memory boards, and the alternative drivers weren't
always compatible with programs expecting a LIMS XMS/EMS driver.

The 80286 supported extended memory (memory directly accessible by the
CPU above 1M but requiring entering protected mode to access) without additional hardware, but expanded memory (bank switched blocks of memory mapped into the conventional memory address space) required the use of
an add-in card. These expanded memory cards even worked with the 8088 processor in the orignal IBM PC.

The 80386 (and later CPUs) supported extended memory just like the
80286, but could also implement support for expanded memory completely
in software using programs like EMM386 or QEMM.

I loved QEMM386 especially its quick reboot from DOS prompt.

Honestly, even back in the day I only worked with 286 computers a few >times. Most of my experience is with 386 and above. From what I can
recall, you technically could get EMM386 working with a 286, it just
wasn't a guarantee.

It was completely impossible to get EMM386 working with a 80286, since
it uses the 80386's virtual memory capabilities to map extended memory
into the conventional memory address space.

As mentioned before, you could have expanded memory on the 80286 by using
an add-in card, but you could also impelement another EMM386 feature,
upper memory blocks (UMBs), with certain motherboard chipsets. UMBs took advantage of areas of memory above the 640K limit but below the 1M limit normally reserved for BIOS ROMs and add-in cards, but were unused and
used them as additional non-contiguous blocks of conventional memory.
EMM386 just used the virtual memory capabilities of 80386 CPUs fill
in these unused blocks, but certain motherboard specific drivers could
also provide access to the RAM that was normally hidden underneath these upper blocks.

So Ant with his 80286 PC running some version of MS-DOS 4.x his best and simplest option to free up more conventional memory for games was to downgrade to 3.3. Even if he had a 80386 CPU this might still be his
best option becaue MS-DOS 4 didn't provide any means of reducing its conventional memory footprint, though third-party memory managers like
QEMM could do this. An add-in card providing expanded memory wouldn't
have helped, becase it would only have slightly reduced the ammount of conventional memory available once the EMS driver needed to access the expanded memory was loaded.

On the other hand if upgrading to MS-DOS 5 was an option back then that probably would have been the best choice. While MS-DOS 5 couldn't
take advantage of UMBs on a 80286 (not without a rare motherboard
specific driver) it could use the high-memory area (HMA), a 64K region
of memory above 1M that is accessibly on 80286 and later processors
without entering protected mode. Loading MS-DOS into the HMA basically
freed up 64K of conventional memory programs, probably freeing up more
memory than downgrading to 3.3 even accounting for MS-DOS 5's even bigger memory footprint.

Good memories. I remember HIMEM.SYS, LOADHIGH, multi-configs, etc. The
good stuff!!!!
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Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

On Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:05:52 -0400, Librarian2025
<[email protected]> said this thing:

Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> writes:

But I generally didn't find the actual
gameplay all that enjoyable; the controls felt a bit stiff

I'm not sure if it's the case in Sega version.

It probably didn't help that I played with a keyboard.

So did I! I remember playing with my keypad! Even the emulator and
manual confirmed this.
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Lane W <[email protected]> wrote at 09:23 this Monday (GMT):

Lane W wrote:

candycanearter07 wrote:

Lane W <[email protected]> wrote at 20:21 this Thursday (GMT):

Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:54:52 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant) said >>>>> this thing:

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sStbBtfGaLA

2 free legal episodes, but might be region blocked outside of USA: >>>>>>

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9uwggyOnQ
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tskEfWuQQc

I haven't watched the episodes yet! My
https://www.reddit.com/r/goldenaxe/ people seems to like it.

Meh. CBS productions. Also, I was hoping for something a bit less
kidified (and maybe with better art. Something more akin to the recent >>>>> "Ghost in the Shell" anime).

My first experience with "Golden Axe" was playing the PC port in...
1990? 1991? Sometime around there. I hadn't seen it in the arcades or >>>>> on console before that so I went into the game eyes wide-open. I
remember being impressed by the colorful graphics and 'amazing' sound >>>>

The best experience I can point to is not going to the nickel arcades, >>>> but rather hoping you have a pal with a Raspberry Pi and the collection >>>> of arcade games. My roommate had these.

We had a lot of differences so I didn't spend much time complementing
him on it, but aside from the basic joysticks he had for the games, it >>>> was a solid experience.

Mostly he played but I got to play Golden Axe, Rastan, Battle Chess (I >>>> picked this up on Steam since), Wizardry 5, and a few others. I kept
trying to get him to load up Block Out, but we couldn't get that one
working.

At the time I didn't know the name Tiger Road of the video game that I >>>> left behind and still haven't played in almost 40 years. I would assume >>>> this is on there too.

He said it cost him a bunch but never was willing to nail down the
precise amount.

was it a MAME setup or something more specialized?

For some reason the first time I saw this, I read that as NAME.

Yes, I remembered seeing MAME in a number of the menus on his system,

MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is one of the most popular ways
to turn a Raspberry Pi into a retro arcade machine. Because the
Raspberry Pi is compact and power-efficient, it easily powers classic
arcade games like Dig Dug, Pac-Man, and thousands of others.

The most common ways to run MAME on a Raspberry Pi are through dedicated gaming operating systems or standalone packages.

yea i figured, idk any other arcade emulators :P
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On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:49:30 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> said this thing:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:54:52 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant) said
this thing:

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sStbBtfGaLA

2 free legal episodes, but might be region blocked outside of USA:


1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9uwggyOnQ
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tskEfWuQQc

I haven't watched the episodes yet! My https://www.reddit.com/r/goldenaxe/ people seems to like it.

Meh. CBS productions. Also, I was hoping for something a bit less
kidified (and maybe with better art. Something more akin to the recent
"Ghost in the Shell" anime).

So I got around to watching the episodes in full. My opinion hasn't
changed much.

It's essentially the same style/theme as the recent "Star Trek: Lower
Decks" (and, I think, made by the same people?). I think "Lower Decks"
worked better though because it had more material to work with; the
lore of "Golden Axe" is a bit too thin to satirize. It doesn't help
that most of the characters in the show are pretty unlikable. But
maybe it's too early to tell; the first episodes of "Lower Decks" were
pretty rough as well, and that series definitely grew a beard later
on.

Of course, it also helped that I really /liked/ Star Trek (and
especially Star Trek TNG, which is what Lower Decks was based on),
whereas I only have a nodding appreciation of "Golden Axe".

TL;DR: I think the show might have been better if based on different
source material.

#

Oddly, there doesn't seem to be a corresponding release of any new (or
even re-release of an old) Golden Axe game. You'd think this would be
a sure-fire way to make a quick buck... /and/ get people to refresh
their memories about what the game was all about to help them enjoy
the TV show. Somebody dropped the ball on this one.

Fortunately, I have the DOS version permanently installed as part of
my Ultimate DOS Collection. Press Spacebar To Start!

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Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:49:30 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> said this thing:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:54:52 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant) said
this thing:

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sStbBtfGaLA

2 free legal episodes, but might be region blocked outside of USA:


1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9uwggyOnQ
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tskEfWuQQc

I haven't watched the episodes yet! My https://www.reddit.com/r/goldenaxe/ people seems to like it.

Meh. CBS productions. Also, I was hoping for something a bit less
kidified (and maybe with better art. Something more akin to the recent >"Ghost in the Shell" anime).

So I got around to watching the episodes in full. My opinion hasn't
changed much.

It's essentially the same style/theme as the recent "Star Trek: Lower
Decks" (and, I think, made by the same people?). I think "Lower Decks"
worked better though because it had more material to work with; the
lore of "Golden Axe" is a bit too thin to satirize. It doesn't help
that most of the characters in the show are pretty unlikable. But
maybe it's too early to tell; the first episodes of "Lower Decks" were
pretty rough as well, and that series definitely grew a beard later
on.

It is the same people. See https://www.reddit.com/r/animation/comments/1wmdzho/hi_reddit_mike_mcmahan_joe_chandler_and_giancarlo/
from https://www.reddit.com/r/goldenaxe/comments/1wmr5bg/hi_reddit_mike_mcmahan_joe_chandler_and_giancarlo/
o.

Of course, it also helped that I really /liked/ Star Trek (and
especially Star Trek TNG, which is what Lower Decks was based on),
whereas I only have a nodding appreciation of "Golden Axe".

I only saw the first two episodes for both TV shows, but seem to have a
hard time to decide to keep going or not. I love both Star Trek and
Golden Axe 1 (couldn't get into its sequels).

TL;DR: I think the show might have been better if based on different
source material.

Different material like what?

Oddly, there doesn't seem to be a corresponding release of any new (or
even re-release of an old) Golden Axe game. You'd think this would be
a sure-fire way to make a quick buck... /and/ get people to refresh
their memories about what the game was all about to help them enjoy
the TV show. Somebody dropped the ball on this one.

Fortunately, I have the DOS version permanently installed as part of
my Ultimate DOS Collection. Press Spacebar To Start!

Is that in an emulator or the real hardware? I have the arcade version in MAME, but I haven't touched it for many years. :(
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:10:22 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant) said
this thing:

Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

TL;DR: I think the show might have been better if based on different
source material.

Different material like what?

Just something with more depth. If you're going to make deep cuts at
the source material, you need to have enough source material for those
digs.

Fortunately, I have the DOS version permanently installed as part of
my Ultimate DOS Collection. Press Spacebar To Start!

Is that in an emulator or the real hardware? I have the arcade version in MAME,
but I haven't touched it for many years. :(

Purely emulated via DOSBox. It originally started as just a handful of
my favorite games, but it grew into a rather monstrous collection. The
conceit behind it is that I can (with a handful of exceptions) launch
every game from the command-line, without having to reboot the
emulator... which was sort of a dream back in the DOS days. No need
for boot disks, just jump from game to game! Just the launcher is 5MB
of BATch files! ;-)

The collection is a bit large for a pure DOS machine using native
hardware. I mean, just the hard-drive requirement itself would make
DOS shit its pants. Plus, using DOSBox means I can use CD-images
rather than real optical discs. I /hate/ swapping disks.

There are other collections available --ExoDOS is probably the best
known-- that is larger than mine, but mine is legitimate, and
generally has better quality games (and a lot more in the way of
documentation for the games; I've put a lot of effort into collecting
and scanning manuals). Plus, ExoDOS requires you to use a seperate VM
for each game whereas (technically) all my games can run in the same
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On 9/23/2026 5:45 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:49:30 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> said this thing:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:54:52 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant) said
this thing:

Oddly, there doesn't seem to be a corresponding release of any new (or
even re-release of an old) Golden Axe game. You'd think this would be
a sure-fire way to make a quick buck... /and/ get people to refresh
their memories about what the game was all about to help them enjoy
the TV show. Somebody dropped the ball on this one.

There was "Golden Axe" remake that failed to get made in 2020. Ant
posted about it. Unfortunately the link is dead. But it actually
existed, I played it for it's entirety of 5 minutes.
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Justisaur <[email protected]> wrote:

On 9/23/2026 5:45 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:49:30 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> said this thing:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:54:52 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant) said
this thing:

Oddly, there doesn't seem to be a corresponding release of any new (or
even re-release of an old) Golden Axe game. You'd think this would be
a sure-fire way to make a quick buck... /and/ get people to refresh
their memories about what the game was all about to help them enjoy
the TV show. Somebody dropped the ball on this one.

There was "Golden Axe" remake that failed to get made in 2020. Ant
posted about it. Unfortunately the link is dead. But it actually
existed, I played it for it's entirety of 5 minutes.

Yeah, I played it. I liked it. :(
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On Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:04:42 -0700, Justisaur <[email protected]>
said this thing:

On 9/23/2026 5:45 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:49:30 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<[email protected]> said this thing:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:54:52 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant) said
this thing:

Oddly, there doesn't seem to be a corresponding release of any new (or
even re-release of an old) Golden Axe game. You'd think this would be
a sure-fire way to make a quick buck... /and/ get people to refresh
their memories about what the game was all about to help them enjoy
the TV show. Somebody dropped the ball on this one.

There was "Golden Axe" remake that failed to get made in 2020. Ant
posted about it. Unfortunately the link is dead. But it actually
existed, I played it for it's entirety of 5 minutes.

True. The series hasn't been completely dead since its heyday. "Golden
Axed" in 2020, mobile ports of the originals in 2019 (and earlier to
consoles and PC), "Beast Rider" for XBox360/PS3 in 2008... I think
there is a market for the franchise. The existence of the cartoon
indicates the owners of the IP feel the same.

But to release a tv show and not have the game available for sale
--either as a new game, a remaster of an older title, or even the
classics via emulation-- seems an odd miss. Because I think the first
thing a lot of people are going to do when they see the TV show is go,
"Oh man, I remember that game; I sure would like to play it again"...
and then not have that option because its not available for sale. Just
throw up an open-source Sega emulator with the ROM file on Steam, sell
it for a fiver and odds are they'd make the money back from that
project ten-fold.

(Even more weirdly, the only 'Golden Axe' game available on Steam
right now is a porn-game completely unrelated to the 1980 arcade
franchise. I bet THAT game is getting a lot more sales these days than
expected ;-)


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Ant <[email protected]> wrote at 22:30 this Tuesday (GMT):

Justisaur <[email protected]> wrote:

On 9/23/2026 5:45 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:49:30 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<[email protected]> said this thing:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:54:52 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant) said
this thing:

Oddly, there doesn't seem to be a corresponding release of any new (or
even re-release of an old) Golden Axe game. You'd think this would be
a sure-fire way to make a quick buck... /and/ get people to refresh
their memories about what the game was all about to help them enjoy
the TV show. Somebody dropped the ball on this one.

There was "Golden Axe" remake that failed to get made in 2020. Ant
posted about it. Unfortunately the link is dead. But it actually
existed, I played it for it's entirety of 5 minutes.

Yeah, I played it. I liked it. :(

wait was it released or were you a beta tester or something
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On 10/26/2026 6:42 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:

Ant <[email protected]> wrote at 22:30 this Tuesday (GMT):

Justisaur <[email protected]> wrote:

On 9/23/2026 5:45 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:49:30 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<[email protected]> said this thing:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:54:52 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant) said >>>>> this thing:

Oddly, there doesn't seem to be a corresponding release of any new (or >>>> even re-release of an old) Golden Axe game. You'd think this would be
a sure-fire way to make a quick buck... /and/ get people to refresh
their memories about what the game was all about to help them enjoy
the TV show. Somebody dropped the ball on this one.

There was "Golden Axe" remake that failed to get made in 2020. Ant
posted about it. Unfortunately the link is dead. But it actually
existed, I played it for it's entirety of 5 minutes.

Yeah, I played it. I liked it. :(

wait was it released or were you a beta tester or something

It was released free on Steam, but it's no longer available.
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