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EA confirms retro Replay

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Aug 31, 2006 1:07 pm PT

Publisher mines catalog of '90s hits to bring budget-priced compilation to the PSP in November.

Earlier this month, online retailer GameStop posted a descriptive product listing for a PlayStation Portable retro compilation called EA Replay. The write-up said 14 games would be included in the package, which would ship October 3 and carry a $29.99 price.

Today Electronic Arts confirmed the game's existence for GameSpot and corrected a couple of bits the retailer had gotten wrong. In a semiliteral case of "a day late and a dollar short," it turns out Replay will actually ship about a month later than anticipated, November 7 to be precise, and with a more pleasing price point of $19.99.

Under production at EA Canada, Replay will also include features not found in the original games. To better suit some of these titles to gaming on the go, EA is including the ability to save any of these games at any point. Three games, Budokan, Mutant League Football, and Road Rash II, will also feature local wireless head-to-head play, and players will be able to unlock and collect virtual trading cards featuring retro game art.

The 14 games included in the collection are listed below. The versions included in EA Replay will all be taken from the Super Nintendo or Genesis editions of the original titles.

B.O.B.
Budokan
Desert Strike
Jungle Strike
Haunting starring Polterguy
Mutant League Football
Road Rash
Road Rash II
Road Rash III
Syndicate
Ultima: The Black Gate
Virtual Pinball
Wing Commander
Wing Commander: Secret Missions

131 Comments

  • ColdfireTrilogy

    Posted Oct 4, 2006 7:32 am PT

    i can homebrew all of that from my psp .... wow ... i wish sony would just fricken start supporting it.

  • therandar

    Posted Oct 4, 2006 6:52 am PT

    im excited, $19.99 is a sweet price. those strike games were tough-kinda like gta in the sky. also i loved road rash, but i never played the other games on this collection.

  • KIELW93

    Posted Oct 3, 2006 6:00 pm PT

    Let me get this straight. Wing Commander. Syndicate. Two Strike games. Out today. For $20. Sign me up! *drool drool*

  • The_Weekend

    Posted Oct 2, 2006 8:31 am PT

    Wing Commander! WOW ... someone should remake it ...

  • dope5tar

    Posted Sep 29, 2006 3:42 pm PT

    These games are the most average and forgetable games of the 90's...

  • Reldas89

    Posted Sep 24, 2006 4:58 am PT

    god damn i wanted chrono trigger and secret of mana

  • cybermegacat

    Posted Sep 24, 2006 1:34 am PT

    Playing SNES and Genesis games on my PSP? I've done that for such a long time with the homebrew emulators... I can play those games right now, I suppose. The list doesn't sound that great. EA should port some of its greatest games for PSOne, like both 3D road rash titles, NFS: high stakes or a compilation of the first two medal of honor titles. Or a compilation of Need for Speed, 1 trough 4 (32 bit era.) I would buy that.

  • Elwind

    Posted Sep 22, 2006 2:41 pm PT

    Anyone who's excited about Ultima: The Black Gate in this collection, BE WARNED. If what they said is true, it's coming from the SNES version, which was an EXTREMELY GIMPED AND TERRIBLE version of Ultima VII: The Black Gate.

    Seriously. Kiss companions, most (if not all, can't quite remember) side quests, adult themes/dialog, and pretty much anything quality goodbye. It doesn't just lack a sense of polish. It lacks everything that could make a game remotely average.

    So in answer to a question below, how well will Ultima's controls translate to a console like this? Not well. Not well at all. It's seriously that bad.

    Some of the others seem fun, though. Although in hindsight I'm not sure it's going to be so easy to forgive the slowness of the Road Rash games.

  • A-TEX

    Posted Sep 18, 2006 8:34 am PT

    Am I the only who remembers that Road Rash played like junk? This list is underwhelming to say the least.

  • markd751

    Posted Sep 17, 2006 5:48 pm PT

    sweet!! I love the original Road Rash

  • Pegnose

    Posted Sep 17, 2006 7:39 am PT

    Haunting! That games owns, i might buy it cuz my Genesis is broke.

  • splifz

    Posted Sep 16, 2006 8:26 am PT

    Ultima 7 & Syndicate for PSP. Goodbye Social-life.

  • thebuft

    Posted Sep 15, 2006 6:58 pm PT

    yes!! road rash is back

  • weazel1838

    Posted Sep 13, 2006 7:51 pm PT

    road rash is a classic. who needs rockets on the 360 when you can beat your opponents with chains on the go with the psp!?

  • VanGriffin

    Posted Sep 9, 2006 8:10 pm PT

    Road Rash again. A classic. Too bad only Ad-Hoc. Be great to beat up other people and their bikes across the country =)

  • RufustheMage

    Posted Sep 9, 2006 11:08 am PT

    Whoa...I remember B.O.B, that was fun!. Everything else beside Road Rash is blah.

  • Mysterious_Bob

    Posted Sep 9, 2006 7:50 am PT

    The Road Rash series is the only thing there that interests me.

  • Lost_Gemini2000

    Posted Sep 7, 2006 12:51 am PT

    dude mutant league football awesome!!! bone jackson lol
    man EA should really make a new version of the game it would be a great seller but for replay they should of put mutant league hockey as well.
    P.S Budokan Really sucked....

  • Megavideogamer

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 7:37 pm PT

    This would be "OK" to buy for the PSP. These games were" So-So" back then. For the low price it would be worth getting at some point for the 16-bit memories.

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