I actually do play with the move guide and beeps off… the latter because the sound annoys me and its much louder than all the other sounds in the game, and I find the move guide’s directions can be confusing and at times, outright wrong (there’s at least one part where it seems to indicate you should move but if you do, you die). That said there is a way to know if you hit the right input even without these helps: watch the score. If it starts climbing, you did something right.

Stuff like the Sega Genesis collection isn’t for me personally, though I’m glad it exists. I love my Sega Genesis and I actually still have mine hooked up, the thing is I already own every game in this collection (well, most of them anyway) in cart form and I see no reason to get an emulated digital version of them. I’d rather get more use out of my beloved Genny.

With arcade games there’s a bit more purpose since for a lot of these there was NEVER a perfectly arcade-accurate home port until now, and obviously nobody owned the real arcade boards unless they were crazy rich. Being portable on my Switch is a nice bonus, but the real prize would be the games themselves.