Legends of Localization: "I was all set to translate the "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" line when I decided to do some double-checking to make sure that the screenshot was real and that the Japanese really did have another ending. It turns out that not only is the screenshot 100% real, the Japanese version of Zero Wing has 35 endings! In contrast, the English version only has 3. For those not familiar with Zero Wing, the ending changes with each loop through the entire game."
Four blasts from the past, redone to near perfection.
The original Zero Wing was a groundbreaking game back in the day and this remaster perfectly encapsulates that experience.
WTMG's Leo Faria: "I’m all for gaming preservation, but I feel like this particular version of Zero Wing isn’t the one that should have been preserved. Or, at the very least, the folks at Bitwave Games should have added the option for us to change between the arcade port (the better one, mechanically speaking) and the Mega Drive port (the one with the meme that made it famous) via a menu option. It’s not a bad game, far from it, and Bitwave did a good job at porting and remastering it, but this was a missed opportunity. Vanilla Zero Wing just doesn’t have that many interesting elements that make it stand out from the ten billion other space shooters released in the early 90s."
Excellent article! Hidden secrets in retro games always tend to be very interesting!