Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 28th, 2018! Today, I’ve got some impressions of the recently-released-in-Japan SEGA AGES title Gain Ground, some news about old games getting new releases, and a collection of sales big and small. Let’s get down to business.
‘SEGA AGES Gain Ground’ Import Impressions

The Japanese SEGA AGES releases are about a month and a half ahead of the schedule outside the country, and while it’s not fun to wait, the benefit is that you can get more information on the games before you have the chance to slap down your money. The newest SEGA AGES release in Japan is Gain Ground, and it presents a dilemma that will probably come up a few more times as this series goes on. This is the arcade version of Gain Ground, which to the best of my knowledge has never gotten an authentic port or re-release on any console before. That has value in and of itself, but there’s just one little problem for the player who’s looking to get the best game for their money: the Genesis version of Gain Ground is on the relatively low-priced SEGA Genesis Classics collection, and you can make a good case for that version being better in some ways than its arcade source. The arcade version supports three players, has a bigger play area, and looks quite a bit better thanks to its hardware’s high resolution. The Genesis version has ten extra stages in a whole new era, and some players prefer i...