Ok, I'm just gonna try and start a topic on this, and hope for a change it won't turn into burning flames within 5 minutes.
I'm just wondering about the state of Woomb. I personally like the initiative, and it started of great, but now there's just not much happening. I know there've been reasons for that, but I'm a bit concerned about its future.
I recall an interview where I read the idea in Woomb was to up the number of releases per month. Well, that didn't happen so far, in fact, quite the opposite happened.
The other point is, the kind of games. Out of the last 5 ones, one was Japanese. The others were Dutch scene rereleases. This is perhaps personal, but I'm much more interested in the Japanese games.
I'm approaching Woomb from a retrogamer kind of perspective, and perhaps not so much as an MSX user (MSX users seem to be much more interested in using the original hardware instead of emulators, for one. I'm the odd duck here 
). I also think Woomb works much better as a retrogame service in general than as a service purely for MSX users. So, many MSX users might feel this service is not for them, and actually that isn't a weird thing to think at all.
It's also not strange that Woomb isn't a pure MSX users service. It wouldn't be commercially viable, and even as a retrogaming service in general, you have to do things right to make it successful.
Hence, back to my concerns; as a retrogamer, I'd be interested in either the titles I knew but never had, or didn't have anymore, and in games I'd heard about but never had the chance to play (properly). Only after that come the titles I'd never seen before. Now, MSX is already a bit of an unknown territory to some, but gamers who did their homework will know about Aleste or Zanac, probably... yet, how many will know about Anma's games?
With games from Anma your target audience are the Dutch people that had an MSX in the 90's and were active in the community, liked the games, don't have an MSX anymore but are still interested in getting those games again. If you ask me, that's not gonna be a large number of people. Or if you're lucky, someone will have found Woomb and bought a few games and then tries one he doesn't know.
The biggest problem is the number of releases of course; why would one sign up for a Woomb subscription for longer than a few months? Now, if there were >1 releases a month, it'd be much more interesting.
Anyway, I really hope this thing will still be going on and that we'll see Psycho World and Hydefos on it, or something.
