“Challenge The Unknown Rapids!” – A Rare Taito Deep Cut From The Early ’80s Is Making The Jump To Consoles Later This Week

Adventure Canoe originally released in arcades in 1982. Taito’s 1982 top-down river adventure game, Adventure Canoe, isn’t exactly the best-known or best-documented game from the legendary arcade developer. If you look it up online, for instance, one of the first search results is a forum thread from 2019 where commenters are questioning whether the game…

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Original Witcher story lead says the surprise twist at the end ‘was a mistake,’ because instead of focusing on Geralt the sequel was forced into ‘a story about witchers who are killing kings for some reason’

Artur Ganszyniec, the lead story designer of the original Witcher RPG, recently completed a full playthrough of the game he helped create nearly 20 years ago, documented across 26 separate episodes on YouTube. And at the end of it all, he dropped an interesting little bit of trivia: The game’s epic, out-of-nowhere ending wasn’t originally…

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