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Hadokens very much welcome. Thanks to the efforts of companies such as Anbernic, Powkiddy, AYANEO and Miyoo, we’ve certainly not been short of options in the world of emulation handhelds over the past few years, but there’s always room for more – and Z-Pocket Game’s A1 Unicorn is shaping up to be an interesting-looking device….
“There has to be a better standard of quality”. It’s odd to me that we live in a time where a video game getting a physical release is now considered a big deal. As someone who’s probably from the last generation which grew up before the age of digital distribution, I still distinctly remember when…
“Seems more like an amateurish Kickstarter campaign”. Back in 2023, Atari released a 50th-anniversary box set which cost $1000 and included 10 Atari VCS / 2600 carts: Adventure, Missile Command, Warlords, Super Breakout, Crystal Castles, Haunted House, Yars’ Revenge, Centipede, Asteroids and Gravitar. As you can imagine, with a pack with that kind of value,…
“We share the creative community’s feelings on the ‘misdirection’ of this ad”. Apple has caught a tremendous amount of heat for its new iPad Pro ad, which shows a bunch of items – including a piano, camera and TV screen – being crushed by a hydraulic press. The backlash against the commercial – which was…
“It’s really wonderful that it has the meaning it does for people”. Nintendo may have struck gold with its recent efforts to crack Hollywood, but back in the late ’80s, the notion of fusing the worlds of video games with movies was a totally alien one, as evidenced by notable box office bombs such as…
That’s according to its creators. Sierra’s classic adventure series King’s Quest has officially turned 40, according to its creators Roberta and Ken Williams. The series that primarily focused on the adventures of King Graham and his family in the land of Daventry got its start on the IBM PCjr back in 1984 with the original…
The early ‘90s were a different time for Sports games than today. Back then, you didn’t need a license of a professional sports league to sell copies. You just needed to create something fun to play- and different. As a result, the market was flooded with sports titles, ranging in quality from amazing to downright…
“I should be in a position to release the code into the public domain”. When Nintendo launched the DS alongside a port of Super Mario 64, it felt like witchcraft to a great many people, even though the game itself was almost a decade old by that point. Having one of the most seminal and…
Lava FC makes use of open-source RGB project. A new NES clone has appeared online which offers RGB and HDMI right out of the box. The ‘Lava FC’ is currently available on AliExpress for £240 and runs physical Famicom cartridges. Read the full article on timeextension.com Lava FC makes use of open-source RGB project. A…
A demo has just been released for Steam. A Steam demo was released yesterday for the next PC game from the developers Melos Han-Tani and Marina Kittaka — the creators of Anodyne, Anodyne 2, Even the Ocean, and Sephonie. Angeline Era is a 3D homage to classic action role-playing games like Ys & Hydlide and…