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“We’ve been playing Daytona USA a lot lately”. @RealSunlitSpace‘s Star Fox CD is one of the most interesting upcoming adaptations of Nintendo’s space combat classic, and adds in CD-quality music via MSU-1 chip support, as well as other neat additions to augment and enhance the experience. The developer has now revealed that the game will…
“I view Fang almost like a fan myself. I think I might be his biggest fan.”. Arguably, no one is a bigger fan of the Sonic character Fang the Sniper than its creator, Shinichi “Touma” Higashi. Despite leaving Sega in 2001 and embarking on a successful career as a toy designer (where he’s continued to…
Stephen Cakebread’s Geometry Wars originally started as a Project Gotham Racing Easter egg, but from then on turned into a fully fledged eye candy neon top-down multi-directional shooter, with appearances on the DS all the way up to Steam. Well it’s time for the Amiga to enjoy this game, as NovaCoder has released ‘G-WARS’. A Geometry…
Can you master this tough-as-nails NES classic? Last week’s Ridge Racer PS1 Community Challenge proved to be a bit more complicated to set up than initially anticipated, but we did get some great submissions by the end. That includes this frankly amazing time (2’59″070) from regular commenter Bulk Slash on the NTSC version on an…
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features John Riggs who currently is displayed on card number 4098, from the Superstars of 2022 Collection. John Riggs has been playing video games for as long as he can remember. From his earliest gaming memory of playing Donkey Kong in the arcade to the time his dad brought home…
“We spent over a year perfectly color matching the original colors”. Hot on the heels of the ‘Funtastic‘ range, Analogue is releasing a new batch of limited-edition Analogue 3D systems, this time based on five unreleased N64 prototypes. “We tracked down five color variants that were officially prototyped for the original Nintendo 64,” says the…
“For 30 years, I have never seen the episodes where I won”. Video games on broadcast television might seem like an alien concept in 2026 (we have YouTube and Twitch now), but back in the 1990s, several hit shows aired worldwide with interactive entertainment at their core. Here in the UK, GamesMaster was the biggest…
Arrives next week! D4 Enterprise, the company behind the EGGCONSOLE series of releases for Switch, is bringing Bothtec’s PC-8801 title Eggy to the Nintendo machine next week (on February 12th, 2026). Debuting back in 1984 at the “1st Bothtec Program Contest”, Eggy started life as a PC-6001 game, which notably took home the “Excellence award”…
“Nobody was doing resource management at all.”. Growing up in the ’90s, it could often feel like Japanese companies would simply spin a wheel to decide whether or not they were going to bring one of their titles to the West. It wasn’t uncommon, for instance, to buy a game, fall in with it, and…
Play your cards right. OmiyaSoft’s card-based turn-based strategy series Culdcept is getting two new entries in 2026, it has been revealed. Culdcept Begins is coming to Switch, Switch 2 and PC, and was revealed during Nintendo’s recent Partner Direct broadcast. Read the full article on timeextension.com Play your cards right. OmiyaSoft’s card-based turn-based strategy series…