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“I wanted sensory overload and information overload”. If you live outside of North America and Japan, you might not have heard of the BattleTech Centers – but they were amazing places, years ahead of their time. There were around 26 of them at one point, dotted across the United States, Canada and Japan. They were…
You never know what you’re gonna get? Buying retro games today usually involves hitting eBay, trawling Facebook Marketplace or visiting one of the tiny handful of dedicated vintage gaming stores around the world – but, if you’re in one of the regions where the company operates, CeX (also known as ‘Complete Entertainment eXchange’, or, to…
Cannon Dancer. For the avid shoot-em-up enthusiast, CAVE’s incendiary rise and fall was a journey of rare wonder. Rising from the ashes of eminent ’80s software developer Toaplan – and consisting of several former employees – in 1995, CAVE tore into Japan’s arcade landscape like a band of unruly upstarts. As shoot-em-up heavyweights Raizing and…
Update: Demo available now. Update : Pigsy has released a playable demo – Merry Christmas! You can download it here. Read the full article on timeextension.com Update: Demo available now. Update : Pigsy has released a playable demo – Merry Christmas! You can download it here. Read the full article on timeextension.com
A tale that includes Steven Spielberg, Douglas Trumbull and Tetsuya Mizuguchi. During the mid-’80s, global arcade machine stalwart Sega found itself in an interesting situation. Since merging with Rosen Enterprises in 1965, it had already made countless strident moves in the coin-operated amusement business. The best was yet to come, too – the likes of…
If you just can’t wait for Christmas day and fancy playing a Christmas themed game right now, then you might be interested to know that LC-Games, who was also behind Dig Dug Revival, Bagman Strikes Back and many many others, has released the Christmas game of ‘Santa’s Troubles’: A game in which you have to help Santa…
Ho ho ho! When we wished you a Merry Christmas at the end of 2022, Time Extension had only been in existence for a few months. Fast forward to the present day, and the site is over a year old – and we couldn’t be prouder of the work we’ve put out over that time….
Just in time for Christmas. Update 2.0 has just gone live for the Analogue Pocket. This update brings with it a new CRT screen filter, just like the one that shipped with the Analogue Duo. Read the full article on timeextension.com Just in time for Christmas. Update 2.0 has just gone live for the Analogue…
The Atari 2600 “Joystick” to me is the father of them all. There have been controllers made before the little black stick with the red button, but this controller changed the way gaming was played on what is considered the birth of home console era. The idea was simple; to design a controller that…
“We were so low-budget, which is funny to think about now”. Correction: the original article mentioned Rockabilly as an influence on the logo’s distinctive yellow background. Scott has since clarified that she meant late 1960s/early 1970s rock music instead. We’ve updated the article to reflect this. The Rockstar logo is one of the most recognizable…