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Was originally intended for the ZX Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad CPC. Veteran British publisher Elite is looking to revive one of its “lost” classics, we can reveal. Scooby Doo In The Castle Mystery was originally supposed to launch on the 8-bit ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC home computers around 1985, and was marketed…
Welcome to the next level. Sega and Nintendo are allies now, and have even worked together on key releases in recent memory. This would have been absolutely unthinkable back in the early ’90s, when these two Japanese firms fought for supremacy of living rooms all over the globe. One of the most fiercely contested territories…
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“Inspired by NES classics, serving as a true homage to gaming in the 8-bit era”. Konami’s Castlevania has inspired an awful lot of video games over the decades, and with good reason – the 8 and 16-bit instalments are some of the finest action platformers ever produced, while the Metroidvania entries on PS1, GBA and…
“We really had to shorten the move list for Tekken Advance”. Tekken Advance is the one of the stranger entries in Namco’s long-running fighting game series. Released for the Game Boy Advance in 2001, it is commonly mistaken for a straightforward port of Tekken 3, but is instead a non-canonical entry in the series that…
In 1986 Sega released one of the greatest racers of our time, it just had to be Out Run. An Arcade racer designed by Yu Suzuki, that was not only a commercial success, but became one of the best selling games of its time. A game that featured incredible graphics, fantastic music and fast paced…
“Of all the shops in Algeria and we had to walk into this one”. LucasArts’ Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is one of the most iconic point-and-click adventures to come out of the early ’90s. Designed by the legendary Hal Barwood and Noah Falstein, it managed to create an authentic-feeling sequel to the…
A proof of concept, at least. Nintendo threw us a real curveball recently by revealing that Virtual Boy games are coming to Nintendo Switch Online, complete with an authentic-looking accessory which recreates those trademark 3D visuals. While the Virtual Boy accessory certainly looks the part, it’s lacking the Virtual Boy controller – so a modder…
“What is this, a Game Boy for ants?”. Released all the way back in 2001, the Pokémon Mini is one of Nintendo’s most unique portable projects – and one which perhaps didn’t hit the commercial heights you might have expected. A dinky monochrome handheld which ran even dinkier cartridges, the Pokémon Mini only saw 10…
The “missing” second chapter in the Popolocrois series launched in Japan in 1998. Poporogue, the second game in the Popolocrois Story series, has just received an English fan translation, courtesy of LostOkina and Aquagon. Based on the manga series created by Yohsuke Tamori, Poporogue was released for the original PlayStation in 1998 and is set…