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Operation Wolf, T2 Arcade Game, Mad Dog McCree, House of the Dead As someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s, arcade games were not a hard thing to find. Whether it was in a NAMCO GUNCON (PS1 & ARCADE) grocery store, at a pizza parlor, or at a dedicated arcade, there was always…
A man of good taste, clearly. Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell is one of the most iconic manga and anime franchises of all time, and has spawned movies, animated seasons, merchandise and – of course – video games. The first game to be based on the media franchise was released on PS1 in 1997….
Watch the first trailer for ‘Voxel Duke 3D’ now! Back in 2022, the modder Dan Peterson (otherwise known as Cheello), released a mod online that voxelized the original DOOM, swapping out its 2D sprites for impressive 3D models, to create a stunning new way to experience the legendary first-person shooter. And now, it appears he’s…
From developer HeartLoop Games. Multiplayer has always been a significant part of fighting games, dating all the way back to the days of the arcade. So, when we first heard about Poly Fighter, a new single-player fighting game from the Canadian studio HeartLoop Games, it’s safe to say we were a little intrigued. Whereas most…
“Beautiful parallax effects, detailed scenarios and huge sprites”. Picture the scene: it’s 1988, and Sega has just launched the Mega Drive in Japan, a system that poses a serious technical threat to the ageing Nintendo Famicom and the relatively new PC Engine, which had arrived the previous year. NEC and Hudson Soft, the two companies…
Just in time for its 25th anniversary. If you happened to be in school in the early 2000s with access to a computer, or were simply a huge fan of freeware games, it’s possible you might have heard of the arcade-style platformer Icy Tower in the past. Developed by Free Lunch Design — a Swedish…
Will be hitting Steam Early Access soon. There’s definitely a trend for games based on ’90s visuals these days, with indie developers seeking to recreate the look and feel of PS1, Saturn and N64 titles. ReCollect64 has identified another example of this in the form of Born64, an Unreal Engine 5-powered 3D adventure designed to…
Landing on the Nintendo Switch eShop tomorrow. D4 Enterprise, the company behind the EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues for Nintendo Switch, is bringing another MSX title to the Nintendo platform later this week. This time, it is the turn of the 1986 action RPG Aramo, with the game being scheduled to launch tomorrow on October…
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Gumball in Treat-Or-Treat Land developer Adam Lewis Graf, who details the retro adventure game and more About Gumball in Trick-Or-Treat Land: Prepare to chew your way through an irresistible 8-bit adventure in a charming tribute to the Game Boy Color era. Retro-focused publisher Mega Cat Studios and Exquisite Laundry…
Let us introduce ‘Broken Relic’, a new game from developer Sandpenguin. ININ Games and Smallthing Studios’ prequel to the point-and-click classic Simon the Sorcerer, Simon the Sorcerer: Origins, is set to arrive later this month for consoles and PC, but it isn’t the only fantasy point-and-click adventure that adventure fans should have on their radar….