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“Your secretaries and accountants are all playing at lunchtime and after work”. While Tetris is clearly a work of genius and would have been commercially successful no matter what systems it released on, few would have the courage to argue that, without Nintendo’s seminal Game Boy version, the puzzler’s fame would be quite as far-reaching…
“The music itself was a message”. The Streets of Rage series is famous for its incredible music, which was supplied by Yuzo Koshiro on the 1991 original and Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima on the second and third Mega Drive / Genesis games (both would also contribute to Streets of Rage 4‘s music, alongside Olivier Deriviere…
‘The Blue Crystal Rod’ is the fourth and final mainline entry in the ‘Babylonian Castle Saga’. A new English fan translation has just been released online for The Blue Crystal Rod — the fourth and final mainline entry in Namco’s ‘Babylonian Castle Saga‘ that started with the 1984 arcade classic Tower of Druaga. Launching for…
I can still remember in the late 80’s on my Amstrad CPC 464 playing the brilliant Arcade port ‘ Bomb Jack ‘. It is a game that required you the player to high jump and float about getting rid of all the bombs on the screen before they are used to blow up historic places…
The Saturn & PlayStation classic comes to Amiga… kind of. BSzili – a developer known for his unofficial Amiga ports of Blood, Wolfenstein 3D, and Shadow Warrior — has recently released a new proof-of-concept demo of the Sega Saturn and PlayStation classic Tomb Raider for the Commodore Amiga (as spotted by IndieRetroNews). According to the…
“I’ll be 50 before we can do that here in the States”. United States President Donald Trump’s new reciprocal tariffs have been causing widespread chaos all over the world, even going as far as to delay pre-orders for Nintendo’s shiny new Switch 2 console. However, as we’ve touched upon previously, they will have a dramatic…
“What a fundamental misunderstanding of not only this tech but how games WORK”. As part of Microsoft’s continuing push into the world of generative AI, the company has recently released a new AI-generated tech demo based on Quake II that is generating some strong opinions online. The new Quake II “replica” was built using Microsoft…
A port of Fusix is in development. The Sega Mega Drive—or Genesis, if you’re in the US—remains the company’s most commercially successful home console, and is famous for going toe-to-toe with Nintendo during the early ’90s console wars. It’s also a system which, in recent times, has seen an inordinate amount of homebrew development, with…
I have a bit of a soft spot for the Sega Mega Drive, especially with my ever growing collection of great games, such as FINK, Golden Axe, Mickey Mania and my personal favorite Comix Zone. So to find out that RetroLover was aiming to port the Sega Mega Drive game of ‘Phantasy Star II’ over…
Do you remember your first video game / arcade you played and what do you remember about it? I believe it would have been Astrosmash! On the Intellivision. I know that the Intellivision was our first video game system when I was a kid and I have many memories playing games with my older brother…