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C64 Ultimate Edition seems to be a hit with fans. Commodore CEO Christian Simpson (holding the C64) with Ultimate 64 Elite-II board creator Gideon Zweijtzer The revived Commodore has raised over $2 million via sales of its C64 Ultimate Edition computer, it has been revealed (thanks, Tom’s Hardware). Read the full article on timeextension.com C64…
“Oh baby I hear the blues a-callin, tossed salads and…”. This week’s Arcade Archives release has been announced as the 1983 “action game” Scrambled Egg, an early title from the Double Dragon developer Technōs Japan. The game is a single screen arcade title that is played inside of a maze, which sees you having to…
Infidelity reveals his next project. Coder Infidelity has produced some amazing NES-to-SNES native ports in the past, and his next venture will bring one of the console’s best-selling titles to the 16-bit system. Released at the height of TMNT fever in 1989, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an action platformer which has become notorious for…
“If I stayed at Sega any longer, l’d die soon”. The world of Japanese video game development has never been an easy one, but during the ’80s and ’90s it was especially harsh, at least for the staff of certain studios. As documented in Time Extension contributor John Szczepaniak’s peerless ‘Untold History’ series of books,…
Marcos Healey left Media Molecule back in 2023. The Media Molecule co-founder Marcos Healey might have left the company back in 2023, but he is still hard at work on LittleBigPlanet. That is, his Commodore 64 demake of the game. Recently, on Twitter/X, he offered another update on the project that has been in development…
Originally launched in Japan in 1999. Human Entertainment’s Clock Tower is one of the most influential survival horror titles of the ’90s, and has thankfully been given a new lease of life recently thanks to the release of Clock Tower Rewind. The original Super Famicom game was ported to the PS1, but it also came…
“With enough time and dedication…”. When the Mega Drive / Genesis first arrived on the market, it was bolstered by ports of some of Sega’s greatest arcade titles. Golden Axe was one of them, and proved to be something of a system-seller thanks to the fact that it was incredibly close to the coin-op original….
A crafty update. Originally released on the Commodore Amiga, Badger Punch’s Roguecraft is coming to the Evercade family of systems as Roguecraft DX, and, as you might expect, it offers a few welcome enhancements that make this award-winning roguelike even more appealing. I’ll get onto what’s been added in a moment, but if you’re new…
“Our whole goal was to capture the sheer variety and texture that was in the Japanese script”. Final Fantasy IX celebrated its 25th anniversary earlier this year, having originally released in Japan on July 7th, 2000. Developed as the last mainline entry on the original PlayStation, the critically acclaimed turn-based RPG proved to be a…
“I’ve had to reconnect with myself because I disconnected from myself”. Peter “Nostalgia Nerd” Leigh is one of the UK’s best-known retro YouTubers, with a subscriber count of over half a million people. He’s been making videos about all aspects of retro gaming and computer for over a decade, but has recently had to devote…