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“The entire port was done with AI, with minimal effort on my part”. If you know your Sega arcade history, you’ll be aware that the Naomi hardware – which hosted games such as House of the Dead 2, Crazy Taxi, Zombie Revenge and Virtua Tennis, as well as many others – is based on the…
After months of teases, ModRetro released the M64 to the public on July 28. For 229.99 USD, the M64, which also comes in a variety of colors, has full compatibility with the original 64 and supports video output up to 4K. Wired and wireless updates also plan to add new features to the console. As…
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Jerry Buckner, who currently is displayed on card number 1345, from the Superstars of 2014 Collection. Jerry is also featured on cards 1832, 1981, 2388. As a musician and producer, Jerry Buckner created many memorable music hits in the 1980’s. Nothing prepared him for the smash hit “Pac-Man Fever”. The song…
“This project is an experiment to answer that question”. The fact that the SNES secured the first home console port of Capcom’s Final Fight was a big selling point for the system back when it released, but anyone who has played it will be aware that it wasn’t as faithful a conversion as it perhaps…
…but stands accused of using AI in the process. Eyepatch Entertainment’s 3DO port of Super Mario 64 raised some eyebrows recently, and the developer has now shown off very early footage of the game running on real Sega Saturn hardware. As with the early 3DO footage, things are still pretty rough. The port uses the…
A rally sneaky secret. Seasoned secret-spotter @memory_fallen has uncovered yet another interesting Easter Egg that has apparently gone undetected for decades. The game in question this time is the Saturn port of the 1996 arcade racer Sega Touring Car Championship, which launched on the console in 1997. Read the full article on timeextension.com A rally…
Tatsumi’s ‘TX-1’ joins Arcade Archives. Another week, another Arcade Archives release; this time, it’s the turn of Tatsumi’s 1983 racing game TX-1, with Hamster revealing it will be releasing the hidden arcade gem on Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S on Thursday, July 30th 2026. Released in arcades one year after…
Teases “Dreamtime Monty”, the “first official Monty Mole adventure in over 30 years”. A new heritage label focused on the games of Gremlin Graphics is set to launch later this year, with the help of Gremlin founder Ian Stewart. Gremlin Graphics Classics is the work of Allan Turvey, the founder of the homebrew publisher Midnight…
Patch also fixes a key bug from the original game. While the Genesis / Mega Drive and SNES were fairly evenly matched in a lot of genres, it’s not an exaggeration to say that Nintendo’s console had a distinct advantage when it came to RPGs, with a host of amazing titles such as Final Fantasy…
Today, a Star Wars game arrives carrying decades of expectations. Players know what a lightsaber should sound like and how an X-wing should move. The earliest Star Wars games had none of that inherited design language. During the franchise’s first decade in video games, there was no accepted formula. Star Wars could be a text…