Review: Return To Blacktooth: A Head Over Heels Adventure (Amiga) – A Joyous And Deeply Challenging Sequel To A Britsoft Classic

A sequel 40 years in the making. More than 35 years ago, in 1989, Colin Porch finished programming the Amiga and Atari ST versions of Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond’s 1987 classic Head Over Heels and immediately began work on a sequel, which is only now being released, almost 40 years later. Return To Blacktooth…

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“An Unparalleled Experience No FPGA Console Could Come Close To” – SuperSega Is Back, And It’s Even Crazier Than Last Time

Somehow, SuperSega returned. Alejandro Martín, the man behind the absolutely disastrous SuperSega project, recently made a return with a series of odd-looking PC cases made from wood. That project is now being incorporated into what he’s boldly calling ‘SuperSega V3’ – a bizarre revision of the original project that crashed and burned spectacularly not so…

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“My Goal Was To Create Something I Wanted For Myself, But Did Not Exist Yet” – The Nintendo 3DS Family Is Getting The Clear Shell Treatment

“Clear 3DS shells are something so many people in the community have asked for”. KendyLabs and Raretro Consoles have joined forces to create KLRR, a venture which is bringing ’90s-style clear shells to the Nintendo 3DS family of handheld systems. The duo consider these to be the world’s first “functional, publicly available clear shell kits…

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M2’s ‘Toaplan Arcade Garage: Flying Fire Shark’ Is Finally Heading To The West Later This Year

“Arcade classics Flying Shark and Fire Shark together at last!”. The M2 Shot Triggers collection Toaplan Arcade Garage: Flying Fire Shark is coming to the West later this year on PS4 & Nintendo Switch, its publisher, Clear River Games, has announced. The collection brings together various versions of Toaplan’s classic arcade shoot ’em ups —…

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Lost Rampage Atari Lynx Predecessor ‘Monster Demolition’ Discovered In Recent Preservation Haul

‘Monster Demolition’ was one of the titles teased before the Lynx’s release. A large haul of Atari Lynx prototypes has recently been recovered and shared online, as reported by Games That Weren’t, the popular video game website dedicated to cancelled and unreleased games. The haul was preserved thanks to the efforts of Marty Goldberg, Mike…

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Tetris – by Brian Lesyk

This could have safely guessed that Tetris (Alexey Pajitnov, 1988) would appear in our list of The 50 Most Influential Video Games Ever. There’s a simple reason for this… Tetris is the single greatest video game ever created… No caveats. No clarifications. No exceptions. No qualifiers. Tetris is objectively the  finest video game ever made…….

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