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“Contact with serious inquiries only”. The Panasonic M2 was intended to go toe-to-toe with the PlayStation, offering cutting-edge processing power and the best visuals of any home console. As we all know, it didn’t work out that way; initially developed by The 3DO Company as a successor to the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, the tech would…
Revisit the 1993 classic in this new in-depth documentary. A new 3-hour documentary has just been released by the YouTube onaretrotip about Bullfrog Production’s classic real-time strategy game, Syndicate, featuring new interviews with the level designer Alex Trowers, lead programmer Sean Cooper, the composer Russell Shaw, and the intro artist Paul Walker. So if you…
“We all agree that the Speccy is the superior platform”. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is perhaps the most famous home computer to come out of the British Isles. Launched in 1982, it is credited with creating an entire generation of designers, artists and developers, and continues to attract adoration and attention more than 40 years…
Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot is currently being tested in the UK. A new Resident Evil game has just been released, but there’s a catch — it currently only seems to be playable at a single Namco Funscape arcade in the English town of Romford. Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot is a new light gun…
Is he out of gum yet? Duke Nukem Forever promised so much. Announced in 1997 in the wake of Duke Nukem 3D’s incredible commercial and critical success, it had the potential to be the definitive FPS game of its generation – but, as we all know, it didn’t exactly pan out that way. Read the…
“I don’t know how to play any of these space alien games”. On a recent episode of Night Dive’s Deep Dive podcast, John Romero stopped by to talk about a range of interesting topics related to his 40-year career in games, but there was one story in particular that stood out to us the most….
‘Cooper’s 9’ was developed by the London-based studio Gamewax. An exceptionally rare lightgun shooter from Konami has just been preserved and made playable online, as revealed in a new video from the arcade YouTube VideoGameEsoterica. Cooper’s 9 is a comic book-inspired arcade game created by the London-based studio Gamewax (which was also the studio behind…
Terminator 2D: No Fate was originally scheduled to launch this September. Bitmap Bureau’s upcoming Terminator game Terminator 2D: No Fate has been delayed, its publisher Reef Entertainment announced yesterday. The action sidescroller, which is an adaptation of James Cameron’s legendary 1991 movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day, was originally supposed to be released on September 5th…
‘Stinger’ flies into action tomorrow! Stinger, an early arcade shoot ’em up from Seibu Kaihatsu, the developer of the 1990 vertical-scroller Raiden, is set to be rereleased tomorrow (July 24th) across Nintendo Switch & PS4. Taking the form of a simple side-scroller, the old arcade game is a title that originally debuted in arcades back…
What are your memories of the Amiga? Today marks a very special occasion for Commodore Amiga fans — the 40th anniversary of Commodore’s initial unveiling of the first-ever Amiga computer (otherwise known as the Commodore 1000). It was on Tuesday, July 23rd 1985 that Commodore first unveiled the eagerly-anticipated computer at the Lincoln Center in…