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Before the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) hit the states, Nintendo had a console in Japan that would start a revolution of gaming. It was called the Famicom, or the full name, Family Computer. In 1983, the console hit the homes of gamers in Japan and test the waters of this new generation of console gaming. …
Fort Apocalypse Title Screen Early in my video gaming life, one of the first computer games I ever played was Dan Gorlin’s classic Choplifter on my cousin’s Apple II. The simple presentation, on that glowing monochrome green CRT, was instantly addictive. When we got our Commodore 64 some time later, it was one of the…
DOOM! Devastators! Animal Crossing! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Read the full article on timeextension.com DOOM! Devastators! Animal Crossing! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run…
I’m sure many of you especially Amiga owners, will remember the brilliant 1990 Adventure game ‘ The Secret of Monkey Island, by Lucasfilm Games. But did you know a developer by the name of Joachim Ljunggren in collaboration with Andreas Larsson is working on bringing this incredible game to the Commodore 64? Well, going by…
Release Date: 1978 Publisher: Atari Controller: Joystick Players: 1 – 2 Genre: Sports Alternate Title: N/A Model #: CX2624 Rarity: 2 Programmer: Alan Miller This one-on-one basketball duel is a flawed but entertaining take on the sport. This is about as rudimentary of a basketball game as you can get while still being able to…
Advanced age. Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance handheld is now 25 years old. The system launched in Japan on March 21st, 2001, alongside titles such as Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, F-Zero Maximum Velocity and Konami Krazy Racers. Read the full article on timeextension.com Advanced age. Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance handheld is now 25 years old….
This popped into my head literally like a lightbulb turning on. I just figured it out. I was sitting there using ChatGPT, working through something… typed a prompt, got a response, tweaked it, tried again, refined it, pushed it a little further… …and it hit me. This is a text adventure. Not “kind of like…
For most of its life, Xbox was simple to comprehend. It was a console brand centered on a physical device, a controlled ecosystem, and a familiar promise to the player: buy the box, enter the platform, and stay inside the experience Microsoft designed for you. That model helped to define the modern console era, but…
The 1980s were a Golden Age for cartoonish super villains. Consider the brutish evil of Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, the greed of Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Yet both pale in comparison to Bill Laimbeer as portrayed by himself on the Detroit Pistons. Consider: Bill Laimbeer was on…
“Thousands of people can’t be wrong for wanting this”. Back when Capcom’s side-scrolling brawlers were all the rage, the Japanese veteran produced the sublime Aliens vs. Predator for its CP System II arcade board. Considered something of a genre classic, the game was sadly never ported to any home system, and, at the time of…