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It does feature “unreleased” Metal Slug 3 music, though. Health tech firm Tanita has collaborated with SNK on some rather odd products in the past, producing a $13,000 set of scales that plays King of Fighters. Now, the two companies are teaming up again to create a digital thermometer and hygrometer that looks like a…
“I remember discovering awesome half-finished-then-abandoned bosses and rejected stages”. Recently, we spoke to Tetsu “Tez” Okano, a former SEGA employee and the director of games like SEGAGAGA and Astro Boy: Omega Factor. During this chat, Okano spoke about various games he’s worked on over the years, sharing some incredible insights into some of the projects…
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Leonard Herman, who is displayed on card number 180, from the Superstars of 2011 and who is also featured on cards 514 and 1951. Leonard is the author of the book “Phoenix: The Fall and Rise of Videogames”. The 4th edition (retitled Phoenix IV: The History of the Videogame…
“We want you to make a sequel; we’ll get permission from Sega for you to do it”. For a lot of diehard Dreamcast fans, 2001’s SEGAGAGA ranks as one of the most unique and fascinating titles released for the console. Typically described online as “a role-playing simulation”, it sees players step into the shoes of…
“A number of overseas developers have said, ‘We want you to make a [Segagaga] sequel’”. The Segagaga director Tetsu “Tez” Okano has had an extraordinary but unconventional career in video games. As a kid growing up in 1970s Japan, he fell in love with arcade games like Space Invaders and Galaxian but never initially considered…
“People think the crash happened in both places. It didn’t”. If you consider yourself to be a budding gaming historian, then the Video Game Crash of 1983 will be an event you’re at least partially aware of. To cut a long story short, Atari created an enormous market in the US for video game consoles,…
Owlet’s Embrace releases Q4 2025. Back in July 2022, when we originally reviewed the Playdate, we weren’t shy about the fact that we loved Panic’s crank-based system, calling it “a throwback to a time when handheld video gaming was a simpler, more innocent pastime, and every new experience felt fresh and exciting.” And ever since…
And support for modern controllers. Yesterday GOG announced that Silent Hill 4: The Room has been added to the GOG Preservation Program, bringing with it a bunch of improvements such as the restoration of missing PS2 content and support for modern controllers. The fourth entry in the Silent Hill franchise, Silent Hill 4: The Room…
“Today, I had a good meeting with our Altera partner”. Since its inception in 2017, the MiSTer FPGA project has grown to become one of retro gaming’s most popular platforms. Harnessing Field-Programmable Gate Array technology, the system is capable of emulating a host of consoles, handhelds, computers, and arcade machines at a hardware level, offering…
We chatted briefly with Matt Boson, director of the upcoming enhanced port. When WayForward and Limited Run Games announced that they were planning to resurrect the GBA classic Sigma Star Saga earlier this year for GBA, PC, and modern consoles, it attracted a lot of excitement online — especially among those who had previously played…