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“Vicarious Visions saved Crash Bandicoot”. The multi-platform racing game Crash Nitro Kart could have been “the last of Crash”, according to Crash Bandicoot co-creator and character designer Charles Zembillas. Zembillas recently spoke to Time Extension for an interview about his career, during which he discussed his journey as an artist in the animation and video…
“I think it would have been a very cool game”. We were lucky enough to sit down with the legendary Bruce Nesmith recently, a video game industry veteran who has had roles at TSR and Bethesda and has titles such as Fallout 3, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on his glittering…
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ThunderPass! Castlevania! Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb! 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 ThunderPass! Castlevania! Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb! Welcome to Retro Recap, a…
“That initial dungeon, the very first one you start the game in, that was mine.”. If you’ve ever attempted to play The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, you’ll know that it doesn’t exactly get off to the easiest of starts. Dumped into the tutorial dungeon, it’s not uncommon for players to round the first set of…
In 1982 Gottlieb released a very famous game that had an orange character with a long snout as a nose, it just had to be the isometric arcade game with puzzle elements of ‘ Q*Bert ‘. It was so popular in fact it appeared on many systems such as the Atari 2600 and the C64…
Do you remember loving this bad video game? I have a love/hate relationship with Macross M3. As any Macross fan will tell you, the popular anime series has a sketchy history when it comes to video game adaptations. For every Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie, there are multiple flops, and prior to picking up…
“Work-for-hire is not the way we should be doing things”. Charles Zembillas isn’t the type of person to stay quiet when he feels he’s been disrespected. He’s aware that may make him seem like a bit of a “firebrand” to some. But it’s something he feels has been necessary to set the record straight, given…
Swap Arcade is a compact, affordable, retro home arcade designed for real homes. It lets you play the classics you love—and your modern favorites too—by using the devices you already own, including a Nintendo Switch, a phone or tablet, or a Windows PC. Most home arcades are expensive, oversized, and locked into a built-in game…
A Netflix show was rumoured last year, but so far remains unconfirmed. It’s somewhat hard to believe, given the character’s popularity over the years, but Crash Bandicoot has somehow never had a starring role in his own TV show or animated film. To our knowledge, there has been at least one attempt to turn Crash…