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“A design that is restrictive and faithful to ’90s hardware”. Back when Saturn was fighting with PS1 for market share, there were many people who considered the console’s 3D powers to be lacking, so much so that an entire narrative emerged that Sega’s machine was far weaker than Sony’s. Fast-forward to the present, and not…
“We came very close”. Video game movies have become a pretty reliable stream of income for IP owners and studios in the modern era, with the likes of Mario, Sonic, Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil spawning multiple cinematic adaptations. One of the most recent success stories is the Minecraft movie, which stars Jack Black. It…
“I hope that a group can produce it someday”. Remarkably, it’s been almost 15 years now since the last all-new entry in the Ape Escape series, PlayStation Move Ape Escape (which launched in Japan in 2010). And ever since then, the series’s mascot Pipo Saru has pretty much found themselves demoted to rereleases and cameo…
When I was young I used to love playing the very latest in 16bit/32bit racers such as Outrun, Lotus or even XJ220 on the Amiga. It was a time that gave me the feeling of intense speed and near misses without driving a real car and ending up in the local clink. Thankfully if you…
It’s called ‘Escape The House!’. Released on the Mega Drive and SNES in 1993, Zombies Ate My Neighbors (or simply “Zombies” in some parts of the world) is a run-and-gun classic from LucasArts which rightly has legions of fans, and those same people might be interested to learn that a patch is now available that…
65 years young! Sega is one of the industry’s most famous companies, and it turns 65 this week. The company was founded on June 3rd, 1960, by Martin Bromley and Richard Stewart in Hawaii under the name Nihon Goraku Bussan and would be rebranded as Sega Enterprises, Ltd five years later (Sega’s history technically goes…
The title probably isn’t entirely fair. Plenty of Shining Force fans would say the game doesn’t need to be fixed, it’s already a classic, and I would wager that greyskies is among them. Nevertheless, greyskies has brought his Return to Grans hack of Shining Force 2 up to version 1.15. Paradoxically, what makes this…
‘The NES-ential Celebration’ is now on Kickstarter. Playbug Books has just announced The NES-ential Celebration — a new hardcover book that is being pitched as a definitive love letter” to the iconic 8-bit console. The 300-page hardcover book is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter and will reportedly feature a mix of retrospectives and personal stories from…
Say hello to the Venus SUB 2020 kit, and its maker, Oleg Endo. When Nintendo revealed the Switch back in 2016, the whole world seemed pretty impressed—a hybrid console which could be played both on the road and on your TV felt fresh and exciting, and blurred the lines between the traditionally distinct domestic and…
Open June 2nd to June 30th. Starting yesterday, a new OutRun-themed pop-up shop has opened up in Japan, selling a bunch of new merchandise based on the classic Sega driving game. The temporary store is located in Tokyo, Japan, on the 6th floor of the Shibuya Tsutaya (which is only a short walk from the…