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“I overruled because this was much funnier”. While Rare is best known for creating the likes of Donkey Kong Country, GoldenEye 007 and Sea Of Thieves, it has some lessor-known titles in its library – one of which is the 2004 GBA puzzler It’s Mr. Pants. Conceived by Tim Stamper and Gregg Mayles and designed…

Thanks to VGEsoterica & Andy Geezer. VideoGameEsoterica has done it again! Less than a year after they successfully managed to preserve Castlevania: The Arcade Game and a month after they rescued Konami’s Gashaaaan!, the YouTuber is back with another set of videos focusing on their efforts to save another rare piece of arcade history. Akuma…

The finest X68000 exclusives in one pack. Though the Sharp X68000 is rightly known for its exceptional arcade ports, the cult Japanese computer also had its fair share of homegrown exclusives that made the system sing. Perhaps most important among these was the work of Exact (Excellent Application Create Team), who lovingly produced four exceptional…

Help build our ranked list by voting! Founded all the way back in 1985, Rare is one of the United Kingdom’s most famous developers and has been responsible for some of the best-selling video games of all time. Read the full article on timeextension.com Help build our ranked list by voting! Founded all the way…

In the early 1980s and later in the decade I can remember watching STARCADE! on SuperStation WTBS more than a couple of times. STARCADE! was all about video games, knowing trivia about them, and being good at playing them. I found it to be a cool game show that I could relate to and have…

Game Boy Color title patched by fans. The Medabots series might be as famous as Game Boy Color stablemates Pokémon and Digimon, but it has its fans – many of which are English-speaking and therefore missed out on some of the entries which never made it out of Japan. Medarot 3 – released in Kabuto…

Given away when Color TV Game Block Kuzushi launched. Before Nintendo took the world by a storm with the Famicom / NES, it produced a range of ‘Color TV Game’ systems in Japan, starting with the Color TV-Game 6 and Color TV-Game 15 in 1977. 1979’s Color TV Game Block Kuzushi cost ¥13,500 and featured…

Metal Gear, Minecraft, Soul Calibur and Virtua Fighter all supported. Online play has been part of the emulation scene for ages, but emulators which are focused on more recent platforms have struggled with the fact that these systems require very complex infrastructure when it comes to replicating play over the internet. The good news is…

Filthy fish. Seaman is one of the Dreamcast’s more unique offerings. It’s a virtual pet simulation in which you feed and care for the titular creature using the console’s microphone accessory. The game has become something of a cult classic in no small part thanks to Leonard Nimoy’s iconic narration. However, it has also gained…