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Including a football mini-game and a James Bond-esque ski chase. The SNK run ‘n gunner Metal Slug 3 is already a pretty ridiculous game, featuring zombies, aliens, and submachine gun-wielding orangutans. But it turns out, the game could have perhaps been even more bonkers, with the former SNK and Nazca Corporation developer Akio recently taking…
Another article so soon? A couple of odds and ends have dropped since my last post and I’m sitting in my car, many towns from home waiting for my youngest son who is at club lacrosse practice so I’ve got time. First up, we have Barrels of Fun, maker of the Labrynth pinball machine. Barrels…
After Burner! Daytona! Guardian Heroes! The recently-released XenonRecomp tool has already given us a PC port of Sonic Unleashed, but it could be put to (arguably much better) use by reviving many delisted Xbox 360 titles. XenonRecomp converts Xbox 360 executables into C++ code, which can then be recompiled for any platform. “Currently, it only…
The discovery was shared on LinkedIn. Members of Square Enix recently made a remarkable discovery upon opening an old storage container at work that had been shut for close to 20 years: a cache of pristine, retro games that includes titles released for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, DOS computers, N-Gage, Nintendo Wii,…
Say hello to the MagicX Zero 40. Emulating systems like the Game Boy Advance, SNES and Mega Drive / Genesis is pretty straightforward these days, but the Nintendo DS is a slightly trickier proposition, thanks to its dual display format and touchscreen capabilities. We have the AYANEO Flip DS, but that powerful handheld PC is…
“There’s more to being a good person than just having a stereo television”. No matter how much you think you know about video games, there’s always information out there you’re not aware of—and today is one of those days for us here at Time Extension. Thanks to a social media post by iFixRetro, we’re now…
“Tektites! Pe-pe-peahats!”. The latest episode of the Video Game History Hour (the Video Game History Foundation’s podcast) has just been released, and it’s a good one, featuring an interview with the “marketing mastermind” Gail Tilden (who you may also know as the founding editor of Nintendo Power). The interview was originally recorded in front of…
151 Gen 1 Pocket Monters replaced with Mario characters. We’ve seen quite a few fun (and unofficial) ROM hacks which have tinkered with famous Nintendo franchises, but a new effort has just been announced which looks very interesting indeed. DogPond4 has just confirmed that they’re working on a new ROM hack which adds Mario and…
If you owned an Amstrad CPC back in the day, you would’ve played at least one Roland game from the Amsoft pack. Either Roland Ahoy, Roland on the Ropes, Roland in the Caves or even one of the rarer titles in my personal collection, Roland on the Run. So named for Roland Perry, a computer engineer who…
A Kickstarter for the game is now live. The Game Boy Color had no shortage of cute and colourful platformers, thanks to games like Shantae, Rayman, Croc, and Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. And that number has only grown in recent years, thanks to the emergence of the homebrew scene that has been busy creating new…