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“No fish were harmed in the making of About Fishing”. SEGA Bass Fishing and Shenmue were stablemates on the Dreamcast, and now they’re getting a tribute game by the name of About Fishing. Developed by The Water Museum, About Fishing is described as “a fishing mystery game that blends the calm, meditative rhythm of fishing…
Features numerous ‘Quality of Life’ improvements. One of the significant consequences of the collapse of the Sony and Nintendo hardware partnership in the ’90s was the ill-fated Philips CD-i multimedia system receiving a selection of Nintendo-sanctioned titles, including Zelda: Faces of Evil, Zelda: Wand of Gamelon, and Hotel Mario. The CD-i also got 1996’s Zelda’s…
60fps! High res visuals! The same 3/10 gameplay! Quest 64 was subjected to some lukewarm reviews when it first launched on the N64 back in the ’90s, which is surprising when you consider how starved Nintendo fans were for RPGs at that time. Known as Holy Magic Century in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand and…
Will contain new interviews with the people who made it happen. Nicola and Anthony Caulfield, the creative duo behind Bedrooms To Billions and The Rubber Keyed Wonder, are about to launch a crowdfunding campaign for their next documentary – this time focused solely on the Commodore 64 home computer. The Commodore 64: The Birth of…
“Honors the original Taito spirit while enhancing it with a modern artistic direction”. Commodore Industries (the Italian one, not the one which just resurrected the C64) has revealed that its official remake of Taito’s 1988 coin-op platformer The NewZealand Story launches on Steam next month. The company – which is currently embroiled in a legal…
“I sincerely feel that we have let down those who have supported us”. AYANEO is a company capable of producing amazing hardware, and we’ve been big fans of the Chinese firm for the past few years thanks to remarkable devices like the Pocket DMG, Pocket DS and Pocket Air Mini. However, AYANEO has attracted criticism…
Garry Kitchen’s GameMaker Title Screen The dream of many a gamer is to turn their big gaming ideas into reality. The 8-bit micros of the 80s came with the tools to do so built in, with BASIC baked into the system. But, even with the extensive manual provided by Commodore for the C64’s Microsoft BASIC…
I remember my first late-night gaming session clearly. The old TV stand creaked as I pulled out the NES. The cartridge smelled of dust and warm plastic, as if it had stored every battle fought before me. I blew into it the way older kids taught us and slid it into the slot. The CRT…
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, adventure seekers explored digital caverns armed only with their keyboards and imaginations, hunting for treasures described entirely in text. Zork expanded on earlier text-based games like Colossal Cave Adventure by introducing a more advanced parser and a witty, distinctive narrator’s voice. Do you have what it takes to conquer Zork I: The Great…
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