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This probably wouldn’t fly in a modern fighting game. Cody from Final Fight wouldn’t appear as a playable character in the Street Fighter series until Street Fighter Alpha 3, but made an appearance earlier in Street Fighter Alpha 2 as a background character along with his girlfriend Jessica in the Metro City, USA stage. For…

Say hello to the Mega 95. Retro hardware maker Hyperkin has announced it is producing a portable Mega Drive / Genesis system which has the ability to connect to your TV via its own dock, just like the Nintendo Switch. The Mega 95 boasts a 5-inch screen and plays original cartridges, but it will ship…

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The cat’s out of the bag. Back in October 2023, Atari’s CEO Wade Rosen told MinnMax that it was open to pitches for a new Bubsy game, leading a small number of indie developers to express interest in calling the company’s bluff. Among these was the Frog Nimble developer Jon D (or @DevBoyDibs), who has…

Sonic no Daifuugou was released in 2005 for various Japanese mobile platforms. The feature phone preservationist RockmanCosmo has just announced another community breakthrough in the attempts to preserve and document forgotten mobile games, revealing that an old Sonic the Hedgehog card game from the mid-to-late 2000s is among the latest batch of titles to have…

And it’s sold out already. Back in the mid-’90s, it was an exciting time to be a gamer. New consoles seemed to be coming out of nowhere on a regular basis, and while most of them failed, there were some interesting experiments which still have their fans, even today. One example is the Casio Loopy….

“The domestic video game market is clearly losing steam”. Last year, while working on a feature about the Making of Mario Artist: Paint Studio, we contacted the Japanese-to-English translator Liz Bushouse to help translate some materials related to the 64DD — Nintendo’s Japan-only peripheral for the N64 that allowed players to use 64MB magnetic disks…

“We were trying to be better than Zelda with the little things”. In 1994, the Wakefield-based developer and publisher Team17 revealed that it was working on a Legend of Zelda-style RPG called Witchwood. The game, which followed a young adventurer battling against an evil witch, appeared in various magazines throughout the decade, such as CU…

…with cinematics like Uncharted, apparently. Japanese game designer Yasushi Yamaguchi might be most famous for coming up with the character of Miles “Tails” Prower, but he’s also worked on a bunch of other famous Sega properties, including the classic JRPG Phantasy Star II. Yamaguchi – who is also credited under the name Judy Totoya –…