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(Or ‘Roll Away’, if you prefer). Of all the puzzle games released on PS1, Game Design Sweden AB’s Kula World (known as Roll Away in North America and KulaQuest in Japan) is one that sticks in my memory, even all these years later. A physics-based puzzler that puts the player in control of a sentient…

Travel to a “a futuristic world of high-rolling hi-jinx and golf courses.”. While the Sega Dreamcast was inevitably home to a bunch of different genres, everything from action to horror to sports, we can’t help but associate it most fondly today with games like Sonic Adventure, Space Channel 5, and Jet Set Radio — titles…

After previously announcing the update for Dave Retro Forge’s graphically superior version of ‘Bubble Bobble Remastered’ for the Commodore 64. Along comes this new announcement from the same team that they have released the eagerly awaited game called ‘Bubble Bobble: Lost Cave’. As in the words of the creator, “For the first time in 39…

Emulator Azahar is making big strides recently. We’ve been banging the drum for the 3DS quite a bit over the last few years, and with good reason. It’s one of Nintendo’s most interesting handhelds thanks to its autostereoscopic display, an amazing selection of games, and that downright lovable clamshell form factor. One of the leading…

A new beta version of ‘Rogue 7800’ has just been released. Following its original release on Unix-based computer systems in the early ’80s, the dungeon crawler Rogue received a bunch of commercial ports to home platforms, with the help of publishers like Mastertronic and Epyx; this included versions for Atari 8-bit computers and the Atari…

It’s magic! While Nintendo and Sega have long since kissed and made up following a bloody hardware war in the 1990s, the Kyoto company is still actively at odds with Sony, the maker of the PlayStation – a console that very nearly played SNES games. With that in mind, the notion of Mario being on…

‘Mega Zone’ was released in Japan in 1984. Following a set of exciting announcements last week (namely, Console Archives and the impending rerelease of Rave Racer), Hamster, the company behind Arcade Archives, is back to basics this week, with another arcade deep cut: Konami’s tank-based shoot ’em up, Mega Zone. The game, in case you’ve…

RetroAchievements is quite the (ahem) achievement. I don’t know about you, but I have a severe case of “choice paralysis” when it comes to playing classic games in the modern era. For the longest time, I was a steadfast purist who would only play on original hardware, and, even now, I still feel this is…

“I really wish I had asked him more about those things while he was still alive”. Kazuo Sawa, a prolific composer of music during the NES era, has passed away, we’re sorry to report. The news was confirmed by his son on social media and spotted by Resetera member Hayama Akito. Read the full article…