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Build it and they will come. Sega’s final home console is one that many people hold close to their hearts, and for good reason. The Dreamcast was home to some incredible arcade-perfect conversions – including Crazy Taxi 2, Virtua Tennis 2 and Power Stone 2 – as well as epic adventures like Shenmue, Skies of…
It’s nice to have a dream. Sega’s final throw of the hardware dice before it became a third-party publisher, the Dreamcast only sold 9.13 million units worldwide – that’s less than the Nintendo Wii U – yet its impact is somehow much greater than that figure would suggest. Today, it is fondly remembered by fans…
Including Sonic Adventure and Sonic Jam. As everybody is busy elsewhere celebrating 25 years since the release of the Sega Dreamcast in Japan, Satoshi Okano, a former Sega of Japan artist, has started publishing a ton of incredible, previously unseen concept art from various Sonic the Hedgehog projects over on Twitter. Satoshi Okano got his…
“Would’ve been magnificent”. Industry veteran and former Psynosis and Eidos staffer Richard Browne has revealed on social media that we almost got a VR version of Geoff Crammond’s utterly iconic video game The Sentinel. The game would have been licenced by Domark, the UK publisher which would eventually become part of the Eidos empire in…
The Arcade Attack Retro Gaming Podcast and Blog is your regular dose of retro gaming fun! They will cover whole episodes on single retro gaming classics, discuss the latest retro news and topics, broadcast interviews with some of the true legends of the industry or whatever else may take our fancy! Arcade Attack is an…
‘Memories of Firebird’ is available to preorder now. If you happened to be around in the days when microcomputers were king, you may be aware of Firebird Sofware. The British publisher was established in 1984 as a publishing arm of Telecomsoft and was responsible for releasing a bunch of classic games like Booty, Thrust, Elite,…
The game now runs in FastROM on the SNES. A fan developer has just completed the process of porting Kid Icarus from the NES to the SNES, paving the way for a number of possible quality-of-life improvements and technical enhancements. Inspired by the work of @Infidelity_NES (whose projects we’ve previously covered on this website), the…
…but the Genesis version has it! It never ceases to amaze us how, even when you’ve been gaming for decades and feel you have a pretty solid grasp on the history of interactive entertainment, there are facts that have somehow eluded you for over 30 years. Take YouTuber st1ka, for example; a seasoned retro gamer…
Pays tribute to Super Scaler games like Galaxy Force II & After Burner. Update #2 : A demo for Terarin Games’ Missile Dancer 2 has now been released on Steam, as spotted by Hardcore Gaming 101. So if you want to give it a go ahead of its release next year on Nintendo Switch and…
It’s (still) thinking. It brings us no joy whatsoever to report that Sega’s final throw of the home hardware dice celebrates its 25th anniversary today. We’re so old. Released in Japan on November 27th, 1998, Dreamcast was a forward-thinking system that Sega hoped would help reclaim the market share lost during the 32-bit battle with…