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Part I will be released tomorrow on January 11th. System Sacom’s adventure RPG Märchen Veil will be the next PC-88 title to come to the Nintendo Switch as part of D4 Enterprise’s Egg Console label, with the first part releasing tomorrow (on January 11th). Originally published in Japan in 1985 for the PC-8801mkIISR, Märchen Veil…
“Great person, great gamedev”. Rebecca Heineman (left) and Jennell Jaquays We’re saddened to report that legendary game designer and video game artist Jennell Jaquays has passed away at the age of 67 following a battle with Guillain-Barré syndrome. Read the full article on timeextension.com “Great person, great gamedev”. Rebecca Heineman (left) and Jennell Jaquays We’re…
“Yesterday’s price is not Today’s price”. The Def Jam series is one of EA’s most unlikely success stories. The wrestling game series, which contained titles like Def Jam Vendetta and Def Jam: Fight for NY, initially saw the developers EA Canada and AKI Corporation band together to combine the worlds of hip-hop and pro wrestling…
One step ahead of Hyperkin? Not quite… Back in 1995, Sega released the Nomad, a portable Genesis / Mega Drive which, for many fans, felt like the stuff of a madman’s dreams. It offered the ability to play your 16-bit library on the move, as well as connect up to your TV for more traditional…
Via Toaplan Arcade Shoot ‘Em Up Collection Vol. 3. Bitwave Games has already released two sets of Toaplan shmups on PC via Steam and GoG, and it’s returning for a third helping in the form of Toaplan Arcade Shoot ‘Em Up Collection Vol. 3. Announced today, this new selection includes Tiger Heli (1985), Vimana (1991),…
“We can easily release something like a Second Quest version on the 64DD”. As mentioned yesterday in our news article going over some of the highlights from Hiroshi Yamauchi’s 1997 Spaceworld keynote speech, we sometimes don’t have the opportunity to include everything we get translated while we’re in the process of putting together a particular…
The 1984 game of Tetris has been mentioned many times on Indie Retro News, with new versions of the game being re-released on the Amstrad CPC, C16, Plus/4 and ZX Spectrum. Well here’s another version of the game that is sure to be enjoyed by many that still love this game even today, as JOTD…
Next system update should provide fixes. Polymega’s delayed system update may have given owners a chance to play N64 games (and side-load Game Boy titles), but it has a few hidden surprises which people are finding a little less welcome. Neo Geo CD emulation has been impacted by a speed bug, which means that games…
Includes new localisations for Cosmic Fantasy & Cosmic Fantasy 2. Limited Run Games revealed on Twitter yesterday that it will be bringing out a physical version of the Cosmic Fantasy Collection for Nintendo Switch in the future, with pre-orders opening this Friday, January 12th. In case you’ve never heard of it, Cosmic Fantasy is a…
The falling-block game originally launched in arcades back in 1992. Hamster has revealed that this week’s Arcade Archives will be Namco’s falling-block puzzle game Cosmo Gang The Puzzle. It will be coming to both the Nintendo Switch eShop and PS4 on January 11th (as reported by Famitsu). Cosmo Gang The Puzzle is the third entry…