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“I am a huge Katsuhiro Otomo fan”. If you’ve played the cult classic Neo Geo shooter Last Resort, then you’ll almost certainly have noticed that the opening level’s cityscape is very similar to the one seen in Katsuhiro Otomo’s seminal 1988 anime, Akira. It’s one of the many instances where popular media has inspired video…
“Some of my colleagues called me the ‘dark lord of perverts’”. Irem should be known to every Time Extension reader – we’ve certainly covered the company enough. Dating back to the 1970s it has an important legacy, most prominent of which is probably R-Type. If anything, this landmark hori-shmup overshadows the developer’s portfolio, since it…
V6.541 has been in development for two years. Saturn softmod Pseudo Saturn Kai got a massive update at the end of 2023 which brings support for ODEs like the Satiator as well as fixes and other upgrades (thanks, Sega Saturn Shiro). A fork of the open-source ‘Pseudo Saturn’ project by CyberWarriorX, Pseudo Saturn Kai V6.541…
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…