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Video Games — Auction Preview by Brett Weiss Offering several Atari 2600 games in our November 3-4 Signature Auction warms my heart. As the Lead Video Game Cataloger with Heritage, and as a gamer who enjoys all eras, I love “everything from Atari to Xbox,” as the saying goes, but the Atari 2600 represents my…
But that doesn’t mean we’re not tempted. We’ve encountered a lot of Famicom clone consoles in the past, and for the most part, they are pretty unremarkable things that don’t really warrant another look. However, that’s arguably not the case for this rather colourful and fantastically bizarre boombox-shaped Famiclone that was recently unearthed within the…
Homebrew section will likely be removed with next major site update. If you’ve read Time Extension for a while, you will no doubt have heard about the website Romhacking.net (often abbreviated to RHDN). This is a site where creators can upload various kinds of hacks for existing games to give people new ways to experience…
Plus the ability to enable/disable background flashing. While we try our best to keep up to date with all of the amazing fan games being released, every so often something incredible will come out and completely pass us by. That is the case with ZIITAOL, an incredible fan remaster from last year, which only recently…
Dailly was presented with the honour at the Scottish Games Awards 2023. At the Scottish Games Awards, which took place on November 2nd at Platform, in Glasgow, the co-creator of Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings, Mike Dailly, was given a lifetime achievement award for his contributions to the games industry. Dailly was one of the…
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Mega Cat Studios’ Andrew Marsh, who discusses the development process behind their new NES adventure on Kickstarter, The Meeting. Check the game out on Kickstarter, Here. About The Meeting: Become a ghost minotaur on the quest to put his meat back together in this puzzle platformer. Use pyrokinesis, possession,…
Launches December 10th, with pre-orders going live today. John Romero has finally announced the release date for Sigil II, the unofficial sixth episode of the 1993 first-person-shooter classic Doom and the follow-up to the successful 2019 Megawad Sigil. Romero announced that he had started working on the WAD back in 2021, and has now revealed…
Courtesy of Hidden Palace. As spotted by VGC, a prototype of the unreleased PS2 game Daredevil The Man Without Fear has appeared online and is now available to play, courtesy of the video game preservation site Hidden Palace. Daredevil The Man Without Fear (originally known as Daredevil the Video Game during development) was a third-person…
The arcade-style puzzler launched in 2020 across various platforms. Back in 2020, Friend & Fairy and Galaxy Trailer released Petal Crash across various platforms including PC (via Steam), Nintendo Switch, PS4, iOS, and Android. But now it appears that the game is coming to yet another platform, with Petal Crash’s official account announcing a new…