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“The only good Sonic game they had in a very long time was a fan-made game”. Former Sega executive Mike Fischer recently spoke to Sega-16 about his career, and he was quite candid about his feelings about Yuji Naka, calling him “a horrible human being.” Fischer also reveals that Naka wanted to call Billy Hatcher…

More great news this week as looking through the itch io website, we’ve found out that LC-Games has released the latest game of RandomPac for the Commodore 64. A game that isn’t just a tribute to Pac-Man, an arcade game released by Namco in 1980. But this version of the game has procedurally generated mazes and…

A crushing disappointment? Like many other import-savvy Mega Drive owners back in the early ’90s, I was completely addicted to Devil Crash MD (also known as Devil’s Crush and Dragon’s Fury). A gloriously demonic take on pinball, it became so influential that it would inspire the equally wonderful Demon’s Tilt in more recent times, while…

Atari and Digital Eclipse are excited to announce that physical editions for The Disney Afternoon Collection are now available for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 for $29.99 USD. Fans can purchase physical copies – featuring game cartridge, sticker sheets, postcards, milk caps and a reversible cover – on Atari.com and the Nintendo Store today….

Doom dominated unlike any other PC game before it. Developed by id Software, this seminal first-person shooter defined the genre from that point forward, and any competitors to come in the years after were simply labeled as “Doom clones”. A technical marvel and true feat of game design, Doom tasked you with dashing through a…

From one 8-bit to another. Homebrew developer Dave18 / Dave Douglas – the same talented fellow who ported the Master System title Astro Warrior to the ZX Spectrum Next – has done the same trick with the 8-bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog. While it’s very much a work in progress, the beta version remains…

“I know another name for the boy wearing a rooster suit”. Sega-16 recently sat down with former Sega marketing executive Mike Fischer, and the resulting interview covers a big chunk of his amazing career in video games, which includes two stints at Sega and time at Microsoft and Namco. We’ve already covered Fischer’s comments on…

“He just was so malignant in trying to rewrite history”. Former Sega of America Vice President of Entertainment Marketing Mike Fischer has given a new interview to Sega-16, and one of the topics that comes up often is Yuji Naka. Fischer doesn’t have a lot of particularly pleasant stuff to say about the former Sonic…