In 2021 the musician Pieces of 8-Bit released a remake of the Ultima IV soundtrack on YouTube. Last year the #xu4 project was contacted to help create a music module for the game. This soundtrack has been updated in 2024 and is now finally available for xu4.
@OutofPrintArchive I always loved this game more than other Sonic games for some reason. I think comparisons to Mario Kart are a bit unfair--it plays more like Outrun or Rar Racer. It's also a technical achievement when you consider the Game Gear is basically just a Master System.
I have a monkey paw wish where they add GG and SMS games to Switch Online, and hack online multiplayer into Drift 2!
I don't want to disappoint the 3 Body Problem series fans, but in episode 4 where an old IBM PC shows alien messages, the screen resolution is wrong and outside of the capabilities of the CGA and Hercules video cards available in 1984. #DOS#IBMPC
💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 We checked out Dungeon Keeper, the game in which you are the baddie, developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by EA at the very tail end of the DOS gaming era in 1997.
This was another huge hit for Bullfrog, but does it hold up nowadays? Let's find out!
...Mystic Quest in Europe. Sword of Mana was the fifth release in the series. 🏹
The gameplay of Sword of Mana is an expanded and modified version of the original gameplay with elements added from later games in the Mana series. ⚔️
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
I wonder if it might have lost a little of its magic these days as there's been so many videos and articles about what the game did and how it plays with the player perception.
But still. Really unique.
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I fired up my GameCube Animal Crossing game a few years ago and the animals were very cross with me for not talking to them in 97 months.
I've stumbled upon a video elaborating over the idea of "Videogames are meant to be played, not looked at" discussing that graphics don't need to be awesome but the gameplay needs to be fun (case in point: Minecraft is the best selling game of all time), and I've realized that that's one of the main reasons I do so much #retrogaming. As long as the gameplay is engaging, graphics are just a means to an end. And old fun games don't require a latest-gen £1000 NVidia GPU to run decently.
This morning for some reason the first thing I did was decide to listen to a random #Sega Game Gear soundtrack. I picked Alien Syndrome because it was the first I saw listed and I enjoyed it immensely.
@famousblueben Oh nice! I don't have any Game Gear ones brewing, but if Mega Drive soundtracks cut the mustard just as well for you, played on guitar, I'm aiming to upload a video including tracks from a couple of them in a day or two.