Old Games For Old Gamers

Time Extension recently posted this excellent interview with Cameron Sheppard and Mike Merren, formerly of Crawfish Studios, about its ambitious Game Boy Advance port of Street Fighter Alpha 3, and how it significantly contributed to the downfall of the company. Numerous delays to the game led to Crawfish losing the royalties it...

I purchased this game a year or two ago and didn't think much of it, as it doesn't make a strong first impression. However, if you really dig into it, and get past the ninja werewolf (!?) that caps off the first level, you start to see the hidden brilliance of Goblin Sword....

I loved the original game in arcades. There was a feel to Exerion that most other shooters of its era lacked... rather than stopping on a dime, your ship instead glides like a kite, turning the action into a cosmic ballet. Now THAT'S galactic dancing!...

Also courtesy of Time Extension comes this story of a scientist who turned his wife's salad slicer into a rotary controller for Puzzle Bobble (or Bust-a-Move, if you're nasty). I've got a few issues with this, though. First, he uses a mouse as input for the game, which is not typically how the game is played. Second, this makes...

Time Extension reports that a team of programmers is working to bring Mortal Kombat II, one of the most popular video games of the 1990s, to the 3DO, one of the... least popular video game systems of the 1990s....

Good news for Genesis and Neo-Geo owners hoping for a new bone to chew... Neofid's DaemonClaw has hit its Kickstarter goal of $53,736, two days after the fundraiser started. Seems people really, REALLY want this game. Like, yesterday....

The original Fatal Fury on the Neo-Geo was ported to the Sega Genesis thirty years ago, but a slim cartridge size meant there were a lot of compromises to what was already a fairly simplistic versus fighting game....

Well, this was "fun" news to wake up to... long-running classic gaming forum AtariAge has been purchased by Atari, with its co-founder Albert Yarusso hired to maintain the site....

Gematsu reports that the Nintendo DS game Game Center CX (known in America as "Retro Game Challenge") and its sequel (known in America as "unreleased") will come to the Nintendo Switch at some yet undetermined point in the future....

Hike up those Huggies, babies, because Rugrats is coming to the Nintendo Entertainment System (and a bunch of other game consoles) in Adventures in Gameland. Those other systems will let you switch between 8-bit graphics and a high-definition style that's more faithful to the cartoon, like what Disney and Capcom gave us in...

In the grand tradition of Punch Out!! and Wade Hixton's Counter Punch comes Big Boy Boxing, from Alpha Beta Gamer. This demo lets you mix it up with everyone from steroid-charged pugilists to Mr. Adyltmen, who is absolutely an adult man and not three kids in a trenchcoat....

We're talking thirty minutes of brand new, fan-designed video games. Sure hope you've got the attention span to sit through it all, because there are some can't miss indie titles included! Thanks to Matt Hughson for posting this footage... I try to keep up with the retro console homebrew scene, but I had no idea half these games...

The Swedish gaming conglomerate Embracer Group thought it could buy a dozen development studios, then use them to build an empire rivaling Activision and Electronic Arts. When that didn't happen, Embracer did what companies often do in this situation... they killed the studios they purchased, while keeping the intellectual...

A coder named Mairtrus made a conversion of the original Super Mario Bros. for the Sega Genesis, and it's quite faithful to the NES game in most respects. That music, though... it sounds like the cheap synth organ you might hear at a baseball game. Stepping up to the plate... it's a-him, Mario!...

Video games are an expensive hobby, but the truly determined among us find ways to make it work, even on a tight budget. In an interview with My Retro Life, John Hancock talks about a special Christmas when he received a TurboGrafx-16. His mother was ashamed that a clearance priced game console at Toys 'R Us was all she could...

YouTube personality Sega Lord X digs into the latest build of Doom Resurrection in his latest video. For those unaware, Doom Resurrection is a second attempt at a Doom port for the 32X, and a more impressive effort than the first. You're getting enemies that weren't in the original 32X port, a wider variety of weapons, enhanced...

YouTube member Svenny McG introduces the world to the Nyko Air Flow controller for the original Xbox. This amusingly over-engineered joypad has a massive fan built into the unit, which draws in air from the bottom and redistributes it through vents built into the handles. What this means for you, the player, is less sweaty...

John from Gen X Grown Up takes a deep dive into the 20th Century Fox library for the Atari 2600. There are some gems to be found scattered amidst the rough- Doug Neubauer's very Pac-Man like Alien and Sirius' Worm War I for instance- but for the most part, Fox should have stuck with movies.

In its latest video, Greg's Game Room compares nearly forty games released for both the Atari 5200 (or its close cousin, the Atari 400 computer) and the ColecoVision....

It's not just Street Fighter 2, but a lot of competitors, particularly King of Fighters. You've heard the line from Terry Bogard before, I'm sure... "KOF was just a front for something bad?" Yes, Terry, yes! Just like the last fourteen times! Like the time they were going to resurrect an unstoppable eight-headed serpent from the...

TheRoboZ, currently working on a Sega Genesis conversion of R-Type, has added an enhanced version of the secret stage exclusive to the Master System port of the game. It's got all the fleshy cosmic goodness of Compile's original art design, with bigger, brighter graphics that better match the sleek 16-bit artwork of the arcade...

After an impressive eighteen year run, the Xbox 360 storefront will be shuttered in July 2024, officially ending support for Microsoft's most successful system. The Xbox 360 is easily Microsoft's plateau as a console manufacturer, comparable to the Sega Genesis in disrupting the status quo and giving a dominant industry force...

Andre from Black Nerd Comedy looks back at the late 1980s and 1990s, when gamers really had to work to get their thrills. There was no internet to bring you a world of gaming goodness... you had to leave your house, touch grass, then quickly leave grass and walk into an arcade, or a Blockbuster Video, or a friend's house, to...