Here's some fantastic news for Dreamcast owners and rhythm game fans! Derek Pascarella and his team of translators have created an English language patch for SNK's cel-shaded music title Cool Cool Toon, and even added HTML-based bonus content as a handy stand-in for the game's long-deprecated internet features. Players can check...
Tumblr artist Lumspark drew a quartet of obscure platformer mascots, including enchanted pile of laundry Plok, the neckless yet scarf-sporting Rayman, head-swapping puppet Dynamite Headdy, and... uh, wait a second, I think I've got this... that guy from Tonic Trouble. Ed? Apparently his name is Ed. You'll have to excuse me, the...
Sarah Sowertty of Gaming Hell sets her sights on Growl, an obscure Taito arcade game where four men who are legally distinct from Indiana Jones open a can of justice on dastardly poachers. A stern warning or light prison sentence won't be enough for these ecological threats to learn their lessons... you'll have to break out the...
After an eighteen month struggle with the FTC, Microsoft finally unhinged its jaw and swallowed Activision whole. What's that mean for gamers? Hopefully a new Activision Anthology, because we've been without one for waaaay too long. You'll find more thoughts on the merger in the provided link.
Blaze, the creators of the Evercade line of products, plans to release a smaller, trimmed down version of the system called the Hyper Mega Tech. This portable accepts all standard Evercade cartridges (it's not clear if games exclusive to the more powerful Evercade EXP are included), with a form factor similar to the Game Boy...
Okay, this isn't as great a deal as Game Tengoku Cruisin' Mix Special was, and the games themselves aren't as good, either. But these two side-scrolling platformers nevertheless provide a certain twisted sense of entertainment with their oddball play mechanics and a downright bewildering East-meets-West presentation. Did you...
Courtesy of Cohost user Daav and collector Kelsey Lewin, here's Bernie Stolar's surrender- er, battle plans for the Sega Saturn in 1997. Stolar insisted that "virtually all" Saturn games "utilize polygons instead of sprites," which was the prevailing trend of the late 1990s, but not the Sega Saturn's strong suit. (To put it...
A few years ago, I reviewed eight of the Data East games offered by Johnny Turbo (yes, the hefty, hairy shill for the TurboDuo) for the Switch. Why the heck is Johnny Turbo selling Data East games and not Turbografx games? Who knows....
Here's an article I posted years ago about purchasing games from the now largely defunct Toys 'R Us chain of toy stores. Buying video games at Toys 'R Us was such an arcane, labyrinthine experience. It felt like a sacred ritual!...
From Cohost. Too bad they couldn't fit the trademark symbol from Namco Museum Encore in there somewhere!
Evidently Microsoft considered an attempt to purchase the Sega part of Sega-Sammy Studios. Personally, I'm not sure I'm totally comfortable with Sega games being Microsoft-exclusive. I'm also not hugely fond of an American company taking over a Japanese one and possibly spoiling what made the company so special, but what the...
