Old Games For Old Gamers

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"It took quite a journey to get here," laments the host of Geek Battle Gaming in his review of a surprising ZX Spectrum release... Mighty Final Fight, based on the NES game that was based on the arcade game. (Phew.)...

Mauro Xavier and his team are still hard at work on Final Fight MD, the ambitious Sega Genesis port of the classic belt-scrolling brawler. The first three stages of the game are fully playable in the beta currently available on Xavier's Patreon page, taking you through the bar, into the wrestling ring with a handful of Andores,...

Sega Lord X just reviewed Golden Axe for the 32X add-on, and it's a beaut, with high resolution backgrounds that are stunningly close to what was in the arcade game. The original Genesis version of Golden Axe had to cut corners to fit into a 512K cartridge, and this plus the low color output of the system meant that the game was...

Digital Eclipse is on fire lately! The creators of Atari 50 and Karateka Gold are now setting their sights on cult game designer Jeff Minter, who made dozens of twitchy arcade-style titles for home computers like the VIC-20 and Atari ST....

Finding news on retro games, or games that invoke the feel of old favorites from the 1990s, can be tough. However, sometimes you get lucky, and that news just comes out of nowhere....

YouTube personality John Hancock takes a detailed look at the classic action game Super Mario Bros. This ordinarily wouldn't be a big deal, except the game is running on an unexpected console... the Intellivision, released in the late 1970s....

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!...

We've been buried in Atari 2600 game players over the last ten years, including those by AtGames and Atari itself, but My Arcade's Atari Gamestation Pro seems to be the most promising entry yet into this glutted retro market. It's got a versatile joystick (analog and digital controls built into one Atari controller? Viva la...

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....

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!...

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...

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....

Hot on the trail of ten AtGames Flashback consoles and the poorly received VCS comes yet another Atari console, the 2600 Plus. What's so "plus" about this machine, anyway? Well, it runs actual Atari 2600 cartridges... most of them, anyway. It also plays Atari 7800 games, and runs the libraries of both systems in crisp HDMI,...

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...

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...

Gaming historian Jeremy Parish takes an in-depth look at the Epoch Cassette Vision, an early Japanese game console with the brains of the system inside the cartridge, rather than the console itself. (Milton Bradley's Microvision, released around the same time, took a similar approach.)...

Oh yes, I'm on that like a Force Unit clinging to an R-9....

The Vectrex was an impressive system for its time, but despite its ambitions of bringing the arcade experience home, its manufacturer GCE (later Milton Bradley) didn't have the broad access to arcade hits that the competing Atari 5200 and especially the ColecoVision did. If you wanted a Vectrex version of Pac-Man, you had to...

The always reliable YouTube reviewer SNESdrunk tackles Vortex, a late Super NES release by Argonaut Software. They helped Nintendo develop the cutting-edge 3D shooter StarFox, but without assistance from Shigeru Miyamoto and his team of developers, Vortex comes up short as a follow up....

MLP (My Little Pony...?) seems to think so, although at the moment, this is just speculation... an educated guess based on past products by Analogue being released shortly after related controllers by 8BitDo....

Roy Wood Jr. (who you may recognize from The Daily Show) examines the absurdity of fighting game backgrounds in this funny clip.

I spent hours on this game back in the day.

"What's so great about this?," you might say. "Final Fight is available on like, a million formats!" Yes, but this is the Sega Genesis. It's exciting to watch this 16-bit console designed for tight budgets handle Final Fight, the mammoth arcade hit with graphics that put Double Dragon and Kung Fu Master to shame. Between its...