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....
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...
Mario Ambassador? Did he pay too much for a Nintendo 3DS and get a dozen free Game Boy Advance games?...
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...
Who'd have thunk the Intellivision would still be going strong forty-five years after its release? That's forty-five years longer than its would-be successor the Amico lasted......
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.)...
Remember Parasol Stars? Possibly not; it's one of the more obscure games in the Bubble Bobble series, released for the Turbografx-16 instead of the more popular Sega Genesis and Super NES....
Fanatical is offering three or more high profile games for five dollars each, if you buy them in bulk. If you buy three, you pay $14.99. If you buy five, you pay $22.99....
Oh yes, I'm on that like a Force Unit clinging to an R-9....
Elektronite just released three games for the Intellivision that may be familiar to old school gamers... Jeff Minter's Hovver Bovver, where you mow a lawn while dodging suburban threats, Bill Hogue's Miner 2049er, which tasks you with "painting" stages while dodging creepy mutants, and David Rolfe's Steamroller, an obscure...
