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...
There's a diagnostic suite of software for game consoles which tests input lag and screen tearing on your display. This suite first popped up for consoles released at the turn of the century (Dreamcast, specifically), but someone has made a version of this toolkit for... the ColecoVision....
Lately, not on the Switch. The entire Johnny Turbo's Arcade line, featuring middling emulations of Data East arcade titles, has recently been purged from the eShop. Golem's Retroclassix, also featuring Data East titles like Heavy Barrel and Bad Dudes, has similarly been excised from Nintendo's online store....
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...
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!...
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?...
Westone's Clockwork Aquario is the quintessential arcade game... loud, colorful, and unapologetically dumb. Perhaps a little too dumb, considering that it missed arcades entirely and was instead ported to modern game consoles like the Nintendo Switch. While it's great from a preservation standpoint that Clockwork Aquario was...
Crab-Bob SoulsBorne!...
"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.)...
Some people are the masters of their instruments. For Rush's Neal Peart, it was the drums, for Slash, it was the guitar. For John Champeau, it's the Atari 2600. He's coaxed games out of this system that just shouldn't be possible, whether it's a port of Galaga that's better than the Atari 7800 version, or a conversion of Wizard...
Guru Logi Champ for the Game Boy Advance was the last game designed by Compile before the company's untimely bankruptcy. This refreshingly unique puzzle title was a Japanese exclusive, but Western players can finally get a taste of its block-tossing, screen-spinning action in Carleton Handley's Spinning Image, for the Commodore...
Enraged by Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony refusing to sell their consoles in Russia, Vladimir Putin climbed up an onion shaped tower while clutching a damsel in one arm, and said "I shall make my OWN game console! With blackjack, and hookers, and not at all suspicious deaths of my critics!"...
A few days ago, a warning flashed on my Xbox Series. "The Jeff Minter Story now rated MA-18!" I was thinking to myself, "What fresh hell do we have here? Did they find naked llamas in the game? Or a hidden game, like Hot Coffee in Grand Theft Auto? Eww, them's some gross implications there."...
And it's said to run at FULL SPEED? With the 3D features of the 3DS supported? WHAT??? Me downloady now.
In the tradition of her previous video about Data East's 1980s coin-ops, gaming historian Kim Justice fixes her critical lens on the arcade games of Konami released during the decade of decadence....
The classic puzzle game Chip's Challenge, which made its debut on the Atari Lynx thirty-five years ago (oy vey), has now resurfaced on the Nintendo Switch. For those curious, this is the Lynx game running on an emulator, as opposed to the PC version, which has a higher resolution and a wider view of the playfield, but unsettling...
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...
Remember the Data Frog SF2000? It's a re-donkulously cheap handheld game system sold on Chinese mail order outlets like AliExpress and Temu. You can get one of these for as little as twenty dollars, not a bad deal when you consider there's just enough power packed into one of these systems to play Capcom arcade games and a hefty...
Here's a Christmas curveball for you. Galix's GGPie uses the Game Gear TV Tuner and a Raspberry Pi Zero to turn your Game Gear into a most-in-one game console. The problem is that while the Raspberry Pi has more than enough power to emulate everything up to the original Playstation, the Game Gear has a severe button deficit, so...
Good news for fans of obscure side-scrolling shooters! Rabio Lepus (which I remember in arcades as "Rabbit Punch") is now half off its original price on the Nintendo Switch, bringing the total down to $3.99. This was one of developer Video System's first games, starring two rabbit droids blasting and punching their way through...
