It's an inauspicious anniversary, but the N-Gage is not as awful as its reputation would suggest. It was wrong-headed in its design, with an over-encumbered button layout and a tiny vertically oriented screen, but it could push polygons in a way no other handheld of the time could, particularly the Game Boy Advance....
Honestly, it was a little puzzling that the game didn't ship with these controls in the first place... the Dual Shock had been around for a few years, and the Playstation 2 came with these dual analog controllers by default. But hey, better twenty three years late than never, right? Special thanks to VanLaser for this much...
Fanatical is going way out of left field with a selection of old school video games owned by Piko Interactive. They've been scooping up whatever abandoned IPs they can find from the 1990s, and most of these games from the island of misfit toys can be purchased in this collection for as little as fifty cents each....
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!...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Mario Ambassador? Did he pay too much for a Nintendo 3DS and get a dozen free Game Boy Advance games?...
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......
