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....
Oh yes, I'm on that like a Force Unit clinging to an R-9....
And the good news keeps on coming for fans of SNK and the Dreamcast! The Dreamcast Junkyard reports that TapamN has brought VGA support to The King of Fighters Evolution, known as King of Fighters '99 on the Neo-Geo and Playstation. This is a big deal, as the game was one of a handful on the Dreamcast that would only work with...
Côté Gamers, a development team in Europe, has brought the Sony Playstation classic WipeOut to the Vectrex. Well, sort of. Unsurprisingly, the game (titled WireOut RE 2X) is more of a demake than anything, with the hovercrafts and the track drawn in wireframes....
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....
The RPG BAROQUE is the latest in a long line of Sega Saturn games that have been translated to English by fans, alongside GameArts' fondly regarded Grandia and Hudson Soft's Bulk Slash. The latter of the two games was also given a quality English dub, making it feel like the US release Saturn fans should have gotten over...
I realize the Switch is a currently supported console, but this news is a positive reflection on video games in general... the old ones, the new ones, all of them. Next time a politician says the world is going to hell thanks to video games, remind them of this.
The obnoxious 1990s video game mascot has officially returned!...
I wrote this encyclopedia of Capcom items a few years ago, and although it's by no means 100% complete (I would have gone mad chronicling all the power-ups from Mega Man and its many sequels), it's nevertheless a fairly comprehensive guide to all the weird pick-ups you can find in Capcom games from the 20th century and beyond....
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....
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...
Here's a game I used to enjoy in MAME and on the Sega Saturn... Jaleco's Game Tengoku, a silly overhead shooter set in the world of video games, with tons of obscure references for the nerdiest nerds. (My favorite stage is the one where the game shifts into 8-bit mode, and you have to battle your way through Space Invaders and...
Long-running retro gaming site (and a key resource for this magazine) AtariAge is having a fire sale on games for the Atari 2600, 5200, and 7800. All games in the sale will be marked at 10% off to liquidate the stock of software featuring intellectual property the site can no longer sell without running afoul of copyright...
Roy Wood Jr. (who you may recognize from The Daily Show) examines the absurdity of fighting game backgrounds in this funny clip.
Here's a fun article from my old blog reviewing all the games in SNK Arcade Classics. As classic collections go, this is one of the better ones on the PSP, and that system had a whooooole lot of them to go around. (Other classic game compilations I'd recommend for this underrated handheld include Midway Arcade Treasures, Sega...
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...
M Network was one of the underachievers among the Atari 2600's many third party developers. As a division of Mattel, the makers of the competing Intellivision, they had no reason to bring their best work to the 2600... and so they very much didn't. Games by M Network were almost certain to be vastly inferior to their...
Thanks to the massive success of the NES, the once-popular Atari 2600 was given something few game consoles ever get... a second chance at life. Atari, under the direction of its new CEO Jack Tramiel, resurrected the 2600, offering it as a budget alternative to its own Atari 7800 and the competing NES and Master System....