Tumblr artist Lumspark drew a quartet of obscure platformer mascots, including enchanted pile of laundry Plok, the neckless yet scarf-sporting Rayman, head-swapping puppet Dynamite Headdy, and... uh, wait a second, I think I've got this... that guy from Tonic Trouble. Ed? Apparently his name is Ed. You'll have to excuse me, the...
Sarah Sowertty of Gaming Hell sets her sights on Growl, an obscure Taito arcade game where four men who are legally distinct from Indiana Jones open a can of justice on dastardly poachers. A stern warning or light prison sentence won't be enough for these ecological threats to learn their lessons... you'll have to break out the...
It's hard to imagine that anyone who's reading this right now hasn't already bought Namco Museum... it's a solid collection of retro games, including essentials like Pac-Man and Galaga, and it's been given deep discounts in the past. However, $5.99 is the lowest price it's ever been on the eShop... that's two dollars less than...
You'd think you wouldn't need cutting edge technology to make an Atari 2600 multicart, given the advanced age of that system. It's downright prehistoric by the standards of modern consoles, and the libraries of both the 2600 and 7800 could fit on a CD-ROM with room to spare. Considering the quantum leaps in consumer technology...
Great news for owners of the almost impossibly cheap Data Frog SF2000 handheld... Ignatz and his team of homebrew programmers have made significant progress on porting the custom firmware "AmphibiOS" (heh, I get it!) to the system....
Game Sack's Joe Redifer looks at a dozen games released exclusively in arcades, with a focus on Sega's more obscure polygonal racing games from the late 1990s and Taito's scaling-heavy action titles from the late 1980s. Also included in the video is the quickly forgotten 3D extension of the Gradius series, Solar Assault....
After an eighteen month struggle with the FTC, Microsoft finally unhinged its jaw and swallowed Activision whole. What's that mean for gamers? Hopefully a new Activision Anthology, because we've been without one for waaaay too long. You'll find more thoughts on the merger in the provided link.
Blaze, the creators of the Evercade line of products, plans to release a smaller, trimmed down version of the system called the Hyper Mega Tech. This portable accepts all standard Evercade cartridges (it's not clear if games exclusive to the more powerful Evercade EXP are included), with a form factor similar to the Game Boy...
Okay, this isn't as great a deal as Game Tengoku Cruisin' Mix Special was, and the games themselves aren't as good, either. But these two side-scrolling platformers nevertheless provide a certain twisted sense of entertainment with their oddball play mechanics and a downright bewildering East-meets-West presentation. Did you...
Toy manufacturer Parker Bros. dipped its proverbial toes into the video game industry back in the early 1980s, producing Atari 2600 games that run the gamut from pretty decent (Star Wars Empire Strikes Back is so fondly remembered that fans continue to convert it to other formats) to the slow, dull as dishwater conversion of...
Courtesy of Cohost user Daav and collector Kelsey Lewin, here's Bernie Stolar's surrender- er, battle plans for the Sega Saturn in 1997. Stolar insisted that "virtually all" Saturn games "utilize polygons instead of sprites," which was the prevailing trend of the late 1990s, but not the Sega Saturn's strong suit. (To put it...
A few years ago, I reviewed eight of the Data East games offered by Johnny Turbo (yes, the hefty, hairy shill for the TurboDuo) for the Switch. Why the heck is Johnny Turbo selling Data East games and not Turbografx games? Who knows....
Here's an article I posted years ago about purchasing games from the now largely defunct Toys 'R Us chain of toy stores. Buying video games at Toys 'R Us was such an arcane, labyrinthine experience. It felt like a sacred ritual!...
From Cohost. Too bad they couldn't fit the trademark symbol from Namco Museum Encore in there somewhere!
Evidently Microsoft considered an attempt to purchase the Sega part of Sega-Sammy Studios. Personally, I'm not sure I'm totally comfortable with Sega games being Microsoft-exclusive. I'm also not hugely fond of an American company taking over a Japanese one and possibly spoiling what made the company so special, but what the...
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Smart television sets. They're all over the place these days, and they often rely on Android to run streaming services like Netflix. Here's my question, though... Is a smart TV smart enough to run emulation apps like RetroArch, and can it do it well enough to be worth the bother?...
They are shutting down everything?! Uh oh....
What FrameRater said. This Metroid Zero Mission-style overhaul of Sonic Triple Trouble is a full-featured, Genesis-quality Sonic game, with Tails as an onscreen sidekick, exciting 3D bonus stages, and new content that was either missing from or not even possible on the Game Gear. Could this be the next Sonic Mania?
British gaming YouTube channel SwitchUp (really, they're British enough that they talk about saveloys, and frequently) has offered a brief recap of Nintendo's recent Direct presentation, discussing everything from a Super Mario RPG remake with vastly improved graphics to the peculiar Super Mario Wonder, which really leans into...
