Gaming enthusiast, writer, artist, and social media ronin. Current denizen of the Dork Web, aka federated media. Doesn't play well with others.
Gaming enthusiast, writer, artist, and social media ronin. Current denizen of the Dork Web, aka federated media. Doesn't play well with others.
OOOH! Who lives in a yellow Switch under the sea? (www.youtube.com)
Crab-Bob SoulsBorne!...
Mighty Final Fight on ZX Spectrum! A Demake of a Demake of an Arcade Hit! (www.youtube.com)
"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.)...
John Champeau wrings a faithful port of Tutankham out of the Atari 2600 (forums.atariage.com)
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...
Spinning Image brings Compile's forgotten puzzler Guru Logi Champ to the Commodore 64 (carletonhandley.itch.io)
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...
The Cold War game console is back in fashion! (arstechnica.com)
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!"...
The Jeff Minter Story rated Mature, and not just because his fans are old enough to have prostate issues (bsky.app)
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."...
240p Test Suite Ported to... COLECOVISION?? (forums.atariage.com)
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....
Holy hell, there's a Virtual Boy emulator for the 3DS (github.com)
And it's said to run at FULL SPEED? With the 3D features of the 3DS supported? WHAT??? Me downloady now.
First time...?
"Oh no, Xbox Series!"
Why is 2010s movie Star Trek called the Kelvin timeline?
I'm sure there's a valid reason, but I've got no idea what it is. Why "Kelvin?" Is that a reference to a character in the original Star Trek continuity?
Chip's Challenge hits the Switch. Yeah, I didn't see that coming, either. (www.nintendo.com)
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...
Final Fight MD Hits its Halfway Point in Development (www.youtube.com)
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 takes a stab at Golden Axe for the 32X (and Tomb Raider!) (www.youtube.com)
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...
Stupid cheap handheld gets absurdly versatile with new custom firmware (github.com)
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...
Ho ho huh? GGPie turns your Game Gear into a Game Everything Else (galix.fr)
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...
Erased, Extinguished, Expired: The End of E3 (www.nintendolife.com)
Alas, the long-running Electronic Entertainment Expo, a convention created especially for the video game industry, is no more. Started in 1995, E3 gave publishers and developers a chance to show off their latest releases and works in progress, without fear of being eclipsed by the more general purpose technology featured at the...
Minter comes alive in Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, coming for numerous game systems (www.youtube.com)
Digital Eclipse is on fire lately! The creators of Atari 50 and Karateka Gold are now setting their sights on cult game designer Jeff Minter, who made dozens of twitchy arcade-style titles for home computers like the VIC-20 and Atari ST....
What are you doing?! I'm posting on the post page, you compost heap!
Digital Eclipse schedules free DLC packs for Atari 50 (www.nintendolife.com)
Good news for owners of Atari 50, the anniversary collection released by Atari and Digital Eclipse (now part of Atari) earlier this year. Multiple DLC packs are planned for the game, with the first of these debuting next week....
Good Feel revives the spirit of Goemon with percussive platformer Mameda Bakeru (www.youtube.com)
Finding news on retro games, or games that invoke the feel of old favorites from the 1990s, can be tough. However, sometimes you get lucky, and that news just comes out of nowhere....
Where is Johnny Turbo?
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....
The french fried fever dream of McDonald's Treasureland Adventure (cohost.org)
Here's a Cohost post I made paying tribute to McDonald's Treasureland Adventure. It's the kind of game that could only exist in 1993, back when McDonald's wasn't ashamed to be tacky and weird, and when Treasure was hungry enough for work that they'd take on a nutty project like this. It's not the best Treasure title on the Sega...
Game review series Zero Punctuation ends as host Yahtzee leaves The Escapist (www.bbc.com)
It's been a fun sixteen years, but due to internal strife within The Escapist, Ben Croshaw (known professionally as "Yahtzee") has left the company, leaving the future of his YouTube series Zero Punctuation in question. Wherever Yahtzee goes, he won't (or can't?) take the Zero Punctuation brand with him, and it's unlikely that...