While the Nintendo Game Boy may have ruled the handheld roost in the early nineties, it didn’t stop the many efforts from a wide range of companies to dethrone the portable king. Watara were one of the bold companies copying the Game Boy’s ethos, however, their cheap alternative – the SuperVision – came across as […]
Archive: January, 2017
Free Games Alert!
It’s a good day to be a strategy gamer, as two PC classics have been made available for free by their publishers for a limited time only. First up, System 3 is offering the original version of Constructor for free via GOG.com in order to promote the upcoming HD remake of the game. If you’ve […]
Free Games Alert!
It’s a good day to be a strategy gamer, as two PC classics have been made available for free by their publishers for a limited time only. First up, System 3 is offering the original version of Constructor for free via GOG.com in order to promote the upcoming HD remake of the game. If you’ve […]
Namco Founder Masaya Nakamura Passes Away
Bandai Namco Entertainment recently confirmed the passing of Masaya Nakamura, the businessman who originally founded Namco in 1955. Nakamura was 91 years old when he passed away on January 22nd. Having been educated in the ship-building department of Yokohama Industrial College, Nakamura had an engineering background when he founded Nakamura Manufacturing in the Fifties. With […]
Presented Without Commentary: Six WikiHow Articles to Become the Best Sonic Fan
How to Avoid Being an Ignorant Sonic Fan How to Catch Up to Archie’s Sonic the Hedgehog Comic Books How to Appreciate Dic’s Sonic the Hedgehog How to Make a Sonic Story (Without Pictures) How to Make a Fan Made Sonic Character How to Do the Knothole Freedom Fighter Handshake The post Presented Without […]
Sonic and SEGA Soundtracks Up on Spotify Now
Seemingly out of nowhere, SEGA has added a ton of soundtracks to Spotify from their classic games, including Outrun, Fantasy Zone, Jet Set Radio and more, along with a plethora of Sonic OSTs from the likes of CD and Adventure. You can check out the entire library here for instant streaming, just note that Spotify does require a login for […]
Sega’s Big Retro Spotify Debut
Sega has recently put up, rather quietly, a huge number of videogame soundtracks on the music streaming service Spotify. You can see a full list by clicking here, but we thought we’d pull out some highlights below! Some Sega games are already well-known for their soundtracks, in particular Jet Set Radio and its sequel Jet […]
SEGA News Bits: Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Comic Cancelled Rumor and Analysis
On this SEGA News Bits, Barry and George share their analysis of the rumor that Archie Sonic the Hedgehog comics are cancelled. How did this rumor spring up? Is there any validity to it? What could happen to the Sonic comic books should it happen? Give the video a watch to find out! SEGA News Bits […]
Why didn’t more games use the keyboard?
I tried games like Mortal Kombat (both of them) on my amiga and I can’t believe people tolerated such butchered and limited controls back then. Was there a technical barrier to using keyboard controls like on PCs? (on msdos I liked to use a ASZXQ and arrows scheme that is basically an inverted snes pad […]
First-person Resident Evil Will Blow You Away
Resident Evil fan Rod Lima has put together a stunning example of how the 2002 remake of the original game could look if played from a first-person perspective – a look Capcom has adopted for the latest iteration in the series, Resident Evil VII: Biohazard. In order to create this first-person experiment, which takes place […]