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Capcom Home Arcade Review — Sixteen Classics, Two Sanwa Sticks, Zero Compromises
A logo-shaped twin-stick with 16 CPS classics and the first home release of Alien vs. Predator: Capcom’s boldest plug-and-play, reviewed.
Author: Hank Mercer
Hardware desk. If it has a cartridge slot, an FPGA board or a weird controller, Hank has opened it up and put it back together — usually better. Writes the gear reviews and hardware spotlights.
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Arcade1Up Mortal Kombat — Fatality at Home: The 2019 Wave That Changed Everything
Arcade1Up’s Mortal Kombat cabinet led the 2019 wave that created the home arcade category. We revisit the machines that started it all.
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Hardware Review: NeoSD AES Flash Cartridge
Collecting for the Neo Geo AES has always been a rich person’s hobby, and by 2018 it had become a wealthy one’s: cartridges that cost hundreds when new were changing hands for thousands, and complete
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RetroHQ Neo Geo Pocket SD Flash Cartridge Review: The Whole Library on One Cart
At a glance: RetroHQ NeoPocket GameDrive · Flash cartridge for Neo Geo Pocket and Neo Geo Pocket Color · Loads the system’s entire library from microSD · Developer: RetroHQ · Score: 8.5/10
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Hyperkin RetroN HD Review: Real NES Cartridges in HD for the Price of a Pizza Night
Hardware: Hyperkin RetroN HD · Plays: NES cartridges (NTSC & PAL) · Output: HDMI, 720p · Released: 2017 · Launch price: $39.99 · In the box: Console, one Cadence controller, HDMI cable, USB power
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Hardware Review: BittBoy (Portable Nintendo NES Clone)
Some products are so perfectly of their moment that they deserve preservation, and the original BittBoy is a miniature time capsule from the winter of 2017. The pitch was irresistible: a handheld shap
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Backlit Game Boy Color Handhelds Hit Chinese Retailer On TaoBao
The Game Boy Color backlight mod arrived as a product before it arrived as a kit. In February 2017 this post carried a small marvel: ready-made backlit Game Boy Colors, on sale through the Chinese mar
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The Eagle Box: When Android Emulation Boxes Ruled the Living Room
At a glance: The Eagle Box (2016) · Android TV box sold as a ready-made retro games machine · One of dozens of near-identical boxes from the mid-2010s Android land-grab · A period piece now — assessed
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Review: MVS MagicKey — the UniBIOS Adapter for Neo Geo AES Owners
The Neo Geo AES owner’s dilemma has not changed in thirty years: the games you want are common and cheap as MVS arcade cartridges, and ruinous as AES home cartridges. Adapters that bridge the two form
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Coin Up, Kick Down: The €899 Amiga Racer Arcade Machine Mystery
In 2016 AmigaTec listed a complete Amiga Racer arcade cabinet for €899 — and told nobody what was inside it. We open the case on the modern Amiga scene’s most charming mystery.