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Weak to Rankings: The Retronauts Mega Man Ranking Fight That Will Never End
Some debates in games never cool down, and in March 2021 the Retronauts podcast fed the hottest of them fresh fuel. Episode 365, “The Mega Man Ranking…
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Fresh Cartridge reporter. Covers launches, remasters and the modern retro scene as it happens. Owns more handhelds than handbags, has opinions about all of them, and filed this bio from a Game Boy she modded herself.
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Retro Gamer 206 is on sale now
The latest issue of Retro Gamer is on sale now, with a cover feature looking at the impact of Valve’s groundbreaking Half-Life…
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Necromancy Jam: Retronauts Raises the Dreamcast at PAX West 2019
This post spent seven years as a single sentence. In December 2019, when Retronauts released its live PAX West panel celebrating twenty…
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Small Seeds, Big Hunt: Turok 2 on Game Boy Was No Turkey
This page once served up Turok 2 on Game Boy as a Thanksgiving turkey, and yes, the dinosaur pun was doing most of the work there. Set the joke aside…
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All Together Then: Dr Robotnik’s greatest deathtraps
The egg-obsessed scientician’s cruelest yolks Ask anyone on the planet what a hedgehog’s natural rival would be, and they’ll all say the…
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It’s Still Thinking: Looking Back at the Dreamcast, 20 Years After 9/9/99
On September 9, 1999 — this post’s own publication date, twenty years on — Sega launched the Dreamcast in North America and,…
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Rollie Keeps Rollin’: The One-Man NES Homebrew That Bounced From Kickstarter to a Real Cartridge
Most modern platform heroes arrive with a development team, a publisher and a marketing budget behind them. Rollie arrived with one programmer, a spare-time…
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Passport to Your Phone: How a Fan Port Brought Shenmue Passport Back to the Dreamcast Faithful
Every big reissue leaves something behind. Usually it is a manual, a soundtrack disc or a pre-order trinket nobody truly misses. When Shenmue I & II arrived…
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Diablo on the Amiga: The Long Way Down
At a glance The original: Diablo — Blizzard North, end of 1996, plus the Hellfire expansion (1997) The problem: One of the…
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Another World, Forty-Eight Pixels Tall: The Apple II Demake That Rebuilt a Classic From Scratch
The most famous first screen in the game, redrawn at 40 by 48: Lester surfaces at the lake, and something is already…