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Feeling Froggy? Hop Over To The Forum
If you’re a fan of Frogger, you’re in good company. The original arcade game was a smash hit that attracted a broad…
Author: June Park
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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Jumping Flash!
This review was originally published in Official UK PlayStation Magazine issue 2, January 1996 Platform games have been around since the dawn…
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Orange You Glad It Didn’t Stop at Steam? Orange Island’s Long Road to a Physical NES Homebrew Cartridge
Some games take a summer to make. Orange Island has taken most of a lifetime. When this site first flagged the project on June 26, 2019, it looked like a…
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No Longer Counted Out: The Lost UWC NES Prototype, Preserved for Everyone
Most lost games stay lost twice: once when the publisher shelves them, and again when the single surviving copy ends up in a private collection, admired…
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Dead Format Walking: How Screaming Villains Raised Corpse Killer, Double Switch and the FMV Dead
Every format has its undertaker, and every undertaker eventually meets a customer who refuses to stay buried. Full-motion video was supposed to be finished…
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The Final 12 Make 42: How the Genesis Mini Ended With Two Games That Never Existed
On June 4, 2019, Sega was supposed to announce the last ten games for the Genesis Mini and stop at forty. Instead…
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Thirty Lives and Ten Games Deep: Konami Reloads the Contra Anniversary Collection Lineup
Every retro series has a password, a warp whistle or a secret room, but only one has a rhythm section. Ask a roomful of players who grew up in the 1980s to…
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Trapped in 8-Bit: How KHAN Games’ NEScape! Turned a Kickstarter Into an NES Escape Room
Most escape rooms rent you a locked door, a pile of padlocks and sixty minutes of mounting panic. In May 2019, Kevin Hanley of KHAN Games offered the…
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David Javelosa Sonic and SEGA Music Demo Tracks Surface Online
You’ve probably seen this tweet making the rounds online of unused Sonic 2 music being shown off to a classroom. My teacher…
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Bitmap Books To Release Metal Slug: The Ultimate History
Bitmap Books are at it again and this time it’s all about slugs. Not garden slugs, but Metal Slugs. Metal Slug: The…