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What makes a videogame feel great? Is it the game itself, the friends you enjoy it playing with, or the machine powering…
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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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Keystone Cannonball: How Dan Kitchen’s Lost Atari 2600 Prototype Became Casey’s Gold, 40 Years On
In 1983, Activision’s Dan Kitchen started a Keystone Kapers sequel on a runaway train — then the crash, and other priorities, left…
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SegaSonic Bros. Gameplay and Impressions
This past weekend at California Extreme, an annual coin-op arcade and pinball table expo in the Bay Area, a little piece of…
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Twice the Hedgehog: Sonic Mania Plus Is the Encore This Revival Deserved
The class of ’94, reunited. Mania’s key art promised a homecoming; Plus is the homecoming with guests. Art: Sega / Wikimedia At…
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SAGE 2018 Information: Delay, Booths, Trailer and More
It’s been a little while since we’ve talked about the 2018 Sonic Amateur Games Expo. Look, I know you read the title,…
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Details Emerge of Cancelled MGM and Trilogy Entertainment Sonic the Hedgehog Movie
It’s the nineties. While it is time for Klax, it is also time for movie adaptations of popular video game franchises. At…
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Patience, Popped: Puzzle Bobble (Bust-A-Move) Finally Bursts onto the Commodore 64
In June 2018, a coder named Acied told the Lemon64 forums his Puzzle Bobble replica was “coming soon.” It arrived on 1…
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Back for Seconds: The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion: Volume 2
Volume 1 proved that a console from 1977 could fill a book. Barely two months later, in July 2018, Brian Matherne proved…
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ToeJam & Earl: Back In The Groove Set For Autumn
If you’re looking forward to ToeJam & Earl: Back In The Groove, you’re definitely a patient sort. The Kickstarter campaign for the…
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Half Maze, Half Pinball, All 7800: Baby Pac-Man’s Impossible Homecoming
Every long-running game series has one entry that home consoles simply could not touch, and for Pac-Man that entry was a baby. Baby Pac-Man was not really a…