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After Burner in Your Pocket: The Making of Blue Lightning
The Lynx’s show-off: a jet, a blue sky, and a promise of arcade scaling in a handheld. Photo: Atari / Wikimedia When…
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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Four Buttons, Top Corner: Active Soccer 2 DX Is the Vita’s Arcade Football Fix
One man, one game engine, one flying volley: The Fox Software’s key art makes the arcade pitch before you read a word.…
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The Computer Cartoon That Ate 48K: The Making of Scooby Doo
The cover of the game that shipped — drawn from a cartoon the Spectrum had tried, and failed, to become. Photo: Elite…
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Get Ready for the Sonic Hacking Contest’s 15th Anniversary Early
We’re already talking about Hacking Contest in 2017? You bet! The Sonic Hacking Contest’s 15th anniversary is upon us all and they…
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Get Ready for the Sonic Hacking Contest’s 15th Anniversary Early
We’re already talking about Hacking Contest in 2017? You bet! The Sonic Hacking Contest’s 15th anniversary is upon us all and they…
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Dreamcast Exclusive ‘In the Line of Fire’ Hits Kickstarter
There have been a couple of recent Kickstarter projects that have added Dreamcast stretch goals, with the promising Megadrive/Genesis platformer Tanglewood being…
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Board Stiff: Unreleased CD32 Oddity Biff Boardin’ and the Three-Board Controller
Every games console has a lost peripheral. The Amiga CD32 — Commodore’s short-lived CD-based machine of 1993 — may have the strangest one of all: a set of…
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A Knight to Remember: Max Knight’s Amiga Quest, From Christmas Demo to Full Release
By December 2016, the Commodore Amiga had been commercially dead for over twenty years — and was receiving new games anyway. One of the most charming arrived…
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New SNES Fighter Unholy Night: The Darkness Hunter Unveiled
There’s a new one-on-one fighting game coming to the SNES, and there’s some serious retro development pedigree behind it! Foxbat Co Ltd., is…
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Four Cartridges, No Ending: The Lost Akira Game Boy Game That Neo-Tokyo Forgot
Some cancelled games vanish so completely that fans argue about whether they ever existed. The Game Boy version of Akira did the opposite. In December 2016…