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Hewson Consultants Returns With Hyper Sentinel
If you’ve ever thought that the modern shoot-’em-up scene has moved too for from the likes of Eighties classics such as Uridium,…
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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Power Strike II
As the Master System entered its twilight years, Sega was faced with a problem – the machine was worth supporting in territories…
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System Shock Remake Is Live On Kickstarter
Mid-Nineties PC gamers are bound to remember System Shock with some fondness – it was a groundbreaking game that scored highly with…
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Turbo Esprit
As a kid, I never really got the concept of going out for a drive. To my mind, driving had always been…
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The Bear Essentials: Developing a Commodore 64 game – Part 4
Part 4: Studying SID It’s been over a year now since I started work on my platform game, and there is still…
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Sonic at 25: The Hedgehog Built to Outrun Mario
The finger-wag that started a console war. Twenty-five years ago this week, Sega stopped asking politely. Photo: Sega / Wikimedia, fair use…
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Humble Bundle Celebrates 25 Years of Sonic!
Today marks 25 years of ring collecting and badnik bouncing and the Humble Bundle is celebrating by letting fans nab a whole…
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The Snail Blazes a Trail: Homebrew Shmup Swabby Brings the Snail Maze Star to the Game Gear
Every games console hides a secret or two, but few secrets ever got promoted to leading snail. The little gastropod who once crept through the hidden Snail…
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Kraut Buster Reloads for Trailer Three: NG:DEV.TEAM’s Neo Geo Run-and-Gun Shows Its Redrawn Hand
There is a particular kind of trailer that only exists in the retro homebrew world: the one that has to answer for the previous trailer. In June 2016, German…
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Sonic Boom: Fire and Ice – Retro Preview
E3 is kind of like going to a wedding, they’re a pain to get to, your feet are destroyed by the end of…