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Blockbusters
If you want to know why I’m a quiz show fiend, Blockbusters could easily take as much blame as anything else.…
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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The Disc That Never Spun, Now Booting: The SNES-CD Nintendo PlayStation Boot ROM Discovery
A console can be photographed, X-rayed and argued over, but until its software speaks, half its story stays locked. That is why the most important Nintendo…
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Coleco Chameleon Stirs Controversy
We’ve been charting the progress of Retro Video Game Systems’ new cartridge-based console for a little while now, and it’s been a…
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Conan: The Cimmerian
The upcoming (and delayed) release of a Conan board game funded through Kickstarter encouraged me to find alternative ways of passing time…
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In Memoriam: Fergus McGovern
Fergus McGovern, a games industry veteran who co-founded Probe Software and HotGen, has passed away suddenly at the age of 50 following…
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PC Engine
Dear reader, this is a story of happiness and more happiness and a little bit of confusion spread over a few hundred…
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Archie Releasing New Classic Sonic One-Shot this July
With the 25th anniversary coming up, it’s only fitting that Archie would do something special for the Sonic the Hedgehog comic. Today, through…
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History of Sonic Panel With Yuji Naka, Takashi Iizuka and Others to be held at SXSW
As you might have noticed, on one of the boards at Tomy’s booth at Toy Fair 2016 a “History of Sonic” panel that’ll…
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New Sonic 25th Anniversary Event/Release Details From Toy Fair
Because SEGA decided that they’re no longer releasing new Sonic games annually to give developers more time to properly finish the games, there…
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Sinclair Spectrum Vega plus – first thoughts
As many of you are aware, I was less than impressed with the first Spectrum Vega offering from Retro Computers Ltd (a…