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The Umihara Kawase Trilogy of Tough Fishing Rope Platformers Now Available on Steam
With the release of the PS1 installment today, all three of the Umihara Kawase games- platformers built around swinging about on a…
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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Hey, You! Take the Sonic 2sday Challenge
In case you’ve not noticed, it’s a Tuesday. Besides it being M. Bison’s favorite day of the week, this is a particularly…
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Ultimate Nintendo: The NES Library Guide That Tried to Review Absolutely Everything
Every collector knows the moment. You are standing in front of a wall of grey cartridges, or scrolling through yet another auction listing, and the question…
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Getsu Fuma Den
We all deal with hard times in our own way. But when stress got the better of me a few years ago…
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Kikstart 2
Given that Retro Gamer shares an office with GamesTM and Play, it’s no surprise that lunchtime gaming is a popular activity here.…
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The Xbox 360 Turns 10 Today!
It’s crazy to think that Microsoft’s second console is a decade old today, but it’s true – the machine launched in the…
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SEGA Dumps Sonic Discography, Others on Spotify
Short of piracy, YouTube channels, or paying some exuberant amount of money for what might be a bootleg, not every soundtrack is…
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No Mode 7? No Problem: Sonic Team Racing Brings Kart Chaos to the Mega Drive
Ask a Super Nintendo owner in 1992 what their machine could do that Sega’s could not, and the answer arrived in one phrase: Mode 7. Nintendo’s graphics hardware could take a flat background layer and rotate and scale it freely, turning the ground itself into a pseudo-3D racetrack.
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Star Chaser: Sik’s Four-Player Mega Drive Homebrew Maze Dash
At a glance: Star Chaser · Sik · Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, November 2015 · Competitive maze game for up to four players, human or computer-controlled ·…
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Press Start to Continue: Inside Game Over, Portsmouth’s Underground Games Café
Down the stairs and into the vault: rows of screens, racing chairs and a ceiling covered in giant pixels. Photo: Game Over…