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Go Go! Mile Smile
Let’s be honest – when the first word that comes to mind about a game is “anachronism” it probably isn’t a good…
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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Sonic Hacking Contest 2015 Open for Entry
As sure as the air gets crisp and the leaves turn brown (or green if you’re upside down in the world), the…
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Time’s Arrow, Orchestra’s Bow: MSU-1 Gives Chrono Trigger a Symphonic CD Soundtrack
There is a particular cruelty in the Super Nintendo’s sound hardware: it was good enough to make composers ambitious, and limited enough to make sure they…
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Virtua Fighter
Pity the poor 32X – while theoretically a sound idea, the Mega Drive upgrade just couldn’t compete with dedicated 32-bit consoles, leading…
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Jet Paco Blasts Off Again: The Mojon Twins’ NES Platformer That Earned Its Cartridge
Most homebrew stories follow a familiar arc: a small team releases a game free of charge, the community applauds, and everyone moves on. Jet Paco refused to…
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Win $10,000 Dream PC Setup with LG’s UltraWide Festival
We all love our ZX Spectrums, but even we get pangs of jealousy when we see our friends and their shiny new…
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Retro VGS Hits IndieGoGo
Another day, another retro crowdfunding project – but this time it’s a little different, as the people behind the Retro VGS want to bring…
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Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car Coming to MAME
One of the few remaining Coelacanths in the Sonic series is coming to a PC near you soon. Waku Waku Sonic Patrol…
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The Story of US Gold by Chris Wilkins and Roger Kean – review
With a book about software publishing house Ocean, an upcoming Kickstarter-funded Commodore 64 in Pixels book and a highly popular ZX Spectrum…
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Knuckle Heads
The early days of the Nineties fighting game boom were very strange. Despite the fact that Street Fighter II had shown the standard…