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Free Classic Game Covers eBook
If you’ve had a rubbish Monday (and Mondays aren’t usually the best of days), you might need a comforting retro-themed pick-me-up. We…
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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Something For The Weekend: Sonic After The Sequel Weekend Extravaganza
So the weekend rolls around again and finally (at least if you’re a 9-5 worker in the UK), you can afford to…
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Thirty Candles, Six Little Cars: Mattel’s Hot Wheels and the Year Super Mario Bros. Took Over Every Aisle
Anniversaries in the games business usually mean a re-release, a logo and perhaps a modest sale. Nintendo decided that three decades of Super Mario Bros.…
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Pixel Art at 1:64 Scale: The Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary Hot Wheels Cars, Taken One by One
Anniversaries in the games business usually mean a compilation, a remake, or at the very least a logo slapped on a box. The thirtieth birthday of Super Mario…
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Neon Trails, No Brakes: Tro-Now Turns the Mega Drive Into a Tron Light-Cycle Arena
Some game ideas are so pure that no hardware generation gets to keep them for long. The light cycle duel from Disney’s 1982 film Tron , two riders laying…
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Ready for Blast Off That Never Quite Came: The Super Mario 64 Level Pack That Stayed a Demo
In the summer of 2015, the Super Mario 64 hacking scene was in exuberant health. Fan-made level packs were growing from novelty texture swaps into full…
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LakeFeperd (The Sonic After the Sequel Guy) Puts Up a Kickstarter for Spark the Electric Jester
LakeFeperd, a member of our forums who is probably most well known for his fangames Sonic Before the Sequel and After the…
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PLAY It! Comes to Manchester’s MOSI Museum
Get your game face on this summer at the Museum of Science and Industry’s first ever gaming event, featuring some of the…
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All Sugah, No Spin Dash: Bunnie Rabbot Takes Over Sonic the Hedgehog on Mega Drive
Ask a room of Sonic fans to name the hero’s supporting cast and the games will supply most of the list: Tails, Knuckles, Amy. But there is a generation for…
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Bombs Away on a 1982 Machine: Robee Blaster Brings Bomberman Chaos to ColecoVision
ColecoVision owners are used to waiting. The console’s commercial life ended in the mid-1980s, yet its homebrew scene has spent decades patiently supplying…