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Win a Game Boy iPad Air/Mini case!
As you can probably tell, being massive Retro Gaming fans, we have a special place in our hearts for the Game Boy.…
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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One Switch, Three Regions: The PAL Mega Drive Region Mod, Done Properly
The whole mod lives in this square centimetre: the JP1–JP4 jumper block beside the cartridge slot — and the little capacitor across…
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Pixels by the Pound: How The Story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels Doubled Its Kickstarter Money and Grew to 268 Pages
In July 2015 this site backed a book before it existed: two posts in three days — one promising support for a…
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The Eight-Year Journey: A Gamer’s Journey and the Definitive History of Shenmue
Correct the stub first, because its small errors point at the real story. The 2015 teaser story said Shenmue II had just been revealed at E3. It had not —…
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Resident Evil Zero Prototype Shown Off
N64 fans rejoice – Capcom has shown off some footage of the greatest game never released for the console. Resident Evil Zero,…
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Batman
Sometimes – most of the time, really – a publisher will get a licence and do something obvious with it. Terminator? Shooty-shooty blam blam.…
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No Mercy in the Mushroom Kingdom: Kaizo Mario Bros. 3 Turns Super Mario Bros. 3 Cruel
There is a special kind of confidence that comes from growing up with Super Mario Bros. 3 . Millions of players can still hum its overworld tune, picture the…
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Salamander
If there’s any type of retro gamer that has to have a PC Engine, the shoot-’em-up fanatic is that type. The system…
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Rumor Mill, Day One: The Weekend Reddit Tried to Authenticate the SNES PlayStation
Most legendary hardware discoveries arrive with a press event, a museum vitrine, or at least a carefully staged photograph. The Nintendo PlayStation arrived…
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Ninja Spirit
Arcade ninja games are ace. While that’s actually not a statement we can generalise (thanks, Mirai Ninja), it definitely applies to Irem’s…