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Fish-Eye, No Lie: Sonic X-treme Finally Runs on a Real Sega Saturn
Every console has a ghost story, and the Sega Saturn’s favourite ghost wears red sneakers. For nearly two decades Sonic X-treme existed mostly as magazine…
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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Street Fighter III: Third Strike
When I first saw Street Fighter III, at the bottom of Sega World in the late Nineties, I instinctively hated it. Sure,…
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Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
This post is written by Jake Parr. Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, released in 2002 by Io Interactive, is the best-selling Hitman game…
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Frequency
The PS2 can sometimes get a bit of a bum rap from fans of other systems. Sure, there’s a whole load of…
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An Eight-Year Siege: How Fans Finally Brought Dragon Force II Home in English
Some fan translations are sprints: a menu patch over a weekend, a cult game made just about playable. And some are sieges. Dragon Force II was a siege — a…
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Enduro Racer
Being of a slightly newer vintage than many of you, I missed out on Enduro Racer in the arcade. I was, however,…
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No Peach Mode: Chasing the Super Mario Bros. Cheat That Wasn’t There
Every few years, Super Mario Bros. gives up another secret. A game squeezed onto a tiny cartridge in 1985, picked apart by millions of players across four…
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Duke it Out in DC
This post is written by Jake Parr. After the immense success of Duke Nukem 3D, it was only a matter of time…
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Snake Bit at Last: The Lost Game Gear WildSnake Slithers Out of 1994
Of all the formats Alexey Pajitnov’s name was attached to in the great falling-block gold rush of the early 1990s, the Sega Game Gear might be the easiest to…
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Obscure
Released: 2004 Genre: Survival Horror Format reviewed: Xbox Publisher: MC2: Microids Developer: Hydravision Entertainment Obscure is not an amazing game. It has…