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Lemmings: The Ports Now Available
Lemmings has to be one of the most widely-ported videogames in history, with official versions appearing on a huge variety of platforms,…
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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Big Boo Stole Christmas: A Haunted Christmas Is Super Mario World’s Spookiest Festive Hack
There are not many Christmas games. For an industry happy to sell the same shooter in a dozen seasonal skins, dedicated festive releases are oddly rare…
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Dragon 32
Year released: 1982 Original price: £175 Buy it now for: £20+ loose, £40+ complete Associated magazines: Dragon User, The Rainbow (CoCo) Why…
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Chip’s Challenge NES Prototype Sold
Another week, another story about a retro game fetching silly cash on eBay – though thankfully, the relatively low profile of this…
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Thorin Sits Down and Starts Singing About Gold: The Making of The Hobbit
The Spectrum inlay: Smaug, the Lonely Mountain, and a £14.95 box that contained the novel itself. Art: Melbourne House / Wikimedia Some…
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Deflektor
Often, innovative games can look tired as the years go by. If an original game attracts any kind of attention, it’s usually…
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Chip Off the Old Cart: The Unreleased NES Chip’s Challenge Prototype That Sold for $4,124
In December 2014, a grey NES cartridge with no retail label appeared for sale on eBay, and the retro collecting world leaned in close. Inside it was a game…
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Tinsel Lasers at the Ready: Save The Trees and Stocking Filler, the Vectrex Christmas Games That Started an Xmas Cart Tradition
Every Christmas, the retro scene produces its own little stocking of seasonal novelties, but December 2014 brought something genuinely unusual: brand new…
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Dad Makes Son Live Through Gaming History
Once we saw this tale of a bizarre parenting experiment, we had to share it with you – it really is quite…
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Static-Free Speccy: The Simple ZX Spectrum Composite Video Mod
No tuning, no snow: a composite-modded Spectrum+ on a modern television. Photo: 16-Bit World archive Every Spectrum owner knows the ritual: plug…