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Duke Nukem on the Master System: The Unofficial Platformer Duke Never Had on Sega
Revo’s unofficial Duke Nukem brought Apogee’s 2D hero to the Master System on Alex Kidd’s engine, boxed with manual and soundtrack tape.
Author: Sal Benedetto
From the Vault columnist. Grew up feeding quarters to the Ms. Pac-Man machine at his uncle's pizza place; still owns his childhood SNES and every Nintendo Power he ever begged his mother for. Writes the retrospectives and the hidden-gem hunts.
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Freedom Planet 2 Review: The Fangame That Outgrew Sonic
It took the best part of seven years, and it was worth every month. Freedom Planet 2 is the sequel to 2014’s Freedom Planet, a game that began life as a Sonic fangame and grew into one of the finest 2
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Spectrum Vega Prize Draw: Retro Gamer’s 2015 Christmas Giveaway
The Spectrum Vega prize draw was a small thing, as magazine promotions go: fill in Retro Gamer’s reader survey in December 2015, and your name went into a hat for a pile of prizes. But the prize list
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An Elephant Never Forgets: Rolo, the James Pond Team’s Gem the Amiga Never Got
A forum teaser asked Amiga fans to name the Vectordean gem that was never released for their machine. Lay the catalogue on the table, eliminate the suspects, and the evidence points to one elephant: Rolo to the Rescue.
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The Super Mario Bros. 3 DOS Demo That Nintendo Turned Down
Every industry has a creation myth, and PC gaming’s involves a floppy disk mailed to Japan. In the autumn of 1990, a small team of programmers at Softdisk in Shreveport, Louisiana, built a working Sup
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Resident Evil 1.5: The Lost Sequel Fans Rebuilt Into a Battle Coliseum
Every great sequel has a shadow. Resident Evil 1.5 is the shadow of Resident Evil 2: the version Capcom built first, took to roughly seventy percent complete, judged not good enough — and scrapped, st
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The Mario Game Nintendo Said No To: id Software’s Lost SMB3 PC Demo
id Software’s Mario PC demo is the most consequential game nobody ever sold. In the autumn of 1990, a handful of young programmers at a Louisiana software company rebuilt Super Mario Bros. 3 to run on
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Waimanu: Scary Monsters Saga — The Master System’s Block-Sliding, Penguin-Powered Cute-‘Em-Up
Disjointed Studio’s free homebrew gave the Master System its Pengo: a blue penguin, sliding blocks and 32 stages of Weka-squashing joy.
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Life on Mars: The Metroid-Style MSX2 Adventure the Homebrew Scene Built
Just before Christmas 2015, Kai Magazine Software released Life on Mars for MSX2 — a Metroid-inspired exploration adventure on physical cartridge that became a calling card for the modern MSX scene.
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Sonic Jam 6: The Bootleg Where Mario Wore Sonic’s Face
Somewhere in Taiwan in 1998, somebody at Gamtec looked at two of the biggest names in gaming and performed the most audacious act of copy-paste in cartridge history. The result was Sonic Jam 6 — an un