Today marks 20 years since Nintendo first unleashed the N64 upon gamers in the UK, Europe and Australasia, on 1st March 1997. In a far cry from today’s release practices, the PAL N64 launched nine months behind the Japanese model, and six months behind North America’s release. Much as it had with the SNES, Nintendo chose to enter […]
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Unreleased Nintendo 64 Game ‘Die Hard 64’ Discovered

Yippee ki yay! It looks like yet another cancelled Nintendo 64 game has been discovered – this time it’s the mythical Die Hard 64 from Bits Studios. Originally planned for a 1999 release by Fox Interactive, Die Hard 64 was never actually shown to the press or the public and the only hints that it […]
Make Trax

Sometimes it takes something new to get you into something old, and that’s exactly how I came to learn about Make Trax. The original game passed me by, no doubt due to having been released some five years before I was born, but I was drawn into it by the superb Neo Geo Pocket Color […]
Make Trax

Sometimes it takes something new to get you into something old, and that’s exactly how I came to learn about Make Trax. The original game passed me by, no doubt due to having been released some five years before I was born, but I was drawn into it by the superb Neo Geo Pocket Color […]
Retro PSA: Cloudflare Security Flaw — Change Your Passwords

This sucks. CloudFlare screwed up, and this affects more than Sonic Retro, SEGAbits and the rest of our family of websites. A coding flaw has allowed their edge servers to generate a buffer containing sensitive data which means a data compromise, and a big one at that. Our websites use CloudFlare’s services. Please change your wiki and forum […]
Hyper Sentinel Returns To Kickstarter

Hewson’s new retro-inspired game Hyper Sentinel is back on Kickstarter, and if it reaches its £15,000 funding goal it’ll be coming to PC, Mac, PS4, Xbox One, iOS and Android. There’s a free demo up now too for PC, Mac and iOS players. You can see the pitch video above. Andrew and Rob Hewson attempted […]
Hyper Sentinel Returns To Kickstarter

Hewson’s new retro-inspired game Hyper Sentinel is back on Kickstarter, and if it reaches its £15,000 funding goal it’ll be coming to PC, Mac, PS4, Xbox One, iOS and Android. There’s a free demo up now too for PC, Mac and iOS players. You can see the pitch video above. Andrew and Rob Hewson attempted […]
Maximum Power Up Podcast – Episode 43: Nintendo Famicom/NES

The Nintendo Famicom or Nintendo Entertainment System (for those of us in the west) was the companies first step into the home console market following their success with arcade machines and the much loved Game & Watch. Although it wasn’t an over night success Nintendo’s perseverance and cleaver positioning in the market the NES became […]
Fastest Food Alive: Unwrapping the Sonic the Hedgehog Ice Cream Bar with Gumball Eyes

Fastest Food Alive returns with one of the most popular Sonic the Hedgehog food products of all time. That’s right, it’s Blue Bunny’s Sonic bar with GUMBALL EYES! Quit reading and watch as we unwrap this famous Sonic foodstuff, looking back on the history of the bar and seeing just how badly they messed up […]
Super Nintendo Fighting Game ‘Unholy Night’ Hits Kickstarter

Unholy Night is a brand new 2D one-on-one fighting game for the Super Nintendo that was officially unveiled in late 2016. The game caused quite a stir once it was revealed, not only because of the format on which it was running, but also because of the credentials of the team behind it. Unholy Night: […]
