The soundtrack for SNATCHER, Hideo Kojima’s cult-classic adventure game, is coming to vinyl later this year from Ship to Shore PhonoCo. Various SNATCHER OSTs have been released before, but this marks the first time the SEGA CD version soundtrack has been made officially available. This release takes the in-game songs and puts them together with […]
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Hyperkin Teases Master System & Game Gear Converter For RetroN 5

This year’s CES in Las Vegas has thrown up a number of interesting new products from the world’s biggest tech firms. From cars that will become our friends, to submersible drones and laptops with multiple displays the consumer electronics industry hasn’t disappointed. Forget all that lot though. The real story of CES comes from Hyperkin…well, […]
Sam’s Journey Receives A New Trailer

We’ve had our eyes on Knights Of Bytes’ upcoming game Sam’s Journey for a while now, as it’s one of the most intriguing C64 projects in development. The developers have never revealed a release date, and while that situation hasn’t changed, the game is starting to look close to release – the developers have moved from sneak […]
Knights of Bytes Release Official Trailer For Upcoming Commodore 64 Platformer ‘Sam’s Journey’

While Sonic and Mario might have skipped past the home computer generation, countless other developers attempted to recreate what made console gaming so alluring in their own way. Their tireless efforts brought around the likes of Zool, The Great Giana Sisters, and Mayhem In Monsterland to name but a few, however, the desire to produce […]
Japanese Exclusive Super Nintendo RPG ‘Xak: The Art of Visual Stage’ Fan Translated Into English

During Spring of 1993 the Far Eastern development studio Micro Cabin brought their impressive home-computer adventure Xak: The Art of Visual Stage to the Super Famicom. Arriving as a polished update to the PC-8801 and PC-9801 original, this 16-bit port wasn’t the first time the game had been given the remake treatment after outings on […]
Pokémon Red & Blue

This article was written by Giovanni Zappavigna, co-owner of Expose Gaming These are the classics, the original Pokémon video games. Without these two titles we’d have none of the Pokémon related games we have today. Pokémon Red and Blue were originally released in Japan as Pocket Monsters: Red & Green, they are role-playing games (RPGs), […]
The Making Of Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper

A brief encounter with his school’s ZX81 at the tender age of 13 instantly sold Nick Bruty on computers. By the time he hit 15, Nick dreamed of being a professional games programmer. Although this dream would go unrealised, sprites the teenager produced for a demo coded by school friend David Quinn did help secure […]
Ultimate Guide: Rez

Synaesthesia (n) [sĭn′ĭs-thē′zhə] 1. Sensory overlap whereby it is possible to experience stimuli through different sensations than usually expected, i.e.: the ability to hear colours or see sounds. 2. The core concept behind a cult Dreamcast shooter. 3. A long word that makes you sound smarter than you probably actually are. We’ll be mainly dealing […]
The Making Of Frostbite

When you look at the Activision of today, with its yearly releases of popular franchises, it’s hard to imagine that it was once a thriving hotbed for innovation and creativity. Effectively the industry’s first ever third-party publisher, Activision was formed after a dispute between David Crane, Alan Miller, Bob Whitehead, Larry Kaplan and Atari’s CEO, […]
Big’s Big Fishing Adventure 3 Delayed Until Early 2017

Big the Cat’s starring debut is going to be taking a bit longer to fish out. In an announcement released by Tails’ Channel, Big’s debut game has been delayed from it’s initial December release date. A statement regarding Big’s Big Fishing Adventure 3 / #BBFA3! pic.twitter.com/f9TQdmmVgE — Mannheimer @ MAGFest (@TailsChannel) December 30, 2016 For those not […]
