Sinclair launched the ZX Microdrive in July 1983. True to Sinclair’s philosophy of miniaturisation and low-cost, it promised a cheap, high-speed storage system using miniature tape cartridges. Unfortunately the Microdrive didn’t take off as well as Sinclair hoped, dogged by unreliability and also the high cost of the tape cartridges. The Microdrive (and accompanying ZX […]
Remember Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee? That game was a mighty fine puzzle-platformer back in the late Nineties, and it’s still a lot of fun today. If you’ve never played it, the game casts you as Abe, a Mudokon slave who learns of a plot to turn himself and the rest of his kind into tasty meat […]
If you’re a fan of Sega’s last throw of the dice in the console hardware market (and if you’re anything like me, you will be), you’ll be very pleased to know that Read-Only Memory has been successful in funding its Sega Dreamcast: Collected Works project. With the goal of creating a high quality book full […]
On this episode of the SEGAbits Swingin’ Report Show, Barry & George chat with Tee Lopes, composer for Sonic Mania, who answers our burning questions about his career before working on a SEGA game, how he landed the Sonic Mania job, and how one goes about composing for video games. We also try to get some soundtrack […]
Boy, it’s been quite awhile since we’ve seen this project hasn’t it? You’ll recall Sonic 2 HD as one of the featured projects on this very website up until the project disbanded in 2012. When the project was dead in it’s tracks, it did give us PagodaWest Games who’s talent eventually led to the amazing Sonic […]