If you’re a long-time fan of Resident Evil, you’ll be familiar with the tortured saga that was the development of the second game. After a lot of work had already been done (it’s suggested that the game was 60-80% complete), Resident Evil 2 was scrapped and restarted – retaining the police station setting and Leon S […]
Believe it or not but one of id Software’s earliest projects was to remake Nintendo’s hugely popular Super Mario Bros 3 for the PC. Although this was anything but a commission from the gaming giant in Japan, John Romero attempted to get Nintendo to license the game for release, only to find they wanted to […]
In recent times fans of the Resident Evil series were treated to a playable leak of Capcom’s unfinished Resident Evil 2 prototype. Dubbed Resident Evil 1.5 due to being scrapped in favour of the game we all know and love, preservationists have been working behind the scenes to resculpt the game from the ground up […]
Super Mario Bros. 3 Demo (1990) from john romero on Vimeo. Nintendo has long been very careful in keeping its intellectual properties exclusive to its own consoles, but back in the Eighties the team from Ideas From The Deep pitched a PC version of Super Mario Bros 3 to Nintendo. Of course they weren’t successful […]
In 1982 Sega released a rather addictive block sliding puzzle known as Pengo in the arcades. Although arriving just a mere few years before the Master System, Sega didn’t port the coin-op to the 8-bit platform – something which has taken over three decades to arrive in an unofficial fan-made alternative, Waimanu Scary Monsters Saga.
Many fans of the Atari 8-Bit computer range will not doubt be familiar with Star Raiders II. This deep space adventure was a graphical take on a much earlier text-based Star Trek game from the 70s. Having said that though, an ex-Atari developer recently surfaced online to announce that the Star Raiders II which saw […]