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Ground Zero: Texas by Sony Imagesoft and Digital Pictures hit the Sega CD in November 1993. This was another Full Motion Video (FMV) game for the fledgling CD based Sega Genesis add-on. It is interesting to know who was involved with this game though. This was also the first time a video game had to […]
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Ground Zero: Texas Introduces Full Motion Video Aliens Shooting Action to Sega CD – November 27th, 1993 – Today in Video Game History
November 26th, 2020 
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Project S-11 Blasts Aliens on the Game Boy Color – January 3rd, 2001 – Today in Video Game History
January 3rd, 2015 Carl Williams Overhead shooter games were once the great genre of gaming. No system lived without at least a handful of really good shooters having been released for it. The Game Boy Color is no different, even above the curve in may respects. Take Project S-11 which was released in 2001. That was a time when gaming […]
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Aliens, Buxom Women, Fisticuffs, Round One with Criticom on Playstation: Today in History- November 29th, 1996
November 29th, 2014 Michael Crisman Today in retro gaming, we acknowledge the release of Kronos Digital’s not-so-gripping fighting game of not-so-epic proportions with an ad more exciting than the game it advertises. How does this sort of thing keep happening?
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Aliens vs. Predator Takes Capcom into Deep Space – May 20th, 1994 – Today in Video Game History
May 19th, 2014 Carl Williams Wow, has it really been 20 years since Capcom took on the Aliens vs Predator license? This is one of the better brawlers from this era. Very much worthy of being played if you can track down a cabinet. This one never came home, no, the SNES game by Activision doesn’t count. This is Capcom […]
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Cotton Reboot Planning PlayStation Nintendo Switch Launch
October 25th, 2020 Carl Williams Cotton Reboot is, well, a reboot of the original Cotton game from the early 1990’s. Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams only came to the United States on the Turbo Grafx-16 Super CD-ROM2 (Turbo Duo as well) thanks to TTI in 1993. Other than that, this franchise has been pretty much MIA in North America. ININ Games […]
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Defeat Coronavirus with Covid-19 Game on Atari 2600
April 15th, 2020 Carl Williams It is no secret that Coronavirus, aka Covid-19, is gripping the world right now. It sucks for everyone, especially those afflicted with it. A programmer has taken the Space Invaders game on Atari 2600 and remixed it. Covid-19 game is the result. What was once aliens is now the Coronavirus. The goal is the same […]
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Wart Worm Wingding New NES Game Kickstarter Progresses
March 17th, 2020 Carl Williams Wart Worm Wingding is a new game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), currently on Kickstarter. This 2-player game hearkens back to classics such as Bubble Bobble and Dig Dug. That is good company to be with when creating a new NES game. This is the type of Kickstarter I like covering as Wart Worm […]
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Five Retro Full Motion Video Games that Push the Genre
January 20th, 2018 Carl Williams Full Motion Video was supposed to be the revolutionary genre of the, then, incoming CD-ROM world. I am talking about the 80’s and early 90’s of gaming. A time when Sega fought Nintendo’s iron grip on gaming with innovative ideas, technologies and knew how to take a freaking chance. Maybe had they been so hard […]
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View Heavenly Bodies on Atari 2600 with Astronomer
December 13th, 2017 Carl Williams If you think “all” ideas for games have already been done, then you have not tried Astronomer on the Atari 2600. Yep, you read that right. An independent developer is working on an Atari 2600 game that is based on astronomy. You can even play it online right now. Link after the jump, of course.
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Atari Jaguar Emulator Comes to Android Platform
December 12th, 2017 Carl Williams Emulation and Android are almost synonymous with each other. There are plenty of options, both free and paid, available for just about every popular platform to see the light of day (anyone working on a Nemo emulator?). Now, we can add another Atari Jaguar emulator (RetroArch being another) via IrataJaguar. If you plan on running […]
