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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
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Full Motion Video Making Big Return on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch
June 24th, 2019 Carl Williams Fans of Full Motion Video (FMV) games, like me, should be happy knowing these interactive movies are making a comeback. Before all two of you reading this that are also fans get too excited, one of the titles I am talking about is Corpse Killer. Not exactly the best this genre has to offer (that […]
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Nintendo Switch Receiving Night Trap with Extras
April 20th, 2018 Carl Williams Anyone old enough to remember the original run for Night Trap? If so, you probably remember the underhanded way that Howard Lincoln, acting executive vice president of Nintendo of America, back stabbed Sega at the senate hearings in December 1993. During those hearings, Mr. Lincoln clearly stated, paraphrasing here, that Night Trap would never appear […]
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Sega CD Atmospheric Gaming You Forgot About
October 18th, 2016 Carl Williams The Sega CD was one of those expensive add-ons that were popular in the late 80’s and early 90’s. This add-on brought cutting edge CD technology to the Sega Genesis fans and then hampered it with 64 colors on screen at any given time (but it added rotation and scaling capabilities that the Super Nintendo […]
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Night Trap Brings Congressional Hearings into Video Games — Today in Retro Gaming — October 15th, 1992
October 14th, 2016 Carl Williams When Sega launched the Sega CD add-on they needed some games that really “wowed” the audience and could not be done on cartridge. One company they went to that already had experience in this realm was Digital Pictures. DP was one of those “really ahead of their time” type companies that was working with Full Motion […]
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Intellivision Entertainment Announce Amico Console
November 2nd, 2018 Carl Williams It is an interesting time to be a gamer. We have several new consoles announced and new platforms being developed. Some, like the OpCode console (currently called the “Omni”) and the Intellivision Amico aim to be familiar to retrogaming fans but offer brand new experiences at the same time. I have already detailed what is […]
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Making the PlayStation Classic a Must-Own
September 20th, 2018 Michael Crisman Yesterday Sony announced the imminent release of their newest throwback project, the PlayStation Classic. They described the hardware, showed off pictures, and teased us with a look at five of the twenty built-in titles we can expect to see come December. The $99 price point is going to make or break this thing though. Being […]
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Gaming History Zelda: Link’s Awakening
June 6th, 2016 Dash The Bomber This day 23 years ago, a new Zelda game launched on the Gameboy system and it was epic. The tale of the young hero called Link who became shipwrecked and stranded at on an island. Takashi Tezuka was the brilliant mind who developed The Legend Of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. Assisted by Shigeru Miyamoto and developed […]
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Coleco Chameleon Prototype #3 Proven Fake by Community of Retro Gaming Sleuths
March 1st, 2016 Carl Williams Okay, this is getting a little long in the tooth. The Coleco Chameleon as we know it now started life, publicly, about a year ago. During the last six months we have seen the team behind this console go from no prototype to now their third “prototype”. I put prototype in quotation marks because each […]
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Coleco Chameleon Kickstarter No Starts, RETRO Video Games Systems Inc Produces More Smoke and Mirrors
February 26th, 2016 Carl Williams Friday February 26th 2016 was promoted for more than two weeks as being the day that the Coleco Chameleon console would be making its Kickstarter debut. That day has come and is now gone and we only have the announcement that there is NOT going to be a Kickstarter for the Coleco Chameleon to show. […]
