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Fans of the Super Mario Bros franchise, particularly 8 and 16-bit, will want to pay attention. DOS Mario, a title that has been around for decades, is being ported to the Commodore Amiga computer. Currently called Amigo, this fan port of a fan game looks rather interesting. All the basics are here, goombas, coin boxes, […]
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Internet Archive Releases Over Two Thousand DOS Games Playable in Your Browser
October 15th, 2019 
Carl Williams It is not every day that over two thousand games are made available for gamers. While this is not entirely “legal” that is exactly what happened recently with the Internet Archive. They added 2,500 MS-DOS games to their site. These games are playable in your browser as well, so they are technically is platform independent.
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Is MS-DOS Considered Retro?
April 27th, 2017 brianhedley It’s time to ask “is MS-DOS considered a retro platform?” After all, it’s not as if you can go into your local computer store or local supermarket and find DOS games lying on the shelf. Sure, you find an array of them in your average charity shops or thrift stores.
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Dossun! Ganseki Battle Super Nintendo Fan Translation – Not Released in America
November 24th, 2016 Carl Williams Dossun! Danseki Battle brings the classic Columns style of puzzle action to the fantasy realm complete with one on one character based battles. Unreleased in North America left fans to translate it for English speaking gamers. Is it worth it? Find out.
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Slowly Take on Zombie Gunslingers in Alone in the Dark 3 for DOS – Today in History – March 16th, 1995
March 15th, 2015 Carl Williams The Alone in the Dark series is arguably one of the inspirations for Capcom’s Resident Evil series. When Resident Evil was released, the Alone in the Dark series was on their third iteration, Ghosts in Town. One would think that it was all roses and fun in the Infogrames gaming garden but it wasn’t. Gamers […]
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Today in Retro Gaming – Ripper (MS-DOS)
March 6th, 2014 Michael Crisman It’s the year 2040. Jack’s been gone a long time. But now he’s back, tramping around New York’s Greenwich Village instead of London, and he’s got an awful lot of time to kill in this massive, 6 CD-ROM adventure game from Take Two Interactive. Break out DosBox and let the slaughter begin!
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Fan Translation: Record of Lodoss War for Super Nintendo Released
March 1st, 2014 Carl Williams This is a series that is similar to how Fire Emblem was handled, North American gamers didn’t get a taste till the early 2000’s. Fire Emblem came over on the Game Boy Advance for the first time while gamers on this side of the pond had to wait for Sega’s ill-fated Dreamcast to receive an […]
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WonderSwan Color Wizardry Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord Translated to English
December 27th, 2020 Carl Williams Wizardry Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is the start to a classic franchise that is seemingly lost to history. What was once a leader in the role-playing game (RPG) genre is now all but forgotten by most gamers. That is if they knew it at all in the first place. The WonderSwan Color is […]
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Lara Croft Tomb Raider Makes Her Professional PlayStation Sega Saturn and PC Debut – November 14th, 1996 – Today in Video Game History
November 13th, 2020 Carl Williams Lara Croft made her debut in Tomb Raider and what a debut it was. This was the start of a franchise that is still going today. This game also represents the media savviness of, then, new to gaming Sony. Core Design, based in the United Kingdom at the time of development, were responsible for bringing […]
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Novastorm Brings Futuristic Rail Shooting to PlayStation – October 10th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
October 10th, 2020 Carl Williams Novastorm is a rail shooter. You are either a fan of them or hate them. This futuristic shooter was developed by Psygnosis and released on various platforms such as Sony PlayStation, FM Towns Marty, and 3DO. While technology allows this level of graphics in real time, back in the mid 1990’s this was, at least […]
