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Arcade ports are Sega’s forte, at least they used to be, and their Dreamcast console was no different. With ports of Hydro Thunder, Soul Calibur and Mortal Kombat 4 (Gold on DC). Launching platforms with arcade ports became a Sega mainstay with the Genesis console and was continued through on the 32X and Saturn consoles […]
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Survive the Dead in House of the Dead 2 on Sega Dreamcast – Today in History – September 9th, 1999
September 8th, 2014 
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Brain Dead 13 FMV Game Gives You Unlimited Lives – January 31st, 1996 – Today in Video Game History
January 31st, 2016 Carl Williams A little disclaimer in the manual for Brain Dead 13 set the pace for the rest of the game. You are given unlimited lives and will probably need all of them to survive your time here. This is a Full Motion Video Game (FMV) in the style of Dragon’s Lair. FMV games are essentially interactive […]
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Typing of the Dead Replaces Guns with Keyboards on Sega Dreamcast – January 23rd, 2001 – Today in Video Game History
January 22nd, 2016 Carl Williams Edutainment titles are a staple of gaming. Going all the way back the early days of both console and personal computer gaming. The problem edutainment has always faced is that it was OBVIOUSLY edutainment. Much like licensed titles, but worse, edutainment titles not only miss the mark in gameplay but content too. This is why […]
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New Jaguar Game in the Works Called JagZombies
November 16th, 2017 Carl Williams Do you know what you get when fans figure out how to make games for their favorite consoles? You get stuff that is unique, often quite different than what was released commercially. Take for instance JagZombies, a work in progress title for the Atari Jaguar console. This is a lightgun style game pitting you against […]
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Top 3 Arcade Games Without Good Home Ports (Top 3 Tuesday)
March 16th, 2017 Michael Crisman Every developer crowed they were “bringing the arcade experience home” whenever a smash-hit arcade game received a console translation. Until the PS1 era, most of us took these boasts in stride because we knew in our hearts there was no way the games we loved in the arcade were going to look or sound the […]
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5 Sega Dreamcast Exclusives You Should Play
June 11th, 2016 Carl Williams I did a similar article for the 3DO console recently. This got me to thinking, what other platforms were killed before they could hit that prime development cycle known as the 4th and 5th generation software. There are plenty but only one has been literally kept alive because of fans alone. That is the Sega […]
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Wacky Wednesday: Austin Cock-Blocks GameWorks
February 10th, 2016 Michael Crisman One of my favorite things to read when I was a kid were books that collected the silly laws from bygone eras that were still on the books in different states. You know the routine: In Alabama, it’s a felony to train a bear to wrestle, Delaware prohibits the sale of perfume as a beverage, […]
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Donate to Charity While Playing Games
March 15th, 2015 Carl Williams Playing games and charity events are fairly new with online options such as Extra Life, where people make donations as you play (usually streaming the gameplay). Over in Sweden though, the Red Cross has taken a new direction of combining arcade games and donations. The coin operated machines work on any denomination of money and […]
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It’s Thinking – Today in History- September 9th, 1999
September 8th, 2014 Carl Williams The Sega Dreamcast was the last hope for Sega in the console market, we didn’t know it at the time and most of us just enjoyed it for what it was- a rocking console. There are multiple claims as to why the Dreamcast failed; we are not here to argue any of them. It died. […]
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Forgotten Classic – Alien Brigade (7800)
July 20th, 2014 Michael Crisman Yes, we know, technically the entirety of the Atari 7800 library could be considered a forgotten classic thanks to the Nintendo Entertainment System juggernaut steamrolling Atari like a patch of wet asphalt in the US. But while Atari’s systems are known for a voluminous amount of shovel-ware, digging through the crap will occasionally yield a […]
