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Sonic Spinball is one of those few times a company got it right. Well, at least as far as what the character was suited for. Sonic the Hedgehog can turn into a ball to speed through levels. Taking that idea and going the pinball route makes sense. Another time Sega got it right was Sonic […]
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Sonic Spinball Takes Sega Mascot into Popular Arcade Machine – November 23rd, 1993 – Today in Video Game History
November 22nd, 2020 
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Xero Hour, a new retro game
January 26th, 2021 Carl Williams Can you make a new game that looks and feels retro? Justin Bender, a guitar player for the bands Third Ion and Sorceress, thought he could. The 38-year old received a Nintendo in 1989 and thus developed a passion for video games. In the last few years, he started to tinker with creating his own […]
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Mickey Mania Takes Fans on Disney Historical Adventure on Sega Genesis – November 7th, 1994
November 7th, 2020 Carl Williams Mickey Mania continued the tradition of 16-bit Disney games being great offerings. Other than a snafu or two on TurboGrafx-16, this was true. The full title of this multiplatform game was long. The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse graced the box. What gamers got was just that – an adventure that covered most of Mickey’s […]
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Unity Engine Powers These Five Retro Fan Remakes
November 3rd, 2019 Carl Williams I like to write up these types of things often as they are fun. Usually it is the Unreal Engine but today, I wanted to change things up a bit and throw some focus on another popular engine. The Unity engine. I gathered these five retro titles for this article to showcase some interesting fan […]
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Alex Kidd 3 Fanmade Sequel Demo Released for Sega Master System
September 29th, 2019 Carl Williams Do you remember Sega’s forgotten mascot character? Alex Kidd was almost the mascot for Sega but for some reason he was dropped. I am sure there is a YouTube video somewhere going into this situation. As with most things that get to a minimal level of popularity, fans are not willing to let go of […]
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Turbografx-16 Mini Details Revealed
July 15th, 2019 Carl Williams These mini consoles are interesting. We have them coming from not only Konami, Turbografx-16 Mini, but also Sega, Sega Genesis, to compliment previous releases. Nintendo has gone to this well twice now with re-releases representing the NES and Super NES platforms respectively. The Turbografx-16 Mini is one that got a lot of fans excited, at […]
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Donkey Kong Jr Released for Mattel Intellivision
January 19th, 2019 Carl Williams Don’t tell Nintendo but IntellivisionRevolution has ported Donkey Kong Jr to the Mattel Intellivision console. Sure, the platform already had an official version but that has never stopped fans from doing this sort of thing before. Often the fan port is presented as a much better version – such as the fan ports of Pac-Man […]
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Pac-Land Diverges Pac-Man Formula for Arcades – December 25th, 1984 – Today in Video Game History
December 24th, 2018 Carl Williams Let’s go back to a simpler time. The 1980’s. A time when the rumor mill was alive and well, the Internet was a science fiction trope, and arcades ruled. One title that ruled the arcades in the early 80’s was Pac-Man by Namco. By 1984 though, the yellow dot eater was running long in the […]
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New Atari 2600 Games You Don’t Know About
January 23rd, 2018 Carl Williams The Atari 2600 is often considered the grand daddy of consoles. While it may not have been the first, it certainly was the first to break through to the mainstream. While Atari of old is long gone and this console is mostly a novelty for collectors, that has not stopped fans from programming their own […]
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My Favorite Gaming Hidden Gems, Part One: Snoopy and the Red Baron (1983, Aari 2600)
November 12th, 2017 Michael Crisman I’ve been playing and collecting video games since the early 1980’s, and while there’s something to be said for enjoying the greats of the gaming world, there’s no better feeling for me than picking out something I’d never heard of, throwing it into my system, and being unable to tear myself away from it because […]
