If you missed Emerald Dragon upon original release you would not be alone. Unless you were heavy into imports or a player that lived in Japan then you are likely to have missed this one. Originally released in 1989 for the NEC PC-8801 and PC-9801 home computers, Emerald Dragon would go on to populate the […]
Search Results
Bandit Gaming – Super Mario Bros Being Ported to Amstrad CPC 464
November 25th, 2016
Carl Williams Another Nintendo franchise getting the fan port treatment. Will Nintendo let this one stand or will Super Mario Bros for the Amstrad CPC 464 suffer the same fate as other Nintendo franchises.
Popful Mail Brings Elven Bounty Hunting 2D Side Scrolling Fun to Sega CD – Today in History – February 23rd, 1995
February 23rd, 2016
Carl Williams Working Designs was a unique company, to say the least. They did the unusual, ported games others wouldn’t touch and then went all out on the packaging. This overdoing the packaging quickly became their trademark- fans knew Working Designs not only cared about the game but also how it was presented. Most of, if not […]
Is It Time for Mario to Return to Computers (Mario running in Unreal 4 Engine)?
June 29th, 2015
Carl Williams It is not all that often that Nintendo lets their lead franchises out to play on other platforms other than Nintendo bred ones. We saw this happen in the 80’s in Japan when Hudson Soft released a Super Mario Bros on the PC-88. We also saw it happen with the CD-i when Philips released versions […]
Snatcher MSX Turns Gamers Into Junkers on MSX2 – December 13th 1988 – Today in Video Game History
December 13th, 2014
Carl Williams Snatcher MSX is slightly different than what we got in North America on Sega CD. Snatcher is a game that. It was one of the first of a small genre called digital comics. This genre has not progressed much in the two plus decades since either. We covered Snatcher in our second issue of Retro […]
RSS Feed
Twitter

