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Final Fantasy IX was one of my favorite role-playing games (RPG) on the Sony PlayStation console. It was such a great game, one that returned the franchise to its roots in the fantasy era. Previous entries had a heavy futuristic/science fiction slant to their stories. While those were fun, there is just something about the […]
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Final Fantasy IX Returns Series to Fantasy Era on PlayStation – November 13th, 2000 – Today in Video Game History
November 12th, 2020 
Carl Williams 
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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Sega Genesis Sees Three New Games Incoming from Piko Interactive
March 16th, 2019 Carl Williams Sega, forever the second to Nintendo, had one success story against their former rival. That being the Sega Genesis, especially with the release of Sonic the Hedgehog. While it is hard to quantify if this is the reason gamers today still have a fondness for Sega’s 16-bit entry or not, it is easy to see […]
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New Intellivision Game Draws Inspiration from Wonder Boy
December 15th, 2018 Carl Williams Thio’s Odissey is heavily inspired by early Wonder Boy games but is coming to the Intellivision console.
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Retro Game Sales GoG.com Edition
June 13th, 2018 Carl Williams Anyone that knows me knows I am a huge fan of retro gaming. I grew up with most of what are considered “classics” today. I lived the moments that many gamers refer to as “defining moments” in gaming history. I was there, reading each month the latest on the Nintendo versus Camerica/Galoob/Tengen whomever it was […]
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New Atari 7800 Game – Spire of the Ancients
June 12th, 2018 Carl Williams When you think of the Atari 7800 you probably don’t think of role-playing games. Spire of the Ancients is exactly that, a new role-playing game by a member of the AtariAge forums.
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New Sega Genesis Game Crypt of Dracula to Show at Retro Revival Event
April 29th, 2018 Carl Williams Who does not like a good old-fashioned dungeon crawl? If you are tired of the traditional grid-based gameplay then you will want to check out Crypt of Dracula. It takes the traditional view point and modifies it a bit.
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Top 10 TurboGrafx-16 Hu-Card Games, Plus 5 Honorable Mentions
February 18th, 2018 Carl Williams The TurboGrafx-16 is one of those consoles that people either love or love to hate. There is no middle ground. For NEC’s first, and only, foray into console gaming in North America it was quite a polarizing console. Technically going head to head with the Sega Genesis but falling in between Sega’s newest console and […]
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Fan Creates Monster World, AKA Wonder Boy, Role Playing Game
January 25th, 2018 Carl Williams The number of times I can count that an action game was remade into a role-playing game is low. Nintendo did it with Super Mario RPG and SNK did it with Samurai Shodown RPG. Other than those two examples I am out of references. While Monster World RPG is not an official release, it is […]
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Piko Interactive Announce Pre-Orders for New Games
October 15th, 2017 Carl Williams Piko Interactive, the independent publishing company that won’t quit, has just announced another round of cool games for classic consoles. For those that do not know who Piko Interactive is, maybe you have heard of some of their releases including Legend, Dorke and Ymp, Iron Commando (all for Super Nintendo) or Super 3D Noah’s Ark […]
