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Snatcher, the digital comic that simply did not take off in North America like Konami would have liked. Honestly, I cannot feign not understanding why it didn’t sell well. First it was only available for an add-on device, the Sega CD, which did not exactly set sales records in the United States. Second, it was […]
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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 […]
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Konami Releases Demo/Preview Disk for Snatcher – August 7th, 1992 – Today in Video Game History
August 6th, 2014 Carl Williams Snatcher, the cyberpunk adventure title that is sought after by retro collectors the world over, had a preview/demo disk that many don’t even know about. Way back in 1992, 22 year ago today, Konami released a special disk that featured quite a bit of content for the Snatcher fan. This is also a Japanese exclusive […]
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Ground Zero: Texas Introduces Full Motion Video Aliens Shooting Action to Sega CD – November 27th, 1993 – Today in Video Game History
November 26th, 2020 Carl Williams Ground Zero: Texas by Sony Imagesoft and Digital Pictures hit the Sega CD in November 1993. This was another Full Motion Video (FMV) game for the fledgling CD based Sega Genesis add-on. It is interesting to know who was involved with this game though. This was also the first time a video game had to […]
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Nintendo Switch Getting Liberated in June
May 20th, 2020 Carl Williams Liberated is a new graphic novel come to life in the tech-noir genre. This is a new take on the idea of a visual novel. At least the way we think of them right now. The interaction you have in the game is very comic book based. The closest I can think to this is […]
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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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New FPGA Based Sega Genesis Flash Cart Breaks New Ground
June 17th, 2019 Carl Williams The Sega Genesis is gaining in popularity again with Sega finally announcing the full lineup for their Sega Genesis Mini giving fans reason to be happy, and some mad. Outside the official products realm we have things like the MegaSD, a new Sega Genesis FPGA based flash cart that is breaking new ground.
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NEC TurboGrafx-16 Celebrates its 28th Birthday
August 18th, 2017 brianhedley So here we are celebrating another console’s 28th birthday. Recently, we had the Sega Genesis anniversary and now we have the NEC TurboGrafx-16 to add to this list. The TurboGrafx-16 is the North America version of the NEC PC Engine and for some reason is a lot larger than the original little white box. Apparently, […]
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Review – Sam Mallard Case of the Missing Swan for the ZX Spectrum
October 22nd, 2016 Carl Williams Text adventures and I go way back. From classics like Zork to The Hobbit to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, I have enjoyed text adventures for almost three decades now. Then came the graphical text adventure which The Hobbit could be viewed as an early precursor of, and it was only getting better in […]
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Sega CD Atmospheric Gaming You Forgot About
October 18th, 2016 Carl Williams The Sega CD was one of those expensive add-ons that were popular in the late 80’s and early 90’s. This add-on brought cutting edge CD technology to the Sega Genesis fans and then hampered it with 64 colors on screen at any given time (but it added rotation and scaling capabilities that the Super Nintendo […]
