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Super Mario World 2 Yoshi’s Island, when announced, left fans wondering what was coming. Back in the day fans had to deal with waiting for gaming publications to drop the gaming scoops. There was no Internet so we couldn’t load up YouTube and watch trailers to our hearts content. I remember when the first screenshots […]
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Super Mario World 2 Yoshi’s Island, Enough Said – October 4th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
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Bandit Gaming- Super Mario World Being Ported to the MSX2
June 9th, 2015 Carl Williams The MSX2 is a gaming computer that we never received here in the United States. Many of the titles that we later cherished though had great outings on this gaming computer, Metal Gear 1 and 2 being just a couple of the big releases, at least later in gaming history. We covered the fan translation […]
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Game Hack: New Super Mario World 2 (Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island) for Super Nintendo
April 9th, 2014 Carl Williams While Nintendo has been getting mixed reviews on the latest side scrolling action platformer on the 3DS, Yoshi’s New Island, fans have taken the original and created a new game from it. Everything is changed around creating a “new” game based upon the original.
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Game Hack: New Dr Mario World (Super Mario World Total Conversion)
February 16th, 2014 Carl Williams Super Mario World is probably the reason many people purchased a Super Nintendo on day one, or within the first few months when other titles were simply not available. As we have seen over the years, the fan community can be quite inguinitive when it comes to working with the ROM files of these classics. […]
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Super Mario Odyssey Sells Three Million Units Worldwide in Three Weeks
January 4th, 2018 Carl Williams Ah, good ole Mario. Where would Nintendo be without their carpenter turned plumber? Probably not where they are now. His breakout adventure on the Nintendo Switch has pushed past the three million units sold worldwide mark in its first month at retail. That is quite an accomplishment. It also speaks volumes to the types of […]
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Super Mario Bros 3 Conquers the World on the NES – January 23rd, 1990 – Today in Video Game History
January 23rd, 2015 Carl Williams What can really be said about Super Mario Bros 3 for the Nintendo Entertainment System that hasn’t been said already? This was Nintendo’s unofficial swan song of Mario games for the NES. A game that really showed that the system still had “oomph”. More powerful systems such as the Sega Genesis and NEC TurboGrafx-16 were […]
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Bandit Gaming: Super Mario RPG- The Starlite Worlds Released on PC Using RPG Maker XP
May 27th, 2014 Carl Williams There are a lot of interesting projects using the RPG Maker XP engine, most are not exactly games we can discuss here but one such project has “retro” written all over it. Super Mario RPG- The Starlite Worlds from ICU Gigasoft has just been released and it is one of the more interesting projects that […]
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Battlezone 2000 Open World Access Made Easier on Atari Lynx
December 3rd, 2020 Carl Williams Battlezone 2000 saw release on the Atari Lynx in 1995 by Atari Corporation. What is more interesting than a new game for a handheld over half a decade after launch is what is inside that cart. While it has been widely known for years now, there is a hidden game in there. What gamers got […]
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Dr Mario Does House Calls with Nintendo Game Boy – December 1st, 1990 – Today in Video Game History
December 1st, 2020 Carl Williams Dr Mario is an anomalous release by Nintendo. On the surface, everything has the Nintendo feel to it. If you look slightly below the surface though and you see something more going on here. For one, we seem to have jumped forward in Mario’s life as he is now a doctor. Gone is the Mushroom […]
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Donkey Kong Country Brings SGI Graphics and More to Super Nintendo – November 21st, 1994 – Today in Video Game History
November 20th, 2020 Carl Williams Donkey Kong Country (DKC) was somewhat of a gamble for Nintendo. For one, it had been years since home console gamers saw a Donkey Kong game. Earlier in 1994 Nintendo released Donkey Kong for their Game Boy handheld. That title was closer to the 1981 arcade classic, just with more levels. Donkey Kong Country on […]
