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Gemfire is sort of an anomaly on consoles. At its heart we have a turn-based strategy game. Consoles of the time were home to many attempts at this style of gameplay. Few games were designed for the novice though. This turned a lot of fans off from the genre due to the complexity. Gemfire is […]
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Gemfire Makes Great Introduction to Turn Based Strategy Gaming – December 5th, 1992 – Today in Video Game History
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Koei Rocks Turn Based Strategy with Gemfire for NES – Today in History – March 31st, 1992
March 30th, 2018 Carl Williams Koei will forever be linked to deep turn-based strategy games for most retro gamers. This company brought some of the longest, and hardest, strategy games ever to the Nintendo Entertainment System (later the Super NES and the Sega Genesis). While they are well known for their turn-based strategy titles such as Nobunaga’s Ambition and Romance […]
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Rol’An’Go is a New Turn Based Strategy Title for Sega Genesis
September 21st, 2015 Carl Williams New Sega Genesis games are still coming out, not as often as the Atari 2600 receives them but still better than nothing. One new titles that I just found out about is Rol’An’Go by Atari Age forum member, Vetea. What is unique about Rol’An’Go is that it is a turn based strategy game, similar to […]
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Pharaoh: A New Era, aka the return of the most beloved city builder
April 22nd, 2021 Carl Williams A vintage classic from 1999 is undergoing a complete remake. This treat for lovers of the genre was announced in the summer of 2020 by two partners. Dotemu, the French publisher whose mission is to revive retro games on modern platforms, has teamed up with developer Triskell Interactive. They are working to bring back “the […]
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Lara Croft Tomb Raider Makes Her Professional PlayStation Sega Saturn and PC Debut – November 14th, 1996 – Today in Video Game History
November 13th, 2020 Carl Williams Lara Croft made her debut in Tomb Raider and what a debut it was. This was the start of a franchise that is still going today. This game also represents the media savviness of, then, new to gaming Sony. Core Design, based in the United Kingdom at the time of development, were responsible for bringing […]
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The C64 Returns, and This Time It’s Full-Size
July 15th, 2019 Carl Williams If it were possible, it would be easy to bet and win at the michigan online casinos that the release of a new full size C64 reproduction is intended for retrogaming enthusiasts. We used the official wording of the new product and not Commodore because there are still open questions about the rights of use […]
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Top 3 Stand-Alone GB Games Based On Classic Series (Top 3 Tuesday)
April 12th, 2017 Michael Crisman Sometimes one is capable of dealing with life’s shenanigans. Other times life starts punching below the belt. This is my excuse for failure to comment on the last couple of Top 3 Tuesday videos put out by MichaelBtheGameGenie. Enough is enough: it is time to write! This week, MichaelB proposed “Top 3 Game Boy Games […]
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Did Sega Turn Down the Nintendo 64 Hardware?
August 20th, 2016 Carl Williams It is almost the point that gamers can point to that was the fall of Sega. Releasing a ton of add-ons for the Sega Genesis seems to be the point that most game companies point at when asked why they didn’t support the Sega Saturn. That Sega was all over the place. They were actually. […]
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AM2R Return of Samus Review on Windows
August 7th, 2016 Carl Williams What do you do when you are notified by one of your biggest supporters in the gaming community about this new game coming out? A game that you knew about years ago, or at least heard about it, saw some rumbling in the press recently and it was releasing within the hour (my time flies). […]
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Sunsoft Reminds Gamers Superman Can Die in The Death and Return of Superman – August 1st, 1994 – Today in Video Game History
July 31st, 2016 Carl Williams Sunsoft were kind of the DC Comics licensing company of video games during the early to mid 1990’s. Sunsoft brought us Batman on the Nintendo Entertainment System, on the Sega Genesis and other platforms. They also brought us Justice League Task Force in partnership with Acclaim on the Sega Genesis. This game was based on […]
