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When Microsoft released Windows 95 it heralded in the easier to use computer age. Prior to Windows 95 there had been plenty of attempts to give the Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS) a graphical user interface (GUI). All of those attempts were failures on many levels- most of which was actually getting a significant number […]
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Bandit Gaming- Microsoft Windows 95 is Being Ported to the Nintendo 3DS
January 2nd, 2016 
Carl Williams 
Bug Makes Sega Saturn Buggy – May 11th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
May 10th, 2016 Carl Williams Bug! is typical Sega in the 32-bit era. Right engine, wrong characters, still unique and fun. This is Sega. A company that is held close to many a gamer’s heart. This is a company that used to be awesome. A company that only once almost became the bride instead of the bridesmaid of gaming. They […]
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Be the Worm in Earthworm Jim Special Edition for Sega CD – Today in History – March 15th, 1995
March 15th, 2015 Carl Williams New intellectual properties (IP) are hard to get off the ground, this has been true for most of human consumer history. What do you do when you have a hit though and there are multiple platforms to available? You make a special edition that features extras not in other versions. “Director’s Cut” is well known […]
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Re-Release- Classic Macintosh Adventure Games Brought to Steam for Windows Retrogamers to Enjoy
January 31st, 2015 Carl Williams It is a good day to be a retrogaming fan as several classic Macintosh point and click adventure games have just been released onto Steam. Zojoi, the developer of these titles, has ported them to Windows and newer Macintosh platforms. Amongst the titles brought over only one will not be familiar to Nintendo Entertarinment System […]
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New Game: Pixeltrek in Development for Windows
June 15th, 2014 Carl Williams To say Star Trek is a popular, even years and decades after it stopped airing new episodes, television series would be quite an understatement. The problem with this phenom of an entertainment product is that it is stupidly hard to please the majority of the fans. That has not stopped companies from trying over the […]
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A Retro Gamer’s 12 Days Of Christmas: The Tenth Day, Diablo
December 21st, 2017 Brandon Weicks On the tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, ten lords a-leaping I could have gone two different ways with this entry. One, I could have focused on the word leap and asked you to take a huge leap of faith in believing that Seaman for the Dreamcast is a real video […]
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Exclusive Interview with Cho Ren Sha X68k Composer Ruzarin “Loser” Kashiwagi
January 3rd, 2016 Aaron Hickman At some point in the mid 90’s while many of us were playing Doom on our blazing fast 386 machines loaded with Windows 95, an enterprising developer in Japan by the name of Famibe no Yosshin was busy crafting an amazing freeware “bullet-hell” shooter for a somewhat obscure Japanese computer that was capable of arcade […]
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Blaze Proves the Commodore Amiga Was Capable of Sonic the Hedgehog
November 28th, 2015 Carl Williams While Sega never supported the Commodore Amiga with any games, they did later support Windows 95/98 PC’s, which did not stop Warp Software’s Keith Bugeja from taking on Sega’s mascot with a clone of his own. Blaze is basically Sonic the Hedgehog for the Commodore line of computers, of course it is a clone and […]
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Bungie Shows the Macintosh Can Rock 1st Person Shooters with Marathon – December 21st, 1994 – Today in Video Game History
December 21st, 2014 Carl Williams It is no small secret that First Person Shooter (FPS) games are still raging on within the gaming world. Whether on console or computers or mobile, they are still going strong. With the advent of the newer consoles, we saw even more FPS games racking up sales and continuing franchises. 20 years ago, Bungie (the […]
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Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire Strikes on the Nintendo 64: Today in History- December 3rd, 1996
December 3rd, 2014 Carl Williams There was a fair amount of buzz for Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire around the time it was announced, and leading up to release for, the Nintendo 64. For one, this was one of the first third party titles to hit and gamers were eager to see what 3rd parties could do on the […]
