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Demakes, taking a newer game and porting it to an older console that is probably not powerful enough to run it, is popular in the retrogaming world. We have seen things such as Halo 2600, Far Cry 4 for Sega Genesis/SNES and more over the years. The Vectrex, a defunct console released by Milton Bradley, […]
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Bandit Gaming- Wipeout Ported to Atari 2600
February 17th, 2015 
Carl Williams When the Sony Playstation hit way back in the mid 1990’s it was a seminal release. Sony was new to the console world and their aim was to be as different from the competition and what came before as possible. One way this was accomplished was through requiring, through their stringent approval process, mainly 3D […]
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Kickstarter: Quantum Rush- Champions Looks to Recreate that WipeOut Experience
July 4th, 2014 Carl Williams Wipeout, and some of the sequels, were quite the experience in gaming. When the original hit the Playstation, that made a lot of fans look at Sega in a “what do you have” light and when nothing comparable appeared, those fans went with Sony in large chunks. Psygnosis were just too far ahead of the […]
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Wipeout Makes PlayStation Debut with 3D Hover Racing Action – November 21st, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
November 21st, 2013 Carl Williams WipEout was the right game when Sony needed it. When Sony launched the PlayStation they had a hell of a challenge ahead of them. Sega was coming off of a series of failed add-ons for their first successful console, the Sega Genesis. Nintendo was touting “SGI this” and “SGI that” where ever they could. Sony […]
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Revelations: Persona Makes PlayStation Debut – November 4th, 1996 – Today in Video Game History
November 4th, 2020 Carl Williams Revelations: Persona is a franchise that I personally never expected to see release in North America. The setting, a high school, the subject matter, demons, and more just seemed to be too much for gamers here. I remember reading gaming magazines in the mid 1990’s and seeing that this game was indeed coming. That was […]
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Twenty Super NES Cult Titles Free on Nintendo Switch
September 9th, 2019 Carl Williams After the announcement during the latest Nintendo Direct live streaming, the home of the great N in Kyoto has made available the first twenty Super NES titles playable on Switch at no additional cost to all subscribers of the Online service of their hybrid console (although the new Lite version will only be a portable […]
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Star Wars Episode 1 Racer Unreal Engine Remake Released
March 16th, 2019 Carl Williams One of the few Star Wars prequel games to be generally accepted as a good release is finally getting the fan remake treatment. Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer is a 10 month long remake work by one fan, one, using Unreal Engine 4 to make it happen. Originally released nearly 20 years ago, this title […]
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Five Gaming Licenses that Missed the Mark
July 11th, 2017 Carl Williams Licensing is a staple of gaming. It has been since the Atari 2600 days. Licensing is going nowhere as companies realize they can halfheartedly work on a game, slap a license on it, and expect to at least make back their investment if not a tidy profit to boot. I have collected five licensed games […]
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Will Digital Downloads Make Traditional Gaming a Virtual Relic?
February 9th, 2017 Carl Williams In 2015, The New York Times declared that the gaming industry had reached a “turning point” after downloads finally outstripped physical sales. Citing falling earning by retailers such as GameStop in the lead-up to Christmas 2015 and developers like Electronic Arts (EA) reporting 20% of its new games are now downloaded, it was easy to […]
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Aquanaut’s Holiday Gives Gamers a Day Off on Playstation – July 7th, 1996 – Today in Video Game History
July 6th, 2016 Carl Williams When the Sony PlayStation was announced fans were promised “new” experiences. For the most part, the early releases were more of the same except for a few key different titles. Sure, Cyber Sled, Wipeout, Twisted Metal and a few others were awesome new experiences, they were still similar to other titles we had seen up […]
