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Working Designs was not a perfect game developer or publisher. They were far from it. Their role playing game releases were riddled with current event innuendo and jokes that date them today. The few action games they released were marketed in less than stellar ways. They made a lot of mistakes in their 19 years […]
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Working Designs Shuts Down – December 12th, 2005 – Today in Video Game History
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History Repeating Itself Atari Shows Non-Working Prototype at Trade Show
March 24th, 2018 Carl Williams Anyone that remembers the Coleco Chameleon/RVGS console remembers the fiasco revolving around it. Retro Gaming Magazine was one of the early outlets to point out that there was more to be concerned about with this than was being let on by the “developer”. Over a year later it was revealed that the RVGS, then Coleco […]
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Update: Prototype Designs of RETRO Video Game System Shown, New Developer Confirmed
February 22nd, 2015 Carl Williams We recently covered the new, upcoming, retro inspired console, the RETRO Video Game System and now, we have a bit more information on it. For one, we have confirmed another developer as they have stepped forward publicly and announced they are developing for this new platform. Also, we have gotten a photo of the prototype […]
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Lunar Eternal Blue Continues Epic Sega CD RPG – September 15th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
September 14th, 2020 Carl Williams Lunar Eternal Blue takes fans 1,000 years into the future from the events of the previous game. Hiro is the lead with Lucia, who is from the far-away Blue Star, joining him. Lucia must stop the evil Zophar from destroying the world. It is not going to be an easy adventure. Those that have completed […]
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Piko Interactive Releasing New Nintendo NES Games
March 14th, 2019 Carl Williams It is almost like the Nintendo Entertainment System was not a commercially dead platform considering all the new games seeing release for it lately. Piko Interactive is one such company to bring support to Nintendo’s first console. They have three new Nintendo NES games that are now available for pre-order.
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Fade to Black Port Coming to Sega Dreamcast
January 12th, 2019 Carl Williams Most gamers that owned a Sega Dreamcast back in the day probably loved the console and still do so today. It was just so elegant, other than those short controller cords. It was cool because it felt like Sega finally got their act together after screwing up the Saturn and cash grabbing with the Sega […]
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Making the PlayStation Classic a Must-Own
September 20th, 2018 Michael Crisman Yesterday Sony announced the imminent release of their newest throwback project, the PlayStation Classic. They described the hardware, showed off pictures, and teased us with a look at five of the twenty built-in titles we can expect to see come December. The $99 price point is going to make or break this thing though. Being […]
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Sega Classics Hitting Nintendo Switch this Summer, Phantasy Star and Thunder Force IV Confirmed
April 16th, 2018 Carl Williams Sega is sitting on quite the plethora of classic titles. Titles that would likely do well with nostalgia minded gamers today. If only Sega would give those retro minded gamers a chance to play them. It seems that Sega is doing just that as they revive their “Sega Ages” series for the Nintendo Switch. The […]
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Conker’s High Rule Tail Total Conversion of Zelda III Released
March 5th, 2017 Carl Williams Okay, it is not all that often that we get to discuss total conversions for games. These things take a lot of work and time to complete, the good ones take even longer. Well, what was apparently the spiritual successor to Zelda III: Parallel Worlds (another fan hack) has become its own game: Conker’s High […]
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Sega Dreamcast Giant Mecha Battle Game Frame Gride English Translation Released
August 4th, 2016 Carl Williams While Sony and the Playstation console had the Armored Core series of games, Sega found themselves again without something comparable. Sure, on the Sega Saturn we had Gun Griffon thanks to Working Designs but on the Sega Dreamcast there was nothing stateside to compare. In Japan they had Frame Gride which was about as close […]
