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Can you make a new game that looks and feels retro? Justin Bender, a guitar player for the bands Third Ion and Sorceress, thought he could. The 38-year old received a Nintendo in 1989 and thus developed a passion for video games. In the last few years, he started to tinker with creating his own […]
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Xero Hour, a new retro game
January 26th, 2021 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Android, iPhone, News, Portables 
Tags: Divergent Sounds, Justin Bender, Regina GameDev, Xero Hour 
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DARIUSBURST SP Second Prologue Android Gameplay
January 24th, 2021 Carl Williams I am a huge fan of side scrolling shooters like DARIUSBURST SP. While my skills today are nowhere near where they were 20+ years ago, I still enjoy them. The biggest problem I have on mobile platforms is simply finding good side scrolling shooters.
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Plants vs Zombies Makes Landing on Android – December 14th, 2011 – Today in Video Game History
December 13th, 2020 Carl Williams Plants vs Zombies is, at its heart, a tower defense game. This was a genre that was extraordinarily popular for a period on mobile devices. Most entries in this genre share common traits. They are single screen affairs. You are limited in where you can place defenses. The enemy comes in waves and must be […]
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Castlevania Symphony of the Night Sees Sale on Android and iOS (Updated)
November 27th, 2020 Carl Williams Castlevania Symphony of the Night is currently on sale on Google Play. I have no idea how long this sale is going to go so, if you have $1 go grab it. Yep, Konami has one of the best entries in the Castlevania franchise available for $1 right now. There are some upgrades that make […]
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Prizefighters 2 Makes Android Early Access Landing, Punchout Fans Check This Out
November 8th, 2020 Carl Williams Prizefighters 2 is now available on Android via ‘early access’. Do not worry if you are not familiar with this title. I only learned about it while preparing this article myself. It seems the first game was decently successful, enough that we are getting this sequel. What we seem to have here is a slightly […]
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Altered Beast Fan Remake Released
March 3rd, 2020 Carl Williams Sega originally included Altered Beast as the pack-in game for their Genesis console. That is probably where a lot of you first encountered this game. Others may have first experienced it on a compilation for PlayStation, Xbox, or Steam for PC’s. For those that have no clue what Altered Beast is, it started as an […]
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Flashback Making Comeback on Android and iPhone
July 20th, 2019 Carl Williams Fans of the 16-bit era of gaming, popularly referred to as the 16-bit wars of the early to mid-1990’s, will remember a title called Flashback. It was advertised on the Sega Genesis as “The First CD-ROM Game in a Cartridge” in magazines back then. Games like Flashback were touted for their smooth animation, which was […]
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Castlevania Getting New Adventure on Android and iPhone
February 23rd, 2019 Carl Williams It seems to be Castlevania day here at Retro Gaming Magazine, earlier today I wrote about a fan port of the first Castlevania game to Intellivision and now this. It seems that Castlevania will be seeing an outing on Android and iPhone sometime this year, this time from Konami. Let’s just hope it sees release […]
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Jade Empire MMO Game in the Works?
February 5th, 2019 Carl Williams It seems that Electronic Arts is signaling a new Jade Empire title is coming. They filed a new trademark for “Jade Empire” late last month. Considering EA’s history with the title this could mean a few things. A new game is coming, another port for new platforms is coming, or they are just covering their […]
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Doctor Mario World Mobile Game Work in Progress
February 3rd, 2019 Carl Williams Nintendo seems to be continuing their relationship with various mobile partners in an effort to expand the Nintendo brand to mobile gamers. Early on we saw Mario Run and that was a pretty good success, we also saw Fire Emblem Heroes hit mobile platforms which used a more ‘freemium’ style of earnings model. Apparently we […]
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