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Garfield Caught in the Act was Sega’s attempt to return to licensed games. Earlier they had success with Disney licenses such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. For some reason Sega stopped their efforts in the licensed game realm. That is until Virgin Interactive had critical success with their version of Aladdin for the Sega […]
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Garfield Caught in the Act Brings Attitude to Sega Game Gear – November 29th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
November 28th, 2020 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Game Gear, News, Portables, Sega 
Tags: 1995, 2d, action, Caught in the Act, Garfield, Garfield The Lost Levels, november, November 29th, November 29th 1995, platform, side scrolling 
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Mortal Kombat Sees Super Nintendo Sega Genesis and More Ports – September 13th, 1993 – Today in Video Game History
September 12th, 2020 Carl Williams Mortal Kombat is iconic. It started life as an arcade game attempting to do the impossible. Take on Capcom’s Street Fighter II machine which had been ruling arcades. The key to the success of Mortal Kombat was the imagery and match endings. Ed Boon and John Tobias knew they had to stand out and stand […]
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Posted in Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, News, Nintendo, Portables, Sega, Super Nintendo Tags: acclaim, censorship, Digitized Graphics, fighting, mortal kombat, one on one fighting, Play It Loud, port No Comments »
Streets of Rage – Left in 16-bit
September 3rd, 2018 Carl Williams Recently it was announced that Streets of Rage 4 is coming. Lizardcube are the developers behind this 20+ year separating entry in the popular 16-bit brawler franchise that helped push Sega forward against Nintendo. Sega of the 16-bit era was like no Sega since – not even the 32-bit era that followed closely the demise […]
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Update Sega Game Gear Retail Resurrection Occurs in Wisconsin, Location and Sale Dates Confirmed
April 29th, 2018 Carl Williams It is no secret that Sega has announced they are working with AtGames (ugh)on what is being called the “Sega Genesis Mini” but their return to retail was preempted, slightly. Earlier this year, in a retail location in Wisconsin, Sega made an impromptu return to retail sales tracking service, NPD Group. It was a Game […]
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Batman Forever Proves Digitized Graphics Aren’t Always Best – September 4th 1995 – Today in Video Game History
September 3rd, 2016 Carl Williams Batman Forever takes the idea of Mortal Kombat, mixes in brawler style gameplay, and a movie license. Acclaim was known for cashing in on big name properties. Sometimes the releases were okay, rarely good, but mostly bad. For fans of the movie Batman Forever, that own a Sega Genesis or Game Gear, you get this. […]
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Double Dragon Pulls Brawler Genre into Mainstream – July 2nd, 1987 – Today in Video Game History
July 2nd, 2016 Carl Williams When you think of arcade brawlers there are not many names that will top Double Dragon. Technos knew they had a good blend of unique to the competition game play and graphics with this one. Sure, there were other brawlers available before Double Dragon but none captured the fan base that this arcade unit did. […]
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Columns Answers Tetris Call on Sega Genesis – June 29th, 1990 – Today in Video Game History
June 28th, 2015 Carl Williams Columns was a much needed entry in the puzzle genre for Sega. Back in the early 16-bit era Sega was in a bit of a pickle. Their Genesis console did not feature a well-rounded game library. If you were a sports or arcade game fan then, yeah, Sega had you covered with quite a few […]
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Shining Force CD Slashes onto Sega CD – March 22nd, 1994 -Today in History
March 22nd, 2014 Carl Williams Shining Force is one of those series that Sega really dropped the ball with. The whole “Shining” series probably became too diluted and convoluted for Sega to keep up with anyhow. So they dropped it like a hot potato. Unfortunately this really was one of the series, along with Phantasy Star, that Sega could have […]
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Posted in Console, Game Gear, Genesis, News, Portables, Sega, Sega CD Tags: fantasy, role playing game, sega, shining force, shining force cd, strategy, turn based No Comments »
