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Anyone seen an LED Matrix Cube before? Me neither. They look cool though. Anyhow, the LED’s across four sides display the game screen. The one in the video below is set on an auto rotating base. This keeps the necessary parts of the screen in your view as you play. Unfortunately, this is extraordinarily little beyond a novelty for showing at parties.
Stoker Action Platform Title for Commodore 64 Update
The Commodore 64 still gets new releases, such as Stoker. While the C64 was originally released in the early 1980’s, developers are still releasing games in 2021. Stoker is one such release. This is an action platform title featuring tons of animation and exploring.
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Five Nights at Freddy’s Ported to Gamecom Handheld
Another entry in what in the world category is this. Five Nights at Freddy’s has been ported to the Game.com handheld. Yes, you read that right, the horrible commercial failure known as the Game.com. It just got a new game. Five Nights at Freddy’s, a title originally released in 2014. As expected, the graphics are […]
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Doom Sees SymbOS Port
Doom was that release that made computers cool again. A release that transcended the stuffiness of computers of the time. Much like Myst did the same year (1993), just a different genre. Considering id Software opened their FPS to gamers the world over, it helped keep it in the spotlight. One area this helped was […]
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Mortal Kombat 2 Game Boy Advance Port by Fan Updated
Mortal Kombat is a franchise that has reached maximum exposure, so to speak. Millions know the name, enjoy the various properties the franchise has to offer, and some of those fans go farther. One such fan that knows no limits has decided to take on a major challenge. Hugo Smits is creating a Nintendo Game […]
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredders Revenge Update
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) are a franchise that is recognizable to most people. Whether a fan or not, the TMNT have permeated the social conscious of the United States, and many other countries. People know of them if not able to name each one. For many reading this, the heyday for Teenage Mutant […]
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LED Matrix Cube Display Playing Castlevania on Nintendo Entertainment System
December 28th, 2020 
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WonderSwan Color Wizardry Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord Translated to English
December 27th, 2020 Carl Williams Wizardry Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is the start to a classic franchise that is seemingly lost to history. What was once a leader in the role-playing game (RPG) genre is now all but forgotten by most gamers. That is if they knew it at all in the first place. The WonderSwan Color is a portable by Bandai that never left Japan. Those brave enough to import a Wizardry title know that most have an English option. It is often buried in the Japanese menus, but it is there. This translation patch fixes that by giving you a fully translated copy of the game.
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WorkBoy Long Lost Nintendo Game Boy Accessory Discovered
December 26th, 2020 Carl Williams The WorkBoy is a curiosity of accessories. This device was intended to fill a gap between gaming devices and computers. Like how, in Japan at least, Nintendo had a keyboard, modem, etc available for their NES console. Unfortunately, this add-on was not going to feature online connectivity of any kind. That would limit what you could do with the WorkBoy quite a bit. At least one working unit has survived all these years.
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Game Boy Pac-Man Sees Two Update Patches Released
December 20th, 2020 Carl Williams Pac-Man is a venerable franchise. He has also branched out in just as many genres as Mario has. Nintendo still holds the prize for the platforming and kart racing genres. Namco’s yellow dot eater certainly has laid down a formidable challenge in nearly ever other genre though. The Nintendo Game Boy release in 1990 was a good attempt considering the severe limitations of the hardware. That has spurred fans to create their own patches using more modern hacks and tricks.
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Final Fight Punches into Arcades – December 19th, 1989 – Today in Video Game History
December 19th, 2020 Carl Williams Final Fight by Capcom changed the way brawlers were viewed in arcades. Sure, Double Dragon was an inspiration, but Capcom went above and beyond with their entry. Characters are bigger, the audio blasts into your ears, and the challenge level is set right. Funnily enough, this started life as a sequel to Street Fighter before changing genres. Capcom had a hit, and they knew it, sadly it would be a one-time arcade release.
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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 fended off. PopCap’s take on the genre throws out many standards for tower defense games. For the better as this is one of the leading entries that still holds fame with gamers.
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Final Fantasy IV Advance Brings WonderSwan Title to Game Boy Advance – December 12th, 2005 – Today in Video Game History
December 11th, 2020 Carl Williams Final Fantasy IV Advance may seem like a weird name for a Final Fantasy entry, but it is not. The reason it is titled as such is because this is a port of the Bandai WonderSwan Color version of the game. Think of it as Square Enix and Nintendo pulling a WWE move by changing the name, slightly, to make it unique. The underlying game is quite like what you know and love, just with some improvements. One being portable on the Game Boy Advance now. Another is being in English – something the WonderSwan Color version needed.
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Where to Play Retro Games Today
December 10th, 2020 Carl Williams If there’s one thing none of us can resist, it’s that good old feeling of nostalgia. Whether it’s a book we’ve read when we were younger or a silly trend that’s making a comeback after years, seeing something you loved after a while brings all of the good feels rushing back. For most of us that grew up in the ’90s and 2000s, the easiest way to induce nostalgia is by playing video games. Nearly all of us were raised on pixelated classics that provided us with endless entertainment back in the day, and if you’re in the mood for a fun trip, here’s where you can play these games today.
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WonderSwan Color Makes Debut in Japan – December 9th, 2000 – Today in Video Game History
December 8th, 2020 Carl Williams The WonderSwan Color is one of many portables that we never got in North America. This is actually the second iteration of the WonderSwan, a portable originally released in March 1999. As the name would suggest, Bandai added color to this version, similar to Nintendo’s release of the Game Boy Color in 1998. Sadly, there is a connection between Nintendo and this portable by Bandai.
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Castlevania The Adventure Marks Game Boy Debut for Franchise – December 6th, 1989 – Today in Video Game History
December 5th, 2020 Carl Williams Castlevania The Adventure for the Nintendo Game Boy marks the first time the franchise went portable. Konami was all in with Nintendo at this time and the Game Boy had just launched. Bringing Castlevania to those new gamers was an easy choice to make. Thus, we got our first taste of the whip cracking franchise on the go. Konami would go on to give this game a sequel, also on the Nintendo Game Boy. Decades later fans saw a remake for the Nintendo WiiWare platform.
