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When NEC announced the Turbo Grafx-16 the press was abuzz with anticipation. Up till this point in recent years it was clearly Nintendo holding the power of gaming in their hands. Sega was just a meddling second placer fighting it out with Atari and their 7800 console (it was not much of a fight at […]
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Turbo Grafx-16 Thank You for Trying – Today in Retro Gaming – August 19th, 1989
August 18th, 2016 
Carl Williams 
Posted in NEC, News 
Tags: 1989, Alien Crush, arcade port, August 19th, Bonk, carl williams, cd-rom, China Warrior, Dungeon Explorer, infomercial, Keith Courage in Alpha Zones, Legendary Axe, nec, Power Golf, r-type, retro, retro gaming magazine, today in history, triverse, tti, turbo grafx-16, Victory Run, Vigilante, youtube 
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Nintendo Playstation Powered On and Plays Games
November 7th, 2015 CPC4EVA Back in July this year there were claims that a Nientndo Playstation machine actually existed and so the worldwide rumor frenzy began. Pictures and videos were popping up everywhere online with numerous claims of people having such a machine and that the machine was real – as you can imaine when these rumors and stories […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Sony Tags: cd-rom, nintendo, playstation, prototype, rare, retro, retro gaming, Retro.HK, retrogaming, sony No Comments »
SNES CD-ROM Prototype Found, Potentially Fake Creation – Edit Now with Video
July 3rd, 2015 Carl Williams Right now, there is a lot of hoopla going on about the recently made public discovery of an SNES CD-ROM prototype that carries the Sony logo. What is interesting about this news is that there, at one time in history, was to be a Super Nintendo CD-ROM system that Sony was indeed working on. It […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Sony Tags: cd-rom, nintendo, playstation, possible fake, retro, retrogame, retrogaming, sony, super nintendo, Vadu Amka 2 Comments »
New Game- Atari Jaguar Gets Jagmatch Game, Roll Your Own Files Available
February 17th, 2015 Carl Williams The Atari Jaguar, the final console from the company that arguably started the console market. Sure, there were other consoles prior to the Atari 2600 but that debut console for the fledgling company started the console wars. The problem is, Atari is also credited with being the company to end the first console war. With […]
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Posted in Console, News Tags: atari, cards, cd-rom, homebrew, Jagmatch, jaguar, memory, retro, retro game, retrogaming, Sebastion Mihai No Comments »
Game Hack: Zelda III Receives Update with FMV Cut Scenes and CD Quality Sound
January 4th, 2015 Carl Williams That headline is not misleading, the original Legend of Zelda III: A Link to the Past on Super Nintendo has received an update by fans that includes Full Motion Video (FMV) cutscenes and CD quality audio. This is all accomplished thanks to a hardware hacker named Byuu, who created BSNES and Higan and more importantly […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo Tags: BSNES, Byuu, cd-rom, fmv, full motion video, game hack, Higan, legend of zelda, link to the past, modification, MSU-1, nintendo, retro, retro game, retrocollect, retrogaming, SD2SNES, snes, super fx, video game, videogame, youtube, zelda, Zeldamotion 3 Comments »
New Game: First Turbo Grafx-16 Hu-Card in Over 20 Years Sells Out in Less Than One Day at CCAG
July 27th, 2014 Carl Williams Attendees of the Classic Console and Arcade Gaming Show in Cleveland Ohio this weekend were lucky enough to be attending a landmark event. This is the first time in over 20 years that a Turbo Grafx-16 Hu-Card was made available- Atlantean by Aetherbyte Studios. Atlantean is a side scrolling shooter that features rarities on the […]
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New Game: Resurgence Expansion Coming for Protector SE 12 Years After Release on Atari Jaguar
July 18th, 2014 Carl Williams The Atari Jaguar is not the first console most people would think of when the words “expansion pack” are mentioned. Maybe the 3DO would come to mind (Shockwave) or Sega Genesis (come on, that “Lock On” technology was just an expansion pack) but not the Atari Jaguar. That is not stopping Songbird Productions from doing […]
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Posted in Console, News Tags: atari, carl williams, cd-rom, CGE, Classic Gaming Expo, expansion, jaguar, Protector, Protector SE, retro, retro gaming magazine, rgm, September, Songbird Productions, triverse No Comments »
New Game: Philia the Sequel to Elansar Released on Atari Jaguar CD, Computer Android and iOS
July 6th, 2014 Carl Williams New games for old platforms, particularly those that didn’t sell well such as the Atari Jaguar CD-ROM, are interesting for several reasons. Unlike many other publishers of retro games, the team behind Philia, and the previous title in this series Elansar, understand that they need to reach more gamers to garner more sales. Philia, just […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Portables Tags: android, atari, Atari Falcon 030, carl williams, cd-rom, elansar, itunes, jaguar, linux, macintosh, myst, Onori Software, Philia, point and click, retro, retro gaming magazine, rgm, triverse, windows No Comments »
Today in Retro Gaming – Ripper (MS-DOS)
March 6th, 2014 Michael Crisman It’s the year 2040. Jack’s been gone a long time. But now he’s back, tramping around New York’s Greenwich Village instead of London, and he’s got an awful lot of time to kill in this massive, 6 CD-ROM adventure game from Take Two Interactive. Break out DosBox and let the slaughter begin!
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Posted in News Tags: adventure, blue oyster cult, burgess meredith, cd, cd-rom, christopher walken, cyberpunk, dos, fmv, jack the ripper, john rhys-davies, karen allen, ms dos, pc, ripper No Comments »
New Game: Mysterious Song II: Eternal Silence Announced for Turbo Grafx-16/PC-Engine CD-ROM
November 8th, 2013 Carl Williams Eponaosft, developers of the original Mysterious Song title, have just announced the sequel, Eternal Silence. Expanding on the original, Eternal Silence will feature additional playable characters, new weapons, new spells and more interesting additions to woo fans of the original and those fans that have just discovered their NEC machines aren’t as dead as they […]
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Posted in Console, News Tags: 2, cd-rom, eponasoft, eternal silence, final fantasy, frozen utopia, II, mysterious song, pc-engine, retro, retro gaming magazine, tg-16, turbo grafx-16, two 1 Comment »
