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If you’re like most gamers, every new console generation prompted a massive sell-off of your old tech to make room (and money) for the new kid on the block. It made sense at the time, with your limited budget and desire to move on to the latest and greatest. But time passed, you got older, […]
Posts Tagged ‘classic’
“PlayStation Classic” Set For December US Launch
September 19th, 2018 
Michael Crisman 
Shadow Warrior Classic Complete Currently Free on Popular Digital Distribution Service
September 2nd, 2016 Carl Williams Shadow Warrior Classic Complete is an early 3D first person shooter from the late 1990’s. Initially released as shareware, you got some of the early portions for free and paid for the rest, Shadow Warrior Classic was full of visual charm and aesthetics. Built on the Build Engine, this title improved on the flagship title […]
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Konami Mining Classic Titles for Real Money Gaming
April 13th, 2016 Carl Williams As far as SHMUPs go, few are considered true classics of the genre as much as Centipede. Since it arrived in arcades in 1980, it’s been ported, cloned, and remade numerous times. The game even played a special role in the Adam Sandler snoozefest Pixels.
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Posted in News Tags: atari, casino, Centipede, classic, Frogger, gambling, Gaming Realms, konami, polygon, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, Spingenie, yogonet.com 2 Comments »
The Game Preserve Provides Texas Gamers with Fun and History
August 19th, 2015 Colby Primeaux If you find yourself in The Woodlands, TX driving north on I-45 from Houston, and you exit and turn left onto Sawdust Rd., and you see a Walgreens on the left about half a mile down, do yourself a favor and turn in. Go past the Walgreens, past the Radio Shack and past the FedEx […]
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Posted in Reviews Tags: arcade, classic, Colby Primeaux, Game Preserve, Houston, pinball, retro, Rusty Key, texas, Woodlands No Comments »
Bad Apple Ported to the Vectrex, Something that Should Technically not be Possible
July 16th, 2015 Carl Williams Bad Apple is not a game of any kind, instead it is a music video based on a level from the fourth Touhou series of games called Lotus Land Story. In 1998, Lotus Land Story was released for the PC-98, a Japanese gaming computer that was quite popular and home to many interesting, many Japanese […]
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Posted in Console, News Tags: 1982, Bad Apple, classic, retro, retro game, retrogame, retrogaming, vectrex 4 Comments »
Ultima IV- Quest of the Avatar Remastered and Released for Commodore 64
March 29th, 2015 Carl Williams How many role playing games have you played that required you to overcome some massively evil entity that is bent on destroying the world? Too many, right? Well, back in the early days of computer gaming there was a game called Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar. It was, obviously, the fourth title in the […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 4, Apple IIe, Britannia, c64, classic, commodore 64, IV, Lord British, Quest of the Avatar, remastered, retro, retro game, retrogaming, role playing game, rpg, Ultima No Comments »
Google’s DeepMind Artificial Intelligence Learns Retro Games, Beats Man Human High Scores without Taking Bathroom Break
February 26th, 2015 Carl Williams The jokes about Google probably being “Skynet” of Terminator fame have been around for years. The problem with those jokes is, as time marches on, it seems that they are getting less and less funny. Not because we have heard them a few thousand times each, but because of how scary Google’s artificial intelligence software […]
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Posted in Console, News Tags: 2600, artificial intelligence, atari, classic, deep neural network, DeepMind, google, kotaku, london, New Scientist, retro, Retro Domination, retro game, retrogaming, Terminator No Comments »
My Retro Game Box Halts NTSC Subscriptions for February
February 11th, 2015 CPC4EVA Let’s be straight up, retro and everything retro is cool, right? Well yes it is and it’s not just cool it’s damn awesome, and why is it so awesome you ask? One reason, is because, people who just love retro games come up with an idea such as My Retro Game Box.
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Posted in Console, NEC, News, Nintendo, Sega, Sony, Xbox Tags: classic, game boy, game boy advance, game boy color, genesis, master system, mega drive, My Retro Box, n64, nes, nintendo, nintendo 64, ntsc, pal, retro, retro game, retrogaming, sega, snes, super nintendo No Comments »
New Game: Snake Comes to the Sony PocketStation
January 25th, 2015 Carl Williams Ah, the PocketStation from Sony, a device that never came to North America, at least officially. Sure, you could import this little device but it was prohibitively expensive and there were precious few games that made the leap across the pond with their PocketStation content intact. Homebrew developers are a wild bunch, they just won’t […]
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Posted in News, Sony Tags: classic, hand held, playstation, Pocket Worm, PocketStation, portable, retro, retro game, retrogaming, Snake, sony No Comments »
Super Mario Bros 3 Conquers the World on the NES – January 23rd, 1990 – Today in Video Game History
January 23rd, 2015 Carl Williams What can really be said about Super Mario Bros 3 for the Nintendo Entertainment System that hasn’t been said already? This was Nintendo’s unofficial swan song of Mario games for the NES. A game that really showed that the system still had “oomph”. More powerful systems such as the Sega Genesis and NEC TurboGrafx-16 were […]
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