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This is not a rehash of the “4 Sega Genesis Super Mario Ports You Don’t Know About” article. Instead, this article is less console specific and more varied in content covered. Here I will take a look at several of the unlicensed Mario games that have been made over the years. The platforms covered here […]
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5 Unlicensed Ports of Mario Games
December 19th, 2015 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Comp, News, Nintendo 
Tags: action, Bros, dos, John Romero, mario, msx2, nes, nintendo, nintendo entertainment system, pc, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, super mario, unlicensed, Vimeo, windows, youtube, zx spectrum 
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Super Mario Bros 3 for PC Shown by John Romero, Created 25 Years Ago
December 14th, 2015 Carl Williams It seems that John Romero, John Romero and Tom Hall were quite the game development team. While working for Softdisk they created a pretty impressive version of Super Mario Bros 3 for DOS. They obviously didn’t finish it because Nintendo was not interested in purchasing the code and releasing it. Reportedly they had congratulatory comments […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Nintendo Tags: Commander Keen, dos, John Romero, pc, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, Softdisk, super mario bros 3 1 Comment »
Commander Keen Proves Computers Can Game – December 14th, 1990 – Today in Video Game History
December 14th, 2015 Carl Williams What do you do when you have spent a lot of money and time creating a pretty damn good rendition of Super Mario Bros 3 but for PC? First, you shop it out to Nintendo and when they say no, you take your superior engine and rework the graphics and levels to make something new […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 14th, 1990, 2d, action, Commander Keen, december, dos, John Carmack, John Romero, pc, platform, shareware, side scrolling, super mario 3, Tom Hall 2 Comments »
Jim Power – The Lost Dimension Released onto Steam, Brings Three Versions in One Package
November 5th, 2015 Carl Williams Piko Interactive are no stranger to licensing thought to be dead retro gaming franchises and bringing them to the modern gamer. One of their latest releases is Jim Power – The Lost Dimension on Valve’s Steam digital distribution service. For those that are keeping track, Jim Power – The Lost Dimension was released on many […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Nintendo Tags: dos, Jim Power, piko interactive, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, steam, super nintendo, The Lost Dimension, video game, videogame 1 Comment »
Today in Retro Gaming: Abuse (Shareware)
September 20th, 2015 Michael Crisman Abuse was a phenomenal action shooter with the misfortune to be released in 1996 when the PC gaming world was going apeshit for first-person shooters like Quake and Duke Nukem 3D. More’s the pity, because while developer Crack dot Com’s first- (and only-) born did nothing to revitalize the world of video game storytelling, it […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 2d, abuse, action, ad, crack dot com, dos, mouse, platformer, shareware, shooter, today in retro gaming No Comments »
Revenge of the License: Dungeon Hack
September 13th, 2015 Michael Crisman You’d have been hard-pressed to find a company flying much higher in the early 90’s than TSR. Between the recently-published 2nd edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (aka: the best-selling pen-and-paper RPG in history) and a slew of hit computer games produced by SSI which used the AD&D License, TSR’s market position was so perfect […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: ad, AD&D, dos, dungeon hack, dungeons and dragons, Forgotten Realms, pc, revenge of the license, SSI, TSR No Comments »Today in Retro Gaming – The War College
May 31st, 2015 Michael Crisman From the advent of the computer, enterprising programmers have spent considerable amounts of processing cycles and real-life time devoted to figuring out the best ways to destroy one another in a virtual form. Whether it’s dog-fighting space ships or heavy duty ground-based combat, gamers around the world have spent millions of hours locking swords, muskets, […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: dos, multiplayer, pc, strategy, the war college, universal military simulator 3, war college, war game No Comments »
Revenge of the License: Indianapolis 500: The Simulation
May 31st, 2015 Michael Crisman Every year on Memorial Day weekend, hundreds of thousands of racing fanatics descend upon the city of Indianapolis to watch thirty-three people in aerodynamically-unsafe vehicles accelerate to speeds in excess of two hundred miles per hour while making nearly continuous left turns around an oval-shaped track. I’m told this is far more exciting than this […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 3d, ad, amiga, dos, ea, electronic arts, indianapolis 500, indy 500, papyrus, pc, racing, revenge of the license, the simulation No Comments »
Slowly Take on Zombie Gunslingers in Alone in the Dark 3 for DOS – Today in History – March 16th, 1995
March 15th, 2015 Carl Williams The Alone in the Dark series is arguably one of the inspirations for Capcom’s Resident Evil series. When Resident Evil was released, the Alone in the Dark series was on their third iteration, Ghosts in Town. One would think that it was all roses and fun in the Infogrames gaming garden but it wasn’t. Gamers […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Windows Tags: alone in the dark, dos, Ghosts in Town, gunslinger, resident evil, zombies No Comments »
New Doom Mod Allows You to Take Selfies in Hell
February 16th, 2015 Carl Williams When id Software created Doom they intentionally left it open so that fans could update the game with new levels and enemies. This open minded mentality also allowed Doom to be relevant for many gamers for decades after its release. This mod adapts the classic Doom with the current big trend in homemade media known […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: Doom, Doomworld.com, dos, filters, Gamespot, id software, InstadDoom, Instagram, Linguica, pc, retro, retro game, retrogaming, selfie, selfie stick No Comments »
