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Taking prisoners has been a part of warfare since upright-walking hominids started hitting one another with increasingly sharper sticks and heavier rocks. That said, no matter how nicely your captors treat you, you’ve still wound up in a colossal mess. Unfortunately for you, the insidious GOD (Government of the Dark) has you in their filthy […]
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Today in Retro Gaming – Datsugoku: Prisoner of War (NES)
June 30th, 2014 
Michael Crisman 
Fan Translation: Konami Wai Wai World Now Available
June 29th, 2014 Carl Williams This article was originally made available on Gaming on Nintendo on June 1st, 2013- This is our first Bandit Gaming here on Gaming on Nintendo, something we have been waiting for awhile to debut. We needed a cool game to do that though, something worthy of the inaugeral article in this area and we finally […]
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Fan Translation: Dragon Knife, a Double Dragon Clone, Released for the Nintendo NES
May 15th, 2014 Carl Williams To say that Double Dragon was a popular might be a slight understatement. This title nearly single handedly set off the brawler genre by setting standards that games continue to use today. With great success comes many clones and copy cats, Dragon Knife being one such game out of China that recently got an unofficial […]
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Fan Translation: Zoids Apocalypse for the Nintendo Entertainment System Released
February 7th, 2014 Carl Williams Zoids Apocalypse is a strategy title based on the Zoids action figure line, which was also a comic and television series. Unique to this version is the option to play in turn based battles or real time confrontations. This title is also available for the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console in Japan.
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Fan Translation: Treasures of Elnark (Elnark no Zaihou in Japan) Now Available in English for NES
January 12th, 2014 Carl Williams It is an understatement to mention that Zelda is a popular franchise, one that started on the Nintendo Entertainment System. When a title is popular, there are bound to be copycats, me-too’s and similar titles from many different companies, Treasures of Elnark is one of those titles. Rather than being a straight copycat of Nintendo’s […]
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Fan Translation: Mappy Kids on the Nintendo Entertainment System
January 7th, 2014 Carl Williams Another Japanese exclusive release for the Nintendo Entertainment System (Nintendo Famicom in Japan), Mappy Kids, is now available in English thanks to dedicated fans.
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Fan Translation: Samurai Lord Musashi Now Available in English for Nintendo NES and Game Boy
January 2nd, 2014 Carl Williams Fan translations of titles that we never got in North America are quite cool and interesting because these are, for the most part, new games to enjoy. Here, gamers get two games, one for the NES and one for the Game Boy both based on the same historical figure in new re-imagined adventures.
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