Okay, before we get too far into this article, this is not a normal Commodore 64 they ported Wolfenstein 3D to. There are a few pieces of additional hardware required to make this one run on actual hardware, or just use Winvice 3.1 if you don’t have actual hardware available. With that said, let’s discuss […]
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Kickstarter – In The Line Of Fire – New FPS for the Sega Dreamcast
December 16th, 2016
Neil Reive The Sega Dreamcast must rank as one of the most underrated videogame consoles of all time and, compared to other classic gaming hardware, we don’t see many games being developed for it. However, that might be about to change thanks to a Kickstarter campaign for In the Line of Fire. From developer Militia Studios, the […]
Brazil Receives Sega Mega Drive Duke Nukem 3D Exclusively – October 13th, 1998 – Today in Video Game History
October 12th, 2016
Carl Williams When you think of South America and video games you probably come up blank. Brazilian gamers know there is a very much still striving 16-bit gaming community there. Due to costs of importing electronics gamers that live in Brazil have learned to really maximize their entertainment options. The Sega Mega Drive which was still going […]
Quake Brings Gamers 3rd Dimension Death – June 22nd 1996 – Today in Video Game History
June 21st, 2016
Carl Williams Okay, where were you 20 years ago? Were you a PC gamer or were you a console gamer? Either way, you probably heard about Quake by id Software when it was released. It was a game changer for all of the right reasons. While Doom, id Software’s previous series, was iconic and popular, Quake took […]
Awful In Hindsight: PC Accelerator Issue 1’s Cover Story
April 6th, 2016
Michael Crisman PC Accelerator (abbreviated to PCXL within the mag) was a short-lived US publication devoted to computer games. Sporting a less-mature, more attitude-oriented style than other ‘zines, PC Accelerator was essentially the coverage of PC Gamer mixed with the male wish fulfillment fantasy embodied in Maxim. It launched in September 1998 under the tagline, “Bigger, Better, […]
Duke Nukem 3D for Sega Genesis to See World Wide Release, Pre-Orders Now Open
October 17th, 2015
Carl Williams Duke Nukem 3D is a title that probably shouldn’t be running on the Sega Genesis, at least most 68000 series programmers will tell you that. The classic computer title that made the jump to the console world was formerly only available in Brazil from TecToy. Now, Piko Interactive has secured the rights to the Genesis […]
Solve the Grandfather Paradox in Doom within Doom Mod
July 18th, 2015
Carl Williams Okay, this is a rather funny/unique mod to be writing about, especially after the announcement that a “selfie stick” was added to id Software’s classic Doom title. This is basically the game of Doom being played in the game of Doom and it is also possibly answering the Grandfather paradox once and for all.
The Vectrex Goes to Hell with Doom Port
July 16th, 2015
Carl Williams Doom, a title released in 1993, was never intended to be playable on something like the Vectrex but thanks to homebrew developers, it is. This is what happens homebrew developers decide they want to see if something is possible. The demo shown off doesn’t have enemies implemented yet and the graphics are, obviously, low quality […]
Half-Life and Quake 2 Engine Ported to Atari Falcon, Work in Progress with Video
July 2nd, 2015
Carl Williams Retrogaming fans are a crafty lot. They have ported games to Doom to an ATM machine for instance. We have seen demakes, we have seen remakes and everything in between. Now, we have a work in progress for the IdTech #2 (Quake 2 Engine) running on an old Atari Falcon- a computer that was released […]
Revenge of the License: South Park
May 3rd, 2015
Michael Crisman It took sixteen years, but we finally got a South Park game worth playing. South Park: The Stick of Truth is an utterly hilarious mash-up of childhood fantasy gone awry and modern gaming tropes. It’s a straight up legit way to kill several hours over the course of a long weekend, and it plays like […]
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