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It was inevitable that Sega would want in on the action that Nintendo has created with their Classic Mini consoles. That brings us to a tweet from Sega of Japan saying they are releasing a Mega Drive Mini (Sega Genesis Mini in the United States). There are a couple of concerns to be had here. […]
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Sonic 3D Blast Director’s Cut Released by Original Creator
January 30th, 2018 
Carl Williams Sega was nothing if not prolific with Sonic based games on their Genesis console. While that certainly changed on Saturn and Dreamcast, we still have the 16-bit platform that pushed Sonic into new genres like how Nintendo worked Mario in the 8-bit days. Sonic 3D Blast Director’s Cut is just that, literally the Director’s Cut […]
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A Retro Gamer’s 12 Days Of Christmas: The Ninth Day, Moonwalker
December 20th, 2017 Brandon Weicks On the ninth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, nine ladies dancing I likes to get funky. In the immortal words of George Clinton, “Free your mind and your ass will follow”. Sadly, my dance move repertoire is limited to the white boy shuffle. Even if the steps are pointed out to […]
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Six Streets of Rage Hacks That Rock the Sega Classic
October 22nd, 2017 Carl Williams Streets of Rage 2 is one of the most beloved Sega games out there. Seriously, it is almost above reproach on the level of Super Mario World, Tetris, Robowarrior, and Pac-Man. With such admiration comes fans that are more than willing to bring their own ideas to the classic through hacks (PC gamers know these […]
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Piko Interactive Announce Pre-Orders for New Games
October 15th, 2017 Carl Williams Piko Interactive, the independent publishing company that won’t quit, has just announced another round of cool games for classic consoles. For those that do not know who Piko Interactive is, maybe you have heard of some of their releases including Legend, Dorke and Ymp, Iron Commando (all for Super Nintendo) or Super 3D Noah’s Ark […]
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Sega to Focus on Reviving Major IPs
May 16th, 2017 Brandon Weicks Based on its Road to 2020 investor plan, Sega is planning to promote global development by shifting its focus to be more IP-centric. The most tantalizing part of an otherwise mundane PowerPoint is where Sega plans a “Revival of past IPs and active utilization of external IPs”.
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Top 3 Fighting Games of the 16-bit Era (Top 3 Tuesday)
May 10th, 2017 Michael Crisman If you don’t associate the 16-bit era with fighting games, you’re either an amnesiac or throwing off the curve for this site’s age demographic. If, as I suspect, you are a gamer who finds himself on the wrong side of thirty, then you’re already formulating a list in your head from the topic title. Thanks […]
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Hulk Hogan Unofficially Joins Streets of Rage 2 Cast
April 9th, 2017 Carl Williams Brawlers and wrestling games have more in common than most people realize. There is a fairly limited set of moves – no brawler I know of is as deep with attacks or strategy as a one on one fighting game. You can move up and down the screen rather than be stuck to one line […]
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Could a Mega Drive / Genesis Flashback Top the NES Classic Mini?
April 7th, 2017 Neil Reive With the NES Classic Mini–also known as Nintendo Classic Edition, depending on where it’s sold–Nintendo seem to have struck nostalgic cords of many retrogamers. It has proved so popular that Retrogamers have been clambering over themselves to get hold of the much publicized and popular mini Nintendo 8-bit console. Could the release of a Sega […]
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Cave Story Mega Drive Edition Nears Completion
March 16th, 2017 Carl Williams When we hear about a new homebrew title we do our best to check it out and thoroughly investigate it before we post articles about it. That often means we are not the first at breaking something. We are fine with that. One such title is the latest Cave Story Mega Drive Edition release–currently sitting […]
