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The Atari Lynx is the recipient of a new side scrolling shooter called Weltenschlachter, say that three times fast, which reminds us of Yar’s Revenge.
Posts Tagged ‘hand held’
New Atari Lynx Shooter Weltenschlachter Completed
December 14th, 2016 
Carl Williams 
Posted in News, Portables 
Tags: atari, hand held, homebrew, lynx, side scrolling shooter, Weltenschlachter, Yar's Revenge 
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Bandit Gaming – Star Fox Ported to Pico-8 Named PicoFox
November 25th, 2016 Carl Williams PicoFox brings the classic Super Nintendo game, Star Fox, to the Pico-8 gaming hand held. You have to see this to believe it.
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Blaster Master Making Return on Modern Hardware
November 5th, 2016 Carl Williams Back in the 8-Bit days of gaming there were a few timeless franchises. Super Mario Bros, Castlevania, Contra, Gradius (see a pattern yet?) and of course Blaster Master. While we can forget Konami updating anything they own (they own the entire Hudson Soft library including TG-16 stuff) we can count on the people behind one […]
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Posted in Nintendo, Portables Tags: 3ds, 8-bit, Blaster Master, Blaster Master Zero, hand held, Inti Creates, nes, nintendo, nintendo entertainment system, Spring 2017 No Comments »
Link’s Awakening Re-Imagined Using Ocarina of Time on Nintendo 64
October 27th, 2016 Carl Williams When we hear about a cool mod or hack it is more often than not simply a character swap or something. Sega’s Streets of Rage 2 is a popular subject of fan mods (we have covered more than a few here). What about the other side of hacks and mods though, the side where the […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Portables Tags: hack, hand held, handheld, link's awakening, mod, n64, nintendo, nintendo 64, Nintendo Game Boy, Nintendo Game Boy Color, ocarina of time, re-imagining, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming No Comments »
Nintendo Gives Game Boy Players Pokemon Red & Blue – September 28th, 1998 – Today in Video Game History
September 27th, 2016 Carl Williams When Nintendo brought over the Pokemon franchise it is unclear if they knew it would have been abig a success. The North American and Japanese gaming markets are unique to each other. Sure, now we can look back and say they did everything right and reaped the success from it. Many players raised all kinds […]
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Posted in Game Boy, News, Nintendo, Portables Tags: adventure, Arbok, Arcanine, Bellsprout, blue, Bulbasaur, Charmander., Ekans, Electabuzz, game boy, Game Freak, gb, Gloom, Growlithe, hand held, Link Cable, Magmar, Mankey, Meowth, NGB, Ninetales, nintendo, Oddish, Persian, Pinsir, pocket monster, pokemon, portable, Primeape, red, role playing game, rpg, Sandshrew, Sandslash, Scyther, Squirtle, Victreebel, Vileplume, Vulpix, Weepinbell No Comments »
Enix Releases Dragon Warrior I and II on Nintendo Game Boy Color – September 27th, 2000 – Today in Video Game History
September 26th, 2016 Carl Williams Dragon Warrior I and II is one of the better re-releases we have seen over the years. Dragon Warrior game on the Nintendo Entertainment System was quite a departure from the norm. Before Dragon Warrior there were not a lot of role playing games like it available for the new NES console. Enix, now part […]
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Posted in Game Boy Color, NES, News, Nintendo, Portables Tags: dragon warrior, enix, hand held, I and II, role playing game, rpg, September 27, September 27 2000, square enix No Comments »
Review – Retroid Nintendo Game Boy Homebrew
September 24th, 2016 Carl Williams Out of all of the games that we see receive fan homages regularly one genre seems to be forgotten just as often. That is the Arkanoid style brick breaker game, also known as Breakout. Well, the developers behind Retroid for the Nintendo Game Boy certainly remember those two classics. Sure, the Game Boy already received […]
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5 New Pico 8 Games To Show Off
August 5th, 2016 Carl Williams The Pico 8 is a new portable gaming device that allows you to program games directly on it. You can also modify games that you have downloaded- on the fly. If you are not happy with a certain enemy that is constantly blocking your progress, simply delete them from the level. Can’t quite make that […]
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Posted in News, Portables Tags: cave story, Celeste, hand held, lemmings, Lemmtris, Oh My Lovely Garden, Pico 8, programmable, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, tetris, Wizardish, wizardry No Comments »
Mortal Kombat Ports to Avoid
May 22nd, 2016 Carl Williams Mortal Kombat. You either love it or wonder what all of the fuss is about. There were a couple of eye catching differences when it hit arcades. First, the graphics, these were not hand drawn cartoon characters like Street Fighter II. Second, you could literally, positively, END your opponent after winning the fight. The fact […]
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Posted in Comp, Console, Master System, NES, News, Nintendo, Portables, Sega, ZX Spectrum Tags: hand held, mortal kombat, portable, Tiger Electronics, zx spectrum 1 Comment »
Prototype: New Version of Alien vs Predator Found for Atari Lynx
March 8th, 2015 Carl Williams This is interesting news to say the least. The Atari Lynx was Atari’s, only, hand held device to be released and, depending on who you ask, it was a horrible failure for the company. We did see some great games for it though, games that, honestly, should have done better and could have had Atari […]
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Posted in News, Portables Tags: alien, alien vs predator, atari, AVP, first person shooter, fps, hand held, lynx, portable, predator, retro, retro game, retrogaming 2 Comments »
