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Castlevania The Adventure for the Nintendo Game Boy marks the first time the franchise went portable. Konami was all in with Nintendo at this time and the Game Boy had just launched. Bringing Castlevania to those new gamers was an easy choice to make. Thus, we got our first taste of the whip cracking franchise […]
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Castlevania The Adventure Marks Game Boy Debut for Franchise – December 6th, 1989 – Today in Video Game History
December 5th, 2020 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Game Boy, News, Nintendo, Portables 
Tags: 1989, 2d, action, adventure, castlevania, Castlevania The Adventure, december, December 1989, December 6th, December 6th 1989, dracula, konami, side scrolling 
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Castlevania II Simon’s Quest Branches Franchise on Nintendo NES – December 1st, 1988 – Today in Video Game History
November 30th, 2020 Carl Williams You either love or hate Castlevania II Simon’s Quest by Konami on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). There is no real “middle ground” with this release. Hardcore Castlevania fans place this one towards the bottom of their list of quality entries. Others actively engage in the adventure aspect presented in Simon’s Quest. The exploration does […]
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Castlevania Symphony of the Night Sees Sale on Android and iOS (Updated)
November 27th, 2020 Carl Williams Castlevania Symphony of the Night is currently on sale on Google Play. I have no idea how long this sale is going to go so, if you have $1 go grab it. Yep, Konami has one of the best entries in the Castlevania franchise available for $1 right now. There are some upgrades that make […]
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Konami Unveils New Details on PC Engine Core Grafx Mini
July 21st, 2019 Carl Williams Konami Digital Entertainment has revealed in recent days more details about the PC Engine Core Grafx mini console, a product that we would be ready to bet maybe with bonusnewjersey.com, is already on the wish list of many of our readers. The compact version of the classic 1987 console will have a total selection of […]
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Turbografx-16 Mini Details Revealed
July 15th, 2019 Carl Williams These mini consoles are interesting. We have them coming from not only Konami, Turbografx-16 Mini, but also Sega, Sega Genesis, to compliment previous releases. Nintendo has gone to this well twice now with re-releases representing the NES and Super NES platforms respectively. The Turbografx-16 Mini is one that got a lot of fans excited, at […]
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Contra Anniversary Collection Announced, Black Sheep Release Missing
June 1st, 2019 Carl Williams Konami, once the butt of many an Internet joke (who are we kidding, they still are) have been working to reverse that fortune with several anniversary compilation releases recently. One of those, one that hit close to home for me anyhow, is Contra Anniversary Collection. For fans of the series this is a collection that […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Nintendo, Playstation 4, Sony, Switch, Windows, Xbox, Xbox One Tags: Contra Anniversary Collection, konami 2 Comments »
Axelay Nintendo NES Port Tech Demo Released
March 26th, 2019 Carl Williams Axelay was one of those titles that Sega simply did not have anything to compare. Konami apparently did not have faith in the series either as only the lone Super Nintendo game was released – no sequels like Gradius received. Such a shame because the idea and execution of Axelay was impressive. Surely this dual […]
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Castlevania Getting New Adventure on Android and iPhone
February 23rd, 2019 Carl Williams It seems to be Castlevania day here at Retro Gaming Magazine, earlier today I wrote about a fan port of the first Castlevania game to Intellivision and now this. It seems that Castlevania will be seeing an outing on Android and iPhone sometime this year, this time from Konami. Let’s just hope it sees release […]
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X-Men Arcade Game Review
December 28th, 2018 Carl Williams Oh boy, the X-Men arcade game is a special one for me. I am a huge fan of brawling titles like Final Fight, Streets of Rage, Double Dragon and many others. When Street Fighter II came out in the arcades, I was still pumping quarters into Final Fight and other scrolling fighters just enjoying my little […]
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Posted in Arcade, News, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Reviews, Sony, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One Tags: brawler, konami, marvel, x-men 2 Comments »
Animaniacs Takeover Warner Bros Studio Lot – Today in History – May 14th, 1994
May 13th, 2018 Carl Williams Konami back in the day rocked. One case in point was their licensed use of cartoon character such as Tiny Toons or Animaniacs (two popular “new” cartoons form the 1990’s). There was such a time that a company such as Konami would invest money into creating two wholly separate titles for the same license across […]
