What happens when a bunch of muscle-bound athletes meet the cartridge-based Nintendo 64 head-on for the first time? You get a lot of broken plastic and smashed up electronics if you answer the question literally. But if you understand we’re talking more in the figurative sense, then you wind up with WCW vs. NWO: World […]
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Revenge of the License: Densha de Go! Series
October 4th, 2015
Michael Crisman Here’s a new twist for this column. Instead of looking at a game that takes its inspiration from a comic, film, television show, cartoon, or book, today I’m going to look at a series which licenses its game play from the best source on Earth: real life. In this case, miles and miles of railroad […]
Tony and Me: My Favorite Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater Memories
August 14th, 2015
Colby Primeaux The year was 1999 and I was in eighth grade. Pizza Hut ran a promotion. You buy a pizza and you get one of two PlayStation demo discs, each containing demos of upcoming games. I cannot remember nine of the ten games (although I think Ape Escape and Sled Storm were among them), but I […]
Super Mario 64 to Get New Level Pack from Homebrew Developers
August 1st, 2015
Carl Williams Super Mario 64 was a seminal release, it was one of the last times that a console and a launch title sold 1:1 at launch, and it was an instant classic. Sure, there were problems with Super Mario 64 but fans were too enamored with the quality of the overall package to be nitpicking little […]
5 Best Re-Imagining of Retro Games Using Unreal Engine 4
July 25th, 2015
Carl Williams There are plenty of enterprising gamers out there that are willing to go the extra mile to do what others don’t even dream of doing. One instance of this occurrence is the “re-imagining” of class, retro, games such as Mario, Sonic, Zelda, etc. These are beloved games (even if their more current iterations leave something […]
Legend of Zelda 3rd Quest Being Developed by Fans
June 30th, 2015
Carl Williams Ah, the classic Nintendo 64 Zelda games were quite interesting, they were the first foray into the 3D realm for the franchise and for many, they were system sellers. Fans showed enough support for these two 64-Bit games that Nintendo re-released them on the Gamecube (and later the Virtual Console). Now a group of fans […]
Target Tuesday: NASCAR 99
May 26th, 2015
Michael Crisman Neither Retro Gaming Magazine nor any member of our staff is associated with the Target chain of retail outlets. Michael just thinks this particular series of ads from the 90’s featuring “Respected coach and video gameologist Tom ‘The Thumb’ Blake” which ran in GamePro magazine was amusing. Thus we’re going to feature one every Tuesday […]
Target Tuesday: Mortal Kombat 4
May 19th, 2015
Michael Crisman Neither Retro Gaming Magazine nor any member of our staff is associated with the Target chain of retail outlets. Michael just thinks this particular series of ads from the 90’s featuring “Respected coach and video gameologist Tom ‘The Thumb’ Blake” which ran in GamePro magazine was amusing. Thus we’re going to feature one every Tuesday […]
Target Tuesday: NFL Blitz
May 5th, 2015
Michael Crisman Neither Retro Gaming Magazine nor any member of our staff is associated with the Target chain of retail outlets. Michael just thinks this particular series of ads from the 90’s featuring “Respected coach and video gameologist Tom ‘The Thumb’ Blake” which ran in GamePro magazine was amusing. Thus we’re going to feature one every Tuesday […]
My Retro Game Box Halts NTSC Subscriptions for February
February 11th, 2015
CPC4EVA Let’s be straight up, retro and everything retro is cool, right? Well yes it is and it’s not just cool it’s damn awesome, and why is it so awesome you ask? One reason, is because, people who just love retro games come up with an idea such as My Retro Game Box.
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