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Steam Greenlight may be changing its name and direction soon, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t great games still hoping to find a place in your Steam library. Looking to follow in the pixelated footsteps of Greenlight hits like River City Ransom Underground and Organ Trail: Director’s Cut, Sigi offers retro platforming gameplay with modern […]
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Sigi: A New Platformer with an Old Soul
March 28th, 2017 
Brandon Weicks 
Posted in Comp, News 
Tags: pc, platformer, retro, side scrolling, Steam Green Light, windows 
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Mega Cheril Perils Now Available for Free on Genesis / Mega Drive
February 3rd, 2017 Neil Reive If you have never played a Mojon Twins game, now is the perfect time to try one of them out. Mega Cheril Perils, a Sega Genesis / Mega Drive platform game from The Mojon Twins, originally appeared on the Verkami Spanish crowdfunding website. The campaign, which also included other Mojon Twins titles, was a roaring […]
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Posted in Console, News, Sega Tags: crowdfund, genesis, Mega Cheril Perils, mega drive, mojon twins, platformer, sega No Comments »
Escape 2042: The Truth Defenders is Out on Kickstarter
January 9th, 2017 Neil Reive We have seen plenty of games appear on the popular crowdfunding website Kickstarter for various videogame projects over the years, but not many with various different platforms planned. Escape 2042: The Truth Defenders, a brand new 2D platform game from OrionSoft, is being developed for four different platforms: Mega Drive/Genesis, Dreamcast, Game Boy, and Windows.
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Posted in Comp, Console, NEC, News, Sega Tags: dreamcast, Green Light, kickstarter, mega drive, nec, pc, pc-engine, platformer, sega, sega genesis, steam, windows 1 Comment »
Pietro Bros. New Mario Bros. Clone for the ZX Spectrum
December 25th, 2016 Neil Reive While an official licensed Mario Bros. game did make it to the ZX Spectrum in 1987, it is generally considered to be a poor port of the 1983 arcade platformer by Nintendo. With that in mind, Christian M. Gonzalez has been working away for many months on his own version of the game and has […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: arcade, mario bros, nintendo, Pietro Bros, platformer, zx spectrum 3 Comments »
Happy Birthday, Super Mario!
September 13th, 2016 Michael Crisman Everybody’s favorite Bowser basher, Goomba grinder, Koopa killer and Mushroom masticator blew away 8-bit Japanese gamers on this day in 1985. While Nintendo’s mascot would take another month to arrive on the North American continent, Super Mario Bros. wasted no time turning the video game world on its ear. No other game has ever made […]
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Posted in Console, News, Nintendo Tags: action, adventure, famicom, japan, nes, nintendo, platformer, super mario, today in retro gaming No Comments »
Spyro Flaps Wings onto Playstation – September 10th, 1998 – Today in Video Game History
September 10th, 2016 Carl Williams When the Sony PlayStation blew onto the gaming scene it represented a COMPLETELY new era for both games but also the fans that enjoy playing them. Insomniac was fresh of the release of Disruptor- a first person shooter that was not exactly “more of the same” in that genre. The same can be said of […]
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Posted in News, Sony Tags: 3d, action, adventure, Dragon, Gnasty Gnorc, Insomniac, platformer, playstation, sony, spyro, spyro the dragon, Universal Interactive No Comments »
A Brief History of Endless Runners
September 10th, 2016 DanielAlexander The advent of Super Mario Run has brought fresh attention to the Endless Runner genre. A genre many of us non-mobile gamers had never heard of before our favorite Italian plumber decided to join the fad. So just what makes an Endless Runner, and just where did they originate? Let us journey through gaming history to see […]
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Posted in Console, News, Nintendo, Portables Tags: android, arcade, canabalt, Enldess Runner, Gamevil, google play, Infinite Runner, ipad, iphone, itunes, Night Driver, Nom, platformer, Scramble, Sonic Dash, super mario run, Super Mario Runs 4 Comments »
So Bad It’s Good – Jedi Power Battles ‘Forces’ You To Practice
June 11th, 2016 Michael Crisman I’m not about to beg forgiveness for that awful pun in the title, and I agree: I deserve every ounce of scorn you want to verbally unloaded on me for making it. I’m not sorry. Make my day. Come at me, bro. Also, on an unrelated tangent, Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles for the PS1 and […]
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Posted in Console, News, Sega, Sony Tags: action, dreamcast, jedi power battles, lucasarts, platformer, ps1, sega, so bad it's good, sony, star wars 3 Comments »
Revenge of the License: No Escape (SNES)
January 10th, 2016 Michael Crisman In October of 2014, I proclaimed The Ring: Terror’s Realm on the Sega Dreamcast the absolute worst licensed video game ever made. It fails in so many spectacular ways and creates such a train wreck of confusion and absurdity that I devoted an entire article to explaining this point. A little over a year later, […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Nintendo Tags: action, adventure, bits studio, genesis, no escape, platformer, revenge of the license, snes, Sony Imagesoft, super nintendo No Comments »
Today in Retro Gaming: Abuse (Shareware)
September 20th, 2015 Michael Crisman Abuse was a phenomenal action shooter with the misfortune to be released in 1996 when the PC gaming world was going apeshit for first-person shooters like Quake and Duke Nukem 3D. More’s the pity, because while developer Crack dot Com’s first- (and only-) born did nothing to revitalize the world of video game storytelling, it […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 2d, abuse, action, ad, crack dot com, dos, mouse, platformer, shareware, shooter, today in retro gaming No Comments »
