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When NEC announced the Turbo Grafx-16 the press was abuzz with anticipation. Up till this point in recent years it was clearly Nintendo holding the power of gaming in their hands. Sega was just a meddling second placer fighting it out with Atari and their 7800 console (it was not much of a fight at […]
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Turbo Grafx-16 Thank You for Trying – Today in Retro Gaming – August 19th, 1989
August 18th, 2016 
Carl Williams 
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R-Type III Third Lightning Blows Up Super Nintendo – August 2nd, 1994 – Today in Video Game History
August 1st, 2016 Carl Williams The Super Nintendo was known for slow down when trying to put a lot of action on the screen. This was most apparent in scrolling shooters (horizontal and vertical) such as Gradius III. By the time R-Type III Third Lightning came around developers pretty much had the SNES hardware figured out. The Super Nintendo was […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Tags: Bydo Empire, horizontal scrolling, irem, r-type, R-Type III, shooter, side scrolling, Third Lightning No Comments »
Xydonia, Retro Inspired Side Scrolling Shooter, Hits Kickstarter
July 2nd, 2016 Carl Williams Remember R-Type, Gradius, Darius and Thunder Force? Sure you do. So does Breaking Byte Games who are making a homage to those classics called Xydonia. Xydnonia is not simply a game that “feels” like those classics or has an enemy or two inspired by those games. No, this is a tour de force challenger for […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 3ds, arcade, Darius, gradius, greenlight, kickstarter, linux, macintosh, neo geo, nintendo, playstation, PS Vita, r-type, retro, retrogaming, shooter, side scrolling, steam, xbox, Xydonia No Comments »
R-Types Brings Arcade Originals Home to Playstation – Today in History – February 28th, 1999
February 28th, 2016 Carl Williams Over the course of gaming, we have seen a ton of scrolling shooters come and go. The genre that started with the likes of Defender and Space Invaders evolved all the way up to visually impressive titles such as Ikaruga and the various bullet hell games. One series that has held its own over the […]
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Posted in News, Sony Tags: 1999, 28th, arcade, February, irem, playstation, psone, r-type, R-Types, retro, scrolling shooter No Comments »
R-Type Deluxe In Development for Atari ST, Trumps Original
June 29th, 2015 Carl Williams The Atari ST, and Commodore Amiga, was quite the arcade to home gaming computer, even though it was trumped by the IBM platform. The 16-Bit computer was capable enough to provide quality ports of popular arcade titles such as R-Type. Now homebrew developers are working on improving on the official port that we received so […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: atari, atari st, Axelay, computer, deluxe, gaming, homebrew, r-type, shooter, side scrolling shooter, thunder force 1 Comment »
Kickstarter: Starr Mazer Mixes Monkey Island with R-Type but Does it Work
January 29th, 2015 Carl Williams R-Type and Monkey Island are two iconic, though very different, games from the late 80’s and early 90’s era of gaming, affectionately known by gamers as the 8/16-bit time period. On one hand, you have a side scrolling, 2D, arcade shooter franchise and on the other you have a snarky story about an island and […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 2d, action, adventure, kickstarter, Monkey Island, r-type, shooter, side scrolling, Starr Mazer No Comments »
Keith Courage Earns Packin Rights on TurboGrafx-16 – August 19th, 1989 – Today in Video Game History
August 18th, 2014 Carl Williams This was NEC’s answer to Altered Beast, Keith Courage in Alpha Zones. There is no arcade tie-in here (though the TurboGrafx-16 did launch with R-Type). NEC was at a disadvantage as far as arcade ports went. That didn’t stop them from trying different things such as a pinball game at launch. Keith Courage in Alpha […]
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Posted in NEC, News Tags: 1989, 25 years old, action, amazon, August 19th, carl williams, ebay, Keith Courage in Alpha Zones, legend of zelda, nec, nintendo, pack in, r-type, retro, retro gaming magazine, rgm, tg-16, today in history, turbo grafx-16, TurboChip 1 Comment »
New Game: R-Type 128K for the Amstrad CPC Does Port Better than Official Game
July 15th, 2014 Carl Williams The Amstrad CPC did receive an official port of R-Type many years ago. To say it was lacking is an understatement. For one, the official port did not have a soundtrack (a big no-no in a scrolling shooter) and it was bogged down with slow down and lack of color (just look at the comparison […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 128k, amstrad, carl williams, CPC, homebrew, indie, r-type, retro, retro gaming magazine, rgm, scrolling shooter, side scrolling, triverse 2 Comments »
New Game: Atlantean for Turbo Grafx-16 Closer to Completion
June 28th, 2014 Carl Williams In issue #1 of Retro Gaming Magazine, we featured two new games for the Turbo Grafx-16 CD-ROM (Pyramid Plunder and Insanity). We are now able to discuss another Turbo Grafx-16 title by Aetherbyt Software- this one is a Hu-Card release- the first in over 20 years for the platform. Shooter fans will be interested in […]
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Posted in Console, News Tags: Aetherbyte Software, Atlantean, carl williams, Deep Blue, gradius III, r-type, retro, retro gaming magazine, shooter, thunder force, turbo grafx-16 No Comments »
R-Type II Coming to iOS and Android
January 30th, 2014 Carl Williams Retro gamers are pretty well taken care of in the iOS and Android market and Dotemu has made one more classic available, R-Type II. Dotemu cover most of the bases with various games so adding this classic is icing on the cake.
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Posted in News, Portables Tags: arcade, carl williams, irem, r-type, r-type II, retro, retro gaming magazine, retrogame, retrogaming, rgm, scrolling, shooter, triverse 1 Comment »
