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Sega were known for doing the quirky thing with their games, this was true in the early days. Titles such as Alex Kidd had you fighting bosses with “rock, paper, scissors”. Later titles did cool things that we see today though no fighting game has revived the Daytona car like Fighter’s Megamix featured. In Die […]
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Die Hard Arcade Updates Brawlers with Movie License, Hits Sega Saturn Hard – Today in History – February 28th, 1997
February 28th, 2016 
Carl Williams 
Posted in News, Sega 
Tags: 1997, arcade, Bruce Willis, Diehard, February, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, saturn, sega 
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Brain Dead 13 FMV Game Gives You Unlimited Lives – January 31st, 1996 – Today in Video Game History
January 31st, 2016 Carl Williams A little disclaimer in the manual for Brain Dead 13 set the pace for the rest of the game. You are given unlimited lives and will probably need all of them to survive your time here. This is a Full Motion Video Game (FMV) in the style of Dragon’s Lair. FMV games are essentially interactive […]
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Today in Retro Gaming: Sonic R
November 18th, 2015 Michael Crisman Today, Traveller’s Tales is best known for taking extremely popular franchises like Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Batman and converting them into cute little Lego versions of themselves. The end result is an enormous dynasty of titles which earn the company cubic butt-tons of money with every new release as gamers […]
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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 […]
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Wacky Wednesday: Sony, Square, Sega and the 9-9-99 Debacle
September 9th, 2015 Michael Crisman There are many ways to deliver a “screw you” message to your enemies. From Twitter insult wars to full-blown industrial espionage, corporate trickery has a large palette from which to pick a prank. Trading one-liners and one-upping one another’s ads happen every day, but every once in a great while the fates align to create truly […]
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9 Times Developers Screwed the Console Manufacturers
September 4th, 2015 Carl Williams It has not always been all happy and go lucky days in video games. No, back in the day we had some real controversial things going on, mostly behind the scenes but quite a few made it to the fanbase (such as the Tengen situation). There are poop monsters shooting a questionable brown projectile at […]
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Today in Retro Gaming: Williams Arcade’s Greatest Hits
September 1st, 2015 Michael Crisman Compilations of older video games didn’t start with PS1-era titles like Namco Museum and Activision Classic Games, but the exponential upgrade to storage offered by CD-based media certainly helped boost their popularity. After all, who wouldn’t love the chance to play some arcade hits of yesteryear without needing to sink several thousand bucks into acquiring […]
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Finally Dragon Force II for Sega Saturn is Available in English
April 7th, 2015 Carl Williams Dragon Force may not have been met with record breaking sales in North America when Working Designs released it in 1996 for the Saturn it still garnered a sequel in Japan. A Japan only sequel, until now. The team over at Verve Fanworks has been working on an English translation of Dragon Force II for […]
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Prototype: Sonic X-Treme in Working Form Found, Footage Released
November 9th, 2014 Carl Williams It is no secret that the Sega Saturn was all over the place as far as gaming goes. Sega simply lost their way, lost their direction and drive to be #1 and that was no more apparent than the way the Saturn was handled. That aside, gamers still got worked up over seeing 32-Bit Sonic […]
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Prototype: Spot Goes to Hollywood Found for Sega 32X Console
September 1st, 2014 Carl Williams Spot Goes to Hollywood was the sequel to the side scrolling action platform title that hit the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis consoles. Spot Goes to Hollywood was scheduled to hit the Super Nintendo and the Sega 32X alongside the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation versions but well, thanks to the release of the 32-Bit […]
