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Get ready for Turrican Flashback if you are a fan of action games. Fans of run and gun games know the name Turrican quite well. If not, then I must ask, just how big a fan of the genre are you? Anyhow, ININ Games are working with Factor 5 to create a curated Turrican collection. […]
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Turrican Flashback Collects Games on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4
November 3rd, 2020 
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Cotton Reboot Planning PlayStation Nintendo Switch Launch
October 25th, 2020 Carl Williams Cotton Reboot is, well, a reboot of the original Cotton game from the early 1990’s. Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams only came to the United States on the Turbo Grafx-16 Super CD-ROM2 (Turbo Duo as well) thanks to TTI in 1993. Other than that, this franchise has been pretty much MIA in North America. ININ Games […]
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Tags: Caravan mode, Cotton, Cotton Fantastic Night Dreams, Cotton Reboot, cute-em up, horizontal scrolling, ININ Games, remake, shooter, side scrolling 
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Arkagis Revolution Launches on Sega Genesis
September 5th, 2020 Carl Williams Arkagis Revolution proves the Sega Genesis has plenty of tricks up its sleeve. Well, the 68000 CPU that powers the console does anyhow. Remember all the hype around Mode 7 when Nintendo announced the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)? Remember how Sega’s answer to that hype was to release a new add-on, the Sega CD, […]
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Retro Gaming Steam Highlights June 2020
June 27th, 2020 Carl Williams Here are some fun pieces of retro gaming on sale with Steam right now. For those that do not know, this time of year is the annual Summer Sale. Tons of games go on sale for two weeks or so. For fans of older titles though, this can make it hard to find them. I […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Windows Tags: adventure, arcade, beat 'em up, brawler, Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle, contra, Contra Anniversary Collection, double dragon, Double Dragon Trilogy, fighting, first person shooter, fps, ikaruga, June 2020, metal slug, point and click, raiden legacy, sale, Sanitarium, shooter, steam, wolfenstein 3d No Comments »
Sega Ages Thunder Force AC Targets Nintendo Switch
May 16th, 2020 Carl Williams Thunder Force AC is a port of the Sega Genesis classic, Thunder Force III, to arcades. You may remember a title on Super Nintendo (SNES) called Thunder Spirits, that was the same game. Not sure why the name changes on the SNES version though. Anyhow, this classic side scrolling shooter by Sega is coming to […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Switch Tags: 2d, Sega Ages, shooter, side scrolling, Technosoft, Thunder Force AC, Thunder Force III, thunder spirits No Comments »
Star Horizon Nintendo Switch Launch Successful
May 14th, 2020 Carl Williams Star Horizon is a throwback to on-rails shooters of yesteryear. Classics such as Star Fox (Super Nintendo) and Panzer Dragoon (Sega Saturn) are a couple classics in this genre. Now we can add this new one by No Gravity Games on the Nintendo Switch.
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Panzer Dragoon Voyage Record Pushes Virtual Reality in Franchise
March 10th, 2020 Carl Williams Panzer Dragoon Voyage Record (PDVR) the latest entry in the classic franchise was just announced. When Sega announced the Sega Saturn console one game that stood out the most, at least to me, was Panzer Dragoon. While I didn’t pick up a Saturn at launch, I did wear out the demo unit at Electronics Boutique […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Windows Tags: action, Panzer Dragoon, Panzer Dragoon Voyage Record, sega, shooter, virtual reality No Comments »
Evercade Dual Game Cartridge Featuring Xeno Crisis and Tanglewood Enters Pre-Order Stage
March 2nd, 2020 Carl Williams If you are a fan of the Sega Genesis, then you probably have heard of Xeno Crisis and Tanglewood. On the surface these games are quite different. They are about to share a cartridge for the Evercade handheld machine.
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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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R-Type II Android is on Sale
February 9th, 2018 Carl Williams The classic R-Type II is on sale right now on Google Play. This is one of the classic side scrolling shooters of yesteryear. This was one of the better-looking shooters back in the day, and it still is. On mobile devices there is not a lot of choices available for scrolling shooters and having both […]
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