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Text adventures and I go way back. From classics like Zork to The Hobbit to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, I have enjoyed text adventures for almost three decades now. Then came the graphical text adventure which The Hobbit could be viewed as an early precursor of, and it was only getting better in […]
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Review – Sam Mallard Case of the Missing Swan for the ZX Spectrum
October 22nd, 2016 
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Fans Work to Translate Shadowrun for Mega CD to English
July 13th, 2015 Carl Williams Fan translations are a grey area of sorts for gamers. Technically they are not illegal as the patch breaks no laws simply by existing. The illegal activity comes from the fact that you have to use the patch with a copy of the game it is for. Many will claim that the law allows for […]
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Tags: compile, digital comic, fan translation, Mega CD, mega drive, NeoGaf, role playing game, sega, shadowrun, snatcher, strategy 
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Snatcher Being Ported to Nintendo Virtual Boy by Homebrew Developer
April 19th, 2015 Carl Williams Snatcher, the digital comic that simply did not take off in North America like Konami would have liked. Honestly, I cannot feign not understanding why it didn’t sell well. First it was only available for an add-on device, the Sega CD, which did not exactly set sales records in the United States. Second, it was […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Portables Tags: GoNintendo, homebrew, konami, Planetvb.com, retro game, retrocollect, retrogame, retrogaming, snatcher, virtual boy No Comments »
Snatcher MSX Turns Gamers Into Junkers on MSX2 – December 13th 1988 – Today in Video Game History
December 13th, 2014 Carl Williams Snatcher MSX is slightly different than what we got in North America on Sega CD. Snatcher is a game that. It was one of the first of a small genre called digital comics. This genre has not progressed much in the two plus decades since either. We covered Snatcher in our second issue of Retro […]
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New Game: Ameba is a New Visual Novel for Sega Dreamcast
December 9th, 2014 Carl Williams The Sega Dreamcast is no stranger to wild and wacky games, especially those from homebrew developers. Since Sega left the Dreamcast pretty open, we can debate if that lead to its death at a later time, homebrew developers are able to continue releasing new titles for it over a decade after it was commercially ended. […]
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Posted in News, Sega Tags: 2015, Ameba, comic, dreamcast, pier solar, retro, retro game, Retro Sumus, retrogaming, sega, snatcher, visual novel 9 Comments »
Konami Releases Demo/Preview Disk for Snatcher – August 7th, 1992 – Today in Video Game History
August 6th, 2014 Carl Williams Snatcher, the cyberpunk adventure title that is sought after by retro collectors the world over, had a preview/demo disk that many don’t even know about. Way back in 1992, 22 year ago today, Konami released a special disk that featured quite a bit of content for the Snatcher fan. This is also a Japanese exclusive […]
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Posted in Comp, NEC, News, Sega, Sony Tags: 1992, adventure, August 7th, carl williams, digital comic, japan, konami, Magcloud, nec, north america, pc-engine, Pilot Disk, retro, retro gaming magazine, rgm, snatcher, today in history, triverse, turbo grafx-16 No Comments »
Retro Gaming Magazine Issue #2 Released
April 28th, 2014 Carl Williams It is a little over a week late but here is the second issue of Retro Gaming Magazine. This issue features the debut of the “Game Hacks” column, the return of the “Post Mortem” column and an exclusive interview with Artemio Urbina of Junker HQ (hint, if you are playing Policenauts in English, it is […]
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Retro Gaming Magazine #2 Preview and Cover Reveal
March 29th, 2014 Carl Williams We have had to hold back releasing the cover of our second issue as we worked with the artist to get it just right (great art doesn’t just happen). With our second issue we will continue our efforts to feature content that other publications avoid. As usual, this issue will be 40 pages and is […]
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Fan Translation: Famicom Detective Club Part II Released
March 4th, 2014 Carl Williams Playing detective and solving crimes is always fun. There is a reason that television shows like Matlock, Law & Order, CSI, Murder She Wrote and more are so popular. People like solving crimes and following the complex stories that surround the mystery. Gaming is no different really. Gamers enjoy the occasional good mystery- just look […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo Tags: adventure, csi, famicom detective club part II, fan translation, law & order, matlock, murder she wrote, nes, nintendo, romhacking.net, sierra, snatcher No Comments »
