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Retail locations are a dying breed. The cost of doing business with a brick and mortar location versus the return on sales is a hard-balancing act. I am sure most of the people reading this have thought at least once about starting their own old school game store but have failed to follow through for […]
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Remembering the Old School Game Store
August 17th, 2017 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Comp, Console, NEC, News, Nintendo, Portables, Sega, Sony, Xbox 
Tags: 3do, game store, old school game store, Players, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, sega genesis, super nintendo 
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The Supa RetroN HD SNES Clone is Revealed
August 5th, 2017 Neil Reive With the frenzy for the upcoming SNES Classic from Nintendo themselves, Hyperkin are not wanting to miss out on this opportunity to release their own suped up SNES clone. The Supa RetroN HD promises to deliver what the SNES Classic will and more…
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Top 3 Fighting Games of the 16-bit Era (Top 3 Tuesday)
May 10th, 2017 Michael Crisman If you don’t associate the 16-bit era with fighting games, you’re either an amnesiac or throwing off the curve for this site’s age demographic. If, as I suspect, you are a gamer who finds himself on the wrong side of thirty, then you’re already formulating a list in your head from the topic title. Thanks […]
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Posted in Console, News, Nintendo, Sega Tags: 16-bit, fighting, genesis, mega drive, michaelbethegamegenie, Mortal Kombat II, snes, street fighter II turbo, super nintendo, top 3 tuesday, yu yu hakusho No Comments »
The Unofficial SNES/Super Famicom: a Visual Compendium Kickstarter Could Reach £500,000
April 13th, 2017 Neil Reive A new Kickstarter campaign was launched last week. That fact alone isn’t really big news in the retrogaming scene anymore, or that it is a Nintendo book, again, or that it is from Bitmap Books, again. The news is that The unofficial SNES/Super Famicom: a visual compendium Kickstarter campaign might, if it keeps its momentum […]
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Posted in Console, News, Nintendo Tags: book, kickstarter, nintendo, snes, super famicom, super nintendo No Comments »
Unholy Knight Now Available to Pre-Order for the Super Nintendo
April 8th, 2017 Neil Reive Back in December 2016, we covered the announcement of a new game being developed for the Super Nintendo called Unholy Knight, and in February 2017, we also reported on the subsequent Kickstarter campaign for the game. Unfortunately, the campaign, which ended on March 17, wasn’t as successful as we had all hoped for, raising $23,072 […]
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Yooka Laylee Arriving Soon on SNES
March 28th, 2017 brianhedley Many, including myself await Yooka Laylee from Playtonic Games. It was successfully kickstarted and will be available on many platforms including PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch.
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Posted in Console, News, Nintendo, Sony, Xbox Tags: Playtonic, snes, super nintendo, Yooka-Laylee No Comments »
Top 3 Comic Book Games (Top 3 Tuesday)
March 8th, 2017 Michael Crisman Welcome, readers one and all, to the newest entry in Top 3 Tuesday! Today MichaelBtheGameGenie wants to know your thoughts on your three favorite games based on comic books (and you better get over there and watch his video before you start my article). Now I don’t want to spoil anything, but I will say that […]
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Posted in Comp, Console, News, Nintendo, Portables, Sony, Xbox Tags: comic, justice league heroes, megadrive, nintendo, pc, peanuts, playstation 2, ps2, psp, sailor moon, sega, snes, snoopy vs the red baron, super famicom, super nintendo, top 3 tuesday, xbox 2 Comments »
Conker’s High Rule Tail Total Conversion of Zelda III Released
March 5th, 2017 Carl Williams Okay, it is not all that often that we get to discuss total conversions for games. These things take a lot of work and time to complete, the good ones take even longer. Well, what was apparently the spiritual successor to Zelda III: Parallel Worlds (another fan hack) has become its own game: Conker’s High […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo Tags: Conker's High Rule Tail, rom hack, snes, super nintendo, Zelda III No Comments »
Top 3 SHMUPS (Top 3 Tuesday)
February 22nd, 2017 Michael Crisman SHMUPS: they’re neither candy nor some weird Asian bird flu derivative! ‘SHMUP’ is Internet shorthand for “shoot ’em up”, a genre of game where you pilot a person or craft through a series of auto-scrolling stages destroying everything in sight to earn power-ups so you can destroy everything in sight even faster. In other words, […]
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Posted in Comp, Console, News, Nintendo, Sony Tags: nes, nintendo, playstation, ps1, silver surfer, snes, super nintendo, top 3 tuesday, u.n. squadron, vanark No Comments »
NBA Jam 2K17 Features Updated Roster Including Political and Additional NBA Stars
February 18th, 2017 Carl Williams Fans of the NBA Jam series already know that this series liked to poke fun at not only the NBA but real life also. The pokes at the NBA are easily seen from literally having the character catch fire and the announcer claim “he is on fire,” and other literal representations. The original NBA Jam […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo Tags: donald trump, game hack, Hillary Clinton, Kanye West, NBA Jam, NBA Jam 2K17, snes, super nintendo No Comments »
