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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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Today in Retro Gaming: Sonic R
November 18th, 2015 
Michael Crisman 
Posted in Console, News, Sega 
Tags: ad, racing, saturn, sega, sonic r, sonic the hedgehog, today in retro gaming, traveller's tales 
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Today in Retro Gaming: WCW vs. NWO: World Tour
November 16th, 2015 Michael Crisman What happens when a bunch of muscle-bound athletes meet the cartridge-based Nintendo 64 head-on for the first time? You get a lot of broken plastic and smashed up electronics if you answer the question literally. But if you understand we’re talking more in the figurative sense, then you wind up with WCW vs. NWO: World […]
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Today in Retro Gaming: Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
November 11th, 2015 Michael Crisman I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near the team tasked with designing the follow-up to Resident Evil 2. RE2 improved upon every facet of what made the original so memorable; the end result is a title still hailed as one of the best survival horror experiences even now, nearly twenty years later. Since I don’t […]
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Today in Retro Gaming: Twisted Metal (PS1)
November 10th, 2015 Michael Crisman Does going out for a leisurely drive downtown send involuntary twitches up your spine? Does hearing the cheery, upbeat tunes of an ice cream truck make you want to curl up into a little ball? Do you secretly suspect all taxi cabs have spring-mounted machine guns hiding behind their headlights? If so, don’t be afraid! […]
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Posted in Console, News, Sony Tags: car combat, multiplayer, playstation, ps1, psone, racing, singletrac, sony, today in retro gaming, Twisted Metal No Comments »
Today in Retro Gaming: Martian Gothic: Unification (PS1)
November 4th, 2015 Michael Crisman It’s been ten months since the last transmission from Vita Base on Mars. Requests for status updates, damage reports, even simple acknowledgement that communications are being received have gone unanswered. Faced with no real idea of what they might be facing, and clearly having never seen the movie ‘Aliens’, Earth Control gathers a team of […]
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Posted in Console, News, Sony Tags: adventure, creative reality, horror, martian gothic unification, playstation, ps1, psone, sony, take two interactive, today in retro gaming 1 Comment »
Today in Retro Gaming: G-Police (PS1)
October 15th, 2015 Michael Crisman Hey, you! Yeah, you, the idiot jabbering away on his phone implant. Pull over! Pull your vehicle over to the side of the road, turn on your blinkers. All right, shut off the engine. Let me see your keycard. OK, drop it on the ground. Now step out of the air car, place your hands […]
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Posted in Console, News, Sony Tags: action, flying, g-police, playstation, ps1, psone, psygnosis, shooter, sony, today in retro gaming 1 Comment »
Today in Retro Gaming: Alien Resurrection (PS1)
October 11th, 2015 Michael Crisman It’s sad that one of the best licensed titles of the 32-bit era was based on one of the two most reviled films in the Alien universe, but if you can ignore the bile rising in your throat at the thought of playing Alien Resurrection, you’re going to find a ridiculously playable FPS that manages […]
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Posted in Console, News, Sony Tags: ad, alien resurrection, argonaut games, fox, fox interactive, glitch, horror, license, playstation, ps1, psone, today in retro gaming 1 Comment »
Today in Retro Gaming: F1 Pole Position 64
September 30th, 2015 Michael Crisman There’s something to be said for coming in first. While people remember who won a given race, ask them who came in second and they’ll either have to think about it for a minute or else admit they don’t know. When it comes to sports, the gold medal might as well be everything and second […]
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Today in Retro Gaming: Abuse (Shareware)
September 20th, 2015 Michael Crisman Abuse was a phenomenal action shooter with the misfortune to be released in 1996 when the PC gaming world was going apeshit for first-person shooters like Quake and Duke Nukem 3D. More’s the pity, because while developer Crack dot Com’s first- (and only-) born did nothing to revitalize the world of video game storytelling, it […]
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Today in Retro Gaming: Axis & Allies
September 2nd, 2015 Michael Crisman Porting most board games to the computer or console is a colossal waste of time. Scrabble always lacks the latest additions to the acceptable words list. Games like The Game of Life lose something if you can’t spin the spinner and jam new kids into your car. You can’t even do a digital version of […]
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