Battletanx on the Nintendo 64 did not have set sales records. The 3DO Company game certainly did open, even if ever so briefly, a new genre of gaming. One that few companies jumped in on, such as Sega did with Alien Front Online which was “similar”. The year is 2001, a virus has wiped out […]
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Battletanx Blows Up Nintendo 64 – December 31st, 1998 – Today in Video Game History
December 31st, 2014
Carl Williams
New Game: Pandemic Brings Gauntlet Style Dual Stick Shooting to the Sinclair ZX81
November 16th, 2014
Carl Williams Gauntlet style shooters are not all that new, they have been around since before Gauntlet but Atari’s classic was the first to take hold, and keep it. Pandemic is an overhead shooter that is similar to that classic arcade game but it is for the Sinclair ZX81, a computer that hit retail shelves in 1981, […]
Country Music Group Little Big Town Uses Dr Mario Style Game to Promote new Album
September 24th, 2014
Carl Williams It is not that often that we will cover music album releases, let alone country music, here on Retro Gaming Magazine. That goes out the window when the music group in question uses a retro game for inspiration to help drive home the announcement. That is exactly what country music group, Little Big Town, have […]
Game Hack: Dr. Luigi (Hack of Dr. Mario) Released for Nintendo Entertainment System
January 20th, 2014
Carl Williams Game hacks are sometimes really cool, and sometimes they are ho hum. For the most part, the stuff changed is graphical substitutions. Game hacks like the ones for Mega Man 1 and 2 and Castlevania change some of the fundamental challenge of the game while Dr. Luigi falls more in the substitutions realm with the […]
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