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Who remembers Tiger Electronics handheld games? These were simple gaming devices that were often licensed affairs featuring a single-color background. On top of that background, in a manner like the old Game and Watch by Nintendo, there would be simple black icons shown. This method was used for years and for many licenses from Mega […]
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Hasbro Launching New Tiger Electronics LCD Handheld Games
February 19th, 2020 
Carl Williams 
Posted in News, Portables 
Tags: hasbro, Little Mermaid, SONIC 3, Tiger Electronics, Transformers, x-men 
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X-Men Arcade Game Review
December 28th, 2018 Carl Williams Oh boy, the X-Men arcade game is a special one for me. I am a huge fan of brawling titles like Final Fight, Streets of Rage, Double Dragon and many others. When Street Fighter II came out in the arcades, I was still pumping quarters into Final Fight and other scrolling fighters just enjoying my little […]
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Posted in Arcade, News, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Reviews, Sony, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One Tags: brawler, konami, marvel, x-men 2 Comments »
Appreciating X-Men’s Retro Dominance
August 30th, 2016 Carl Williams Much has been made of Marvel’s renewed push for relevance in gaming. In the past few years the comic book entertainment giant has partnered with a few mobile developers to produce some very popular mobile games. Now, reports have promised that they’ll soon turn their attention back to the console market. Big and exciting Marvel […]
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Posted in Console, News Tags: arcade, brawler, konami, marvel, Murderworld, Uncanny X-Men, x-men, Xmen No Comments »
The Fifteen Most Difficult NES Games (That Are Not Battletoads)
July 1st, 2015 Michael Crisman As the tropes go, there’s hard, and then there’s Nintendo Hard. The distinction is easily understood by anyone who grew up in the 8-bit era, but the tradition continues to this day with games like Super Meat Boy and I Wanna Be The Guy. Nintendo Hard games aren’t made that way by flipping a difficulty […]
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Posted in Console, News, Nintendo Tags: 8-bit, adventure of link, adventures of bayou billy, air fortress, Battletoads, Bubble Bobble, castlequest, conflict, Cybernoid, Deja Vu, difficult nes games, double dragon III, friday the 13th, Ghosts n Goblins, guardian legend, hardest, legacy of the wizard, nes, ninja gaiden III, nintendo, shadowgate, Solomon's Key, starship hector, Uninvited, VIDEO GAMES, x-men, zelda II 18 Comments »
Unleash Your Inner Mutant in X-Men Children of the Atom for Sega Saturn – April 6th, 1996 – Today in History
April 6th, 2015 Carl Williams The X-Men have had a very good history in gaming, at least starting in the 16-Bit era. Let’s ignore the Nintendo Entertainment System games for the sake of this article. When Capcom got the license they immediately took it in a new direction, adding the X-Men characters into their popular Street Fighter II engine was […]
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Posted in News, Saturn, Sega Tags: acclaim, arcade, capcom, children of the atom, fighting, street fighter II, x-men 2 Comments »
Commerical Freeware- X-Men The Ravages of Apocalypse Released to Fans
February 19th, 2015 Carl Williams Way back in the early days of First Person Shooters (FPS), aka 3D gaming, we had a little title called Quake to keep us interested and playing on computers. Since Quake was quite open, much like how id Software did with Doom, people were able to make mods, new characters and changes to the engine […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: comic, DarkPlaces, id software, Lord Havok, marvel, mod, quake, Ravages of Apocalypse, total conversion, x-men, Zero Gravity Entertainment No Comments »
OpenBOR: Marvel First Alliance 2 Released
July 29th, 2014 Carl Williams We are continuing to cover the more interesting OpenBOR releases and with that we bring you Marvel First Alliance 2. Brazilian developer Zvitor has really put the spit and polish to this one, just check out the video below for proof of this labor of love.
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: avengers, Beast, beats of rage, Black Widow, brawler, Brazil, Brazilian, Captain America, carl williams, Cyclops, Fantastic Four, fighting, final fight, Hawkeye, Hulk, Human Torch, Iron Man, Jean Grey, Marvel First Alliance 2, Mr. Fantastic, openbor, Phoenix, retro, retro gaming magazine, rgm, rogue, streets of rage, Thing, windows, x-men, Zvitor No Comments »
OpenBOR: Avengers: United Battle Continues Development
July 22nd, 2014 Carl Williams The Avengers are one of the Marvel teams that has kind of gotten the short end of the stick with games. Characters have gotten their own games from Captain America to the Incredible Hulk but as a team, the pickings have been slim (outside of the arcade game that is serving as source material for […]
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Posted in Comp, Console, News, Portables, Sega, Sony, Xbox Tags: android, arcade game, avengers, beats of rage, brawler, Captain America, carl williams, computer, DCEmulation, fan game, fanmake, final fight, Iron Man, Juggernaut, openbor, pak file, pc, playstation 3, retro, retro gaming magazine, sega dreamcast, Sony Playstation 2, streets of rage, triverse, windows, x-men, xbox 2 Comments »
