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Platform: PC Genre: 2D Zelda Clone If you need an early 2021 retro gaming fix, you should give the indie title Ocean's Heart a go. This action-adventure title plays like you would a 2D Legend of Zelda title: you explore the islands and continents you're in, solve puzzles, kill bad guys, and gain power-ups that make you progress through dunge...
While lesser (and probably defunct) game expos struggle to maintain whatever relevance they had, leave it to MAGFest to dig up a gimmick that may gel with its target audience. Next year's MAGFest will be going digital. Labelled Virtual MAGFest, the de facto "Music and Gaming Festival" will be a four-day-long event dedicated to the appreciation o...
If you want to play some old abandonware PC games with an emulator worthy for this age, you may want to check out DOSBox Pure. Made by indie developer Bernhard Schelling, this new version of the open-source DOS emulator will be compatible with current emulation frontend app RetroArch. Here are the bells and whistles DOSBox Pure provide: You...
Happy Halloween 2022, everyone! While this year hasn't been the best for outdoor activities and offline partying, there's still cause for celebration for the spookiest time of the month. We've done our scariest moments in gaming history and our top Castlevania picks already, so what's next? Monsters, duh! These are our favour...
Happy Halloween 2020, everyone! To pay tribute to this lovely haunting week, here's a mixtape and retrospective of Silent Hill's music maker & ambience/rock/industrial video game music king Akira Yamaoka. https://youtu.be/Orus_-QwH28 Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:37 - The 90s (16-bit era with the SNES and Sega Megadrive) 11:52 - Late 90s...
If you want to play the original Shantae game on Game Boy Color, you may need to fork out US$4,000 for a boxed copy. Assuming you still have a working Game Boy Color, of course. Short of using emulators, there isn't much else you can do if you want a physical copy of the first-ever WayForward genie Metroidvania series. That is until now, thanks to...
Streets of Rage 4 is an awesome throwback beat-em-up that's made for 2020; it also pays huge respect to the past 90s series. By now during the weekend you should have at least cleared the game a couple of times. If you notice, there are rankings you can get for each level from the easiest to the hardest difficulty. It's not easy to get the highest ...
Hell yeah, THIS is what I'm talking about. Dotemu just announced that in the upcoming fourth game, you can unlock and play as characters in past Streets of Rage games in their 16-bit pixelated glory. These include SOR1's Axel, Blaze, and Adam, SOR2's Axel, Blaze, Skate, and Max, and SOR 3's Dr. Zan, Skate, Axel, and Blaze. Yes, it's going to look ...
Dotemu recently published a few tracks from its upcoming beat-em-up Streets of Rage 4. Here's a video where we talk a bit about it, followed by some comparisons with the old games. You don't want to miss this, retro gamers! https://youtu.be/dGenJ4JgCCk Like what you saw & heard? Subscribe to us on our YouTube channel, or follow us on Facebook...
Whenever a new game's trophies are revealed, it means we might be getting the game within a month or so. I'm guessing that's the case with Dotemu, Lizardcube, and Guard Crush Games' sequel to Streets of Rage (or Bare Knuckle for you Japanese Megadrive gamers out there), because we have trophies! Website Exophase just listed down the PlayStation tr...
Black-and-white 1-bit game World of Horror is now available as a Steam Early Access release. Inspired by the works of manga artist Junji Ito and author H.P. Lovecraft, it blends disturbing Ito-esque designs with Lovecraft's cosmic horror themes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzTLPpAQpF8 According to the Steam page, the gameplay will thrust p...
10 years. A ton of games. You know where we're going with this. To celebrate our long-standing hobby and because it's been a decade, let's celebrate and feature all the noteworthy games that have cropped up throughout the years from 2010 to 2019. https://youtu.be/FnGKEqmi8Hc That's awesome. But what about the most influential games of all time? We...
Remember VVVVVV? The 2D gravity-flipping platformer made by one Terry Cavanagh with the awesome soundtrack? Here's a quick reminder. Keep in mind: you can't jump in this game. You have to rely on flipping gravity whenever. Fun! And brutally difficult on your first few tries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJvwxb7KuGk To celebrate this awesome p...
In case you couldn't tell byour recent Facebook cover page updates, we REALLY dig the pixel artwork of the PS1. It's funny: despite the console having limited capabilities in doing 2D sprites when compared to the Sega Saturn in the same era, somehow or other it came out as the better console in the long-run when it comes to overall graphics. Simp...
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the original PlayStation, which originally launched in Japan on 3 December 1994 and changing the landscape of the gaming industry forever. Sony's first console is currently the fifth best-selling gaming console of all-time (including handhelds), with over 102.49 million units sold to date. No other console can...
Missed Mr. Driller's frenetic downward drilling puzzle action and Klonoa's whimsical and inventive 2D platforming adventure? Fret not, because Bandai Namco is going to remaster these games soon. The company has filed trademarks for various new "Encore" titles in Japan recently, specifically for the following titles: Klonoa Encore Mr. Driller En...
Sometimes a game doesn't have to be complicated. It doesn't need an intricate story that has 10 chapters set in a wide-open world with hundreds of branching sidequests. Sometimes, you just want to run really fast, shoot stuff, and have electronic house music blasting in your ears. Get To The Orange Door is just that. Apparently, the game is d...
For those of you wanting to buy yourselves the Mega Drive/Sega Genesis retro mini console, here's the full list of announced games slated for the upcoming device. It's a whopping 42, in case you must know. Also, bolded games are exclusives to the region. Genesis Mini, US Version Tetris (ridiculously rare version!) Darius (brand new port!) Vir...
Uniqlo is a company well known for its collaborations with pop culture to create sweet merchandise, for example, they have Overwatch themed t-shirts, Monster Hunter tees, and Mario tees. So, when Uniqlo set about holding their annual design contest last year, the chosen theme was Pokémon, and after a while, they announced their winner. Li...
Does anyone here remember the 1991 arcade 2D shooter classic Cotton which features a pink-haired witch, her shapely skimpy sprite-slash-option, and some pretty dark and dreary graphics for a saccharine game of this stature? No? I'm not surprised. Well, we're getting a reboot of this Japanese classic, courtesy of a game company called Beep which is...
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