Before I get into this week’s post, I just wanna thank everybody who gave me feedback on last week’s piece. As I’ve constantly said, I’m not any sort of a writer, so seeing such a positive reaction really made my week. Here’s hoping I can keep living up to expectations…
July 8th 1995 was the launch date of the Sega Saturn in Europe, and while I may be blasphemous enough to cram my Master System with spaghetti, there’s no way I’m stuffing birthday cake in my Saturn’s CD drive. So I’ve done the next best thing and borrowed the Saturn launch issue of…
Originally titled Dynamite Deka, for the Japanese release, the US/EU version of this Saturn title was tweaked when the game was pretty much completed for the American release to capitalise on the resemblance towards the action movie. Namely, the main character bears a striking resemblance to John McLane and it…
If you’ve never gotten to check out the Retronauts comic on 1Up’s retro blog, now’s the time for any Sega Addict to pop the cherry. Their latest installment in the series is all about Rocket Knight Adventures, and it’s really damn good. The comic does a great job of balancing…
Have you ever had a great idea, but in the end your idea turned out to be a really bad one? This unfortunate scenario happened to Incredible Technologies when they decided to port their arcade game Time Killers to the Sega Genesis. This game is broken on many levels, and…
Famitsu has revealed in their latest issue that both the PS3 and the XBox 360 versions of Platinum Games’ Vanquish will be released in Japan on October 21st. Unfortunately, this info doesn’t come packaged with any specifics for the western release (“winter” is all we get), but VG247 did manage to…
Destructoid posted about a Famiclone system that plays Genesis, SNES and NES games called the RetroN 3.It’s available now for $70.00 but is only $60.00 on Amazon. I’ve been curious about these hybrid and third party consoles lately because being a retro gamer means two things. You obsessively cling to…