by David Oxford | Apr 11, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s
Back in 2016, Patrick Scott Patterson of Video Game Preservation (a project whose purpose I’ll leave you to guess at, and which is currently on hiatus) was able to obtain a set of four cartridges for the Nintendo Game Boy featuring different builds of an...
by David Oxford | Apr 4, 2019 | 1980s, 2010s, Arcade
At their SEGA FES 2019 event in Japan, SEGA made a variety of announcements of interest to retro enthusiasts. Foremost among them were the first details of the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive Mini console, including its release date, price point, and 10 of the 40 total titles...
by David Oxford | Mar 28, 2019 | 1990s
Among the many companies that would make up the Nintendo Ultra 64 Dream Team, Time Warner Interactive is among the shortest-lived and the most interesting for their inclusion. Fans of old school gaming are probably familiar with the tale of Tengen, the home publishing...
by David Oxford | Mar 21, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
This week, Konami has announced that they are releasing a series of three (possibly more) classic collections of games from their archives in order to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Coming to all four key modern platforms (Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4,...
by David Oxford | Mar 14, 2019 | 1990s
After bringing color to the world of Game Boy in a largely unexpected way at the time, Nintendo would eventually set their sights on another issue with the original hardware: The matter of portability. You see, for all intents and purposes, the Game Boy was a portable...