by Brendan Meharry | Mar 15, 2018 | 1990s, 2010s
“HOLD ME CLOSER SHADOW DANCER! SEGA MEGA DRIVE CLASSICS COMING TO PLAYSTATION 4 AND XBOX ONE ON MAY 29” is the enthusiastic start to Sega’s latest press release. While more memes and classic gaming moments are quoted throughout the release, the first line sets the...
by JasonBreininger | Mar 8, 2018 | 1990s, Columns, Console/Handheld, Reviews
Blast processing. Sega had it, Nintendo didn’t. I had no idea what it was and most other kids didn’t either. Of course, we now know it was a made up term used by the Sega marketing department, but that didn’t matter to us in 1991. All we knew was that there was this...
by David Oxford | Mar 8, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s
A few weeks ago, I kicked off a new series that looks at games that may possibly never see a full release again, starting with Konami’s wide range of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles titles. This week, I want to take a closer look at their first arcade game, as well...
by Brendan Meharry | Mar 8, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Gaming
Hello retro friends, and welcome back to The Last Official Release! Kicking off a few weeks ago with the Game Boy, in this series we investigate what the last official release of a console was. In today’s edition, we’re examining Atari’s long-lived 2600. Released on...
by Brad Feingold | Mar 6, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, Console/Handheld, The Story Of...
A few posts back, I wrote about someone sending me a link to a YouTube page that had a bunch of rock and classic songs redone in 8-Bit style. But after that, I received a couple different emails telling me about some other pages that you can subscribe to, So I felt...
by Brendan Meharry | Mar 5, 2018 | 1990s
Blast Corps involves demolishing buildings (using a range of vehicles and robots) before they’re hit by a carrier transporting leaking nuclear missiles. It’s as awesome as it sounds, and was developed by Rare! [wpdevart_youtube width=”640″...