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Trapped on Doomed Hardware: The Strange, Brilliant Legacy of Lucienne’s Quest

When you walked into a game store in the mid-90s looking for a legitimate, awesome Japanese RPG to play on whatever console you had, your options were surprisingly slim. The SNES was winding down its legendary run, the Sony PlayStation was still finding its footing...

Ultimate Lemmings: The Puzzle Classic for the Modern OS

Before they became Rockstars, DMA Design was an Amiga development house working primarily with Psygnosis. While it wasn't their first title (that would be the shooter Menace), arguably their most famous game and game series was the puzzler Lemmings. For the...

Testing the M64: Extreme-G: Turbo Fusion

  The original Extreme-G games for the Nintendo 64 are very much of their era. You drive very fast bikes around futuristic tracks while listening to trance music. Most racing games are aiming to get the player into a particular zone and in the case of these...
ATARI 50 – by Brad Feingold

ATARI 50 – by Brad Feingold

History has never been my favorite class in high school or college. I know there were very important facts,  but flat out, I just couldn’t remember the dates and people involved… and it was boring. I needed a reason to stay engaged. Years after my education, there is...

Raw Thrills – By Bill Lange

Raw Thrills – By Bill Lange

Raw Thrills specializes in the development and publishing of coin-operated arcade video games. Based in Illinois, the company was founded in 2001 by Eugene Jarvis, Deepak Deo, and Andrew Eloff. Jarvis, a legendary game designer, who had previously worked at Williams...

The Best Game Gear “Ports”

The Best Game Gear “Ports”

Old School Gamer counts down the 10 best Game Gear ports. 10: Alien Syndrome: Sega’s underrated Master System shooter is a fun one on the Game Gear. 9: Columns: This does exactly what you’d expect, despite the smaller real estate. 8: Ecco the Dolphin: It’s just as...

This Day In Video Game History

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