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Wonderboy – An Arcade game from 1986 as an unofficial Amiga port gets a new tease by Acidbottle
Wonder Boy is a game designed by Ryuichi Nishizawa which started its life as a skateboard rock jumping and axe bashing platformer, that later became the great adventure platformer with RPG elements known as ' Wonderboy in Monster Land '. Both of these games have lived...
Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Chase the Chuckwagon?
Release Date: 1983 Publisher: Spectravision Controller: Joystick Players: 1 Genre: Arcade - Maze Alternate Title: N/A Model #: N/A Rarity: 8 Programmer: Mike Schwartz This is quite possibly the first (and only) example of a video game being based on a television...
1942 – Arcade quality port is still coming to the Amiga with new shown!
In 1984 a great shoot 'em up was released for the Arcades by Capcom and that game was 1942. A game in which you not only had to shoot down enemy planes including bombers, but you could also perform awesome rolls while collecting power ups. Thankfully this game which...
Tomb Raider – A rather special action adventure classic gets a BIG review by DarkwyndPT!
Hello everyone and welcome back to Retro Freak Reviews. Today, we’ll look at an iconic and influential title that has been on my backlog for several years. I’m talking about the original Tomb Raider. Tomb Raider is an action/adventure game developed by Core Design and...
North American Genesis 2 Becomes Official
While it was all but assured that Sega planned to create a North American Genesis Mini 2 given their announcement of the Japanese Mega Drive 2, it looks like we have a leak on Amazon to thank for prompting Sega to make it official. The American Genesis 2 will be...
Black Jewel Reborn Kickstarter Campaign Launching Today
Black Jewel Reborn Kickstarter Campaign Now Live New cooperative hack and slash for SNES, Genesis, NES and Game Boy Gaimersheim, Germany –July 13, 2022– Indie development studio, PSCD Games has launched a Kickstarter Campaign to fund their cooperative hack and slash...
Colossal Cave – Re-imagined by Roberta Williams
Sierra On-Line Co-founders Rebrand First Upcoming Game in Decades as Colossal Cave - Reimagined by Roberta Williams, Unveil New Trailer SEATTLE – July 12, 2022 – Colossal Cave - Reimagined by Roberta Williams, the ultimate 3D reimagining of the original text...
Riviera Story – A new arcade platformer is previewed for the C64 by Bladawietz
Even more C64 games to get through today, as trawling through the CSdb database we've come across a new C64 game as a preview called 'Riviera Story' by Bladawietz(?). This game available to try, looks to be an Arcade platformer in which you play as Fred and must...
This Day In Video Game History
