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Hydlide – Jeremy Parish
it’s almost certainly not with any sort of affection. A slow, primitive-looking grind of a game with repetitive music and confusing action, Hydlide came across as nothing so much as a terrible clone of The Legend of Zelda when it hit the NES in the spring of 1989....
Celeste – Rage inducing platformer for the Amiga by Paweł Juen Nowak
Developer Paweł Juen Nowak has began porting the challenging Pico8 platformer Celeste to the Commodore Amiga, designed to display using C2P techniques which necessitate a higher-powered processor for smooth gameplay. While running well on a 50MHz 060, the port...
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Micro Karting – A work in progress nod to Super Mario Kart for the Amiga [UPDATE]
If you've never heard of Super Mario Kart, then I guess you were living in a cave, as this game series which first appeared in 1992 on the SNES, was one of the most addictive arcade style racing games ever to appear on a TV screen. So to see someone try to create a...
Pit Fighter – by Todd Friedman
While I agree with that, 2 years before Mortal Kombat hit the scene, there was a breakthrough game featuring live-motion capture. This game was Pit Fighter. An underrated game in my opinion, Pit Fighter captures the reality of fighting in a video game. I remember...
Classic Kong – An Iconic arcade game now reimagined for the Atari Jaguar
In a exciting development for retro gaming enthusiasts, developer swapd0 who recently released the Atari Jaguar game called BurgerTom, has now unofficially released Classic Kong for the Atari Jaguar. This new homebrew project brings a faithful reimagining of the...
MECC: When Generation X Got to Play Games in School
The majority of my formative years were spent growing up in Minnesota. I didn't realize until much later in life that I had advantages afforded to me, from a computer technology standpoint, that other states simply did not have. MECC, originally the Minnesota...
A review of Resident Evil from Boss Fight Books
Every Boss Fight book tends to have a novel approach depending on the author, and Phillip J Reed is no different with his Resident Evil volume. In fact, his approach is distinctly unusual, with the praise for the originator of survival horror from 1996 veiled...
The Weird, Wonderful Magic of the Speak & Spell
Some toys are fun. Some toys accidentally predict the future. The Texas Instruments Speak & Spell did both. To a kid in early middle school back in the late 70s / early 80s, it felt less like a spelling toy and more like a tiny robot computer from another planet....
This Day In Video Game History
