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End of Days: Magic Knight Rayearth & the Sega Saturn – By Michael Mertes
The original Magic Knight Rayearthhas the dubious honor of being the last game released for the Sega Saturn in North America. Published in late 1998, the game was translated to English by Working Designs, a company known to RPG fans for their great packaging design...
How Play’n GO Slots Get inspiration from Classic Games
Sweden-based Play’n GO is one of the top five most popular software providers today. But when it started in 1997, it wasn’t big enough to create games independently. Instead, it created games for bigger companies. In 2004, Play’n GO stepped beneath the wings of bigger...
Donkey Kong: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Americans love a good monkey tale. From the legendary “King Kong” to “Planet of the Apes”, and other various cartoons, movies and television shows based on apes & monkeys. Americans are fascinated with these hairy creatures. So when Midway’s Pac-Man craze was...
MSX2: Game Changer – By Michael Mertes
The first time I heard the name MSX was when I stumbled upon a Metal GearFan Page on the internet in the mid-1990s. Browsing the website, a hyperlink popped up under the list of Metal Gear games that stopped me dead in my mouse clicks. It read:Metal Gear 2: Solid...
Sunsetriders Saddles Up for Switch and Playstation
HAMSTER Co. (Head Office: Tokyo-to, Setagaya ku ; CEO: Satoshi HAMADA; referred to below as "HAMSTER") would like to announce that from today June 11th, 2020, SUNSETRIDERS, by Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd., will be added for Nintendo...
Switch it Up: Missile Command Recharged – By Brad Feingold
It has been 40 years since the release of one of the most iconic arcade games ever. Protecting your cities with one oversized trackball and three buttons and firing a limited amount of missiles at everything that is coming at you. It's all...
Switch It Up: Aqua Lunger – By Brad Feingold
Aqua Lungers is one of those types of games that you really didn’t know about until you saw a video, review or come across it in the Nintendo Switch Store. Even though it was released for the PC, I’m Switching it Up for Old School...
How arcade games helped to build the success of online gambling
When you think of gambling, the first image that comes to your mind is probably a crowded bookmaker shop, or perhaps James Bond playing poker in a fancy casino in Monte Carlo. However, rather than a niche pastime for horse racing fans or an international spy, gambling...
This Day In Video Game History
