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Contra to See Daylight on Two Different Handhelds
My Arcade is known for a plethora of miniaturised handheld retro gaming devices that range from handhelds and mini arcades, to accessories like gamepads and oddities including a Famicom to NES cartridge converter. Their products are also usually licenced,...
The Cabinet of Curiosities: Taboo: The Sixth Sense
There are many dark and dusty corridors in the Cabinet of Curiosities, musty passageways filled with cobwebs and lit only by the eerie glow of a computer monitor or television screen. At night, you can hear the pitiful cries of frustrated gamers, mourning the loss of...
Mario with Milk? By Josh LaFrance
For anyone born in the last 50 years or so, Saturday mornings have always been synonymous with cartoons (sadly those days have ended). And, for any kid watching this programming, we knew we would be inundated with commercials for 2 things: Breakfast Cereals and Toys....
A Brief History of Bonk
Sonic wasn’t the first console mascot to hop over to Nintendo’s platforms.
Handheld Showdown By Josh LaFrance
So everyone knows the Game Boy, the king of sales of the 1990s. However, is it the best handheld console of that era? That is for you the reader to decide, and each person's answer is based on their own personal tastes. For me, it is the Game Gear, but I know others...
Four Classic Games You Can Play Online
While gaming has come a long way over the last decade and longer, in more ways than one. The technological advances made has seen games improve from a visual standpoint, as well as what they’re capable of delivering in terms of gameplay too. We have seen this...
Just for Qix: Space Panic – The Foundation of All Platformers – By Michael Thomasson
Universal’s Space Panic, a rather obscure cult-classic released in 1980, revolutionized game design by introducing novel game mechanics that birthed a new genre. Space Panic is often recognized as the first platform game, as it was the premiere title to include...
TurboGrafx-16 Mini and the PC Engine Core Grafx Mini Pre-Order Now
The compact version of the classic console currently features a range of 50 retro games containing select titles that overlap in both the TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine lineup. The console will be available exclusively on Amazon from March 19th 2020, with an Amazon Prime...
This Day In Video Game History
