Category: Games Consoles
Once again hailing from the depths of Spain, The Mojon Twins are back with another stellar homebrew release. Yun is the newest platformer to hit the Nintendo NES, and best of all it has been released online for free. The game puts you in control of bubble blowing demon tasked with filling the pantry of its sushi restaurant. This unusual…
[youtube qAGVilt3Rls nolink] The ‘NES Classic Edition’ is causing a commotion in the retro gaming community. While it is “not da saaame” as playing on the original hardware, the modern minified version is on the Christmas list of *everybody* probably because it is from Nintendo and it looks exactly like the original console. However, according to a recent article on…
We are already used to the ‘Flashback’ consoles featuring Atari, Intellivision and Colecovision. Some of these are already launching its 6th edition. Out of blue, Nintendo has just announced that they also decided to join the retro gaming nostalgia club, launching the NES Classic Edition, a palm-sized NES console packaged with an HDMI cable, an AC adapter and one NES…
With the launch of Pokemon Go for iPhone and Android in many countries, the Internet has been flooded with all sorts of news about the game, with people playing the game everywhere. All that buzz made me think about the first Pokemon games – Red and Blue, released for the Gameboy in 1996. Yes, that is 20 years ago, which…
After 20 years, the CD copy / homebrew protection on the Sega Saturn has been cracked. A very clever reverse engineer known as Professor Abrasive has managed to dump the 64kB ROM of the CD subsystem processor and figured out the byzantine copy protection code and how it interacts with the Video CD slot. A proper announcement of this is…
A new classic gaming contest has been announced over at highscore.com. This time, the goal is to crack previous high score trophies on Atari (2600, 5200, 7800, 400/800/XL/XE, Lynx, Jaguar, ST) Colecovision PC Engine / TG-16 Nintendo (NES/Famicom, Super NES, N64, Gameboy, GBC, Virtual Boy) Arcade / MAME This contest has some truly awesome prizes, including an X-Arcade Dual Stick,…
Via A2Central.com: Javier Rivera has opened a store to offer fashion-conscious Apple II enthusiasts an array of Apple II-themed t-shirts (and coffee mugs). Check them out at the Apple II FAQ Store”. They even have one with the //c LCD display. Also, I’ve recently discovered RabbitEngineering’s Etsy shop, where they sell tons of 3-D printed retro system figurines. Each one…
There is an entertaining article published today where Zach Hines tells his story to achieve the perfect retro console fidelity, relying on a high-end RGB Monitor by Sony. ” It all started about four years ago when I came into an old Sega Saturn system from the mid-90s. It was an entire console catalog that I completely skipped over back in…
Joe Decuir started to work for Atari in 1975 and was one of the engineers responsible for designing the iconic Atari 2600 and the 8-bit computers 400/800. The historian-podcaster-writer-archivist Kevin Savetz scanned Joe’s engineering notebooks from the time he worked at Atari and now the precious document is available at Internet Archive. With handwritten notes and schematics, the content of the…
Commodore Free 93 is out. The free digital magazine for Commodore line of computers brings news, articles and reviews for the Amiga, C64, Plus/4 and VIC-20. This issue contents: Mastering tapes Part 1: General considerations By Pixel JAM IT Commodore 64 Game review Growing Pains Part Tres – The Envelope Addressor” (TEA) v1 and v4.2” by Lenard R. Roach Commodore…
