Category: Games Consoles

[youtube oi3WrkgRGsQ nolink] Zombie Incident is a Platform/Zombie Smasher game which is being launched this week on Nintendo’s European eShop. The interesting bit is that it was originally developed by a team including NeneFranz in 2011 for a contest, in which multiple games were developed on retro hardware. It won MSXdev’11 which, as the name suggests, challenged teams to create…

‘Cauterize’ from RetroCollect teaches how to make your own Nintendo Virtual Boy for cheap! Using Google Cardboard and an Android Smartphone, you can experience what was about to play the least known Nintendo console. The article also includes links for the cardboard model, the emulator and everything you need to build it yourself. Link: RetroCollect

If you are one of the two that owned a Virtual Boy in the past, this news will certainly excite you! Back then, Street Fighter II, after launching on the SNES has been ported practically to almost every existing game machine including the monochrome Game Boy. Nintendo’s own Virtual Boy was probably the only one that didn’t get its version,…

[youtube 46QdZmUs6fE nolink] Alice’s Mom’s Rescue is the first homebrew release for Sega’s 128-bit console this year, an expansive platformer with a traditional pixel-art style – one which is now available to buy in both standard and limited editions. Already available for both PC and Android, the newly arriving Sega Dreamcast version comes in two flavours – Standard and Limited…

[youtube UsfhIAHE5k0 nolink] Even after 30 years, your Nintendo Entertainment System is still up to the task, right? What if you can put your hands on a brand new game cartridge? You are lucky today! Sly Dog Studios have finally released their long-awaited puzzle platformer Mad Wizard: A Candelabra Chronicle on cartridge for the 8-bit system. RetroZone is selling this…

[youtube EJbB10Z-6fo nolink] Back in January the ‘Games That Weren’t‘ website announced that a copy of Last Ninja 2 on the Konix Multisystem had been found. Fast forward to February and now the GTW team have received an update that one disk of the game has been saved and that now the game is playable on an emulator! An amazing…

“Zombi Terror” is an adventure game, divided in two parts, where you can move through the different locations and make special actions by the options displayed on screen, and with a “battle system” based on “dice rolling”, just like some rpg-board games. In addition to the amount of graphics, Kabuto Factory have composed an audio soundtrack to ambient the game…

RetroCollect has published a second article entitled “Cart Wars” by MEGABITES. This time around his coverage starts from the 90’s. “Progressing through the early 1990s, new cartridge innovations served to not only extend the capabilities of the home console, but also those of the handheld. The Gameboy, the Game Gear and the Atari Lynx – each were noted for their…

For some, it doesn’t seem to be an significant achievement, but the cartridge allow the video game industry to jump from the dedicated systems, like Pong, to all-purpose consoles. FastCompany website has published an impressive article about the invention of the game cartridge, written by Benj Edwards. According to his own website Vintage Computing and Gaming, Benj started his research…

We reported few days ago that an eBay auction for this rare Nintendo game was already reaching US$100,000. It seems now more people will be able to go back in the game. Gamespot reported today, and you can verify yourself, that the bids went down to *only* US$32,000. Also, the bids are now only opened to pre-approved bidders, which hints…