It's the end of the road for now, and we're finishing things the way we started: with an attack on the Death Star! It's #StarWars: #RogueSquadron III on #GameCube!
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Keeping it Sega with a new arrival. I'm guessing Amazon had some leftover stock to clear out, because it was pretty cheap. Fortunately, the DLC code hadn't expired, either. I now have all the way from 1 to 7, so I just need to find the time to play all these gigantic games.
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So I'm working on a gaming archival site called interviewarchive.org. It'd primarily be a resource for old magazine interviews -- each one is scanned and transcribed, so contents are verifiable and also easily Googlable. Presently have 1500+ scanned, 300 transcribed.
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This one looks to have had a hard life, but luckily carts are tough. It's not amazing, but it was one of the better X-Men games at the time. The large character graphics work well in solo play, but make things a bit cramped in co-op.
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the author doesn't mention the game by name, but this post from a member of the studio behind the unreleased Aa! Megami-sama/Oh My Goddess! PCE game goes over why it didn't come out (and mentions that it was released as an original game sans license🤔) note.com/3syaku/n/nbf71🇯🇵
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4gamer spoke to Gaiares programmer/planner "MY", Avenger programmer/planner Yoichi Kawade & Psychic Storm planner Motoshi Kubo (plus Wolf Team's Yukihiko Tani via email) about their respective games and the history & genealogy of Telenet 4gamer.net/games/668/G066🇯🇵
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［インタビュー］日本テレネットとは何だったのか。「テレネット シューティング コレクション」を記念し，3スタジオ＋αの元スタッフが当時を語る
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#テレネットシューティングコレクション
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The Making Of: Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader timeextension.com/features/the-m #StarWars #GameCube #TheMakingOf #Nintendo
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It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of a full English fan translation for “Nakoruru: The Gift She Gave Me”, a Samurai Showdown spin-off title for the #Dreamcast. All the info you need is up now on the blog: thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/2023/06/nakoru
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Here's a manual because the cartridge is boring looking and I don't have the box. It's a pretty basic horizontal shooter, unsurprisingly considering the vintage, but it does support the Speech Synthesizer peripheral. That was pretty mind-blowing in the early '80s.
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Here's the first of several games based on Kinnikuman made by the legendary AKI Corporation, most of which stayed in Japan. It's a bit simplified compared to their other wrestling games, but still pretty fun, especially in multiplayer. Create-a-wrestler is sadly limited, though.
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Want to know about Capcom's history before the show? Check out this 1985 interview with founder Kenzo Tsujimoto, where he discusses the transition from Irem to Capcom and how they built the legacy of the company they are today!
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Play Meter – Volume 17, Number 13 – December 1991 has been scanned in 600DPI. With that all the 1991 issues have been preserved! Thanks to for loaning them to us. Enjoy! gamingalexandria.com/wp/2023/06/pla
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The box has seen better days, but here's my original copy of Doom II. I trust I don't have to explain this one to anyone? I could never line up my shot at the Icon of Sin properly, so I'd always have to use the no clipping cheat to attack John Romero's head directly to beat it.
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Capcom launches Capcom Town website to celebrate its 40th anniversary captown.capcom.com
it includes playable retro games like Street Fighter 2, Final Fight, Mega Man 1/2/X captown.capcom.com/en/retro_games/
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Anniversary: 'Resident Evil' And 'Street Fighter' Maker Capcom Turns 40 Today timeextension.com/news/2023/06/a #Anniversaries #Capcom
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Here's my only European import. We only got the Xbox port here in the US, but fortunately my local Software Etc. started stocking imports when domestic releases began to dry up. It's possible to carry over a US save, but you need to hex edit the save's region code on a PC.
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Another long thread about one of the most prolific artists of the 8-16bit era: Frank Cirocco, illustrator who has worked for Atari, Capcom, SNK, Data East, EA, Renovation and Taxan.
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Sacred Spaces: Ocean Software's Central Street HQ / Manchester, England timeextension.com/features/sacre #SacredSpaces #OceanSoftware #Manchester
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Yes, I remember playing Dig Dug at a local arcade in the '80s.
Here's a game overseen by the producer of SFII, and as a result the DBZ game that plays most like Street Fighter. Personally, I was quite happy with that, but everyone else I knew wanted to play Budokai instead.
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Gary Ciccarelli has posted several of his video game illustrations on Instagram. He painted the covers of Marble Madness (NES, Master System, Game Gear), Treasure Master, Power Factory Featuring C+C Music Factory.
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Here's something that I guess qualifies as an AR game. You place physical cards on a cloth mat to play the game on your TV. It's honestly pretty fiddly, and really hard to parse on SDTV, which was all I had at the time. Good thing I grabbed it cheap to get the PlayStation Eye.
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There's a wardrobe change in this, too, but not quite the same way. Joe's powers are switched up for this portable adventure to take advantage of the unique features of the DS, while still largely playing like the console entries.
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the disk image for the X68000 version of Cho Ren Sha 68k is once again freely available from dev yosshin yosshin4004.github.io/x68k/crs68k/of🇯🇵specifically, this is the ver1.10 build that was recently salvaged for release alongside the backer version of the X68000 Z & features revised gfx+sfx
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超連射68k for X68000 の配布再開してます。
yosshin4004.github.io/x68k/crs68k/of
実機をお持ちの方は、ぜひ10MHzモードで！
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The Making Of: Super Play, The Japan-Obsessed SNES Magazine That Inspired A Generation timeextension.com/features/the-m #Magazines #TheMakingOf #Nintendo #SNES
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Here's another "digital comic", basically an adventure game. There's no way to lose, so aside from a maze at the end, you can just try every option until you find the right one. I surprised myself by getting the gist of the plot, though I think knowing the series was a big help.
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The Making Of: Croc, 3D Platforming's Unsung Hero timeextension.com/features/the-m #TheMakingOf #Croc
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Here's the second time Nintendo copied Breakout, following their Block Kuzushi console from the '70s. It doesn't mix up the formula as much as Arkanoid, but it does have Mario hopping in to pilot the paddle, and features bonus stages with blocks in Mario-themed shapes.
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Four classic games are now live for #NintendoSwitchOnline members!
#NES – Nintendo Switch Online:
☑️ Mystery Tower
#SuperNES – Nintendo Switch Online:
☑️ Harvest Moon
#GameBoy – Nintendo Switch Online:
☑️ Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble
☑️ Blaster Master: Enemy Below
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Obscure Japanese Edutainment Title 'Roly-Polys' World Tour' Found And Preserved timeextension.com/news/2023/06/o #Japan #Preservation
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Sega's Yosuke Okunari Has Written A Book About The Company's History And Consoles (Image: ) timeextension.com/news/2023/06/s #YosukeOkunari #Sega #Books
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Posted the last one previously, so let's circle around to the first. More arcadey than the X-Wing flight sims on PC, this is probably one of the best looking games on N64. The unlockable Naboo starfighter was so secret, it was even hidden from most of the dev team until release.
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This literally just arrived. I'm surprised it came on a Sunday, but anyone that watched our channel probably isn't surprised that I bought it. I didn't end up spending much time with the demo, but by then I'd already pre-ordered, and I just wanted to confirm it played well.
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Wrath of Denethenor, a replacement for the one that got away
retro365.blog/2023/05/30/wra
In 1986, Sierra's roleplaying void, left by the departure of Richard Garriott, would finally be filled, when Sierra picked up Christopher Crim's extensive and well-crafted Wrath of Denethenor.
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We have completed our 2nd full run of a scanning a magazine. All 66 issues Gekkan PC Engine are now digitally preserved for all to read and enjoy in 600DPI! Check out our short article about it here and consider a RT to help spread the word! gamingalexandria.com/wp/2023/06/gek
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Here's a fighting game with an unusual format. Battles take place in a cubic forcefield in midair with full 3D movement. Projectiles are emphasized. Surprisingly, Hironobu Kageyama was left in; usually we get an instrumental if the Japanese opening song isn't completely replaced.
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Here's part of Sting's Dept. Heaven series, originally on GBA, all of which experiment with the standard RPG structure. This port upgrades the graphics, adds additional content, and features voiced dialogue.
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Feature: Inside Nightdive's 8-Year-Long Odyssey To Remake The Original System Shock timeextension.com/features/insid #SystemShock #NightdiveStudios
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Here's a title based on one of my favorite anime. Haven't gotten into it yet, but the back of the box says it's an "adventure", and I believe you can date characters from the show if you play your cards right. Fortunately, there's a fan translation.
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Akiman provides a few details about Bao / バォー, Capcom's cancelled arcade beat em up that he mentioned a few years ago and on which one of the projects was to bring out a chara-designer other than himself.
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ヴァンパイアは没になった「バオ-」と言う企画の後釜で
「バオ-」もまたあきまん以外のキャラクターデザイナーをつくるという企画だったがそれは成立しなかった
つまりなにがどうあってもキャラクターデザイナーを成立させなければいけないという仕事で
他人のことだからまじめに大変だった
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This one is really more of a utility than a game. I picked it up cheap to transfer music from my PC for use with games that support custom soundtracks, and I'm not sure I ever even tried the other features. I do have the mic and controller adapter, but I store them separately.
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