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“Arcade Archives SCION” Releases Oct 30 on Switch, Switch 2, PS4/5, Xbox Series X|S
Announcing the release date of “Arcade Archives SCION” “Arcade Archives 2 SCION” HAMSTER Corporation (Head Office: Tokyo-to, Setagaya-ku; CEO: Satoshi HAMADA; referred to below as “HAMSTER”) is happy to announce that “SCION” will be released for Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®4, Nintendo Switch™ 2, PlayStation®5 and Xbox Series X|S. The game will be available digitally on October…
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The Bard’s Tale – One of the earliest RPG’s makes an appearance on the Commodore Plus/4
The Plus/4 World website has surprised us with yet another new recovery! As they have informed the Plus/4 Facebook page, that the 1985 Interplay Productions RPG has been recovered for the Commodore Plus/4 by Csory and Siz. As in the words of the website. “Today, we put a period at the end of a very…
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Why Retro Tech and Vintage Gadgets Are Making a Comeback in Modern Homes
It’s easy to see why people are turning back to the gadgets they grew up with. New technology is powerful, but it feels detached. Old devices have weight, warmth, and the kind of character that turns a machine into something personal. That charm is starting to matter again. A record player on a clean white…
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Pricing And Release Date Revealed For Full-Size Amiga Replica ‘THE A1200’
I’ve got my C64 Ultimate Ordered but I’m debating whether I need to get this Amiga A1200. So many cool computers from the past are coming back… but what I really want is an Apple ][c replica. I’d love to see it but I’m not holding out much hope. Apple will never do it, and…
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Three More Toaplan Games Are Coming To The Atari 2600+, Atari 7800, & 7800+
Saw this on Time Extension and wanted to make sure everyone saw it. More Games beyond Tiger-Heli will be showing up on the 2600+ from Atari. I am having so much fun with my 2600+ I’m going to probably have to pick up these games also. Three more Toaplan games are set to receive brand-new…
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Dylan the Spaceman – A Dizzy clone demo’d for the Amiga 600/1200 by Camden Town Games
As many of you know when it comes to Dizzy, that little white egg has a special place on this site. We have featured art work, collections and fan based games, but what we have for you today isn’t exactly a Dizzy game, but it’s a Dizzy clone called ‘Dylan the Spaceman’ by Camden Town…
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The Video Game Life – by Chris Tang
This issue’s theme of computers offers me a chance to relate my journey as an arcade and console gamer who once hated playing on them in the early days. The PC is now my primary platform to game on today, so how did that come to be? Growing up in the game industry surrounded by…
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The 7th Guest In Fragments
Mr. Math Expert is not, by any means, a well-known YouTuber. Look over his channel and you will find hundreds of videos, though the vast majority are either math problems or film reviews. There are a few old gaming videos sprinkled throughout, and it was my recent pleasure to go through his series of…
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Why Are Retro Items Suddenly Worth So Much?
It is familiar for many of us to be struck by a sudden memory of a toy, TV series, or game from our childhoods. We might suddenly remember a fun hand-held game, a collectible found in a bag of cereal, or a cartoon with a main character we rooted for every afternoon after school. For…
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When Games Came on Floppies: The Glory Days of Early PC Gaming
Before the days of digital downloads, 4K graphics, and terabyte hard drives, there was a time when video games arrived in cardboard boxes filled with floppy disks. Each disk was a small, flexible square of black plastic, holding just a few hundred kilobytes of data—and yet, within those humble bytes lay entire worlds of imagination.…
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