Image: Kamui Fujiwara Terranigma is a SNES title that holds a special place in the heart of many an RPG fan, which is remarkable when you consider that it was only released in Japan and Europe, and bypassed North America entirely. Part of Quintet’s loose RPG trilogy (which also includes Soul Blazer and Illusion of ...
Image: Rob A We were recently contacted by a reader with details of a treasure they had found — an incredibly rare Kirby e-Reader card created exclusively for an in-person E3 2002 competition. Not only was it a limited card created for an industry-only event nearly two decades ago, but also a first prize-winning example ...
Sharif SaidAugust 6, 2021 GMT 11:57 Focus has added another experienced studio to its group. Focus family interaction Announced on Friday that it has acquired French retro experts Dortwood, The developer and publisher, has developed a number of well-acclaimed classic revival games, including “Angry Street 4”, the upcoming Windjammers 2 and so on.The transaction also ...
Remember guides? We certainly don’t, because of that terrible brain accident. But we’re pretty sure that they were excellent, fun little books filled with lovely art and weird semi-canonical facts about how Mario is secretly a tower of eggs in a trench coat. Anyway, you can now (or… soon) relive those glorious manual-filled days with ...
We heard about Sol Cresta — a sequel to arcade shoot-’em-ups Moon Crest and Terra Cresta — around April Fool’s Day this year, and, honestly, we weren’t sure if Platinum Games was pulling our leg (partly because it was their April Fool’s joke for 2020). But now, a few months later, they’ve released a (very ...
As you are no doubt aware, today brought the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Though the event is troubled, there’s still plenty of attention and celebratory tie-ins, with Google Doodle being perhaps the most impressive. For the next week, when you visit the Google search homepage you’ll see the icon to play ...
The retro video game market is booming right now. As you might have seen, a copy of the original Legend of Zelda game on the NES sold for $870,000 USD recently – making it the most expensive video game auction purchase (and collectable) of all time. The trend of paying top dollar for classic games ...
You may remember a few years ago when veteran game developer and DOOM legend John Romero released a video of a PC port demo of Super Mario Bros. 3 originally built as a pitch to Nintendo back in 1990. Well, the full demo has now turned up in a bunch of data donated to the ...
© PixelHeart We’re pretty used to seeing retro games getting reprints these days, but if you have a craving for 100% authenticity, then you might be more excited by the news that French publisher PixelHeart has 500 ‘new’ copies of F-Zero on the SNES for sale. While some overly optimistic individuals might assume these are ...
The aptly-named Japanese studio Treasure — in spite of its fondness for focusing on less popular formats and its infrequent and occasionally Japan-only releases — has long been a developer famed throughout all of game-dom for the consistent originality and sheer quality that runs through its work. Formed in 1992 by a bunch of ex-Konami ...
