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Looking and playing like an unreleased 8-bit NES game, Sydney Hunter and the Curse of the Mayan is a 2D pixel sidescroller that mixes a bit of Metroidvania with Mega Man. With an Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom visual theme, this game carries plenty of personality and retro platforming pleasure. An homage to […]
Originally released on an actual NES cartridge in 2016 thanks to the dedicated group at Retrotainment and Mega Cat Studios, Haunted: Halloween ’86 – The Curse of Possum Hallow is now available as a Switch eShop download. This is a new 8-Bit Nintendo game, programmed using the NES programming language, which is something pretty special […]
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is the perfection example of how far the Mario and Sonic rivalry has come. Even though they were mortal enemies in the 16-bit era, these fan favorite characters are the biggest buddies here in this Olympic mini-game compilation and it will warm the hearts of fans […]
Originally released in 2017 on a legit NES cartridge, Creepy Brawlers is now making its way onto consoles as a low cost digital download. Mega Cat Studios, also responsible for the new old school beat’em up Coffee Crisis, programmed this title using original Assembly language making this an honest to goodness new original Nintendo game. […]
Positioned as a sibling game to PING 1.5, PING REDUX is a one part puzzle game and one part Arkanoid. Unlike the numerous Break-Out/Brickles clones out there, the goal isn’t to make a bouncing ball bump into all the pieces on the board. Instead, the player needs to have the ball touch an orange sphere […]
Originally released in 2009 on pretty much every system available at the time, Ghostbusters: The Video Game essentially acted as Ghostbusters 3 since a third movie was never made. Now, ten years later and released just in time for Halloween, how well does this last gen title hold up? Well, it plays and looks like […]
Originally released on Wii in 2006, Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz HD has been ported to all modern consoles with an updated coat of visual paint and reworked to support non-motion controls. While it isn’t the best Monkey Ball title, this HD port has enough content to mildly entertain fans that never played the original. […]
Jalopy, a game about driving through the European Eastern bloc with your uncle in the early 1980s, is probably the slowest and least exciting game you might ever play. While it will not please action fans, there is something definitely unique about the obscure approach of Jalopy’s gameplay. The ultimate gameplay loop involves driving from […]
Like Space Harrier before it, SEGA AGES Columns II is a faithful console port of the arcade version thanks to the consistently high emulation quality of developer M2. All the bells and whistles you expect are here including visual toggles such as screen stretching, enabling scanlines, and plenty of boarder options. Even the worbbly arcade […]
There is good reason you never heard of Ichidant-R before; it has a confusing name and was only released to Japanese arcades in 1994. Thankfully, Sega and M2 have ported this forgotten arcade title to Nintendo Switch under the SEGA AGES banner. The easiest way to describe Ichidant-R is to compare it to other mini […]
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