Retro updates are all the rage these days, so what's next on the docket. According to the veteran developer Mark Turmell, it may be Smash TV . In an interview on Retrogaming with Racketboy , the Smash TV programmer discussed the game at length, and also made mention of a potential sequel. Unfortunately, while it appears that the 3D revival actually made it into the programming stages, progress was...
Nintendo downloads this Halloween week: The WiiWare service invites you to explore a ghostly mansion or face menacing foes in a new Tales of Monkey Island adventure. On the Virtual Console, battle zombies and other supernatural creatures in a Super NES classic, or ward off evil forces in the legendary arcade game Golden Axe. For [...]
Once Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog made it big, video game developers and publishers everywhere seized on the idea of creating their own radical animal mascot character to star in colorful platforming games. Software Creations and Tradewest were no different, but instead of coming up with an animal with attitude, they went with a collection of animated clothes with a somewhat mild outlook on life for the...
“The Memory Card” is a seasonal feature that dissects and honors some of the most artistic, innovative, and memorable videogame moments of all time. For the last two weeks, The Memory Card has put on a fine suit and fancy top hat and become The Graphics Card, a three-part miniseries focusing on amazing, specific moments in outstanding videogame graphics over the years. The first installment...
I've seen some good proposals in my day, but this one has to take the Super Mario cake . Using his geek smarts, this gaming guy asked his equally Mario-obsessed gal to be his "player two" by the light of their Super NES, and a hacked copy of Super Mario World . It doesn't get any better than that! And although the vessel of this sweet surprise wasn't Super Mario Bros. 3 (which is battling...
Last week was the first edition of a three-part Memory Card miniseries specifically focusing on amazing moments in videogame graphics over the years (I am calling it The Graphics Card). Last week’s entry featured my first “holy sh*t!” graphics memory from the Nintendo Entertainment System. This week, it’s time to move on to the 16-bit era -- more specifically, the Super Nintendo....
Back in the days of the Super NES there was a game that my brother and I played that shipped with 3D glasses. I can’t even remember the name of the game, but I do remember it sucked. Today you can get some impressive 3D effects on PC games and 3D is coming to console systems as well. Acer has announced its first 3D notebook called the Aspire 5738DG . Acer is relatively mum on the hard specs...
Here are this week's downloads, demos and videos for the Wii and Nintendo DS: WiiWare: Gravitronix ($5) Virtual Console: Final Fight 2 for Super NES ($8) DSiWare: Pinball Pulse: The Ancients Beckon ($5) Rock Band 2 tracks ($2 each; due...
Another week brings more downloadable goodness to your Nintendo consoles. First up on the Wii's virtual console we are treated to the second installment in one of Capcom's most bear-tastic series with Final Fight 2 . And I hear that it's even a pretty good beat-em-up without taking into account in the burly, half-naked men. WiiWare sees the release of Gravitronix , which looks from trailers like a...
Things have happened on the Nintendo downloadable front. This morning ushers in one title on each of the publisher’s three digital platforms. Don’t expect the amazing, but don’t expect a clock either. The new (old) Virtual Console title is Final Fight 2 . Hitting at 800 Wii Bones, this follow-up to its smash-hit successor is much more of the same. Maki, Carlos and the loveable belt-strapped...
Sorry, Greg Abbott, but I'm not worthy enough to wear your shirt. For I can't answer "what game is the shark playing?" Here's what I do know. 1. The shark is playing something on the Super NES. I would know that controller anywhere. I should, because I spent way too many hours playing Uni Racers on it. By the shark's expression, that would be the only good guess for a game. 2. The shark is...
I caught up with Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe yesterday, the one-off BBC4 special that used the format of Screenwipe and Newswipe to tackle the video-game industry. A few brief thoughts on my own gaming life and the show itself after the jump: I'm not really much of a gamer these days. I have a Playstation 3 that spends its days playing video files and Blu-ray discs, not games. The only game I own for...
Gameloft is currently working on a remake of the early nineties classic action platformer, Earthworm Jim, which saw a release on home consoles such as the Mega Drive/Genesis and Super NES in 1994. This much you knew . A single comparison screenshot has now been released, however, to show the differences in graphical detail between the game’s original release in 1994, and the new remake here...
Do you remember the 16-bit glory days of video gaming when Capcom brought the arcade smash Street Fighter II to the Super NES? And do you remember how the company then turned around and brought Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition to the Sega Genesis and Street Fighter II Turbo to the Super NES in which the four boss characters were available as playable characters, meaning that the original...
TOKYO — Puyo Puyo 7 is the latest installment of Sega’s long-running puzzle series. It’s a deceptively simple game centered on aligning colored blobs into groups of four to make them disappear. (You might remember it as Kirby’s Avalanche if you owned a Super NES or Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine on the Genesis.) The primary [...]
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