Jeffrey L. Wilson confesses his love for the admittedly sucktacular China Warrior.
What’s 10 in Hedgehog years? What’s 20? This year we were fortunate enough to witness two massively important SEGA console milestones: the anniversaries of the Genesis (20!) and Dreamcast (10!) consoles. There’s something entirely awesome about a beloved console celebrating its 20th anniversary, and having gamers who were there during those early days look back [...]
What does an intrepid gamer and a major developer’s surprising lack of security surrounding an announced game equal? An early reveal of Hudson’s Bonk revival! Videoman, a poster at the NeoGAF forums, was poking around on Hudson’s site looking for information on Lost in Shadow, when he starting messing around with inputting random URLs. This [...]
Bits and Bytes is a weekly round up of some of the more interesting gaming news items that happened to slip through the cracks during our normal posting schedule. They’re presented here in easily-digestible bite-size chunks. 16-bit Celebration Can you believe that it’s been 20 years since the debuts of Hudson/NEC’s TurboGrafx-16 and Sega’s Genesis? Retronauts [...]
The 20th anniversary of the Sega Genesis’ U.S. debut will soon be upon us, so it shouldn’t be too surprising that all manner of Genny product will be introduced in time to satisfy nostalgia-drunk gamers. And I welcome it. Hyperkin is one those companies. In late August, it will release two Sega-licensed game systems: The [...]
It’s said that the only guarantees in life are death and taxes, but I’d like to ammend that statement with an extra category: an annual Sega hardware rumor. Since the premature exit of the beloved Sega Dreamcast, the rumor mill gets a-grindin’, churning out a small dose of hope to which fanboys and retrogamers cling [...]
I missed out on a lot of great games, growing up. Either because I didn’t have the right console or because I was a stupid kid and was way more interested in miscellaneous crap. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of excellent games that I have never even touched – – I don’t think I’m [...]
