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Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) It’s been a beautiful time for Sega revivals as of late, with games like Streets of Rage 4 and Panzer Dragoon: Remake bringing back old classics. One of the most prolific has been Westone’s Wonder Boy/Monster World series, which has seen no less than three entries – first, a remake of the Master System game The Dragon’s Trap from 2017; a brand-new entry called Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom in 2019; and now in 2021, a remake of the Meg...

The Wild History Of Demo Discs, Shareware And Covertapes Share Image: Kotaku Back before YouTube and Twitch and always online DRM, developers needed more effective ways of marketing than just relying on word of mouth. This resulted in shareware, demos and demo discs, free slices of playable content that spawned one of the most interesting phases in the gaming. The earliest roots of the demo as we know it can be traced right back to the computers of the ’80s and ’90s. An entire industry buil...

Ayrton Senna Helped Sega Make A Better F1 Game Share Up until middle school, all the kids in my hometown had their birthday parties at the same roller rink. That roller rink contained a small arcade with games that seemed hopelessly outdated to us at the time but would rake in quarters at any Barcade now. Stuff like X-Men, Killer Instinct. In the corner of the room was a semi-enclosed cabinet painted in white and red with Marlboro-like logos on it, because you could get away with tobacco icon...

UK Legends The Bitmap Brothers Are Joining The Evercade Lineup © The Bitmap Brothers The Evercade handheld is becoming a real godsent for retro gamers, and the latest announcement – following hot on the heels of the Evercade VS – is sure to go down well with players of a certain age. It has been confirmed that the next Evercade cartridge release will include the works of legendary UK code house The Bitmap Brothers. Established in London in 1987, the studio quickly became famous for the hig...

Streets of Rage 2 (1993) ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron (1993) Vectorman (1995) More Retro Gaming Goodness Todays video game companies wish they could make a console as cool as the Sega Genesis. Sega might not make hardware any more, but nothing can take away the achievement of this legendary machine. During an era when a multi-platform game on the PlayStation 5 is nearly indistinguishable in graphics and sound from the same game on Xbox Series X/S or PC, its hard to remember a time when e...

April 8th, 2021 Sega/Merge Games/Jankenteam Sega, Merge Games and Jankenteam have announced a release date for their remake of the classic Master System platformer Alex Kidd in Miracle World. Its coming to PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC (on the Steam and Epic stores) and Nintendo Switch on June 24th and itll cost $20. i It seems Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX will offer more than just a slick, updated art style. Therell be new levels and modes (including a boss rush), along ...

Coming to Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC. Updated on 8 April 2021 Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX, developer Jankenteams remake of the much-loved Sega Master System classic, will be making its way to PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch on 24th June. The original Alex Kidd debuted on the Master System three and a half decades ago, back in 1986 (apologies to those out there suddenly feeling very old), and charted the adventures of the titular martial artist as...

Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX Will Debut in June 2021 Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX, the updated version of the original game from Jankenteam and Merge Games, will debut on June 24, 2021. It will appear on all current consoles and PCs. (Both Epic Games Store and Steam will offer it.) This updated version of Alex Kidd in Miracle World was one of the many June 2020 announcements. As a reminder, it takes the original game and builds up on it. There are both original and classic graphics options....

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Availability: Out now in Japan on PS4 and Switch Enter M2, a fascinating publisher and developer located in Tennodai near Tokyo, mostly known for producing conversions of classic games to modern hardware. M2 always goes the extra mile in order to deliver a product that not only immaculately represents the original games, but also improves them in many regards - always optionally of course. M2 is the kind of company to take the plunge into the technical depths of vintage hardware, as it has show...