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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 Mega Drive game Monster World IV. A big difference to note is that the first two games were produced by...

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 built itself around the idea of giving people freely distributed packages, to convince users to buy the ...

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 That roller rink contained a small arcade with games that seemed hopelessly outdated to us at the time but would rake in quarters at any Barcade now.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 iconography on a game for children in the ’90s. None of us approached this machine because we didn’t...

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 high standard of its games, as well as the 'rock star' status of its founders, Mike Montgomery, Eric Ma...

Streets of Rage 2 (1993) ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron (1993) Vectorman (1995) More Retro Gaming Goodness Today's 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, it's hard to remember a time when each console offered its own dramatically different technological fingerprint that made its games f...