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MAME Downloads 2008-05-17 11:29:52 As I'm such a nice guy I've decided to host my MAME Rom's on the net and make them availible to you lot, enjoy!!System FilesMAME32Neo-Geo Bios
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Essential Games - Gunstar Heroes 2008-05-17 05:58:00 System - Sega Mega Drive/GenesisGenre- Run and GunDeveloper - TreasureYear - 1993Classy blaster from Treasure, one of my all time favourite games, similar to Contra though a little more comic in style. There's 4 different weapons to choose from which can be combined in pairs to create a total of 14 unique shooters.Featuring two heroes called Red and Blue who are up against uber villain General Gra Read more:Essential
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Possible British Release For The One Chip MSX? 2008-05-17 04:44:42 Could we be seeing the One Chip MSX (or to give it it's official name the 1chipMSX) on British
shores?? Possibly. Recently ESE Artists Factory sat down with Western distribution company Bazix and discussed that very thing. Don't hold your breath though as Japanese manufacturers D4 Enterprises will not be responsible for the western production so the hunt is on for a new company capable of putting Read more:Possible
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Retro Shamers - E.T 2008-05-16 16:26:08 System - Atari 2600Developer - AtariGenre - AdventureYear - 1982To celebrate my new feature I bring you...(drumroll)....E.T, the worst game in existence and according to legend hundreds of thousands of these unsold cartridges are buried somewhere in a New Mexican desert. Atari paid $20-25 million for the right to make this "game" and thinking the name alone would bring in the money, they only allo
Strange Games - The Great Giana Sisters 2008-05-16 14:14:54 System - C64 (Featured) Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Spectrum, Atari ST, MSXGenre - PlatformDeveloper - Time Warp ProductionsYear - 1987Could be one of the biggest rip offs I've ever seen, even going as far as putting "The Brothers are History" on the box. The sisters go by the names Giana and Maria and collect brightly coloured blocks rather than mushrooms which give them "Super Mohawk Hairstyles" apparen Read more:Games
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Unknown Games - Street Fighter 2010 2008-05-16 14:10:59 System - NESDeveloper - CapcomGenre - PlatformYear - 1990The blacksheep of the Street
Fighter series, 2010 is an action/platformer set 25 years after the original SF where you play as Ken who for some reason is now a scientist. I suspect that this was a different game in Japan which was just given the Street Fighter
brand for it's US release as the main character has no similarities to the one in Read more:Games
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New Mega Drive Release - Pier Solar 2008-05-16 14:08:46 Yeah, you read it right a NEW Mega Drive game is due for release and it's not just a ROM either, it comes in a box, on a cartridge!! This is the first time this century such a thing has happened. Pier Solar
is an RPG featuring three friends trying to save the world from some sort of evil guy and looks a bit similar to Chrono Trigger on the SNES which is never a bad thing.It's also being released o Read more:Release
Classic Consoles - Super Nintendo 2008-05-16 14:05:42 Developer - Nintendo
Year Released - Japan-90, North America-91, Europe-92Since everyone probably has or had one of these I won't waste time with history, I'll just say that this system is truly the pinnacle of 16 bit gaming, with decent graphics, amazing sound, and when pushed to the limits even competed with the Playstation and Saturn for a few years while Nintendo lagged with the N64. What made Read more:Classic
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Retro Oddities - Halcyon 2008-05-16 14:01:39 Developer - RDI SystemsYear - 1985This ones new even to me!! Created by Dragons Lair developer Rick Dyer the Halcyon was intended to let people play Laser Disk games at home. This powerful console could do FMV games which everybody seemed to want back in the mid eighties. Only two games were ever released for it, Thayers Quest and Raiders Vs Chargers, and it seems as if it was a little ahead of it Read more:Oddities
Unreleased Games - Starfox 2 2008-05-16 08:28:02 System - SNESDeveloper - NintendoGenre - 3D ShooterYear - 1995 I can't really understand why this was cancelled as it was pretty much finished bar a bit of tweaking, Nintendo just seemed to change there mind and concentrate on the N64 instead. They never gave an official statement though programmer Dylan Cuthbert had this to say :"StarFox 2 was fully completed. I was the lead programmer and whilst Read more:Games
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Retro Oddities - The Power Glove 2008-05-16 08:27:18 System - NESDeveloper - Mattel/PAXYear - 1989Ah the Power Glove
, probably one of the most infamous gaming accessories ever made. Although it was an official product Nintendo took nothing to do with it's development and I think that shows. Supposedly it could track your hand movements and translate them into on-screen movements though it was pretty unreliable. To be honest it made it HARDER to do e Read more:Oddities
Essential Games - Manic Miner 2008-05-16 08:01:24 Systems - ZX Spectrum (Featured), Mobile phone, Commodore 64, Commodore 16, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Dragon 32/64, Commodore Amiga, Oric 1, Game Boy Advance, MSX, SAM CoupéDeveloper - Matthew SmithGenre - PlatformerYear - 1983, 1984Possibly the most well known 8-bit game, ManicMiner
is still a firm favourite of Retro gamers. Everyone should own this game, there really is no excuse. Developed by t Read more:Essential
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SNES Controller for the Wii 2008-05-16 06:42:09 I you never wanted to move to Japan then you must now!! A SNES controller for the Wii
!!It's a limited edition, Club Nintendo model so these are going to be thin on the ground, hopefully it will get a general release soon. When that happens I think I may be calling my friendly neighborhood importer, Play Asia and getting myself one of these bad boys.
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Essential Games - Super Mario World 2008-05-20 06:06:01 System - SNESDeveloper - NintendoGenre - PlatformerYear - Japan - 90, USA - 91, Europe - 92What can I say about this game that hasn't been said before? Not much I suppose, just that I lived and breathed this as a nipper and still get excited about playing it today. Just look at those colourful graphics they just make you happy looking at them and along with Zelda : Ocarina of Time I would say this Read more:Essential
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Unreleased Consoles - Wow Wow 2008-05-22 17:46:11 Developer - TaitoProposed Release - Early 90'sNot a great deal is know about this PS3 lookalike, it was shown at the Tyoko Expo in the early 90's, was 16 bit and was going to go up against the Mega Drive and SNES. It's games were to be CD based and it was announced that gamers would download new content via an online service. It got as far a testing before the plug was pulled for reasons unknown.A Read more:Unreleased
Classic Consoles - Mega Drive 2008-05-22 13:42:27 Developer - SegaYear - Japan-88, USA-89, Europe-90Where did it all go wrong for Sega?? They had the console market eating out of there hand for a while with the Mega Drive (which was sold under the name Genesis in North America as Sega was unable to secure legal rights to the Mega Drive name in that region) and were slightly ahead of Nintendo in total sales for a period. Released in Japan in 1988, Read more:Classic
ROM Update - New MAME and SNES Downloads 2008-05-24 16:35:20 You may or may not have noticed the links up there for MAME and SNES downloads.This will be an on-going update with all the files coming from my own collection and hosted by me, any questions just leave a comment on the relevant page.New MAME RomsDungeons and Dragons : Tower of DoomDungeons and Dragons : Shadow over MystaraGhosts 'N' GoblinsKing of the Monsters 2Metal Slug Super Vehicle 001Neo Bom Read more:Update
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SNES Downloads 2008-05-24 16:21:36 Now we have SNES ROM's to download!! Go me!!System FilesFirst things first download the emulator, unzip it and place it wherever you want it, the little box beside the 'X' toggles it to full screen.ZSNESW 151Game ROMsNow for some games, just leave them zipped although the work fine unzipped too, place them in the same folder as ZSNES, boot it up, click file, then load and your good to go.All these Read more:Downloads
Games That Time Forgot - Doki Doki Panic 2008-05-24 06:02:02 Developer - FujiSystem - Famicom Disk DriveGenre - PlatformerYear - 1987Do those screenshots look familiar? That's because its Super Mario 2 before Nintendo bought the rights to it and added Mario and friends. The story goes that after Shigeru Miyamoto finished the original SMB 2 (which we saw on Allstars as the "Lost Levels") he decided it was to difficult for us Westerners so Nintendo changed th Read more:Games
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Essential Games - Nights Into Dreams 2008-05-26 14:34:14 Developer - SegaSystem - SaturnGenre - AdventureYear - 1996This has got to go down as one of the most criminally underrated games of all time, more than likely down to the unpopularity of its host console, the Saturn. Had this been brought out on the PSone I think It would have been a smash, but It wasn't so many people weren't aware It even existed until the Wii sequel was announced. Designed and Read more:Essential
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ULTIMARAGNAR0K You Tube Channel 2008-05-28 13:29:26 Just thought I would draw your attention to a friend of Retro Gamers You Tube channel.Warren (AKA Wazzer and a few other names!!) has recorded a huge amount of classic Final Fantasy footage, must be about 60 video's of FF I to IV, for your viewing pleasure. There's also a cheeky Mother 3 one in there too.It's not all Retro though as there's some modern titles in there too including Mario Kart Wii, Read more:Channel
Cruel Dreamcast 2 Rumours 2008-06-09 04:53:07 In my endless search for confirmation that Sega will rejoin the console market I came across this video, after 30 seconds of what could have been the happiest of my life I realised it must be a fake, it was posted on You-Tube 7 months ago surely the mainstream would have picked up the story by now?The search continues!! Read more:Dreamcast
Starfox 2 2008-06-09 04:45:47 To kick of Retro Gamers lets have a little look at possibly the most famous unreleased game of all time. Due out in 1995 I can't really understand why this was cancelled as it was pretty much finished bar a bit of tweaking, Nintendo just seemed to change there mind and concentrate on the N64 instead. They never gave an official statement though programmer Dylan Cuthbert had this to say :"StarFox 2
Mother 3 Translation On The Horizion? 2008-06-09 04:34:39 I've just checked on the progress made from the legends over at THE UNIFIED MOTHER 3 TRANSLATION PROJECT and it is now quoted at 80-85% completed!! I'm far too excited about that!!Never heard of Mother 3? It's basically the sequel to Earthbound on the SNES and for reasons unknown Nintendo decided not to localise it as they seem to do with all the good stuff! Thank god for guys like these, without Read more:Translation
Possible British Release For The One Chip MSX? 2008-06-10 14:24:20 Could we be seeing the One Chip MSX (or to give it it's official name the 1chipMSX) on British
shores?? Possibly. Recently ESE Artists Factory sat down with Western distribution company Bazix and discussed that very thing. Don't hold your breath though as Japanese manufacturers D4 Enterprises will not be responsible for the western production so the hunt is on for a new company capable of putting Read more:Possible
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