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(Editor’s Note: This should have been released on the 10th of April, but a mix-up resulted in that not happening. We apologize for being late.) It’s April 10th, 1996, and you walk into your favorite game store. When what to your wondering eyes should appear on the New Release shelf but a compilation of six [...]
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Today in Retro Gaming – Williams Arcade’s Greatest Hits (PS1)
April 14th, 2013 
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New Capcom Arcade Cabinet Screens
March 18th, 2013 triverse Capcom are on a roll lately with re-releasing their older titles on newer consoles (such as Virtual Console) and on the Sony (and Microsoft Xbox 360 side, if you really care), they are bringing out a set of arcade games from the heyday of arcade gaming, the 80′s. A time when companies were willing to [...]
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Tags: arcade, cabinet, capcom, network, playstation 3, psn, re-release, retro, virtual 
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Today in Retro Gaming – King’s Field (PS1)
March 11th, 2013 Modern Zorker King’s Field was released in February in the US but one of our editors decided he needed sleep more than he needed work, so we had to move this feature to March to celebrate the game’s UK launch. Said editor has become 200% more productive since we cut off his eyelids, and we apologize for [...]
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Today in Retro Gaming: The Granstream Saga (PS1)
February 26th, 2013 Modern Zorker Today in retro gaming, we celebrate the European release of The Granstream Saga with an ad that explains exactly why you should be excited about playing it in a post-Final Fantasy VII world.
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams to Hit Playstation Network in Spring 2013
February 5th, 2013 triverse The Giana Sisters, a title that is almost as old as the Mario games, is scheduled to hit the Playstation Network (and other platforms but who cares?) in Spring 2013. For those that don’t know about the Giana Sisters games, they are squarely in the side scrolling action platforming realm of gaming.
Posted in News, PS3, PSN Tags: 3, action, adventure, clone, giana sisters, mario, network, platform, playstation, psn, retro, side scrolling, spring 2013, three, twisted dreams No Comments »
Today in History: Battle Arena Toshinden 3 Hits Playstation One on January 31st, 1997
January 31st, 2013 triverse When the Playstation One originally was released, it brought with it a lot of new and interesting games that were not seen before. Games that simply were not capable of being realized on earlier consoles were finally running wild on this newcomer console by Sony. One of those games was Battle Arena Toshinden and it [...]
Posted in Articles, News, PSOne, Retro Tags: 1997, arena, battle arena toshinden 3, classic, fighting, january 31st, playstation, psone, retro, sony, takara No Comments »
Today in History: January 30th, 2000 – Rayman 2: Revolution Hits the Playstation 2
January 30th, 2013 triverse Ubisoft has proven time and time again that they are a premiere publisher on all platforms. One title that Ubisoft hit paydirt with is the Rayman series, the reason for this look back. Specifically, the Playstation 2 version which was not all that different than the other versions made available, still has qualities that set [...]
Posted in News, PS2, PS3, PSN, Retro Tags: 3d, action, adventure, digital release, dreamcast, gameboy, havoc, hoodlums, lums, network, nintendo 64, pc, playstation, playstation 2, rayman, retro, revolution, super mario 64, ubisoft, windows No Comments »
A Glitch in the Machine – Five Great PS1 Bugs
December 30th, 2012 Modern Zorker Once upon a time, the closest a gaming company got to patching a console game was fixing the code and releasing a new version of the cartridge. Squaresoft did this with Final Fantasy III on the Super Nintendo, releasing a v1.1 that fixed a few problems including the infamous “Sketch” glitch, but it did so [...]
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PSP Classics #1: Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles by Konami
December 1st, 2012 triverse We have seen ports, updates and re-releases throughout gaming since the early days. The early days were big on this method of cheap new games to sell to owners of newer hardware. For the most part these re-releases are straight ports, maybe with a frame rate improvement of some sort (usually by virtue of being [...]
Posted in Articles, News, PSP, Retro Tags: alien wars, bloodlines, castlevania, contra, dracula x chronicles, genesis, hard corps, konami, network, pc engine, playstation, port, portable, psp, reboot, remake, retro, snes, sonic, sony, super cd rom, super nintendo No Comments »
