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Homebrew  Genesis / Mega Drive Getting A New Run-And-Gun Called 'The Cursed Legacy'

Update [Mon 16th Sep, 2024 15:00 BST]: The crowdfunding campaign for The Cursed Legacy is now live on Kickstarter. If you want to back the project, there are a bunch of available rewards currently being offered as part of the campaign, such as a digital copy (Steam & Mega Drive / Genesis) of the game (for €10), a complete-in-box version for Sega Mega Drive / Genesis (priced at €45 to €50), and a special edition that comes with a modded, painted and serviced MegaDrive 1 console as well as The Cursed Knight and other additional extras (costing €700). Here's a description of the project taken from the campaign page: And here's the link for those who want to lend their support. Rewards are currently expected to ship in March 2025...
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News  Arika Teases Potential Tetris: The Grand Master 3 Release

It looks like Arika is about to release Tetris: The Grand Master 3 - Terror Instinct on modern-day systems. The company's Tetris: The Grand Master Twitter account has posted the following cryptic message: The coin-op titles Tetris: The Grand Master and Tetris: The Grand Master 2 are already available as part of Hamster's Arcade Archives series. The third game is a much-requested release for fans of the puzzle series. If Tetris: The Grand Master 3 is inbound, then Tetris fans sure are eating good this year; we've also got Tetris Forever to look forward to.
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News  Flappy Bird Creator Claims He Never Sold The Rights To The Game

Last week, a group calling itself the "Flappy Bird Foundation" announced to the press that it had acquired the trademark rights to the mobile hit Flappy Bird from Gametech Holdings and that it intended to rerelease the game later this year on web browsers, iOS, and Android. Initially, as you might expect, the news was greeted with a bunch of enthusiasm online, with fans happy to see the game return after a decade away, but soon questions started to be raised about whether its creator Dong Nguyen had willingly sold the rights and why there were a bunch of hidden references to Web3 and NFTs on its new website that weren't disclosed in its announcement. Now, Nguyen has broken his social media silence of over seven years to confirm his...
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News  "I Am Tired Of Receiving Death Threats Over A Video Game" - FPGA Dev Explains Why Mortal Kombat Is Skipping MiSTer

FPGA technology has been used in a wide range of different retro gaming systems, but two platforms arguably stand at the forefront right now: MiSTer FPGA and the Analogue Pocket. Both use FPGA chips to replicate the performance of vintage platforms on a hardware level, and many of the developers who produce FPGA cores support both systems. However, more recently, we've seen some desirable cores being released on the Analogue Pocket only, and this has caused some people to question what's afoot. One of the notable recent examples is Mortal Kombat, which is currently exclusive to the Pocket. Some have taken this to be a vendetta against MiSTer, which has resulted in the team behind the core – @_atrac17 and @pr4m0d – to take to social...
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Retro  Fancy Owning The SNES PlayStation? You Can Now Make Your Own (Kinda)

The story of the SNES PlayStation is so well known now that it has become part of video game folklore. Back in the early '90s, Sony and Nintendo inked a deal that would see the former produce a CD-ROM drive for the SNES, as well as the right to produce its own all-in-one system, dubbed "Play Station" (note the space). When it became clear to Nintendo that Sony expected to gain cash from each game sold as part of the deal, it unceremoniously dumped the Japanese tech giant at the alter, signing an agreement with Philips instead. Sony created several SNES PlayStation prototypes, but the system was never put into production. One of the prototypes sold for $360,000 a few years back. Most people don't have that kind of cash, but thanks to...
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News  It's Game Over For Italian Retro Gaming "Trafficking Ring" Worth $55 Million

Italian police have seized a haul of counterfeit retro game consoles worth almost €50m ($55.5m), reports the BBC. Alessandro Langella, head of the economic crime unit for Turin's financial police, told the AFP news agency that 12,000 Chinese-made systems containing pirated video games were taken in the haul, all intended to be sold in physical video game stores or online. The devices – designed to imitate classic systems made by Nintendo, Sega and Atari – came fitted with "non-certified batteries and electrical circuits", which meant they "failed to meet EU technical or safety standards." The seized systems have since been destroyed, and nine Italian nationals have been arrested and charged with trading in counterfeited goods. Should...
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News  Weekly Gaming News: September 16, 2024

Piczle Cross: Rune Factory will launch next year Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons was a great combination of the Marvelous series and nonogram puzzles. Score Studios and Rainy Frog are again taking a beloved Marvelous franchise and giving it the nonogram treatment. Piczle Cross: Rune Factory brings the characters, monsters, and world of Rune Factory and combines them with the popular puzzle format. The game features 300 puzzles, each with a classic and a color variation. There are also 20 collage puzzles, where you use many puzzles combined to form an image; again, each has the same two variations as the normal puzzles. You'll spend your time fighting monsters and uncovering villagers. Unlike Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons, Piczle...
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Retro  Retro Game Designer Will Let You Create Games For Dreamcast, Genesis, GBA, PS1 And Jaguar

Zia and the Goddesses of Magic is one of OrionSoft's previous games A new crowdfunding campaign has gone live for a Windows and Linux tool that aims to make the process of producing retro games for classic systems more straightforward. OrionSoft's Retro Game Designer "uses a very simple user-friendly graphic interface allowing you to import assets such as background images, sprite sheets, tile maps, musics, sfx and combine these together into a game, export this game to a ROM file or CD ISO so you can play it on your real retro hardware using a flash cart, a CD emulator or a CD-R," according the Kickstarter page. Using the tool, you'll be able to create a game and then easily export it to systems such as Dreamcast, Sega Genesis /...
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News  RoboCop, TFX And Wargasm Studio Digital Image Design To Rise From The Ashes

British studio Digital Image Design (DID) appears to be rising from the dead, more than twenty years after it fell silent. Founded in 1989 by Martin Kenwright and Phillip Allsopp, DID's first title was the flight simulator F29 Retaliator and the studio would make its name producing similar simulations, right the way up to its final game, 2002's Eurofighter Typhoon: Operation Icebreaker. In fact, DID's reputation in this field saw it work closely with the Royal Air Force, British Army and Royal Navy, and its simulations were used to train actual pilots. DID would also produce the critically acclaimed RoboCop 3 for Ocean in 1991, as well as the sci-fi titles Epic (1992) and Inferno (1994), the latter of which benefitted from a...
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News  Hudson Soft Almost Created A Castlevania-Style Dungeons & Dragons Game For SNES

Here's some free advice for anyone conducting an interview with a member of the games industry: always ask if they witnessed or are aware of any unreleased games. It doesn't matter who they are, or what the main topic of discussion is. Even if they're in a non-creative field, like an accountant or marketing. At the end, make a point of throwing this question out there and seeing what happens. Your author has been doing interviews for 20 years, and no one has ever claimed not to have seen one. This is vitally important. If an unreleased game was previewed, we at least know it existed and have clues to pursue it. For example, we know about the SNES shmup Christopher Columbus thanks to magazine coverage, and that it was by Misawa...
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ROM Hack  Fan-made Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky remake announced as a Rescue Team DX ROM hack

When it comes to Pokemon spin-offs, none are more beloved than the Mystery Dungeon games. Bringing monster collection and the charm of the larger series to the random environments and natural replayability of Mystery Dungeon titles, Spike Chunsoft hit it out of the gate with the debut games Red and Blue Rescue Team. Having recently revisited those titles in 2020 with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, fans of the series have been patiently waiting for the next game to get the same series. Four years later they're still waiting. Explorers of Sky, the enhanced version of Explorers of Time and Darkness before it, is renowned as the peak of the series in terms of both content and storytelling. For those wanting to re-experience this...
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Steam  'Utopia Must Fall' Is A Stylish Vector-Based Shooter Inspired By Missile Command

Utopia Must Fall — a stylish new vector-based shoot em' up from the developer Pixeljam Games — launched on Steam Early Access a few days ago and it is well worth checking out if you have a fondness for arcade classics like Missile Command, Asteroids, and Space Invaders. The game sees players put in control of the defense of humanity's last surviving metropolis which is under threat from mysterious alien forces (as well as other miscellaneous bits of space debris). Armed with a railgun, and a small stockpile of nukes, your job is to protect the city from incoming collisions in order to fight another day, with the option being offered between waves to pick from a series of upgrades to better prepare for the next assault. From what...
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News  Game Researcher Says Street Fighter II Was "USA Vs. Japan" And Japanese People Aren't Happy

Street Fighter II is a fantastic video game, but even the most ardent fan would be hard-pressed to argue that it offers a balanced view on cultural stereotypes – but hey! – it was made in the '90s, and having an Indian yogi with shrunken skulls around his neck was almost acceptable back then. Joking aside, Rachael Hutchinson – author of Japanese Culture Through Video Games – feels that it perhaps goes a little deeper than that, especially in regards to the iconic rivalry / friendship of Ryu and Ken, arguably the two 'main' characters in the game. Speaking on Japanese TV recently, Hutchinson is reported to have claimed that Ryu and Ken's occasionally combative relationship reflected the commercial "conflict" between Japan and the USA...
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News  Missing 'History Of Nintendo' Books On The Famicom & Game Boy Are Now Available In English

Earlier this week, the author Florent Gorges announced the long-awaited release of The History Of Nintendo: the Story of the Family Computer and The History Of Nintendo: The Incredible Story of the Game Boy in English. As mentioned below, both books had previously only ever been published in French or Spanish, despite including some of the most thorough investigations into the history of the iconic Nintendo machines. So it's great to see them finally get a proper translation here, even if it's taken many years to get to this point. If you feel like picking up a copy, both books are now available to order directly from Amazon for $28 / £21.30 each. You can find the relevant links below: The History Of Nintendo: the Story of the...
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News  Check Out These Amazing Captain Commando Figures

Capcom's Captain Commando comes from the company's golden era of arcade fighters and ranks alongside Final Fight and Cadillacs And Dinosaurs when it comes to belt-scrolling brilliance. If you're a fan of the game like we are here at GameParadise, then you'll be pleased to learn that Chinese company 52 Toys is reissuing a series of 3.75-inch figures of the game's four playable characters: Captain Commando, Mack the Knife, Baby Head and Ginzu. Each figure comes with accessories, and they're all fully posable – making them the perfect desk buddies. Released in arcades in 1991, Captain Commando was designed by Akira Yasuda and Junichi Ohno, with Yasuda providing artwork. It was later ported to the SNES and PS1, and has been included in...
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News  Edia's 'Tenshi No Uta Collection' Is Out Now On The Switch eShop In Japan

Edia's 'Tenshi No Uta Collection' was released yesterday on the Nintendo Switch eShop in Japan, as planned. As stated below, this new compilation release is the latest in the company's ongoing Telenet Revive series and contains the first two Tenshi no Uta games — Tenshi no Uta and Tenshi no Uta II: Choice of the Fallen Angel. It was crowdfunded earlier this year on the Japanese website Makuake, where it raised 11,979,600 yen, and is now available to purchase for 5,280 yen from the Japanese eShop. Notably, the third game in the series Tenshi no Uta: Shiroki Tsubasa no Inori (Angel's Poem: Prayer of the White Wings) was also included as a stretch goal in the campaign, but is still being worked on, according to a recent update post...
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News  Publisher Annapurna Interactive has its entire staff resign after dispute

The entire team of video game publisher Annapurna Interactive has walked out and quit, after a dispute between the company's owner and executives. Known for being the publishing label behind tons of indie games such as What Remains of Edith Finch, Florence, Stray, Kentucky Route Zero, Outer Wilds, and more, a massive shake up has taken place within the company, a week after Annapurna's president, Nathan Gary stepped down. An initial report, broken by The Hollywood Reporter stated that Gary, along with senior members Deborah Mars and Nathan Vella all resigned last week. Today, a statement was released, announcing that on top of that, all 25 members of Annapurna Interactive have resigned. Bloomberg confirmed that the reason behind the...
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Trailer  A new trailer is a great recap of past The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom videos

The release date for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is steadily creeping closer despite only being announced in June. It's now only two weeks away! It puts Zelda in the hot seat after rifts start forming in the world and pulling people in. There have been lots of trailers showing off the game's features, but today Nintendo dropped a 5-minute Overview Trailer to help pull all publicly known information together and tie it up with a neat little bow. I don't think there's much (if anything) new, but it's compiled well enough to make it worth watching. Hyrule is described as a sprawling, vibrant land. At the center of a great field is Hyrule Castle, surrounded by a bustling town. Regions in Hyrule include Gerudo Desert, Faron...
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Gaming  5 Hobbies Perfect for Gamers

https://www.joyfreak.com/threads/5-hobbies-perfect-for-gamers.15302/
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News  Switch Reissue Of Jaleco's Famicom Adventure 'Bio Senshi Dan' Gets A Release Date

The Jaleco action-adventure title Bio-Senshi DAN: Increaser to no Tatakai is being released on Nintendo Switch on September 26th, City Connection has revealed. The reissue of the game (which is being localized as Bio Warrior DAN The Increaser War) was announced back in July as part of City Connection's new 'JALECOlle Famicom Edition' series, which is essentially a collection of retro reissues of classic Jaleco Famicom games with a bunch of new features added to sweeten the deal. According to City Connection, the new additions coming to the game will include a collection of never-before-shared development materials from the game's developer Ohayashi, as well as the introduction of an area map on the pause screen, a new English...
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