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  • 0 / October 9th, 2025 / Peter Glagowski

    Mario & Wario makes its western debut in Switch Online’s October 2025 update


  • 0 / October 3rd, 2025 / Peter Glagowski

    One craft individual turned Lego’s Game Boy replica into a functional console


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    Super Mario Bros. speedrunner discovers ‘new’ levels in The Lost Levels after 39 years


  • 0 / October 1st, 2025 / Peter Glagowski

    First 4 Figures announces new ‘Conker’s Bad Fur Day’ game cover statue, pre-orders open October 9th, 2025


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September 11th, 2020 0

Arcade Archives: Gemini Wing shoots onto Nintendo Switch this week

Author: Matthew Weidner
Categories: News, Retro, Switch

The hits keep on coming as Hamster revives yet another classic to their Arcade Archives lineup this week. Arcade Archives Gemini Wing is a faithful rerelease of the coin-operated cabinet first released way back in 1987. It’s a vertical-scrolling shooter where players pilot gunships while blasting an invading army of…

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September 10th, 2020 0

New Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. trailer offers a closer look at the system

Author: Reece Heather
Categories: News, Merchandise, Retro

Last week’s Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary Direct opened with the reveal of Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros., a system based on the classic Nintendo portable systems of the ‘80s and featuring some of Mario’s debut titles. While we’re already familiar with the software that runs on the device,…

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September 9th, 2020 0

Song that inspired Sonic 3’s Ice Cap Zone theme gets a referential vinyl release

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, Merchandise, Retro

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September 7th, 2020 0

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Author: Reece Heather
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Gee, it sure is boring around here… Good thing we have the internet, so that projects like Zelda CD-i Reanimated can exist. Over 200 talented animators collaborated to produce the following video over the course of 19 months, resulting in an incredible tribute to the infamous cutscenes of the revered…

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September 4th, 2020 0

Sonic the Hedgehog OVA production demo songs uncovered

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: Retro, Merchandise, News

Earlier this week we brought you the news that the iconic theme song to the 1996 Sonic the Hedgehog OVA, “Look-a-Like”, had been uncovered in its original form, revealing some new lyrics that had up until then had been obscured by character dialogue. After was shared, however, fans were curious…

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September 4th, 2020 0

Nintendo Line account adds Kinopio-kun to classic Mario box art

Author: Ricky Berg
Categories: News, Retro

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September 2nd, 2020 0

Arcade Archives: Contra run ‘n guns onto Nintendo Switch this week

Author: Matthew Weidner
Categories: News, Retro, Switch

The good folks over at Hamster are bringing yet another classic to their Arcade Archives lineup this week, this time in the form of Bill and Lance’s most excellent adventure. Arcade Archives: Contra is a faithful re-release of the coin-operated cabinet that kicked off the series back in 1987. It’s…

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September 2nd, 2020 0

Shantae’s Game Boy Color reprint going up for pre-order on September 11th, Collector’s Edition announced

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, Retro, Switch

Limited Run Games has confirmed when its reprint Game Boy Color cartridge for Shantae will be going up for pre-order, and it’s not a long wait. You’ll be able to choose between several versions of the game starting September 11th.   Our very first GameBoy Color release is finally here!…

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August 31st, 2020 0

Full unedited version of Sonic OVA theme “Look-a-Like” discovered

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, Retro

This year’s Sonic the Hedgehog movie technically wasn’t the blue blur’s first – back in the ’90s, the Japanese animation studio Pierrot produced two original video animation (OVA) episodes which were later compiled into a home video release in western markets marketed Sonic the Hedgehog – The Movie. Being made…

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August 29th, 2020 0

A phantastic retrospective: A history of the Tales of series

Author: Ricky Berg
Categories: Retro, Features, Switch

With respect to video game history as a whole, we’re reaching a point where certain, longstanding series are reaching milestones like 35th and even 40th anniversaries. Along the way have been multiple generations of systems, games flipping sides when it comes to exclusivity, and for a time there was the…

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August 27th, 2020 0

Turrican Anthologies blasting their way onto Switch next year

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, Retro, Switch

While indie development may seem like a recent phenomenon, “bedroom coders” were pretty common throughout the ’80s and ’90s, especially in Europe. This was all thanks to the prevalence of home computers, such as the BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, and Commodore 64. It’s on the latter that Manfred Trenz created…

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August 25th, 2020 0

Where is My Body? Game Boy game surpasses Kickstarter goal, new images from Greenboy Games

Author: Marc Kaliroff
Categories: News, Retro

After receiving funding from 377 backers, the newest functional Game Boy cartridge from Greenboy Games will officially hit the retro format during Q4 of this year. Where is My Body?, the 8-bit click adventure from Dana Puch starring a mysterious hand searching for its missing body parts, surpassed its Kickstarter…

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