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How GOG.com Save And Restore Classic Videogames
We speak to the legal detectives and expert programmers bringing old games back from the dead. “Hunting for distribution rights is essentially detective work,” says Marcin Paczyński, Head of Product at GOG. “Rights can repeatedly change hands or be split up between different parties, and it’s our job to get to the bottom of what happened.”
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'Mighty Gunvolt Burst' Is The Mega Man Game 'Mighty No. 9' Should Have Been
Imagine for a moment that the infamous Mighty No.9 had met fans’ high expectations instead of having tons of game-breaking bugs and lag issues. Now take that visualization of success and meld it with #ShovelKnight’s 8-bit-inspired graphics, the fundamental mechanics of the Mega Man series, and the item customization options found in the average sandbox game like Terraria.
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Your Amiga games are likely dying
The Amiga 500 came out just over 30 years ago, seeing as many as 6000 games released across its lifespan and that of its two immediate successors, the Amiga 600 and Amiga 1200. But if you were to dig out your old Amiga from the loft and try to load up Cannon Fodder, Pinball Fantasies, Zool or any other of the machine's classic titles, there's a very good chance they won't work.
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Nintendo 64 Games Have Been Successfully Emulated On Switch | NintendoSoup
Hackers and those in the homebrew community have found a way to successfully emulate Nintendo 64 games on Nintendo Switch. Unlike GameCube games, Nintendo 64 games run at full speed. Twitter user Mizumi has tested a few games, which you can check them out in action below...
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'Pokémon: Let's Go!' Takes You Back to '90s Nintendo Bliss
For many of us former kids who grew up mostly indoors in the 1990s, hearing the familiar chirps, buzzes, and pika pikas! of a first-generation Pokémon game can really rattle up some memories. Like that family vacation to Niagara Falls when I missed the entirety of Earth’s greatest natural wonder because I was too busy trying to evolve my Wartortle. Or that summer when my older brother stole my copy of Pokémon Blue, took it to band camp, and returned with all my Pokémon leveled up to 100 and creatively renamed after genitals (Blastoise was simply “Penis”).
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1980s Amiga has been running the AC and heat in 19 schools for 30 years
The Grand Rapids Public School district took a big step into the future back in the 1980s when it used money from an energy bond to purchase a Commodore Amiga computer.
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As Baldur's Gate turns 20, we remember why it was great
Baldur's Gate is 20-years-old. The influential role-playing game came out on 21st December 1998. Baldur's Gate was developed by BioWare and published by Interplay, and takes place in the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. It was built with the Infinity Engine, which Interplay would also use for other Forgotten Realms games such as Icewind Dale, and D&D game Planescape: Torment.
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The original 'Legend of Zelda' has a massive hidden area that one player finally opened, more than 30 years later
A huge portion of the original "Legend of Zelda" was inaccessible to players for over 30 years — until now. The original "Legend of Zelda" for the Nintendo Entertainment System is a massive, open-world game — and it could've been even bigger. That's because the game's voluminous open world was actually cut in half before the game's release; the lower half is known as the game's "minus world," where elements of the game could be tested by its developers at Nintendo.
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Old Video Game Ads Were Stupid and you Should Click This Link
Do you like reading old video game junk? I do. I’ve got a Nintendo Power stack, an EGM stack, a GamePro stack, and when I get bored of those, I peruse magazines on archive.org or retromags.com . If that sounds lame, then it’s because you haven’t tried these things out. These treasures are full of predictions that, after 20 or 30 years of hindsight, are super precious. It’s fun to remember the glory days of now fallen giants.
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'Super Mario Bros.' sells at auction for world record $100K
A sealed and graded copy of the original NES video game, 'Super Mario Bros.', sells at auction for slightly more than $100K.
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The man who made 'the worst video game in history'
The video game of Steven Spielberg's ET is considered to be one of the worst of all time and has even been blamed for triggering the collapse of Atari. Howard Scott Warshaw, the gifted programmer who made it, explains how it was rushed out in a matter of weeks - and how he feels about those events in California now. Spielberg was unimpressed. "Couldn't you do something more like Pac-Man?" he asked.
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Early Copy of Super Mario Bros. Sells for Record-Setting $100,150
You might think spending $60 on a new AAA video game is a lot, but three video game enthusiasts just spent more than $100,000 on a single game, and they don't even plan to play it.
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Happy Death Day to the Nintendo Famicom (1983-1994)
Nintendo sometimes makes a big deal about milestones—Mario's 30th, Zelda's 25th, and the "Year of Luigi" are all recent examples that come to mind—but one thing you won't usually hear them mention is how long it's been since something went away. Luckily, my encyclopedic knowledge of pointless factoids stands at the ready!
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[PC, 2000ish] Man gets zapped into his Nintendo, has to fight his way out
PC, Windows Platformer 2000ish 8 bit Nintendo clone Varied characters from different NES cartridges and an original human character as the...
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You can now download the source code for all Infocom text adventure classics
Yes, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Zork are both included.
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Super Mario 64 Voice Actor Settles Decades-Old Debate
In Nintendo's Super Mario franchise, the main character is usually pretty quiet, often communicating with shrugs or, at most, high-pitched expressions of surprise. But Mario does occasionally speak, and he's usually voiced by actor Charles Martinet. For the past two decades, one Mario soundbite has cased immense debate between Nintendo fans everywhere. No one's been able to precisely make out what the plumber says to Bowser after he defeats his rival in Super Mario 64.
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'Tetris' turns 35 this week. It's still the best puzzle game of all time.
The most popular puzzle video game of all time turns 35 this week.
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'Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled' Is the Perfect Callback to the Weird Era of '90s Gaming
Crash Bandicoot is back and better than ever in an excellent 'CTR' remaster due out on Friday.
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The Zelda: Link's Awakening remake has minimal changes, but this classic doesn't need them
Link’s Awakening was near perfect to begin with – and the remake isn’t going to mess with that design. As the old saying goes, there’s more than one way to skin a cat. There’s more than one way to remake a classic, too, as we’re seeing: Resident Evil 2 is big-budget, flashy and generally faithful. Final Fantasy 7 Remake looks like it’ll be more of a modern re-imagining than a beat-for-beat remake.
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The Atari VCS retro console can now be preordered from GameStop and Walmart
The long-awaited Atari VCS retro console is up for preorder starting today from GameStop, Walmart, and the company directly. It’s still months away from shipping, mind you: Indiegogo backers are scheduled to get it first beginning in December. Retailers won’t be shipping out their units until March 2020 — assuming this timing actually sticks, that is. Atari’s Indiegogo campaign raised over $3 million.
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