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New Games For Retro Consoles: Ploid And Reknum

New Games For Retro Consoles: Ploid And Reknum

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If you didn’t know, most video game consoles from the 80s and 90s are still getting new games added to their library every month — just not “officially.” There’s a thriving indie development community centered around the NES, Game Boy, Genesis, and the 90s’ final gift, the Dreamcast. Ploid and Reknum are two indie projects first released for the NES, but they’ll soon be getting Dreamcast releases thanks to the efforts of publisher VGNY Soft. Preorders were opened today, and here’s what each of them are about…. Ploid is a Mega Man inspired platformer-shooter where you play as a robot named Omega searching for an upgrade. “Omega must travel to the sacred ruins in search of the sacred disks files that contain the necessary information to be able to take the final step and evolve,” reads the official description. 8 worlds full of exploration and secrets! Dangerous traps and monsters Story Mode  EX-Mode 8bit music by David Ko Supports HDMI & VGA Cables REGION FREE In Reknum you are Cheri, resident

Bitmap Soft Releases Far After For Game Boy

Bitmap Soft Releases Far After For Game Boy

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A lot of retro consoles and computers have been given second lives thanks to the tireless efforts of indie developers. Despite their age, there are a lot of new games out there for 8 and 16-bit devices that are worth checking out. Far After, an action RPG released physically today for Game Boy and Game Boy Color, is just one of them. Story is light with this one: two friends wake up in an enchanted forest and set out on a journey to claim their magical birthright. You’ll journey through 2D sifescrolling environments, honing your skills and mastering spells to defeat the numerous monsters standing in your way. Experience a character-driven ARPG. Explore large magical forest environments. Fight your way through a variety of unique monsters. Master a selection of combat spells to eradicate your foes. Combine platforming and combative ARPG mechanics to excel through the game. Witness a story of two best friends at the beginning of their journey. Animated cutscenes to enhance storytelling. 3.5 hours of gameplay to

Abandoned GBA Shantae Game To Be Resurrected

Abandoned GBA Shantae Game To Be Resurrected

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We suspect, eventually, a sixth game in the Shantae series will show up. For now, it must not be ready, so developer Wayforward — who has been with the half-genie hero from the beginning — dug around in their basement and found a lost chapter in her saga. After the original Shantae was released for Game Boy Color to wide critical acclaim, Wayforward started tinkering with a sequel for the Game Boy Advance. But since the GBC original didn’t sell very well (it was one of the last games released for the system, and the GBA had been out for a year), no publishers were interested in a deal. Eventually the team had to mothball the code and sprites they’d made and move on to other projects. Shantae wouldn’t get to return until Risky’s Revenge was released for the DSi years later. Every now and then series director Matt Bozon would be asked about the lost GBA Shantae game, until finally recently he just said “why not bring it back.”

Some Madman Is Making A Spiritual Sequel To The CD-I Zelda Games

Some Madman Is Making A Spiritual Sequel To The CD-I Zelda Games

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Limited Run Games presented its Not-E3 Conference this afternoon, and several bombshells were dropped (some of which we’ll get to in other articles), but there was one revealed item that says a lot about the market this company caters to. They were founded for the purpose of creating physical copies of good games, but they’ve found there’s an equally hungry and lucrative market for physical copies of BAD games. For example, LRG has been promising a full re-release for the 3DO stinker Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties for years now. They’ve finally pegged a September release for it and it will come with a documentary that features James Rolfe and Kelsey Lewin as guests. This follows a multi-year rollout for Night Trap that plastered that game across every single modern console in existence. The proverbial holiest of grails would be those nasty Zelda games Phillips was allowed to create for their CD-I system; the ones that have never died as memes since the Internet discovered their existence. But Nintendo will probably

Nintendo Switch Online Gains Sega’s Finest Zelda Knockoffs

Nintendo Switch Online Gains Sega’s Finest Zelda Knockoffs

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In the early 90s you either had a Super Nintendo or a Sega Genesis — it was the parents who paid for these things and most would chafe at the idea of buying a second console. There were many Genesis kids who looked on at the Zelda series with some jealousy, but there WERE options to get a similar experience. Both of them have finally arrived in the Genesis section of Nintendo Switch Online as of today. Crusader of Centy was released by Atlus in 1995 and is as close to Link to the Past as you can get — the graphics are similar, the top-down sword-slashing adventuring is the same, the sense exploration is duplicated. The game didn’t get much attention at the time of its release, though, and it’s only recently been embraced by the gaming community as a Genesis Classic — so you know what that means. It costs a ton. A premium NSO subscription (at $49.95) costs way less than a Crusader of Centy cart. Also,

Nintendo Switch Online Gets Kirby, Harvest Moon And More

Nintendo Switch Online Gets Kirby, Harvest Moon And More

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It’s been months since the NES and SNES categories of Nintendo Switch Online were updated. They were the libraries that started this whole service, but as time has gone on the number of available titles you can add that aren’t already there has dwindled. Yeah, there are some popular third-party games that are still absent, but that’s because their respective holders consider them too valuable to give away here. As for Super Mario RPG….no, we still don’t know what the case is with Super Mario RPG. Nintendo managed to find two games that weren’t there yet, though, and they added them today in a surprise update that also updates the Game Boy library with two more titles, for four altogether. The biggest surprise of the bunch is the original Harvest Moon, released for the SNES in 1997 when no one bought games for the SNES anymore. Because of its scarcity, its value has skyrocketed, and the only available copy beyond the SNES cart was the Wii U version, which you

Nintendo Switch Online Gets Street Fighter, Flicky & More

Nintendo Switch Online Gets Street Fighter, Flicky & More

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We were kind of surprised by the latest addition to Nintendo Switch Online because generally, the stuff that winds up here is not stuff third-party publishers consider valuable enough to sell elsewhere. The Castlevania series, for example, will not appear on NSO because Konami would rather sell those games in their own packages. Street Fighter is another brand that’s too hot for NSO, or so we thought. NSO just got one. It’s the Genesis version of Street Fighter II, not the SNES version, but hey, it’s playable. Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition has been joined by three other titles. The first is Pulseman, a sidescroller designed by Game Freak (you can really see the Sugimori in Pulseman himself). You also get Kid Chameleon, a relic from those early Genesis days when Sega thought kids would sell instead of animals. But never mind the weird dated ‘tude that packages this product, Kid Chameleon is a solid game where the protagonist can utilize nine different power-ups by donning helmets he finds

New Nintendo Switch Online Update Completes The Kirby Experience

New Nintendo Switch Online Update Completes The Kirby Experience

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As of today, if you’ve got a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, you can have the full Kirby 90s Experience. The latest update to the NSO archive adds Kirby’s Dream Land 2 to the Game Boy section, which means every mainline Kirby game from 1992’s Kirby’s Dream Land through 2000’s Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards is playable. It just so happens there’s another Kirby game out for Switch (but we hesitate to call it new, it originally appeared on Wii). The gimmick of KDL2 is that, for the first time, Kirby can summon animal partners to help him save Dream Land — he can ride them and they can use their own special abilities. More importantly, the magazine ad for KDL2 contained one of the greatest sentences ever written by man: “Kneel before the hamster that coughs up white-hot spheres of justice.” No AI will ever be able to generate anything nearly as good. There are three other games too: don’t sell Burgertime Deluxe short, walking over beef patties is surprisingly

Games Done Quick Presents Frost Fatales, Starting This Sunday

Games Done Quick Presents Frost Fatales, Starting This Sunday

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Normally we only hear about Games Done Quick’s charity events twice a year, but 2023 is special: this winter we’re getting a bonus event. GDQ hosts a community for female gamers called Frame Fatales, and starting this Sunday the group will be holding a weeklong charity marathon. Watch out for Frost Fatales, starting Sunday and benefiting the Malala Fund. The difference between this and the main GDQ marathon, aside from the focus on women, is that it doesn’t run 24 hours per day. Each day of Frost Fatales will begin at around 9:30 AM Pacific / 12:30 PM Eastern and conclude twelve hours later at 9:30 PM  12:30 AM. But a lot will be packed into those seven days: scheduled speedruns include Stray, Metroid Dread, Cult of the Lamb, Untitled Goose Game, Fore Emblem: Three Houses, Shadow The Hedgehog, Okami HD, Dark Souls II, Tetris The Grand Master (aka the hardest Tetris game ever made), the NES homebrew Witch ‘n Wiz, and something called “Satan Loves Cake.” Things will wrap

Goldeneye 007 Remaster Finally Given Release Date For Switch And XBox

Goldeneye 007 Remaster Finally Given Release Date For Switch And XBox

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Goldeneye 007 is one of the most classic and iconic games of the N64 era. Everyone had a copy back in the day, but despite the N64 library remaining popular, we’ve never seen the game officially released again. There’s an obvious reason for that: the game was a joint production between Nintendo, Rare and the owners of the Bond license. All three had to shake hands before the game could ever legally see the light of day again. That day has finally arrived! Goldeneye 007 is coming to consoles within the week. This was announced months ago and we worried that Nintendo had changed their minds (yes, two others are involved, but it’s ALWAYS Nintendo). But a new trailer came out today and revealed a January 27 release for Switch and XBox. Each version will have its own strengths. The XBox Goldeneye will have achievements, alternate control options and 4K resolution, while the Switch version will have online multiplayer (I’m sure online multiplayer would’ve been possible on the XBox, but

Super Mario World Localization Prototype Discovered

Super Mario World Localization Prototype Discovered

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The website Forest Of Illusion is dedicated to the preservation of video game prototypes, and makes them available for the public. A lot of surprising finds have been posted to that site over the years, but they saved one of the biggest Bob-ombs for Christmas: an in-progress localization prototype of Super Mario World, dated October of 1990 — ten months before the game would go on sale in the US and Europe! A localization prototype isn’t the same as a regular one — you’re dealing with a game that’s already been made, so the only differences will be changes from the Japanese version. But there are several. The font used in the game is different. There are typos and grammatical goofs in the story screens. There are cool debug features added that allow Mario to float, change his power-up on a whim, and get any Yoshi on the map at any time. Most amusing is the fact that Big Boo is called “Boo Jackson” in the credits, after the football

You’d Best Look At This Nintendo Power Archive Before You No Longer Can

You’d Best Look At This Nintendo Power Archive Before You No Longer Can

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Before the Internet, there was only one way to find out the deep secrets and codes in your favorite video games….Nintendo’s own magazine, published from 1988 to 2012. Forming a complete Nintendo Power collection gets more expensive every year, but you can check it out for zero dollars today thanks to a recent upload to the Internet Archive. However…the appearance is only temporary. How do we know? The complete run of Nintendo Power was already added to the Internet Archive once before, in 2016, and the appearance garnered news articles much like it’s doing now. A short time later, the library was taken down, due to a request from Nintendo themselves. Kotaku is crediting the uploader “Gumball” for the material, but the original source is from a site called Retromags…in other words this is the same batch of scans from six years ago. So why is Kotaku acting like this is the first time? Because the turnover rate for writers is very high over there since Spanfeller took over and

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