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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
The Australian classification board gives away Square Enix's next digital port.
Back in the early 90's, as part of then-Squaresoft's efforts to expand the console-style RPG market, an "entry-level" RPG was created specifically for English-speaking gamers. Titled Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest, the hope that was by forgoing the difficulty of Dragon Quest and the main Final Fantasy series, while also streamlining and simplifying the game's core mechanics, people traditionally not interested in RPGs would give the game a chance.
Now, nearly twenty years later, Mystic Quest is set to return via the Wii's Virtual Console. While the port hasn't been officially confirmed at the time of this posting, the Australian ratings board has approved the game for release with Nintendo marked as its publisher. As Super Nintendo games are typically 800 Wii Points ($8), perhaps another new generation of non- and casual-gamers can soon be introduced to the RPG genre with a simple impulse purchase?
Source: Siliconera
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Back in the 1990's, food company Oscar Mayer produced a series of videos that revealed secret cheats and codes for the Sega Genesis.
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Monday, March 09, 2009
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial on the Atari 2600 has been called the worse video game of all time by various critics. Based on the movie of the same name, it was released in 1982. The game involves moving E.T. through various screens and obtain three pieces of a device that allows him to phone home. Programmed in only six weeks, Atari believed that sales would skyrocket because of the film's success. Unfortunately, the opposite turned out to be true, and the game was attributed to being the cause of Atari's downfall in the classic game era. Thousands of unsold copies of the game ended up buried in a New Mexico dump.
Take a look at the first few minutes of the game.
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Seven NeoGAF forum members have used LittleBigPlanet to reimagine the classic NES Contra game. All original eight Contra missions have been recreated, including the Bosses, enemies, power-ups, and and other features.
Posted by Al on 03/03 at 11:59 PM
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Monday, February 02, 2009
Imagine what it would be like to have a Guitar Hero type game back during the days of the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Of course it would have to feature artists of that time, like a-ha, Guns N' Roses, and Michael Jackson. Well, D-Pad Hero brings you all of that. It's a homebrew game distributed in a ROM format for NES emulators. Find out more at http://dpadhero.com
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