Author: Genius Admin

Last week, we asked you to showcase the best Astro Bot levels using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: NightmarexDoll shares a spooky level with a mansion and a smiling moon in the background.  pavesoint shares a level in the clouds featuring a mechanical sun. SoundwaveXP shares a level featuring a Japanese-style bathhouse and […]

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Earlier this year, G-Mode remade Yuji Horii’s 1984 Famicom detective adventure Hokkaido Rensa Satsujin: Ohotsuku ni Kiyu for Nintendo Switch and Steam. Hokkaido Serial Murder Case: The Okhotsk Disappearance ~Memories in Ice, Tearful Figurine~ was so successful in its homeland that the Switch version managed to top the sales charts, and with good reason – the game is considered to be a formative classic in the adventure genre, at least by Japanese players. Amusingly, we’ve just discovered that the recent version retains a cheeky easter egg that was hidden in the Famicom original. To see it, you had to try…

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Image: Zion Grassl / Time ExtensionThe story of the Game Boy Color role-playing game Infinity isn’t one you hear every day. The project started life back in 1999 at a small Californian company called Affinix Software and was envisioned as a love letter to Japanese role-playing games. However, after years of work, it was eventually abandoned around 2002 after the team was unable to find a publisher when the market started to favour Nintendo’s newest handheld platform, the Game Boy Advance. In the years that followed, the developers all went on to other things inside and outside of the industry.…

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Claw Machine Resurgence: The Return of a Timeless Classic   Claw machines, also known as crane games, have been a staple of arcades, malls, and entertainment centers for decades. They’ve been a source of joy, frustration, and nostalgia for generations. Now, Arcade1Up is bringing this iconic gaming experience into homes with their new claw machine, marking the latest chapter in the claw machine resurgence. Let’s take a journey through the history of claw machines, explore why they’ve captured our hearts, and see how Arcade1Up is making them more accessible than ever.   A Brief History of Claw Machines: From Novelty…

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Image: @Haruka_VIIWe recently reported on the very welcome news that Argonaut Games, the company behind hits such as Starglider, King Arthur’s World, Alien Resurrection and Star Fox, was being revived, and a remaster of Croc: Legend of the Gobbos is on the cards. Keen to capitalise on the renewed interest in the character, Argonaut has decreed that this month shall henceforth be known as “Croctober”, and it wants fans to send in their “art, tattoos, collections, and stories” so they can be shared with the wider Croc fandom. You heard King Rufus folks! In just two days, we’re celebrating the…

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Image: NintendoNintendo Software Technologies artist @morimotes_ has taken to social media to say how happy he is with the reaction online to F-Zero 99’s recent 1.5.0 expansion and the fact that it brings “lost” circuits to the game. The patch also adds an expanded practice mode, but for Nintendo historians, the real news here is the introduction of tracks that were previously exclusive to the SNES Satellaview add-on, which never made it out of Japan. “This is definitely my favourite patch I’ve worked on,” says @morimotes_. “Bringing the Satellaview Tracks that were pretty much lost in time to F-ZERO 99…

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