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Recently, LEVEL-5 president Hino Kohiro published his development blog “Five Star Kobo Diary”, in which he talked about the development status of the game “Fantasy Life i” and revealed for the first time that Inafune Keiji has resigned in mid-2024. This news should be the first time he officially revealed that he has left LEVEL-5 comcept.

The main purpose of buying such devices is to simulate games. Most players choose to turn a blind eye to this practice. After all, these ROMs often do not run well. Players usually replace the MicroSD cards with higher quality and prepare games by themselves (from their own “backup” collection, of course).

Hitoshi Sakimoto was originally a programmer and was responsible for the music and sound effects driver when developing the PC8801SR game “Revolter”. Later, with the encouragement of his friends, he became a full-time composer and collaborated with Matsuno Yasuki to compose soundtracks for classic games such as “Ogre Battle”, “Final Fantasy Tactics”, “Vagrant Story” and “Final Fantasy XII”.

2025 marks the 38th anniversary of Metal Gear. This game not only laid the foundation for stealth games, but also influenced game design for decades to come! In 1987, home consoles gradually surpassed the influence of arcade machines, and when “Metal Gear Solid” landed on the MSX2 home computer, although it was just a niche game at first, it unexpectedly became the originator of the entire genre!

This game is developed by Bitmap Bureau, the studio that has released acclaimed retro games such as “Xeno Crisis” and “Final Vendetta”. The new game uses modern pixel art to recreate classic scenes from the movie, making people feel like they are in the best pixel era in memory!

Launched on the Dreamcast in 2001, SEGAGAGA is an RPG filled with humor and SEGA intel. In the game, players must shoulder the important task of reviving SEGA’s business and fight against the evil rival DOGMA – a company that dominates the majority of the console market and clearly alludes to Sony…

We already know that Hideo Kojima’s split from Konami was not a smooth one. He was banned from accepting awards for Metal Gear Solid V, and the company even used “vacation” as an excuse to cover up his departure. However, long before any of these dramatic events, Kojima had already created a number of classic games for Konami. Surprisingly, his career almost ended prematurely as soon as it started!

Hiroki Kikuta joined Square in the early 1990s and began his career creating game music. Initially, he participated in the debugging work of “Final Fantasy IV” and created sound effects for the RPG “Romantic SaGa” launched in 1992 (translated as “Resurrection of the Evil God” in Hong Kong and Taiwan). Later, he composed the classic game soundtrack for “Sword Densetsu 2” released in 1993. These music are still regarded by many players as one of the masterpieces of the Super Nintendo era!

If you are a retro toy fan, or a die-hard Street Fighter II fan, then you will definitely be interested in this news: Nostalgic collector and archival preservation enthusiast MrTalida recently completed another amazing feat of preservation, successfully finding and 3D scanning a complete set of all Street Fighter II toys released by the Japanese company Bandai in 1992! This also means that you can now download and 3D print this set of classic toys and relive your childhood memories!