Author name: Tetsuo

If you’ve played any console, those four familiar buttons in your hand—A, B, X, Y—should have long since become part of your muscle memory. From Super Nintendo to Xbox and even Steam Deck, this arrangement has become a global “standard”, except for Sony PS5. Well, there is another “fish that slipped through the net”, which is SNK NEOGEO, with the handles A, B, C, and D.

In 1995, “WipEout”, an airship racing game with very good graphics at the time, debuted in Europe with the PlayStation, becoming a key tool for Sony to enter the young player market that year! This anti-gravity airship racing game developed by British studio Psygnosis not only became one of the symbols of the early days of PlayStation, but also made the Sega Saturn passive at the time.

The masterpieces of the Game Boy era are being “resurrected” one by one! Brand Newman, a game translator and ROM hacker from France, is working on a DX color version of the Game Boy Color version of Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs’ Big Break.

Sony celebrated the 30th anniversary of the original PlayStation (PS1) last year, and this year marks the 30th anniversary of the console’s official launch in the West. Former SIE Global Studios President Shuhei Yoshida recently accepted an exclusive interview with GamesIndustry.biz and talked about the history he experienced personally – from the collapse of Nintendo cooperation to the birth of PlayStation.

The game plug-in artifact “Game Doctor” that was popular in Hong Kong in the 1980s and 1990s has now been reborn! This new accessory for the Venus Mini Doctor created by Tomy, a game doctor expert on Twitter, is a perfect tribute to the prototype device of the year – it allows the Famicom Disk System to directly read cassette games, recreating that era of rampant piracy and unlimited creativity!

Suffering from electronic impotence and tired of looking at PS5, Switch and RTX graphics cards? Then go back to the original 8-bit era! Retro hardware developer Clyde Shaffer is preparing to start crowdfunding on Crowd Supply to launch a new console that will instantly burn the nostalgic soul – GameTank. This machine is not just a tribute, but a real hardware built entirely with two of the most popular MOS 6502 processors at that time, allowing “fantasy consoles” such as TIC-80, Pico-8 and other open source concepts to be turned into physical machines for the first time!

Old players all know the classic bug in the original “Super Mario Bros.” in 1985 – Minus World, an infinite water loop level entered through the 1-2 pipe, which has almost become a video game legend. Unexpectedly, the sequel “Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels”/”Super Mario 2”, which was first released on the FC disk drive that year, actually also hides Minus World, but it took players nearly 40 years to dig it out!