Author name: Tetsuo

The masterpiece “Popful Mail” that has been circulated among fans for many years will usher in an unprecedented resurrection! According to the latest news, the version produced by Hunex in 1994 and released on PC Engine Super CD-ROM² is now undergoing a new English dubbing and remastered translation patch, and a public voice campaign has been launched online.

Old players should all know that on the Japanese PC-98 platform in the 1990s, there were many frightening horror adventure games, including breast exposure, nudity, exposure, and even sex! One of the most notorious is “Dead of the Brain 2” produced by FairyTale. Now, this classic bloody adventure launched in 1993 finally has a complete English version!

If you have played “Ridge Racer”, you must know her – Reiko Nagase, the virtual track goddess wearing a racing suit, smiling and waving. She first appeared in the arcade version of “Rave Racer” in 1995. She was not officially named until “Ridge Racer Type 4” in 1998, and quickly became one of Namco’s most representative game characters. She was the earliest virtual idol, even earlier than Miku!

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!