Retro gaming news and features
You read that right, it’s a red and white machine. The console your dad used to play Contra when he was a kid. Now, from Elite Beat Agents and Oshinin! fighting! The former developers of “Cheering Group” established a new team, Work3 Studio, and made a high-profile debut with a “new” Famicom game “Banana Bash!”.
Have you ever played a weird game where the main character can transform into a robot, and some people remember it as the male protagonist, while others insist it’s the female protagonist? This is one of the most representative disaster cases. From the gender swapping of characters, magical changes to the plot, to the confusing order of naming, and making the sequel more famous than the previous one, the level of chaos in this series was definitely a negative example in the history of games at that time!
A game known as “the most destructive modified game in the history of Famicom” has quietly appeared. It is a fan Hack version called “Mega Giant Mario Bros.”, which has made extremely outrageous magical changes based on the classic “Super Mario Bros.”. The Mario controlled by the player has been enlarged four times. Everywhere he goes, there is no grass, and even the bricks are unbearable to touch!
According to what Julian Domanski, a photographer/videographer from Tokyo, shared on X (formerly Twitter), when he recently met with Ken Kutaragi, the former CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment and the “father of PlayStation”, he was surprised to find a Nintendo PlayStation in the other person’s cabinet!
That’s right, this card box is now officially on eBay, with an asking price as high as $28,000. The seller “grj409” is also open to “negotiation”, but we can reasonably speculate that the trial bid of five yuan will not even be notified.
You read that right – the “Time Crisis” that accompanies you to sweat and shout “Reload!” in the arcade will return to modern family TV screens in the fall of 2024. No PS1 or CRT is required, just a light gun device to plug and play.
Many gamers have been familiar with her music for over a decade, including the soundtrack to Minecraft, Chicory: A Colorful Tale and the BAFTA-nominated Celeste. She is also currently composing the music for the follow-up games to those titles, Wishes Unlimited’s Beastieball and Extremely OK Games’ (cancelled) Earthblade.
This album contains a number of “conceptual and practical” pieces of music. Raine said that he hopes to tell his interpretation of this work through music. The album is inspired by music styles such as electronic music master Vangelis, “Nausicaa” composer Joe Hisaishi, and “Cowboy Bebop” Yoko Kanno.
In a recent exclusive interview with Japanese media GameSpark, Hideki Kamiya and former PlatinumGames colleague Kento Koyama said that although the new studio will start with the sequel to “Okami”, it will still explore the possibility of “new original IP” in the future.
Today is the 30th anniversary of the first release of “Chrono Trigger” on the Super Nintendo platform in 1995. Although this game has not yet been launched on the NS platform, taking the opportunity of the 30th anniversary, many fans are looking forward to the official release of a new version so that more players can have the opportunity to relive this time and space journey!