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“At the late ’80s, there was only Kaga Tech, an electronics distributor that used...”
– Excerpt from Magweasel’s excellent writeup of the excellent Alien Crush. Despite the fact that it was behind some of my favorite PC Engine/TG16 games, I know almost nothing about Taxan/Naxat Soft.
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“The Music From The Bad Guy’s...
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EGG Music: retro game soundtrack downloads →
So, maybe I didn’t know about this, or maybe I did and forgot, but EGG Music is a sort of online record label that sells downloadable soundtracks to old games. It’s run by D4 Enterprise, who also runs the Project EGG MSX download store, and (theoretically) publishes MSX games on Virtual Console.
EGG Music announced today that the soundtrack for Shubibinman 3 is now available. It...
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“Regulate (chiptune remix)” by...
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Characters you won't find in Scribblenauts
Though you can summon tens of thousands of objects, creatures, and characters in Scribblenauts, the game won’t feature copyrighted properties like, say, Little Mac or Samus. But that hasn’t stopped NeoGAF forumers from drawing popular video game figures and celebrities using the 5th Cell title’s unique art style:
SpacePirate Ridley drew the characters in this piece, all taken...
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Personal Trainer: Walking Warlord →
I’m very happy with this article I wrote on Walking Meter: Unification ~ Become the Ruler of the Warring States by Walking, a pedometer-based Sengoku strategy RPG. It’s easily the raddest game I read about this week.
JC, who helped a lot translating details for the piece, and I discussed at length about our wishes to see RPGs further integrated our lives, giving us the motivation...
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Retro Game Challenge fan loses his damn mind, and... →
Would you like to have your very own Robot Ninja Haggle Man pinback button, just like this lovely piece?:
Doing his part to push Retro Game Challenge’s sales and convince XSEED to localize its sequel, Benjamin White is offering to make and send out a free button to anyone (anywhere) who purchases a new U.S. copy of RGC after June 24th, when this discouraging text was posted.
It’s a...
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Phantasy Star Fourteen Ninety →
Unlike the original Dreamcast Phantasy Star Online, the Japanese release of Phantasy Star Zero doesn’t have English text. Come to think of it, I’m not even sure the Japanese Dreamcast game did. Maybe I should have just left that bit out instead of mentioning it and then saying I didn’t know it was true.
In any case, this game is in Japanese, which means you may not understand...
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Three things about No More Heroes 2
The latest issue of Nintendo Power has three interesting details about the upcoming No More Heroes 2 sequel, notable enough that they could be considered spoilers, so consider yourself warned.
Shinobu, the teen assassin from the original game, will return in NMH2: Desperate Struggle as a playable character. Her fighting style will significantly differ from Travis’, as she moves faster and...
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Watch“Dream About Me” by The Depreciation Guild.
I know they’re softspoken pretty boys, or at least the lead singer is, but I think I’ve found my new favorite chiptune group. This shouldn’t surprise you, as I’ve made no secret of my micromusic preferences — shoegaze and vocals.
That fuzzy chiptune elements are subtle, made possible by a Nintendo soundcard,...
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XSEED: Retro Game Challenge needs to sell at least... →
XSEED’s publishing director Ken Berry says the company needs to sell at least 20,000 additional copies of Retro Game Challenge before it will consider localizing the acclaimed title’s sequel, Game Center CX 2.
The publisher’s president Jun Iwasaki says that still isn’t enough, though, predicting XSEED needs to see a total of 100,000 units sold. Neither disclosed how many...
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Junk electronics, Taito style →
Taito’s new line of prizes for arcade redemption machines features Taito-branded mini electronic devices. Ever wanted a cooler for a small amount of chocolate? Or how about a tiny USB air conditioner?
The items in the T-Style line include: chocolate coolers, tiny refrigerators, USB air conditioners, speakers, digital audio players, 1seg TV receivers, mini-shredders, and solar chargers...
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Watch“They Won’t Let Me Run” by John Vanderslice (unofficial music video by Daniel Ferreira).
The pixel art in this music video isn’t the best at a few points, but I love the song. I’d never heard of the singer before (apparently, he’s kind of a big deal), so it was a nice surprise to stumble on this during my morning crawl of video game junk, even if its tone is...
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WatchTrailer for Ghostwire, the augmented reality ghost hunting title from A Different Game. Is this the first DSi game to use both of the system’s cameras simultaneously?
This doesn’t seem as creepy as I thought it’d be, but perhaps it’s because the trailer takes place during daytime. I imagine that it would be difficult to play in the dark, when real ghosts like to come out...
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“A One Night Stand with Dracula” by...
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Art Style: Boxlife on DSiWare
The biggest handheld gaming news this morning has nothing to do with GTA: Chinatown Wars migrating to PSP; it’s the North American release of Art Style: Boxlife (known as Hacolife in Japan) for DSiWare!
As I’ve previously proclaimed, I believe this addictive puzzler from Skip is the finest DSiWare experience you can purchase today (500 Points), even more so than PiCTOBiTS....
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Capcom giving away chance to BE Mega Man, and be... →
If you’re in Europe, Australia, or New Zealand, and you think you might enjoy this ridiculous Mega Man .EXE costume, head over to Capcom’s site and enter to win it! It’s a one-of-a-kind piece that allows us to see what the Battle Network Mega Man would look like if he suddenly became half-human, half-Cabbage Patch Doll.
Finally, I can link to a contest that’s exclusively...
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“Chai Kingdom” theme, chiptune remix...
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“Within a dark room in the upper reaches of Shibuya, a single tear rolls down the...”
– — Imagined scene of a young gamer enamored with Love Plus, Konami’s virtual girlfriend/dating sim software.
NeoGAF has an informative post detailing the game, which releases in Japan this September. This fully voiced title (impressive!) offers three girls for you to court, and allows...
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“That one has been put on permanent hold. Have I given up on it? No, but...”
– Natsume’s Graham Markay, talking to Siliconera about Yumi’s Odd Odyssey, the planned US version of the ruinous PSP Umihara Kawase port. He said he hadn’t seen the DS version, suggesting that Natsume had no plans to pick that one up. 