Retro Console News, Arcades, Classic Games And More
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Revisiting the Weird Legacy of Lord of the Rings: The Third Age
The Lord of the Rings movies came out at arguably the height of video game movie tie-ins. The series got everything from traditional hack-and-slash action games to strategy titles, but one of the weirdest and most interesting of them all was 2004’s The Third Age. Part Final Fantasy knock-off, part movie retelling, it asked a…
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The Kojima Game That Made You Play In The Sun
Hideo Kojima is famous for being the driving force behind games such as Metal Gear and Snatcher. But today, we’re going to talk about another of his games: Boktai, a quirky little Game Boy Advance title that asked the player to go outside and get some sun.
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The Making Of Carmen Sandiego
“One thing I’d always wanted to do, and had even worked on a little bit in the past, was trying to make adventure games more approachable,” said Brøderbund programmer Dane Bigham.
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This Spec’d-Out Game Boy Advance SP Sports Next-Level Features, But It’s Super Thicc
The folding GBA SP was a huge upgrade over the original Game Boy Advance, if only because it introduced a side-lit screen you could actually see. It wasn’t perfect — Nintendo still included some weird design quirks — so the team at the YouTube channel Macho Nacho Productions gave the GBA SP a much-needed upgrade, which…