The Persona series has been going for over 20 years and has featured on many consoles. What started off as a niche game series, Persona has gained quite a large following which has helped latest entry Persona 5 become a huge hit.
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You have to hand it to Sonic fans – they don’t do anything by halves. Even less so when it comes to making their own games based on the Blue Blur’s escapades fighting Dr Robotnik/Eggman or whatever his name is these days. Unlike Nintendo, which seems hell-bent on crushing anything that even remotley resembles an homage to any of its intellectual property, Sega seems more than happy to allow Sonic-based fan games to flourish and the latest offering is Sonic Time Twisted.
Coming from Overbound Game Studio, Sonic Time Twisted has been in development for 12 years and is now finally available to download and play for free. The game appears to take elements from many of the major 2D Sonic games, including a Sonic sprite similar to that seen in Sonic 3 and pseudo 3D bonus stages, and mixes them together with a Sonic CD style time travel mechanic. Featuring 28 acts across 8 original zones, and appearances from plenty of the series’ main characters, Sonic Time Twisted could be the perfect stop gap while fans wait for Sonic Mania.
Sonic Time Twisted is available as a free download for Windows, and below you’ll find the official launch trailer for this wholly unofficial Sonic offering.
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Link: Sonic Time Twisted Official Website
Source: Sonic Retro
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For those of us who strongly believe the Game Boy Advance is nothing more than a portable Super Nintendo, having the ability to play the handheld’s strong line-up on a TV is priceless. While the GameCube’s Game Boy Player may be a suitable solution, die-hards retro gamers tend to disagree due to all kinds of timing issues and inaccuracies. This is all about to change though following hardware hacker BennVenn’s latest creation – a GBA-VGA Converter.
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In this episode Paul and Julian discuss their history playing the point and click genre. Back in the late 80’s and throughout the 90’s this time of game offered hit after hit for fans of the genre.
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The Super Nintendo is often cited as many retro gamer’s favourite console. Just looking at game prices on Ebay etc for Nintendo’s 16bit marvel shows that demand isn’t fading either.
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Back in September last year, Sega Studios Australia’s 2013 remake of the classic Mega Drive platformer Castle of Illusion, was delisted from Steam, Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network with very little notice beyond a price drop. Just as silently, the game’s now snuck back onto these services, a rare digital relisting.
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The Strong Museum has announced the nominees for induction into its World Video Game Hall of Fame class for 2017. These include 12 well-known and influential titles, including Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy VII, Halo: Combat Evolved, Windows Solitaire, Mortal Kombat, Myst, Pokemon Red and Green, Portal, Resident Evil, Street Fighter II, Tomb Raider, and Wii Sports. This is the third wave of inductees, following rounds in 2016 and 2015.
2016 Inductions:
Grand Theft Auto III
The Legend of Zelda
The Oregon Trail
The Sims
Sonic the Hedgehog
Space Invaders
Last year we saw some diesel games make it to the Hall. Zelda, Oregon Trail, Sonic and GTA were all a huge part of my childhood and then adolescence. This year’s nominees are chock full of some equally important games.
Back in 2012 the homebrew developers Watermelon announced that their next game to hit the Mega Drive had begun development. Codename Project Y was underway which promised to be the spiritual successor to the dormant Streets of Rage name. Fast forward to today and the prolific 16-bit studio have revealed all with Paprium – the newest game to be smashing through Sega systems come September.
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When thinking back to the 16 bit era, one software developer/publisher stands head and shoulders above the crowd across all platforms. With formidable output on both home consoles and the arcades, Konami built further upon their household name and brand they’d established during the Famicom/NES years.
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SEGA Power magazine ran from 1989 until 1997 covering a lot of SEGA games over the years. Although there were many SEGA magazines available SEGA Power had a lot of fans, however in 1994 it went in a different direction.
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