Retro Gaming Weekly News #0004

Monday 8th August Episode number 4 and now publishing on a Monday so that you can start the week with your Retro Fix! On the 10th August 1995 Bomberman was released for the Game Boy – you can play it here! This week’s newsletter is sponsored by: Nintendo News: The N64 was a massive leap forward graphically from the SNES and there are some beautiful and groundbreaking games for the system. Gamerant has picked the 13 with the best graphics. Link Also on the N64 SlashGear looks at the N64 DD (Disk Drive) which was a Japan only release and offered online capability along with disk storage. A rare beast these days, and they look at how much this is worth. Spoiler alert – its worth a lot. Link Some clever modders have turned Super Mario 64 into a first person horror game and it looks great (see below). Read more on Kotaku. Link Excited by the Super Nintendo World that is opening in the USA? – well there is another. Look into the Japanese original in Osaka thanks to Stars and Stripes.com. Link But if you only have eyes for the Hollywood version you can find out how it is coming along on Go Nintendo. Link The Gamer look at 10 SNES games that deserved a sequel. Link Inverse look back 33 years to the Nintendo Gameboy that they claim changed how we game forever. Nice Article. Link Player Clothing have just launched their ultra limited edition, individually numbered Mushroom Kingdom collection (see below). Get your Mario, Luigi, Princess, Toad, Yoshi and Bowser inspired tees! Link* Sega: The Genesis Mini 2 has a nice array of games available for it, including some Mega CD titles, however if you want to pre order it, the process is kind of convoluted. You can find out how thanks to IGN. Link ..and The Verge is reporting that there is a very slim allocation coming to the USA (not looking good for Europe thus far). Link Den of Geek talk through the 15 best Genesis / Megadrive games ever released (they love a 15 best/worst/etc list). For me it’s Shining Force, leave yours in the comments below. Link A fan has reimagined the Game Gear version of Sonic as a 16 bit release, and it looks great. Gamespew has the deets. Link Ruetir looks at the 15 most expensive Master System games. Link Other: Techeblog has a hands on of the upcoming Lego Atari 2600. Link …and IGN revealed a secret in the upcoming Lego set. Link Rely On Horror – look back at the history of handheld horror gaming from 1995-2017 (below). Link Thanks for reading, if you want anything else included or have any reaction or comment please let us know. Finally, another thanks to our sponsors: RetroShell – The finest Retro Game Protectors Player Clothing – Retro Gaming Inspired Clothing NostalgiaTron – The Podcast about growing up in the 80’s & 90’s