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Retro Gaming Weekly News #0020
27 years ago this week Mega Man X3 was launched for the SNES in Japan. You can play it here.
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DualShockers have a list of 10 of the best villains from NES RPG’s. Niche, but provides a good visual for the cover of the newsletter. Link
Inverse has a nice article on how Nintendo need to treat their older games with more respect. Link
Forbes looks back at the lessons learned on consumer values from the OG Game Boy. Link
Crunchyroll has announced Hime’s quest for the Game Boy Color and PC, as reported by Gematsu. Link
Destructiod gives their view on the best 5 Pokemon games (60% retro). Link
A modder has created the worlds smallest Game Boy, TecheBlog report. Link
The SnesDev Party team have announced the release of Supercooked! a cooking co-op game that works with the OG 16-bit hardware and emulators. Looks like fun! RealotakuGamer has more. Link
Rare is a publisher of distinguished quality, but there have been a surprising number of games that there cancelled. CBR do what they do best and provides a list of them. Link
Reur goes deep on the story of Star Fox 2 – the lost game. Worth a read if you are a fan. Link
Back to Rare, Diddy Kong Racing turns 25 and Exputer takes a look back on why you should not judge a game by its cover. Link
Others
California 18 feature a look at the Sega offices in Japan. Link
Bounding into Comics take a look at some very interesting Sega Genesis/Megadrive ROM hacks. Link
Game Asylum look back at the Atari 7800 catalogue – an underrated console? Link
Hacker Noon looks back at some film-to-game conversions that are worth a look. No ET. Link
Cultured Vultures give their view on the 20 best Sega Genesis games ever. Link
Duealshockers have a piece on what Atari was like before the crash of ‘83. Link
For the Atari 50 celebration, they developed a new Atari Jaguar emulator from the ground up. GameRant reports. Link
And that’s all for this edition – hope that you enjoyed it. If you missed it at the beginning or forgot, and you have a spare 2 mins – it would be very much appreciated if you can share your feedback on the newsletter (link here).
