Category Archives: Retro Games

Konami announces Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection

Metal Gear Solid The Legacy Collection 1

Just incase you haven’t had your fill of collections, Konami is back with another one. Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection aims to be much more comprehensive than your typical budget collection as it includes almost every Metal Gear game to date. Hideo Kojima also tweeted images of promotional materials which show how series protagonist Snake has changed over the years.

Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection will include…

  • Metal
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Cover Art: EarthBound (SNES)

Welcome to Cover Art! A section of the site where we look at a retro video game’s box cover art and briefly discuss it’s gameplay and legacy.

EarthBound, also known as Mother 2: Gyiyg Strikes Back in Japan, was developed by APE & Hal Laboratory for the Super Nintendo. It was released in the US in 1995 as a standalone title.

Earthbound cover art SNES

Although it didn’t sell that well, EarthBound[ Read More... ]

Nintendo annonces Earthbound on Wii U

Nintendo annonces Earthbound Wii U 3

To the delight of Nintendo fans everywhere the big N has finally announced that the cult classic SNES RPG Earthbound would soon be seeing a re-release in the North America, and for the first time ever it will also be released in Europe. While no release date was given, in the latest Nintendo Direct, President of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata did confirm that the game would be … [ Read More... ]

Cover Art: Golden Axe The Duel (Sega Saturn)

Welcome to Cover Art! A section of the site where we look at a retro video game’s box cover art and briefly discuss it’s gameplay and legacy.

Golden Axe The Duel is a 2D fighter based on the Golden Axe series. It was first released in arcades in ’94 and then the Sega Saturn in ’95.  It was developed internally by Sega’s AM1 studio, which later became Wow Entertainment[ Read More... ]