If you’re like me, then you love classic side scrollers like Mega Man, Contra and Castlevania. Yacht Club Games is making a love letter to the days of 8-bit side scrollers with their game, Shovel Knight. Retro looking side scrollers are indeed a dime a dozen these days, but what I like about this one is how it looks like it’s sticking true to the 8-bit graphical … [ Read More... ]
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Cover Art: Hyper Zone (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.
Hyper Zone is rail shooter developed by HAL Laboratory. It was released for the Super Nintendo in 1991. Although it’s considered a shallow derivative title, I came to appreciate it thanks to an old friend.
To the average Nintendo gamer, Hyper Zone… [ Read More... ]
Nintendo is bringing more Zelda games coming to the 3DS
The critically acclaimed The Legend Of Zelda: Oracle Of Ages & Oracle Of Seasons are coming out on the Nintendo 3DS says Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma. The 2 Zelda titles were individually released on the Gameboy Color 12 years ago. They were both celebrated for their graphics on the aging handheld and for their gameplay fun. Furthermore, you could trade passwords between the 2 games which allowed gamers to … [ Read More... ]
King Voxel: Inspired by Zelda with the soul of Minecraft
Minecraft has taken the world by storm with it’s retro looking, 3D voxel graphics. New projects using voxels are turning up quite often, continuing the trend of retro-like graphics. Every now and then an awesome looking game comes around, such as King Voxel. King Voxel is a an action RPG heavily influenced by Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda series and Atari 2600’s Adventure. It’s ambitions are simple… that is … [ Read More... ]