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Nights into Dreams

Lara Croft, the most recognizable Video game girl

Top 5 retro gaming aesthetics: A personal peepers retrospective

2023-11-08
By: John Bowe
On: November 8, 2023
In: Retro gaming best and worst lists, Retro gaming features

Some games look better than others — it’s a fact. Retro gaming is often tarred with the 8-bit aesthetic, but really, the beauty is in the eye of the beholder, regardless of how many pixels you use. CyberPunk 2077 has its art direction sorted, so much so, that watching itRead More →

Sega Saturn: CC BY-SA / Computerspielemuseum Berlin/ / https://berlin.museum-digital.de/singleimage?imagenr=6082

The lost titans: Sega Saturn game sequels that weren’t

2023-05-04
By: John Bowe
On: May 4, 2023
In: Retro gaming features

It promised much, but unfortunately many a Sega Saturn game failed to materialize, including these potential sequels… In its less than three-year run in the U.K., the less-than-popular Sega Saturn quietly went about amassing quality games across broad genres only for follow-ups to be abandoned or else not considered atRead More →

Nights into Dreams

Remembering Nights into Dreams: Icon, or bygone?

2022-10-23
By: John Bowe
On: October 23, 2022
In: Retro games and gear reviewed

If you played Nights into Dreams, you remember it. But was it the SEGA Saturn’s mascot, or simply a pretty showcase? Freedom: we all want it, or at least to go on about it. In life, at work, down the biscuit aisle at your local whatever, even in games. AndRead More →

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