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Becoming a Super Model: Adding Model 3 Games to Your Pi4.
Becoming a Super Model: Adding Model 3 Games to Your Pi4.
If the previous reasons we’ve looked at for getting a Raspberry Pi weren’t enough, you can now also add Sega Model 3 arcade games to your Retropie Library. Blimey. If this is something that interests you, the guide will follow below. After a brief introduction Read More ...
“The Saturn is not our future” Sales, Costs and the Demise of the Sega Saturn
“The Saturn is not our future” Sales, Costs and the Demise of the Sega Saturn
Among Sega fans there are few figures hated as much as Bernie Solar. Appointed as the head of Sega of America after maverick leader Tom Kalinske left the company, Bernie Stolar is widely credited with being behind a number of key mistakes – not least Read More ...
In the Blue Sky
In the Blue Sky
Uplifting and inspirational, In the Blue Sky is one of my favorite Sega tunes – so why not remake it for the FM-tastic sounds of the YM2612? Preview Mechafatnick ยท In the Blue Sky (16-bit) Buy/Stream
The Second Sound Chip – The Sega Master System and the YM2413
The Second Sound Chip – The Sega Master System and the YM2413
What is a Master System? If you’re reading this in English and you owned a Sega Master System you probably didn’t own the most complete version of the Sega Master System. This isn’t idle snobbery: the Machine that was released outside Japan was notably different Read More ...
A Tale of Three Brawlers
A Tale of Three Brawlers
With everything that’s happened last year, it’s been easy to miss some of the more interesting tid-bits – like the universe gifting us updates to three classic 8/16-bit brawlers in the space of 18 months: River City Girls, Streets of Rage 4 and Battle Toads. Read More ...
FatNick’s 2020 in Gaming
FatNick’s 2020 in Gaming
Well as a remarkably rubbish year comes to an end it seems suitable to look back at what gaming highlights I can haul out of the wreck. Will these all be new games? No! These won’t even necessarily be things I haven’t played before – Read More ...
Elf Run
Elf Run
Play Elf Run on itch.io Press ‘1’ to start/reset the game and spacebar to jump. Bloody hell it’s that time of year again isn’t it? That means it’s time for… another slightly dodgy Christmas give away! For the unending crapfest that was 2020, I thought Read More ...
180 Free games: Analysis of a Cover Tape Collection
180 Free games: Analysis of a Cover Tape Collection
It just so happened that a few weeks ago I had to move my original Zx Spectrum collection out of storage. Faced with a huge plastic crate filled to the brim with cassettes, it suddenly struck me how ridiculous it was that we had some Read More ...
