- As you can imagine, there is a bunch of Star Fox content this week, because a
new game in the series is coming out. (The initial reviews seem to suggest it’s
good, but weird
control-wise.) Kotaku’s Patrick Klepek has a good piece on why
Star Fox 2 never made it out for
the SNES, even though it was probably more than 90 percent done. Kat Bailey of
US Gamer points out that the series has a long history of innovation – some
good, some bad.
- Sega has announced that it’ll allow mods to be released
via Steam for some of its old games. Polygon has the press release summary here.
Sega hasn’t elaborated on the extent of what it’ll allow and won’t, but it
could lead to some interesting creations.
- The latest YouTube Teens React video is on Super Metroid! Check it out here. Only one teen out
of six (I believe) can manage to beat the second boss, the Chozo guarding the
bombs. Also, if you missed it, we
recently covered Super Metroid.
- From Chris Reed at The Cheat Sheet, eight
SNES games you have to play!
- Sarah Gish of The
Kansas City Star looks at some of the
cool bars with video games in the city.
- There is a really cool looking Nintendo 64 anthology book
on Kickstarter. Check it out here!
- From Jeff Grubb at Venture Beat, what’s the current status
of Atari? Well, seemingly, it’s mostly
a patent troll company. They’re claiming that they own the trademark for
“haunted house” in video game titling. The company filed for bankruptcy in
2013, and now, it only employs 10 people who mostly work to protect the
company’s legacy value.
- Aubrey Sitterson of Geek.com has 11 games that “secretly
made the Sega Saturn a great console.” While I wouldn’t agree that the
Saturn was great, it was a good system, and it unfairly gets lumped into the
Virtual Boy / 3DO / 32X graveyard sometimes.
- Breaking, important news! Video game henchmen plan meetup
around explosive barrels! Read more here.
ON THIS DAY IN VIDEO
GAME HISTORY…
- According to Moby Games,
Data East was founded on April 20, 1976. The company was one of the early
arcade producers, making games like BurgerTime,
Cobra Command, Joe & Mac and past
YPB show topic Shadowrun. They also did more than a
dozen different pinball games, most based on TV shows. However, by the
mid-1990s the company’s popularity and series had faded, and their last game
came out in 1999. (Revive… Sosei, an adventure game for
the Dreamcast, was Japan-only in October 1999. Zombie Revenge, an arcade and Dreamcast release, was the last
North American release, seemingly.)
- In 1982, Pitfall! came out for the Atari 2600. It was probably the very best game
ever released at the time, and topped the Billboard charts for 64 weeks. The
commercial also had Jack Black in his first role.
Video game history
information comes from GameFAQs and Moby Games. And as always, if you’d like to support the show, do so via our Amazon link.
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