- As Kotaku’s Luke Plunkett types
in his write-up, Sega’s game testing training videos were peak 1990s, right
down to Soundgarden and Nine Inch Nails background music.
- From Polygon’s Allegra Frank, a
remake of cult classic Wild Guns is coming out for the PS4!
- In unnecessary video game movie adaptation news… A Tetris movie is in the pipeline,
according to Deadline.
And not a documentary about the game’s interested
and tangled history, but a science fiction game. A discount film studio has
picked up the rights to Atari’s Missile
Command and Centipede, also per Deadline.
Also, confirming long-standing rumors, Nintendo said it would look to re-enter
the ole Hollywood business.
- What was the code name for the biggest heroin bust in
Delaware’s history? Operation Duck Hunt, of course. Read more
via The Sussex County Post.
- Nintendo Player has an awesome long read on the
recently-unearthed Happily Ever After,
a Snow White-based NES game from the early 1990s. The game itself is a generic,
Nintendo Hard affair, but the story behind it is
fascinating. Plus, the ROM has been made available for free online!
- From several sites, a retro 8-bit version of Monopoly,
featuring Super Mario Bros., now has
a sale slug on Amazon.
- Per Gamasutra and several other sites that got the press
release, mod support for older Sega games caused them to sell 350,000 copies on
Steam since April 28. For the details, click here.
- For James and Mike Mondays, the guys play Doom 64, which Steve remembers somewhat
fondly from his childhood! If you didn’t have a high-powered PC back in the
day, it was a fairly easy way to play the ole game. Also from that site this
week, Mike and Bootsy play Pinball for the NES!
ON THIS DAY IN VIDEO GAME HISTORY…
- In 1997, Eurocom released the Midway arcade game War Gods for
the N64. Because the system was so starved for games at various points, it was
hyped for months in Nintendo Power, but it ultimately was just a mediocre
fighting game.
- New Super Mario
Bros. now isn’t, as it celebrated its 10th year on May 15.
(Note: It’s still an awesome platformer for the DS, though.)
- For a brief history in time, people thought they’d get in
shape via vidya games. On May 21, 2008, Nintendo came out with Wii Fit and the Wii
balance board. Both the balance board and the Wii are now probably in your
closet.
- The year after Wii
Fit, Next Level Games dropped a remake of Punch-Out!!
for the Wii. While it was well-received, it wasn’t the iconic game that the
original was.
Video game history
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