17
Dec
2012-12-17_19h43_19

Upcoming Game 'ShaqDown' Brings Shaq's Career And Mutant Zombies Back From The Dead To Fight Each Other

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I'd like to start this piece Peter Jackson style: with a longer-than-necessary flashback to provide background on this story. Back in the 90s, kids were all about two things: basketball and fighting games. We loved Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Space Jam and Shaquille O'Neal. Or so the legends go. As a result, in 1994, some genius marketer aimed to put the two together to create Shaq Fu. It did not fare well. In fact, it was so bad that there is an organization devoted to "liberating it from existence."

Now, 18 years later, the developer of Go Ninja wants to resurrect the...

24
Oct
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Roller Coaster Tycoon And Dungeons And Dragons: Warbands Are Coming To Android In 2013

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Fans of old-school classics, gather round and feast your eyes! Atari has announced that two of its high-value properties will be coming to Android in 2013. First on the list is the retro hit Roller Coaster Tycoon. If you were around in the late 90s (and we assume most of our readers are over the age of 12), you might remember that there were two kinds of simulation games back then: Sim games from Maxis, and everyone else. At the top of that gleaming mountain of "everything else" was Roller Coaster Tycoon.

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This game centered around creating your own theme park.

16
Mar
2012-03-16 13h43_48

Little Big Adventure Is Heading To Android This Fall, Brings The 90s Into The 21st Century

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The hits just keep on coming from DotEmu. After releasing retro gaming classic Another World for Android yesterday, the game developer announced that it would also be bringing Little Big Adventure (no relation to Little Big Planet), another cult classic game from the 90s to Android this fall.

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Little Big Adventure may not be a staple of retro gaming in the same way that Mario or Sonic are (those sellouts), but the game garnered quite the following in its time. Released just a couple years before the Nintendo 64, the game made a move to integrate 3-dimensional polygon graphics into a free-roaming environment.

12
Feb
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[New Game] Pinball Arcade For Android Brings The Glory Days Of Pinball Back, Doesn't Require Quarters

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The arcade may have killed the pinball star, but like the Rubik's cube or the Slinky before it, pinball machines have refused to disappear. Pinball Arcade, from Farsight Studios, brings back several classic pinball tables from major players in the pinball industry. Each table also comes with a brief description of its history.

Tables licensed from Williams, Bally, Stern, and Gottlieb have been recreated in impeccable detail. Gameplay and physics are fluid and the flippers are responsive with virtually no lag, which is critical in a game of reaction times. Controls are simple: tap a side of the screen to trigger the flipper on that side.