While the XBox 360 doesn’t try to keep up with the pace of the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console, it makes up for it in quality and value. This Week: Ms. Pac-Man January 10 400 Microsoft Points Official XBLA Page Screenshots Additional XBLA Developments: XBLA Gameplay Video of Castlevania: SOTN Next Week: Heavy Weapon Geometry Wars […]
Usually, when you get a new-to-you console, you can usually find or remember the major games to check out. But what happens when you need something different to play? This is where the “Hidden Gems” come in. Read More About My Criteria For Hidden Gems See All The Hidden Gems Articles Platformers Obvious Choices: Sonic […]
It’s been an exciting week for fans of Sega’s trademark side-scrolling braweler, Streets of Rage. First of all, an ambitious homebrew effort has been started to revive Streets of Rage with added visuals, moves, and feautures. Of course, a Dreamcast port is anticipated, but some of the community is devoted to keeping it strictly PC. […]
With so many unique and interesting games from the past out there, I obviously don’t have time to review them all myself. This time around we have racketboy.com contributer, Gungriffon reviewing his namesake game… Introduction I am a fan of everything robot-related. Whether it be a fighting, action, strategy, or RPG, if it has robots, […]
This past September we got word that Treasure was developing a sequel to its famed shooters, Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga. At that point, the rumor was simply riding on a reputable writer from PLAY magazine. The rumor is alive again thanks to one of my favorite gaming sites, insertcredit, who spotted an XBox 360 Radiant […]
It’s pretty easy to find a list of “The Top 10 Sega Saturn Games†or some similar ranking, but most of them were written back when the console was still on the retail scene and almost all of them only compare the games against other Saturn games.  (Digg This Guide) This is all fine if […]
After all the complaining about how Sega has screwed up Sonic the Hedgehog, I was pleased to see a sweet Sonic ROM hack featured on Siliconera. Sonic 1 Megamix is a ROM hack that essentially takes the levels of the first Sonic game, but throws in characters, physics and moves of the later games (including […]
Going on its ninth year of being on the retail scene (at least in Japan), the Sega Dreamcast still has three new anticipated games coming out in 2007. While I have already covered each announcement on its own, I wanted to do a recap of them as a whole along with release information, screenshots, and […]
Happy 2007 Everyone! I want to thank you all for another great year at racketboy.com, whether it be forum members and their great conversations, customers at the stores, or those subscribing to the RSS feed or reading the site every day. You have all made this place successful and made the classic gaming community so […]
After watching this series of well-produced tutorial clips from David Sirlin (Game designer and producer at Digital Eclipse), I realized I didn’t know nearly as much about Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo as I thought I did. I have never considered myself an expert at the game even though I have be playing it since […]
With all the praise we give the Dreamcast for staying alive with new commercial releases, we sometimes forget about other older systems that have a new game released. In this case, racketboy.com contributer, retrogamer, shares his review of the recent Sega Genesis release of Beggar Prince. Introduction: Beggar Prince is a rare and obscure title […]
Remember what we used to do to get a better handheld gaming experience? I’m glad those days are behind us.
Even though it has very long way before it matches the massive shooter libraries of the Sega Dreamcast and Saturn, the Nintendo Gamecube is slowly building a modest library of shmups that is uncharacteristic of a more modern console. There is only one real exclusive in the bunch, but it had some of the better […]
Let’s face it. The Dreamcast will not die. Sega’s little white box just refuses to give up the fight. Japanese publisher Milestone is bringing yet another interesting 2D shooter to the Dreamcast in the form of Karous (official site) and will have a release date of March 8th, 2007. Karous looks like it is similar […]
It turns out the Sony PSP is actually good for something after all! (I kid.) Some ambitious software hackers have cracked Sony’s PS1 emulator for the PSP. Yes, that emulator — the one that is used to play the PS1 games that they sell on their PS3 store. Except for now instead of having to […]
