Retro Gaming Life E-zine December 2015 Issue Released!

The December issue is out and it's completely radical! We looked into one of the most popular TMNT games ever and why it's so awesome! We have also packed in even more RPG goodness and tips n tricks for all your retro games. A lot more information on the Japan Report about...

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Ads from the past 303: Sears Catalog Nintendo Store

Look at all these prices! Look at Bowser!! Why is his face all green????? WHAT? his koopas look like chickens! I wonder if they're still a 24 hour toll free number? So many questions....so little time! At least Mario is looking as good as ever!  ...

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Pokemon Card of the Week 022: Light Azumarill

Just as there were dark pokemon cards released, there were the light ones. Apparently, Nintendo wanted to a fight of good vs evil. I believe they discontinued such a brand with the later sets.  ...

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Bootleg Game of the Week 083: Sonic (FC)

 This is an interesting hack of a game. Care to guess from which game? It's none other than Adventure Island. It sort of makes sense and would've worked if the bootleggers would've been less lazy! This game hacks Master Higgins into Sonic! Other than Master Higgins,...

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Retro Game of the Week 154: Castlevania 2 Simon's Quest (NES)

This is a game that gets criticized because someone said so but it's nothing like that. People should be thankful of this game because if it wasn't for this, games like Symphony of the Night wouldn't have existed.  The fundamentals of the side scroller RPG elements were...

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Retro Gaming News: La Wares Romanian version released!

"Fellow Romanian fans everywhere, rejoice! For today, Dynamic-Designs brings you yet another fully translated SNES RPG in Romanian! This project took about three months to fully translate and beta test. Although the time it took to translate it was significantly less...

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Yu-gi-oh! Card of the Week 022: Red-Eyes Black Dragon

This is my favorite Dragon hands down. It's not only beautiful, but it has red eyes! Gotta love it in my deck!  ...

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Retro Gaming News: Yoshi's Island (SMA 3) Colour Restoration

"Before the release of the GBA SP, several games were given a brighter palette to accommodate for the lack of an unlit screen for the original AGB-101 model. This hack restores the colour palette of Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi’s Island to match its SNES counterpart....

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Ads from the past 302: X-men Handheld

Handhelds were quite popular back in the 90s and late 80s. With the release of the Gameboy, others wanted part of the handheld market. This was one of the many handhelds released by Tiger. It was fun but only to a point. I rather have a copy of X-men on my Gameboy any ...

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Pokemon Card of the Week 021: Nintetales

This is a very beautiful and wonderful Pokemon. It's also quite strong. I wish Brock would've kept his Vulpix!  ...

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Retro Gaming News: Ninja Gaiden SRAM

"Adds a save feature to Ninja Gaiden. After each level, the game autosaves you To load, you have to press select on the title screen" Source ...

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Retro Gaming News: Last Armageddon

"Here is a very small translation of what was able to be accessed without advanced knowledge of compression involved. A few spots on the over-world have been translated and most of the menu screen has been done. This way if someone wanted to try the game, they can navigate...

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Retro Gaming News: Alex Kidd in Radaxian Rumble

"This is a hack of Alex Kidd in Miracle World made using KiddEd, aiming to provide new challenges for fans of the original, give the game a bit of an audiovisual update, as well as make parts of the original game flow a bit better. Most levels build on the ones in the...

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Retro Gaming News: SMB2 Improvement

"Description: This is designed to fix a few small things without changing the game too much. List of Changes: Restored the sound effect that’s supposed to play when you die. It never worked due to a bug. Restored the missing 8th animation frame for tiles. It was never...

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Yu-gi-oh! Card of the Week 021: Summoned Skull

The alternative art of this monster is flawless. I prefer this one over the other any day. Beautiful just beautiful!  ...

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Retro Gaming News: Phantasy Star Generation:2

"This is an English translation of Phantasy Star Generation:2, which is a remake (released on PS2 on 2005) of Phantasy Star 2 (released on Genesis in 1990) This remake features the original version of the game released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, accessible from...

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Retro Gaming News: Final Fantasy Ultra

"A Final Fantasy hack, five years in the making. The philosophy is to add and change as much as possible for the better, while still staying true to the spirit of the game. Here is a list of improvements. 12 classes at the start instead of 6 Each class is especially...

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Retro Gaming News: Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest - EasyType

"Version 3.2 of the patch. Thanks go out to JCE3000GT for his Final Fantasy Mystic Quest Multi Editor which made this hack possible! Please rate this if you like it!" Source ...

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Retro Gaming News: Streets of Rage 2 Restoration

"This hack restores all the stuff that got censored and removed from the American version back to it, it also fixes the names of three enemies and changes the music on one stage as well. Here’s what this hack does to it: It restores Blaze’s original flying kick sprites...

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Retro Gaming News: Sin and Punishment: Successor of the Earth

"First release of the Sin and Punishment: Successor of the Earth Spanish fantranslation & fandub. The compressed file contains two patches, one for those who want to hear the original English voices and one with a full, new European Spanish dub, made between Traducciones...

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