News: Retro tidbits

February 07, 2006, 01:44 AM

by chazumaru, via various -
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Ascii announced what games will be featured in their upcoming mook Yomigaeru PC-8801 Densetsu Eikyuu Hozon-ban ("the legend of the resurrecting PC-8801, eternal conservation edition"). As you can guess, the mook is dedicated to the glory of the PC-88 series that defined japanese PC gaming for most of the Eighties, was home to a tidewave of cult adventure games and RPGs from companies such as Enix, Falcom and Nihon Telenet, and eventually led to the slightly more internationally known PC-98 series. The games featured in Ascii's mook will be The Black Onix (published by BPS), Fire Crystal (BPS), Archon (BPS), Muteki Keiji Daidageki (FamilySoft), Hydlide I/II/III (T&E Soft), Super Taisenryaku (System Soft), Harakiri (Game Arts), Uddeipoko (dB-Soft), Riglas (Random House), Final Zone (Nihon Telenet) and Dome (System Sacom).

In other retro-spirited news, Sega has a new promotional video for Sega Ages Vol.25 Gunstar Heroes ~Treasure Box~ ; and the NES emulator Nestopia now has a nice new feature that fakes the clumsiness of NTSC display on any perfectly fine monitor, for those who miss a more accurate rendition of the games of their youth on NES or Famicom (found this last one via Tam). HD era, indeed.