div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 190px; padding: 1px;">Dynamite Jack" href="http://kotaku.com/dynamite-ja~ style="background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;">#dynamitejack Dynamite Jack" href="http://kotaku.com/5910855/her~ class="pp_image"> Dynamite Jack" alt="Click here to read Here’s Why You Should Take a Vacation with Dynamite Jack" src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/im~ A little while back, I took a look at Dynamite Jack and really enjoyed the explodey stealth action provided by this indie game. More » [Link] [Cache]

It was very tough but I ended up picking Bulbasaur....later that year I got a link and my brother got Pokemon Blue so we traded Pokemon....no more decisions then!! [Link] [Cache]

I got these sexy games in the mail today! I've been wanting to get me new pirates lately so this is a nice welcomed addition to my collection. The games are pretty neat. There are two multis that come with two games in one and a single game cart Snow Bros . All the games worked great and I actually started playing one of them called Gun Nac which is a shooter game. I enjoyed it but found it a little too easy... I also played some Samurai Pizza Cats and this weird side scroller with a three eyed bald ... [Link] [Cache]

So yesterday for Mother's day me and my brother took our mom to a Peruvian restaurant. I decided to take my 3DS with me and little did I know that I would actually get a tag in the establishment! Another Mii find! WUT!!! [Link] [Cache]

This episode of the show features our stalwart hosts in a roundtable discussion with two expert corespondents on the subject of retro sports video games. Forum members retrosportsgamer of Retro Sports Gamer World and sevin0seven joins us to run down our favorite 8-bit and 16-bit titles, talk about what makes a great sports video game, what causes them to be ignored by so many retro gamers, and how they’ve changed over the years. John’s Tradition Sports expertise proves useful, Dave’s strange love for Slam City with Scottie Pippen is explained, sevin0seven laments the lack of hadoukens in Mike Tyson’s Punch ... [Link] [Cache]

To celebrate 10 years of the GameCube being available in Europe, we’ve looked at our 10 favourite games on the system. They system was full of genuinely great games and we’ve really struggled to pick just 10. So without further ado, and in no particular order, here are our favourites. Resident Evil – 2002 HD Makeovers appear practically every other week these days, but none of them are a patch on this incredible effort from 2002. Capcom rebuilt it’s award-winning PlayStation game from the ground up, and the end results were absolutely sensational. Beautiful rendered backdrops, amazingly detailed graphics and ... [Link] [Cache]

Remember I Wanna Be The Guy? Oh God, the memories haunt me to this day! Thankfully, creator Michael O'Reilly's newest game is not going to be as outrageously emasculating. He officially revealed it last year, but I haven't heard any outlet make mention of it since. Entitled Brave Earth: Prologue, it's an homage to old-school Castlevania, when the series was all about tight platforming and minute-to-minute challenges as opposed to wandering expansive hallways on an open-world map. According to Michael's earliest remarks, the game was supposed to be a "Metroidvania," but from the screens, it's shaping up to have more ... [Link] [Cache]

So little by little this wonderful masterpiece is coming together. Here is a new update on the progress of the game! Check it out! You better! AWAAAAAAAAA!!! [Link] [Cache]

So today I got this sexy pirate in the mail! Oh man it's been a while since I've bought a pirate and this one is totally awesome!! It's an RPG game based on the Dragon Ball series! It's totally awesome!! An incredible addition to my collection. I have to get back to my roots! Piracy 4 life!!Dragon Ball Chinese Famicom [Link] [Cache]

So in a way to still keep updates coming through here I decided to post emulation news once a week. The problem at first was that the news were pretty repetitive and didn't make much sense. From now on, I'll be posting the most important updates of the given dates. I hope this can help some of you out there that are still focusing on the emulation nation!MD.emu for Android v1.4.26"- Fixed Wii Classic Controller detection for newer models- Android: Disabled OES_texture_npot on all Adreno 200 GPUs LG Optimus V, etc. due to faulty OpenGL driver causing blank font rendering"iNES ... [Link] [Cache]

Today was a very interesting day of finds as you can see. I was able to pick up Duke Nukem 3D for .95 cents so I was totally ecstatic for such an awesome find! The others were Addams Family for the NES and Rayman Brain Games for the PS1. Not a lot of pick ups but at least something to be happy about. Let's Rock!Duke Nukem 3D PC Rayman Brain Games PS1 Addams Family NES [Link] [Cache]

"You can finally play the iconic movie on your NES! Akira is a point-and-click text adventure following the plot of the movie not the manga , and is sure to give even the greatest fans quite the challenge. This project was many years in the making and was a combined effort of danke, Pennywise, and Niahak with some early aid from RedComet. The game was translated rather quickly, but, because it was a text adventure, space immediately became an issue. After a line hack and hijacking the native DTE, space was still a major issue. It was decided that the ... [Link] [Cache]

So a little late but here is the retro tune of the week! None other than the Technodrome theme song for the classic TMNT 2 games for the NES. Gotta love it dude! [Link] [Cache]

The Excitement of a Game. The Mind of a Computer. The Soul of an Edsel. The Odyssey 2, released in 1978, ranks among the most misunderstood video game consoles. It boasted more CPU intelligence than the Atari 2600, but it lacked the licensed arcade titles and third-party developers to make it competitive over [...] [Link] [Cache]

You don't have to preface classic games with caveats like, "It starts slow, but after the first 20 hours it really starts to get interesting!" With few exceptions, you can play an older game for a few minutes and get an accurate sense of its worth. With that rule in mind, One-Hour Retrospectives are exactly as they sound: We'll play a classic game like those on Virtual Console for an hour and report back on how it goes. And if we should have given it another 19 hours before it became interesting, well, that's where you come in to keep ... [Link] [Cache]

The iPad App Directory Volume 4 is your complete guide to the best apps available for your Apple tablet. Covering every category on the App Store, there are loads of top apps that will help extend the functionality of your iPad, and plenty that will keep you entertained for hours, whether they are games, books or utilities. With over 600 reviews, you’re bound to find plenty of applications that will catch your eye, and you’ll even discover our top 200 iPad apps of all time. Apps magazine deputy editor Jonathan Gordon commented: “With the release of the new iPad, Apple’s ... [Link] [Cache]

Retro gaming reboots and sequels given a chance of life courtesy of Kickstarter funding seem to be gaining more and more momentum each day, with the latest a sequel to the gory Death Race-style 1997 PC racer Carmageddon. The sort-of sequel, which is titled Carmageddon: Reincarnation, is being developed by Stainless Games. The creators of the original game, Stainless recently bought back the rights to the IP and is hoping to reboot the franchise if it can raise the funding it needs. The target is set at $400,000, and at the time of writing the total pledged so far was ... [Link] [Cache]

So today in the mail I got this wonderful game. I loved the artwork so much that I just had to get it CIB! It's totally worth it! Why couldn't the US release have such an awesome cover? Lame Americans! :pZelda A link's awakening Gameboy [Link] [Cache]

Nintendo is celebrating 20 years of Kirby, by releasing a new compilation later this year. The compilation will be released exclusively on the Wii, but so far, Nintendo hasn’t revealed what games will actually be included. We’re hoping that it will feature all of Kirby’s Game Boy, NES and SNES platformers, as well as the numerous spin-off games he has appeared in. Nintendo’s Super Mario All-Stars celebration bundle didn’t go down too well with gamers due to the limited nature of the included games, so we’re hoping that Nintendo is going to really get behind this new release and allow ... [Link] [Cache]

I may not be a Neo-Geo expert, but I’ve ran this site long enough to know that there’s a number of SNK fans that aren’t keen on Dion Dakis. The co-founder of NeoGeoFreak pushed the buttons of a lot of American Neo-Geo collectors with his online antics and personality. Last summer I had a trip out to Las Vegas and I worked it into my schedule to sit down with Dion Dakis for an evening and talk about the last few decades of the gaming industry. Knowing his reputation on neo-geo.com, I wasn’t sure what to expect. On the other ... [Link] [Cache]

Presented by Dsheinem New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club For many gamers, Wolfenstein 3D is considered the game that launched the most popular genre of the last twenty years: the first person shooter. And while it can’t technically boast being the first ever FPS, Wolfenstein 3D remains one of the best loved and most influential games ever created in any genre. If you haven’t ever sat down to play it through or if you haven’t done so for some time, this month’s Together Retro timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the game’s release ... [Link] [Cache]

Here is a very weird Famiclone I've been using lately. Not only can you use a Master System controller on it but a Genesis one as well!! Somehow this is a fusion of Sega and Nintendo right? I hope you like. [Link] [Cache]

Bethesda is celebrating Wolfenstein 3D’s twentieth birthday by making the seminal classic available to play in browser form. Created by John Carmack and Jon Romero, it was not only the first example of the first-person shooter, but proved just how cutting edge PCs could be. This latest version is an excellent reproduction of the classic PC hit and is still great fun to play. To continue the celebrations, there is also an excellent Youtube video that not only features John Carmack playing through the game, but also reveals how the cutting edge game was created. If you’re a fan of ... [Link] [Cache]

OH man you see this pic? I want a frog like this one!! I always had a thing for frogs...ahhh someday I'll have it!! This fat frog rocks!!!! Just though I would share... [Link] [Cache]

As more magazines convert to the digital format, Imagine Publishing announces a brand new way of enjoying your favourite titles. As one of the first publishers to fully embrace the online market, our new venture Great Digital Mags makes it even easier to buy popular magazines like Retro Gamer and How It Works. Great Digital Mags is an innovative new digital portal that allows access to each magazine in the Imagine Publishing portfolio. Regardless of whether you enjoy retro gaming, photography or science fiction, you’ll discover plenty of titles to suit your needs. Great Digital Mags gives you instant access ... [Link] [Cache]