The gaming system wars started long before the battle between Sega and Nintendo, but it was the 16-bit era that pitched the computing (Atari ST and Amiga 500) and console (Sega Mega Drive and SNES) giants against one another.
These bitter system wars waged on (Ed: they are still simmering!) between ST/Amiga owners and their Mega Drive/SNES console counterparts, both sides arguing that their system was best. Declaring a winner was always fraught with danger, especially when the battle turned to the technical specifications front.
When gamers use the hypothetical capabilities (specs) of their chosen machine instead of presenting hard evidence (Ed: like the actual games!) to argue their point, it descends the debate into the realm of the potential – the ‘what if’ scenario! As we know, you can’t play potential! Most machines have untapped potential and could definitely produce better games than what we’d seen from them, but that does not count unless you are about to create the next best homebrew game.
So gamers, a battle between systems should never be about what they can do, just what they did do. It’s great to think about the ‘what may have been‘ scenario, but all that will do is make you bitter and twisted – just enjoy what there is on offer, as there is plenty of variety out there for even the most discerning gamers. Oh yeah, none of these machines are as good as the PC-Engine anyway! *winks*
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Ready, (Re)Set, Go! Rejoice C64 fans as issue 8 of the world’s most awesome free C64 magazine, Reset, is 
If your Famicom is sick of old carts then this may be exactly what it was craving for – 8Bit Music Power, a new cartridge released for the Fami in over two decades! This retro 8-bit chiptunes cart will push the RP2A03 sound processor to its limit, making your Famicom pump to the beats.
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Celebrating their 30 years in business, Stern Pinball Inc. is being quite active on their social media channels, releasing interesting facts about pinball. One that stood out to us was the unreleased 1990 pinball table based on the Total recall movie. Apparently, the Total Recall rare prototype never made it into production. Stern go on to say that “Designed to be a dual player team effort machine, it was ultimately scrapped for production and sent to the depths of the Data East factory. Sometime between 1996 and 2000 the machine “mysteriously disappeared”. Some say it went into the trash, some say it was broken down and forgotten. Some say that the machine made its way to places unknown and anyone who sees it in person is sworn to secrecy. No one knows for sure, and if they do, they aren’t talking.
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Don’t you just love when things happen unexpectedly? Well, this past week’s events were mind blowingly unexpected!
As Prince Adam once proclaimed, “Fabulous, secret powers were revealed to me the day I held aloft my magic sword and said: “By the Power of Grayskull!”, indeed, there is a 
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Finally, Atari’s 64-bit Jaguar can purr in delight as we whack in 
Just like Eddie Murphy did in Coming To America, Sega is coming with its 
Last Saturday (January 16) in a storage unit in Grand Island Nebraska there was a huge one day sale on classic and vintage arcade machines, jukeboxes and various other coin-ops. These relics had not seen the light of day in over 30 years!
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As another year rolls around, the