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New Shmup, “IRENA” announced for the SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive

Irena is a 16-bit shmup created by White Ninja Studio.  It’s main dev, Kentosama named the game after his daughter which is how another indie game, Battle Princess Madelyn started its development.  The Story line is as follows: In a distant world, an intergalactic ship carrying settlers to the planet Laderia II is suddenly trapped […]

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Analogue to release “Hardcore” game for the Mega SG Genesis Clone

It’s time to get Hardcore with your Sega Genesis… (Couldn’t resist!) All kidding aside, Analogue announced that their upcoming FPGA clone of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive will be bundled with Hardcore, a 99% finished game that was canceled 23 years ago. The game was canceled in 1994 due to developer Psygnosis losing faith in 16-bit game […]

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Brook Bluetooth Converters for Sega Genesis & TurboGrafx 16 up for Pre-order

Hot on the heels of 8bitdo and Retro-bit, Brook has announced that they are releasing their own Sega Genesis/Mega Drive bluetooth controller adapter.  The difference (besides the size) compared to the competition is that the Brook adapter will also include Turbografx 16/PC Engine support as a stock feature. Price is expected to be set at […]

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Out of the ashes of Paprium, Rises PapiRium!

These days, the long awaited Genesis/Mega Drive beat-em-up, Paprium is regarded as a vaporware title with its creator “Fonzie” in hiding somewhere. With the anticipated title taking the better part of a decade to develop and little-to-nothing to show for it, gamers and backers are understandably vexed about the situation.  Out of the ashes of […]

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Sega Delays the “Mega Drive Mini” to 2019

Not allowing Sony to steal all the “classic” thunder with their mini emulation box announcement, Sega just posted an update to their own “mini” on their Twitter page.  They claim the “Mega Drive Mini” will have it’s released pushed to 2019 and that they will be releasing a “Genesis” version for North America.  They also […]