After more than three decades, Splatter World, a lost Famicom horror RPG based on Namco’s Splatterhouse series, has finally surfaced online. The game appeared anonymously on 4chan’s retro gaming board around Halloween and was quickly confirmed to be fully playable in emulators such as FCEUX. Originally thought to be a canceled spin-off of Splatterhouse: Wanpaku […]
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Before the Xbox became the green and black plastic console we all know, Microsoft’s early prototype looked completely different. The first design was a massive X shaped block of solid aluminum, more like a sci-fi sculpture than a gaming machine. Built to impress at trade shows, it was never meant for production, mainly due to […]
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Based on a recent post on the Neo Geo subreddit, u/Upstairs_Report6208 has acquired an incredibly rare, early prototype of the Neo Geo CD Front Loader console, specifically “Console No. 4.” The unit, which was bought as “junk” with a black screen, features unique boards (CDROM-1 and CD-ANA) and even has a “SAMPLE” label on the […]
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