Super Mario Crossover 3.0 trailer released

“What is Super Mario Crossover?”, one could ask.

In summary: There is a website that features free online games, and some other zaniness, called ExplodingRabbit.com. Exactly three years ago today, they released a humble little game called Super Mario Bros Crossover (seriously, go try it at that link).

The appeal of the digital version of that original adventure is ludicrously brilliant and brilliantly ludicrous. The game is basically a browser version of the original 8-bit Super Mario Bros, but with the option of playing as other characters from classic NES franchises. You can battle as the guy from Contra, or complete it as Samus Aran from Metroid, or perhaps you want to see what the Mushroom Kingdom feels like as Mega Man.

It has become a great success, a worldwide phenomenon, and one of the most popular, well-known, utterly free browser games in history, with multiple versions being released at the site to cover subtle-but-enhancing upgrades and further celebrate the power of double-jumps and mash-up fun.

Now, fans can drool at the prospect of 3.0, since the trailer dropped on YouTube.

River City Ransom 2 announced, in development

[Editor’s Note: Although this new project is indeed a follow-up to the original River City Ransom, it will not specifically be called “River City Ransom 2.” — Bailey.]

Stop the presses. Hold the phone. Is it true?

Yeah, it is not just a rumor. You can be forgiven for not believing it, since a prior RCR2 effort was postponed indefinitely, but this time there is much room for real hope.

Full credit to Polygon.com for tipping the story that a sequel to one of the most beloved, high-quality, most unique NES video games of all time.

RetroHate

No Time for Time

The flow of time is always cruel…

Time is a funny thing. It passes in the blink of an eye and at the same time never moves. Time is relative, time is constant.

Getting a little heady for ya? Ok I’ll stop, but the target of my rage today is in fact Time itself. (No, I’m not going to bash Ocarina of Time… yet) Rather, I wanted to vent about time as it exists in video games. Time can take many forms in video games or no form at all, but the most common is the Time Limit.

The Fair Shake

Space Station: Oblivion

So this past weekend I just saw the new Tom Cruise movie (Did I really just type that?) Oblivion. Without giving away the plot, It’s a very stylistically designed mind ‘eff’, set in a futuristic sci-fi dystopia. I came away from viewing it questioning a few of the bigger moral questions the movie posed, but I enjoyed the movie. As of this writing, there is no video game tie in. This is probably a good thing, considering how most video game – movie tie ins end up. However, for gamers in the US, there already IS a game called Oblivion. Actually, it’s Space Station: Oblivion. It has absolutely nothing at all to do with the movie. In fact, in the UK, the game is called ‘Driller’.

The Retro Critic

Star Trek: 25th Anniversary

The search for a fun Star Trek game to play and review was long and eventful, finally I settled on this little outing mostly due to the fact that it’s actually pretty decent and works as a kind of 4th Season for The Original Series.

The good thing about this game is that, in the CD version anyway, the original cast of the series actually voice the characters and add a certain authenticity, nostalgia and validity to the whole thing. This really does feel like you’re playing through further adventures the old gang would have undertaken.

Bad Guys Anonymous

Met

Welcome to yet another entry in the Bad Guys Anonymous series here at 1 More Castle. In this weekly column, we’ll take a look at a lowly bad guy from gaming’s past. We’ll talk about where said minion came from, where it went and how it’s defeated in game. The whole idea here is that we’ll be able to glean information about game design while paying homage to characters often flogged and forgotten.

The catch? The bad guys must be the first gamers encounter. We’ve already visited the Goomba in Super Mario Bros., Gnawty in Donkey Kong Country and the snail in Adventure Island. Today, we’re exploring Met from Mega Man.

Pinball Alley

Pinball Alley: High Speed

The first time that I saw High Speed in my local mall arcade, I was in awe.

Bitter Without Continues

Live to run another day

So I am fortunate enough to live five minutes away a particularly awesome mall-based game store called ‘RU Game?’, which deals exclusively in retail sales of all kinds of retro titles (they even have a stockpile of Famicom and Super Famicom games!), and represents the single greatest threat to my bank account since the discovery of Amazon Prime.

Ninja Gaiden III prototype sold on Ebay for $3,000

Prototype cartridges occupy a much-coveted spot in the collectors’ pantheon: Typically, they are absolutely unique, one-of-a-kind items, making them rarer than any actual released game. For example, although many 8-bit collectors may consider the gold Nintendo World Championships cartridge to be the “Holy Grail” of their hobby, over two dozen of those games were produced and distributed. Ultra-rare? Sure, but not one-a-kind.

Now, we all know that other factors will drive up the price of a particular artifact (which explains how a gold NWC cart sold for over $24,000 in 2007). We are not here to debate the economics of retro gaming: We are here to highlight a treasure that has exchanged hands with little fanfare.

1 More Podcastle

032 – The Eric Bailey Half Time Show

Saturnology

Galactic Attack

Do you like space ships? Lasers? Genocidal Earth? Xevious? Then does David have the game for you!
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We’re Expanding our Podcast

We are proud to announce we’re expanding our weekly podcast to include streaming video.

N64 Connoisseur

We Try Not To Talk About Paperboy on N64

Last week, Alex revealed that Paperboy on the NES was actually a port of a far superior version of the classic game. Did you know that that the Nintendo 64 had a 3D version of Paperboy that made the NES version look like a full HD remake? While the N64 is responsible for many glorious gems of games, this was not among them. This was a half finished game that looked like it was a quarter finished. This game is so bad, it does not even have a page in the Book of Knowledge. It simply has a one line mention in the main Paperboy article. Hold your noses, we are going to take a deeper dive into this pile of garbage.

Unreleased Sega Pluto Revealed

A former Sega employee has unveiled an un-released Sega console; the Sega Pluto.

Age of Empires 2: HD Patch Available

A patch for the recently released Age of Empires 2: HD has been made available, in the hopes of fixing some of the release bugs.

The Fair Shake

Fast Food

So here I am. 33 years old. I’ve learned a few things in my few (or many, depending on your point of view) years on this planet. Look both ways before crossing the street. Odd numbered Star Trek movies, for the most part, are pretty lousy. OK fine, III is actually good if you look at it as part of a trilogy. Recently I learned that I can’t pound back four Coney Island style hot dogs in a row, late at night, along with two glass (!) bottles of Mountain Dew Throwback with half a bag of potato chips on the side. Well, I can, but I’ll awaken an hour after going to bed with severe stomach pains, as I lie curled in a fetal position crying for the demon in my stomach to exit my body. Ugh.

The Retro Critic

New Ghostbusters II

When it comes to the Game Boy, I’m something of a purist. Although growing up squinting over those tiny colorless pixels might just be the reason why I currently wear/need glasses, I still love that unique feeling of nostalgia that occurs when I play a game on it.

When it comes to the Ghostbusters movies, however, I’m not one of those who are married to the first film and see the sequel as a dead raccoon the first film gave birth to through its ass. I love Ghostbusters II with its evil paintings, its goofy art dealers, its river of slime, its Nintendo-controlled Statue Of Liberty… what’s not to like?!

The Ghostbuster games have the unfortunate reputation of being terrible. This is mostly due to that first NES/Sega Master System release indeed being absolutely awful. But there ARE good Ghostbusters retro games out there. My favorite being Ghostbusters II on the Sega Genesis: fun, cartoonish visuals, crazy new villains, a good choice of levels you can approach in different ways, cool game overall.

Ghostbusters II on the original Game Boy, I’m happy to say, is another good one. The game begins with a cut scene showing adorably tiny Bill Murray and adorably tiny Sigourney Weaver walking around with their baby in a pram.

Bad Guys Anonymous

Snail

Welcome to yet another edition of Bad Guys Anonymous. If you’re new to the weekly (I swear!) column, hello! The whole deal here is that we take a quick look at one of the anonymous henchmen from classic games that, for the most part, has been rather overlooked by gamers. They’re encountered, they’re conquered and then they’re never thought of again.

The catch? It has to be the very first bad guy players run into.

This week’s entry is all about one minor bad invertebrate from one of my personal favorite games on the NES, the snail from Adventure Island.

EarthBound coming to Wii U Virtual Console

Earthbound, Nintendo’s 1994 sci-fi RPG, is getting released this year in North America and Europe via the Wii U Virtual Console.

Beta of Superman 64 Released

A beta version of the infamous Superman 64 has been released as a ROM.

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