The Nintendo 64 holds a lot of nostalgia for us. With games like Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart 64, Super Smash Bros., and so many more, the classic console will always have a special place in our hearts.
One developer in particular stands out in creating some truly incredible titles for the N64, Rare! They were the developers behind Banjo Kazooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day, GoldenEye 007, and it's now been leaked that they have one more release for that console up their sleeves.
The game is titled Dinosaur Planet, and was meant to be Rare's last game for the N64, and it was a big one! The cartridge would have been a whopping 512 megabytes. For comparison, the largest game for the N64 at the time was Resident Evil 2 at 64 megabytes.
Dinosaur Planet is an action-adventure game with a massive world to explore and the stylized cartoony graphics that we've come to know and love from Rare. Game preservationist Forest of Illusion bought the disc with the game build from a private game collector in Sweden, and released a series of tweets announcing the exciting news. The first tweet we've read said "Today we have released Dinosaur Planet by Rare for Nintendo 64, the game development was halted and moved to the Game Cube, where it was then released as Star Fox Adventures." They went on to share some more info about the build, stating that the final date was from December 1, 2000.
The big question is, can we play it?
Forest of Illusion gave us an answer saying, "The game will currently not run a 100% perfectly on any emulator, expect many graphical issues with shadows and lighting and some slowdown. It should however, work perfectly fine with flashcarts."
From the sounds of it there will be hacks and patches made to allow you to play through the game until the end and all we can say is, sign us up!
Would you be interested in giving a long lost Dinosaur Planet to play?
Click the link below for more info:
https://twitter.com/forestillusion/status/1363090008916193282?s=20
We're all pretty used to being able to do anything on our phones, including playing games, and it's not just what you think of as bad mobile games anymore. You can play the likes of PUBG and Among Us from your smartphones as well. However, we didn't always have this amazing luxury, something that Nintendo seemed to have spotted back in 2001.
We recently dug up a patent for an electronic apparatus having game and telephone functions assigned to Nintendo. This is pretty much exactly what it sounds like, a phone that you can also play games on, which doesn't sound like such a big deal now, but there wasn't really anything like it back then.
The Nintendo Gaming Phone would accomplish this by having both a gaming CPU and a phone CPU that it would switch back and forth between as needed. If a call came in while you were playing something, the game would pause for you to answer it. Obviously this idea was never brought to fruition which begs the question: "Why?"
Maybe they didn't see the real need for it with the Gameboy Advance and the GameCube already on the market. We still think it would have been awesome to our younger selves back in the early 2000s.
Is this something that you would have used?
Here's a blast from the 90's past, Bleem! is coming back!
If you don't remember Bleem!, it was an actual commercial PlayStation emulator released in 1999. Bleem! may be back more a name than anything however, as it was bought by Pico Interactive and will be a new online storefront much like Steam or GOG. The only difference is that Bleem! will focus on selling retro games for consoles like the NES, SNES, Genesis, Gameboy, and PlayStation One.
Retro lovers will rejoice at how easy it is to play their favorite retro game from the past. All you have to do is download the game and play it. That's it. There will be a custom wrapper that lets you play the games directly from your desktop.
Eli Galindo, the owner of Pico Interactive, and now Bleem!, shares their mission with the online store saying, "Making things easier for gamers is our goal. The Bleem! powered storefront is just an extension of that intent. It really is as simple as download, open, and play. Working with outside companies to publish their games on the storefront will give gamers even more choices." No news yet on when the site will launch, but you better believe we'll be keeping our eyes on it.
Is this something that you're interested in checking out? what would be the first retro game you would download and play?
It's incredibly heartwarming to hear stories about video game developers finding ways to help disabled people play their games.
One such awesome story that we wanted to share is about the retro game Real Sound: Kaze no regret. Kenji Eno, a Japanese video game designer and president of the development studio Warp created the game after finding out about blind fans who loved his game. Sega published Real Sound: Kaze no regret at an exchange for exclusive rights to the game. They donated a thousand Sega Saturn consoles to blind people.
In an interview with 1UP he shared his intentions for the game saying "I thought that if you turn off the monitor, both of you are just hearing the game. So after you finish the game, you can have an equal conversation about it with a blind person."
It was developed with a blank screen and relied on audio cues to guide the player through the game. A visual version of the game was released in 1999 for the Sega Dreamcast, but the concepts stayed the same. You relied exclusively on sound to get through it. It's basically an interactive audio book where the player listens as the story unfolds.
As a sighted person is this something that you'd be interested in playing?
