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Fusion R Gamer says goodbye

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It's with great sadness that we announce this will be the last post made on Fusion R Gamer. The tough decision to close our doors and say goodbye to our readers has been made and the site is closing. We're so grateful to everyone who stopped by to read a news post or review of the latest retro release. Our mission was to provide a daily source of retro and
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Football Champ Kicks its Way out of the Arcade Archives Today

Paul Twist0
https://youtu.be/W9Zb1DWGQKI If you’re already missing the recent flurry of football action from the Euro 24 championships, then the latest release from Hamster's Arcade Archives line of emulated arcade titles could be just what you need!For this week’s release, Hamster have resurrected Football Champ, a Taito title originally released in 1990, and which is also known by the name ‘Hat Trick Hero’.As the title suggests, the game is an arcade-style football
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Epyx Rogue Spawning onto Switch Tomorrow

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Rogue, the game that spawned a genre, is venturing onto Nintendo Switch tomorrow (Thursday 18th July 2024).So many modern gamers use the term “rogue-like”, but many may not have played the original game that it references. Now they’ll have the chance to play it on Nintendo Switch!Back in 1980, a computer game emerged that changed the world of fantasy gaming forever Randomly generated rooms meant that each journey into the
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Gamebook Advance – New GBA book up for pre-order

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Gamebook Advance is the latest book to be announced from Ninty Media. It's the third in the GameBoy series that has already covered the original DMG and the GBC. A Kickstarter campaign is well underway, and the book already had over £30k pre-orders. The success has already led to author Paul Murphy committing to expanding the finished book. The book's contents will follow a similar pattern to the first two.
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Antstream announce two new titles and Xbox deal

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This week's new Antstream Arcade titles have been announced alongside this week's challenge and an update on Antstream's Xbox offering. The first game is Megalopolis SOS, released in 1983 on MSX. It is a fixed-screen shooter where players must defend the cities of Earth from invasion. The second title is Snowboard Championship, a Gaelco arcade game from 1997. Players ride the mountains and react to on-screen prompts. And for the
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Evercade Distribution Expands in the UK

Paul Twist0
Up until now, Blaze Entertainment’s retro-focused Evercade consoles and cartridges have been available to purchase from Funstock, Game, Argos, Menkind, and Amazon in the UK.But now, UK-based shoppers will be able to pick up the next generation of Evercade hardware from another popular retailer of video games, as Blaze Entertainment have announced that Smyths Toys will also be stocking the Evercade line.Smyths are currently offering the Evercade EXP-R and Evercade
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The Karate Kid: Street Rumble Waxing Its Way onto Consoles & PC this September

Paul Twist0
https://youtu.be/JOlN9i4eMCs Of course, Fusion R Gamer is a retro-based site, I mean the “R” is right there! So, with that in mind, you might think that an upcoming new game for modern formats would sit outside of our remit. Well, The Karate Kid: Street Rumble may be a new game, but its credentials are decidedly retro.First off, The Karate Kid: Street Rumble is based on a film from 1984, and
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Double Dragon Revive Hitting the Streets Next Year

Paul Twist0
https://youtu.be/iQiA3sCuqIs We love our side-scrolling beat ‘em us here at Fusion R Gamer, and the Double Dragon series of games have certainly been among the best the genre has to offer, ever since the first game in the series hit arcades back in 1987.We previously reported on the announcement of Double Dragon Gaiden: Eise of the Dragons, which we went on to review favourably in Fusion magazine issue 48.In our
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Aero the Acro-bat is heading to modern consoles

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Aero the Acro-bat was a 1993 platforming title from developer Iguana. It was released at a time when every publisher and its dog wanted an anthropomorphic mascot for its platforming games, and then publisher Sunsoft got Aero. Now, thanks to retro publisher Ratalaika Games, it has a new lease of life on Switch, Xbox and PlayStation when it releases on August 2nd 2024. The package includes a bucketload of emulation
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