Tag: SEGA

I loved my Commodore 64 - I even talked my parents into letting me get one of the "mod" cases for it so would look like the newer (and more bad-ass) C128. There were three big Time Wasters for me back then: Zaxxon, 1943, and Gyruss. Zaxxon's crazy pseudo-3d (also referred to as axonometric projection) blew me away. Like Icarus and his wax wings, flying too high or too low caused many untimely ...

Been busy preparing to announce your presidential candidacy on Meet the Press? Now that the big day's come, you might find yourself with some free time on your hands. So why not catch up on a few Download Squad stories you may have missed this week? Sega prototypes released Early last week we let you know that a member of the Sonic Retro Forums managed to get his hands on hundreds of classic Sega ...

As we covered earlier this week, game researcher DRX is set to release his collection of rare SEGA prototypes this afternoon. Our last article got a lot of people's attention, and it caused some big problems for the Sonic Retro servers, so rather than linking you to relavent forum topic, we've posted a mirror of the proto FAQ after the jump, as prepared by forum member Skaarg. For good ...

digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/02/17/mindblowing-gaming-enthusiast-to-release-hundreds-of-sega-proto/"; DRX, a member of the Sonic Retro Forums, has done something unprecedented in the gaming community. After years of research and detective work, he has gotten his hands on a treasure trove of materials from the golden age of SEGA, including hundreds of prototypes, ...