Tag: ’90s
This Funky Video Game Series From The ’90s Could Become A Movie At Amazon
Yet another video game franchise looks set to become a film, as a new report says Amazon Studios is developing a movie based on the ’90s Sega game series ToeJam & Earl.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the ToeJam & Earl movie will be produced by NBA superstar Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media and Story Kitchen, the production company from John Wick creator Derek Kolstad and Sonic the Hedgehog producer Dmitri M. Johnson.
The original ToeJam & Earl was released for the Sega Genesis back in 1991. This was followed up by a 1993 platforming sequel called Panic in Funkotron, and then ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth in 2002. The series follows two aliens who come to earth to get their groove on.
The spectacular 3-screen Ridge Racer arcade sim left to rot, and the fans who saved a ’90s treasure
Tactics Ogre: Reborn review: a 90s strategy classic that still holds up today
Say what you will about Square Enix’s ill-fated ventures into NFTs and mildly embarrassing follies with live service games recently. Their commitment to remaking, remastering and generally sprucing up their ageing back catalogue from decades past is an admirable one in my eyes, even if they are making you pay through the nose for them almost every single time. As we all know, though, some have made more successful transitions than others. The dream, of course, at least for me, is the Final Fantasy VII Remake approach for literally everything, no matter how unfeasible, impractical or physically impossible that would be for Squeenix’s enormous game library. Alas, the reality is often a lot more modest. Best case scenario: you’re a 90s SNES game getting a lovely HD-2D makeover like Live A Live. Next on the rung: some added 3D zhuzh a la Final Fantasy VIII Remastered (although even that was by no means perfect).
Mostly, though, it’s your Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster treatment. A welcome update that maintains the look of the originals (albeit with some questionable font choices), but that’s more or less your lot. Tactics Ogre: Reborn, a remaster of the 2010 PSP remake of the 1995 SNES original, falls squarely into the latter camp, but you know what? That’s fine. It’s still a rollicking turn-based tactics game all these years later, and one that definitely deserves to be freed from the shackles of Sony’s long-dead handheld, where it’s lain dormant for the better part of a decade. Besides, I’ll take a fully re-orchestrated soundtrack over slightly fancier pixels any day of the week. You know me.
Greatest Hits Radio counts down 300 most streamed tracks from the 70s, 80s and 90s
FIFA 23 and PES getting old? A 90s football classic is coming to Steam
FIFA 23 and PES, or rather, eFootball nowadays, dominate the football game landscape alongside Football Manager, but if you’re getting tired with all the annual footie sims, and want to hark back to a simple time of Michael Owen, Alan Shearer, and a flat-texture stadium crowd, rejoice, as a 90s classic is being revamped for Steam.
Mel C says Geri Halliwell’s 90s Margaret Thatcher comments left her “nervous about going home”
VG247’s The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.16: Best game that uses that FMV that was all the rage in the ’90s
Games who ape films
Who like films to be games
Who make films like they’re games
Who make games like they’re films
Always should be something you really love
You couldn’t go anywhere in 1994 without Blur’s classic, Games and Films, wriggling through the airwaves and into your ears. No other song captured the mood of the era better. Video games were rising, but wanted to get the credibility of films, while films were looking at the growing success of games and wondering if they should be keeping an eye on them. Games with bits of movies in them were the result. A lot of them were naff, but we still enjoyed them.
The school playgrounds at the time became battlegrounds. The “filmers” of the time insisted that films are art and shouldn’t be disrespected by these new “computer games,” which to be fair was a common view of children up and down the country, likely the world, who had deep admiration for classic movies like Baby’s Day Out and Problem Child. A fringe group, though, calling themselves “gamers,” stood up for their exciting new hobby. Games didn’t have to be art. They could be anything they wanted to be.
90s pop legend unrecognisable decades after finding global fame at Eurovision – can you spot who they are?
POP icon Sonia’s voice will be instantly recognisable to music fans of a certain age, thanks to her hits throughout the 80s and 90s.
Decades on, you might not instantly recognise her at first glance – though she looks far younger than her 51 years.
The star recently appeared on BBC Breakfast to campaign for Liverpool to bag the job of hosting Eurovision.
It comes just shy of three decades after her own storming run in the competition.
The singer – whose full name is Sonia Evans – shot to fame in 1989 with No1 hit You’ll Never Stop Me Loving You.
She also came second at Eurovision in 1993 with Better the Devil You Know and was the first female artist to achieve five Top 20 singles from one album.
Sonia also appeared with Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Bananarama and Cliff Richard in the Band Aid II version of charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas?
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These days she still performs, taking to the stage at several retro festivals, and makes personalised messages for fans on CelebVM.
She can also be seen on TV, appearing on BBC Breakfast last month live from Liverpool.
Sonia insisted her home city should be the location for Eurovision 2023 after the UK took on hosting duties from war-torn Ukraine.
There are seven possible locations in the running – Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield.
Sonia said: “I’m absolutely over the moon, it’s going to be fab.
“We tick all the boxes don’t we? You’ve got to come and see our beautiful, beautiful city.
“We’ve got the arena. We’ve got all the criteria – the atmosphere, the buzz. It’ll be one big massive party, it would be absolutely brilliant.”
The singer was just beaten to the top spot by the Irish entry[/caption]
The Hexagroove dev’s new 90s musical puzzler Backbeat is a puzzle game with XCOM strategy mashups
First impressions can be interesting. I didn’t know what to expect when I met David Ventura at the Backbeat booth, after a long opening day of the weekend-long Japanese indie gaming event BitSummit. I knew of his work – now the CEO of his self-founded studio Ichigoichie with developers based both in Japan and Sweden, Ventura has had his hands in a number of highly-influential rhythm games over the course of his career. This includes work on Gitaroo Man and Elite Beat Agents during his time in Japan at iNiS, having worked at the studio for a decade before moving to Sweden to work outside of games on educational music software. In 2018 he returned to games by founding Ichigoichie (stylised as 151A). Their first game, Hexagroove, blended strategy, rhythm and educational tools for a game that captured the building blocks of being a DJ.
Ventura was at BitSummit to showcase the successor to this game, Backbeat. It’s a bit of a departure from much of his past work, acting more like a puzzle game with a musical soul, albeit one where the act of creating and playing music together is imbued into every solution. As the crowd began to leave the bustling convention hall for the day, I went to the booth for one last demo, and the chance to speak to the person behind it all… who was sat at his demo kiosk playing the keytar.