Homebrew pinball creator Ryan McQuaid has been hired by American Pinball as their newest Game Designer. Ryan McQuaid Ryan created the Sonic the Hedgehog: Spinball custom game which won the People’s Choice award for the best custom game at the Pintastic show last year. Sonic the Hedgehog: Spinball at Pintastic 2021 It’s not clear if [...]
SEGA have revealed a new Japanese trailer for the SEGA Ages version of Sonic The Hedgehog 2, showing off the new features in this version and everything you can expect from this ultimate version of the Mega Drive game. Watch the new trailer: The SEGA Ages version of the game will feature [...]
There are plenty of artists in the world who take inspiration from video games, new and old. Some of them, however, take it one step further and recreate video game icons in their own street art. Here’s a gallery of our 15 favourite pieces of video game street art and graffiti. Donkey Kong [...]
Hello humble readers of the arcade world, and welcome to another exciting summer edition of Newsbytes. This is the last for July…yep, it’s already over. As we head into the winding down part of the year, game news should certainly pick up as IAAPA 2019 approaches. On a note, I am working on a video [...]
After we scoured through the Zones of the early Sonic games to find the best that Sega had to offer in the 90s, we couldn’t help but notice that some were a little … below par in comparison. Not ones to waste research, we tirelessly compared these levels too to come out with a list [...]
We love the Sega Mega Drive, and you really couldn’t have had the console back in the early-to-mid 90s without at least playing the Sonic titles. Arguably the franchise was at its strongest back then, with all of the main (and some of the side) games being massive hits. So, we have thought about this [...]
Sega’s blaze blue mascot is a standby of modern video games but do you know his origin story? Like all famous stars, Sonic the hedgehog has a past and there are a few facts from that past that you might not know. Nothing salacious, mind you, unless you consider that Sonic the Hedgehog reboot to [...]
There’s nothing new about sports brands collaborating with well-known faces to create unique trainers and shoes. But this new offering from Puma is sure to delight retro gamers! There’s no doubt that Sonic the Hedgehog leaves all other retro gaming icons behind when it comes to sheer speed. So what better way to celebrate [...]
The would-be king of the home consoles, Sega, mounted perhaps its greatest challenge ever and its best bid to claim the throne with its release of the Mega Drive in 1988, its third home console and the successor to the powerful though poor-selling Master System. Sega as Nintendo’s rival is as natural as oil being [...]