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Original Shantae hits eShop on June 20

A month from now, you’ll be able to buy cult Game Boy Color platformer Shantae — the first original property from WayForward, and the first release that got people to really start noticing the studio — on 3DS’s Virtual Console in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

WayForward is putting out so much on the 3DS this year: this release, Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse, Mighty Switch Force! 2, Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW!, and Regular Show: Mordecai and Rigby In 8-Bit Land. I wouldn’t be surprised if we heard more announcements for 2013 either.

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HOLY FLAMING FECAL PASTRIES

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indiestatik:

Shoot All The Things: Moon Rift Has Guns…Loads Of Guns

I decided to check out Super Mario Land for research purposes while working on my Marne Bros project. It’s one of the early Gameboy games, and it sort of shows. There’s a certain appeal to the simple readable graphics though.

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Anyways, after having played the game for a bit I suddenly got the urge to see if I could do something with the sprites in Photoshop. Then I realized I could actually put the sprites in the game since the 2 bitplane tiles are pretty easy to read and write. Then I decided to redo the graphics for the entire game, so I spent a few days doing that.

- from Arne Niklas Jansson at AndroidArts.com

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Royal Edoma Engine, a great doujin PC shmup