Sega’s in your face with the Sega Channel Promo!
Remember when Sega was still cool? You know, back in the day when Sega released one amazing game after another and always pioneering the industry with cool gimmicky add-ons like the Sega Channel. I...
View ArticleWhat’s the story with this Sonic Cart?
Sean, the owner of Game repair, brought to my attention a weird looking Sonic the Hedgehog cartridge. He ask me if I have ever seen this kind of a cart before? My first reaction was to say it was a UK...
View Article9/9/08: Where were you on 9/9/99!?
The Dreamcast, the first Sega system that made me fall in love with Sega has an entity. Yeah I had a Genesis and a Saturn but I got those systems WAY late into their respected life cycles and I never...
View ArticlePier Solar coming to a Sega Genesis/CD near you!
Dust off your Sega Genesis and Sega CD; I discovered some amazing news for you. It looks like a small but dedicated group of homebrew programmers will be releasing a new RPG called Pier Solar for not...
View ArticleComing Soon to a Genesis Near You: “Legend fo Wukong”
Damn it, I’ve been slacking again. I forgot to post about my recent my email from last Sunday announcing Super Fight Team’s newest Genesis/Megadrive RGS called Legend of Wukong. I’m a huge sucker for...
View ArticleLegend of Wukong Is Here, But I’m Too Busy To Play…
Yeah and that’s about it. Legend of Wukong is a new Sega Genesis/Megadrive game that’s been translated from Chinese to English. How is it? I don’t know. What I can tell you is that the game cart, box...
View ArticleObtaining Snatcher; or “How I had no problem spending $100″
For whatever reason, my roommate and I ended up at the WalMart Supercenter on Russell and Eastern, near the airport. After dicking around in there and having the customer service counter refusing to...
View ArticleSEGA Megadrive Ultimate Collection Limited Edition LP. DO WANT!
I tend to not cover internet auction but this LP is defiantly going to be the exception. The modern tech geek in me wants to ignore this clumsy obsolete flat disc of spiral vinyl yet the romantic...
View ArticleSega 32X: Sega’s Illegitimate Child
The Sega 32X is the black sheep of the 16-32 bit generation. It failed as a viable console due to Sega misguided decisiveness to split their consumer base in thirds with the Genesis, Sega CD & 32X....
View ArticleClose to Perfect Sega Saturn Emulator…
I have always been a Nintendo kid and Sega was just “okay” in my book. Nothing against Sonic but Mario games where more fun when I was a wee lad, but over the years I’ve picked up nearly every Sega...
View ArticleIGN’s History of Sega
There is a great article over at IGN about the roller coaster ride that is Sega’s history. I tend to avoid reading long articles about anything mainly because I’m a dumb lug and too many words makes...
View ArticleSubstance-TV #9
I have to say, as far as a video review show goes, Substance-TV is just on top of my list for being one of the best shows online that’s head and shoulders above pack. This month’s show is about two...
View ArticleThe (Extremely Short)Rise And Fall Of Beat ‘Em Up Mondays
Every so often, an idea comes along that is simple in execution, yet produces splendid results. Something that captures the imagination and pulls in all those who come across it, suspending their gaze...
View ArticleX-MEN 32X
So the 32X was a little shitty console that I wished could have be something a little bit more. There were some good games on the parasitic system but for the most part, the bulk of the 32X library...
View ArticleHappy 20th Birthday Genesis!!!
August 14th, 1989 was the day when Sega began their 16-bit campaign that started the holy war during the Genesis/SNES era. Holy crap this makes me feel old. So the Sega Genesis turned 20 years old...
View ArticlePineconeattack Presents: Pinekast #29: Sega Genesis Anniversary Special
WELCO METOT HENEXT TLEVEL (Rise from the gwave) Decepticreep, Tenno, Ancient Flounder and Jangofatt are hopped up on goof balls laughing at every single innuendo as we try to reminisce and celebrate...
View ArticlePineconeattack! Presents: Pinekast! #30 – Peripherals
So this week we took some time to discuss the merits and detriments of all the excess crap we accumulate when we’re start buying video game peripherals. If you have a chance feel free to add to our...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Dreamcast!
Wow. Has it really been 10 years already? It really doesn’t feel like that long ago. I spent the summer of 1999 out here, working for several months, to save up money for the rapidly approaching...
View ArticleThe Holy Grail of Dreamcasts…
Driph over at his personal blog actually was kind enough to add some tidbits about this rare and sweet looking Dreamcast/TV combo with a built in LED light show. Called Divers 2000 series CX-1...
View ArticlePineconeattack! Presents: Pinekast! #33 – Dreamcast 10th Anniversary
It’s weird that Sega’s little system that almost could is hitting it’s 10th year, and yet, it’s one of the few systems that we at PCA have largely no issues with at all. It was a sleek, powerful,...
View ArticleHoly Shit! Yakuza 3 has been confirmed for North America!
Happy days! The one and only Sega game that I was interested in playing on the PS3 seem to have been given the green light for an offical English translations. While the Japanese will be getting the...
View ArticleMore Indie Games Coming Soon for the Dreamcast
So I received a surprise email from the indie developer GoatStore who is trying to promote a new puzzler for the Sega Dreamcast called: Irides: Master of Blocks. I have to say I’m very intrigued by the...
View ArticlePREVIEW: Irides Master of Blocks Commentary
Irides: Master of Blocks has been out for a few weeks, here’s Pineconeattack’s first look at this newest puzzler for the Sega Dreamcast for sale on 12/12/2009 by the Goat Store. –Jangofatt
View ArticleIrides: Master of Blocks Review
Irides: Master of Blocks Console: Dreamcast Release date: 12/12/09 It never surprises me that one of the best consoles to come out in the last couple of generations would still, after all these years,...
View ArticlePCA’s Mini-Tourney: Project Justice with Random Rules
My personal game of the decade, Capcom’s Project Justice has been the backbone to our game nights for many years. Sadly, in the past few years, the only version of Project Justice that we played at PCA...
View ArticleSubstanceTV 11 is Live Yo
When he is not talking with the PCA crew on the Pinkast, freelance hoodie wearing homeboy hangin’ at the DAV Jedah Doma, works hard on his awesome internet video game review show: Substance TV. I have...
View ArticleGameworks Officaly Kaputt in North America
I can’t say I’m all too surprised. Sega has been on shaky ground for the past few years and it looks like they were in need to liquidate some of the dead weight. Unfortunately, this means all of the...
View ArticlePCA vs. CGE!
Last weekend we had a chance to stop by the newly invigorated Classic Gaming Expo – a glorification of everything retro, retroesque or just plain classic in video gaming. Though this means we saw way...
View ArticlePier Solar to Launch Soon?
So what do you get when you have a preorder for almost two years and an email asking to verifying your home address? Why, a very excited Jango of course! After waiting almost two years AFTER my...
View ArticleGame of the Month: Snatcher
I hear the Pineconeattack staff and all the PCA fans out there wondering to themselves: “How the hell are we supposed to play Snatcher, when none of us own a Sega CD or a copy of the game?” Well, being...
View ArticlePineconeattck! Presents: Pinekast! – Episode #90: Much Ado About Nuffin’
This week (after a small series of audio mishaps that left Jangofatt dialing in from Planet We Talk From Cans) we just sat back and did a mini show to get ready for the big Nintendo 25th anniversary...
View ArticleIndie games a plenty!
I’ve been a real busy panda this week. My day job had me drive up to Mt Charleston twice this week with one of the times in a damn snow storm. This might not be a big deal to our readers where snow is...
View ArticlePineconeattack! Presents: Pinekast! – Episode #106 – Gaming Is Expensive (&...
Gaming is a hobby, that for obvious reasons, is the reason you’re reading this. But it’s a hobby that like everything, is dependent on the whims and decisions of both the creators, and the market that...
View ArticlePier Solar Sold Out Again
The first run of Pier Solar sold out before the game even launched and now the reprint (minus the CD soundtrack BUT with better packaging) has sold out as well. Hopefully Watermelon the studio behind...
View ArticleWhy Are Secondary Characters Just… Better?
In older video games, all characters were pretty much the same. It makes no difference to choose character “A” or “B” like in Mario. Mario is equal to Luigi, period. In these cases, it seems that...
View ArticleAn Anecdotal Story About Project Justice
Like I’ve mentioned in my Street Fighter III review, Jango and I would constantly play fighting games as kids. When we got tired of Street Fighter II, we moved on to the Street Fighter Alpha series...
View ArticleHappy 12th Birthday, Dreamcast!
I usually never remember launch days for game systems, but this one was done right. On 9-9-1999, Sega gave North America the Sega Dreamcast. It was the first console in last generation’s console war,...
View ArticleMy Man Crush on the Neo-Geo Pocket Color
The Neo-Geo Pocket Color (NGPC) came out in North America in 1999. We never got the first NGP due to shitty sales in Japan, so when they decided to release in in North America, they bypassed the black...
View ArticleThe Third Run of Pier Solar Is a GO!
Pier Solar, the insanely popular indie developed from the ground up RPG for the Sega Genesis/ Megadrive, has finally release it’s third reprint for sale. Get it while you still can, because they tend...
View ArticlePinekast 160: Beware our power–Pineconeattack!!! (Meowth! That’s Right!)
On this week’s show we talk about some Colonial Marines, Dreamcast love, Green Lantern show talk (plus their oaths) and retro repair to obsolete Laserdisc consoles. Tenno laughs while Jango sings and...
View ArticlePinekast! – Episode #163: Revenge of the Tennones!
This week everyone on the show is just a complete asshat. Plus we go over what games sold us on systems and why that matters. Subscribe To Us On iTunes! Intro: “Strychnine” The Sonics Middletro: “Cat...
View ArticlePinekast 184: What is “Retro?”
What in the hell is retro? Really think about this for a moment. What is the definition of retro video gaming? What I consider retro will be vastly different from a perspective of a 18 year old. Well,...
View ArticlePinekast 196: Nothing is really going on…
Playing major catch up from 12.09.2013… So here my best attempt to churn out these episodes asap… This week. Jeremy, Russ, Adam and I talked about Russ’ Thanksgiving (face palm) and we try our best to...
View ArticleReplacing the Capacitors on the Laseractive Sega PAC
The Pioneer Laseractive is truly the king of retro gaming consoles that has the ability to play Sega Genesis carts, Sega CD’s, Turbo Grafx Hucards, Turbo CD/Super CD’s and of course the laserdisc...
View ArticlePinekast 213: We are Groot
Doing our best to not let Robin Williams’ suicide bring us totally down. The Bias Bros argue about Pokemon Green/Blue and Nathan argues that Will Ferrel was never very funny. Jeremy’s freaking out...
View ArticlePinekast 214: Second to None
Jeremy is still in London but Russ, Adam and I still trekked on with a new show! Sadly, Jeremy didn’t win the Hugo Award and depending on who you ask here at the Pinekast, that’s the greatest thing...
View ArticlePinekast 228: Happy Birthday Russ!!!
So the Pinekast is back because Pineconeattack is now active and live. Big thanks to Jeremy for recovering the site (eventually)… This week’s episode, we wish Russ a Happy Birthday and then go on...
View ArticlePinekast! – Episode # 236: The Great Game Intro Show Part 1 (of 2)
Apologies for the lateness everyone — this show is a doozy. Here on PCA we pride ourselves on trying to make the show as cohesive and amazing as possible, all on a tight budget no time and little...
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