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Heres a blast from the past for all you oldies!
In no particular order, since everyone has a favorite

#1 – Turrican (C64)

You know what the Sonic the Hedgehog series has been missing? Dangerous levels of obesity resulting in adult onset diabetes and eventually death, a glaring omission corrected in the Sega Genesis hack Sonic 2 XL. It makes Sonic a fat-ass.

Namco, one of the older software and hardware manufacturers with its back catalog of both console and arcade releases, including arcade hardware specifically designed for their respective games, are by no means alien to the notion of releasing game-specific controllers. Over the years there have been some weird, wacky and downright awesome controllers released, both with and without games: from the now-legendary GunCon to the lesser-known JogCon and NegCon. Let’s wind back 20 years and look a little deeper into these controllers, take a loot at the games they were released for and how well they did on the market.

I want to add some sort of text to this post, but I’m lost for words. I just wish these guys were around back in 2001 when I was living on the eastern end of the street where Hacklab.to are currently located!

[Source: Boingboing.net]

I can’t help but find this video quite charming – it’s a compilation of early arcade and console games. (Atari 2600 era!)

[Source : YouTube]

Spotted over at Media Geeks, this cute creation begs just one question: where’s the power pill!?

Name: Gargoyle’s Quest
Year Released: 1990
System: Gameboy

If I had a penny for every platformer released on a retro console I’d be a very rich man. The majority of them lacked the quality and polish to keep you entertained and were simply focused on jumping and running, the market was saturated with them. Even during a walk down the game aisle in a shop I would find myself being surrounded by cheap Mario spinoffs created by developers out to make a quick buck. However, among the mountain of excrement that did exist back then there were a few gems that made everything worthwhile, one such game was Gargoyle’s Quest.

Platform: MS-DOS
Developer: John Carmack
Publisher: SoftDisk
Release date: 1990

Introduction
The Catacomb is a two-dimensional adventure and is the second game of its namesake series, having been later renamed from Catacomb II. It followed the original Catacomb, which was a mere 10 levels, but would see the series expand from Catacomb I and II to include Catacomb 3-D: A New Dimension, Catacomb 3-D: The Descent, Catacomb Abyss, Catacomb Armageddon, and Catacomb Apocalypse. Catacomb 3-D is notable for having introduced the shooting, character-based, first-person view, and is thus considered by many as the ancestor of the FPS genre. The Catacomb returned with a reworked title page, a new creature among the enemy ranks, and most importantly, thirty more fiendishly puzzling and monster-packed levels to conquer within the Palace of Kierlon.