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Keiji Inafune is directly responsible for one of the most popular game series of all time: Rockman (known as Megaman outside of Japan). And there are three major reasons why they—and by extension, he—have become so loved around the world:

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Retro manufacturer Hyperkin has confirmed that its April Fools' Day announcement of a Game Boy-compatible device for smartphones is set to become a reality, following unprecedented consumer demand.

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Welcome to the Retro Redux! For the month of April, I’ll be here to talk about all the good retro goodness that needs talking about!

And to get us started, let’s talk about the one thing everyone remembers from their gaming youth: those really painful games that made us WANT to step on a stray Lego and break our backs in the place of playing another minute of the game's awful-awfulness. Yet some of them have somehow permeated popular gaming culture in their wake, and a few of them just need to be let gohellip; either they really weren’t that awful, they’re just silly-bad, or they happen to have "man" and "super" in the title somewhere.

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Retro Studios, the Nintendo-owned Texas studio behind the Metroid Prime series and the last two Donkey Kong Country games, has been working on a new title since late 2013, but we know very little. It seems this is because Nintendo is doing their best to keep it under wraps. According to Tamaki from Unseen64, the team that specializes in uncovering the facts behind cancelled game projects, Retro's new game is on Wii U (as expected), and will use a new engine. What do you hope to see next from Retro?

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Now, if your heart’s racing, you’re sweating -- you’re frazzled because you missed the PS4 blu-ray, stay calm!

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Reprints for classic SNES and Genesis titles, plus two new games

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Use your amiibo to unlock "Nintendo’s Greatest Bits"

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A weekly series about retro games.

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"Dino Crisis crafts an excellent eerie and dreadful atmosphere, with a great use of sound, jump scares, and enemy placement. The Dinos themselves always feel threatening, no matter how far into the game you get, and the lack of ammo and health items at convenient points always makes you have to act cautiously and plan your next move, or pay for it." Cmack The Don of PL Writes