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Bandai's Kasetto Sentai
More Than Meet The Eyes ?
Bandai's Kasetto Sentai

 Bandai is known for the (often) average games the company published for various game system. They are mainly based on their own intellectual properties and other popular franchises such as Mobile Suit Gundam, Kinnikuman, Dragon Ball or GeGeGe no Kitarō [...]

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BrainFreeze #1 - Digital Nostalgia
BrainFreeze #1 - Digital Nostalgia
Digital nostalgia. Two words that fuel Retro Gaming in one way or another and which certainly motivate and slake our thirst for old school gaming, as some call it. Retro, vintage, classic - new words that describe a concept as old as humanity itself. The concept of nostalgia [...]

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Video Games In Cardboard
Video Games In Cardboard
Arcade and video games were so popular in the 1980's that companies such as Milton Bradley, Parker brothers and others produced board game versions of the most popular franchises of the time. Licensed board games have always been a fruitful market [...]

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Nintendo Museum in Osaka
Nintendo Museum in Osaka
And a short history of an unusual company

Sakura Matsuri celebrates the arrival of Spring in Japan. It only lasts for little more than a week and has always been a symbol of life and its unending cycle. This year, the first cherry blossom in Osaka was forcasted for the end of March, and it may be no concidence [...]

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VGDen's Complete Catalogue Project : Part I
PC Engine's HuCards & Turbochips Complete Catalogue

Here is the first part of a daunting task. A project that has already been a few years in the making. The task has been a comparatively pleasant one though. Hunting down hundred of games and out of print books, reading thousand pages of information [...]

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Thunder Force the first
Thunder Force for the FM-7

Thunder Force is without a doubt a name capable of making any fan of the shooter genre slightly overheat and cry tears of joy. The now sadly defunct Tecno-soft blessed the video game world with its awesome series of games, and Thunder Force is certainly the most popular among hardcore gamers. The first opus [...]

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The Disk System and the Disk Writer
Translation of the Disk System's comic book

Let's commemorate. Commemorate the arrival of the Famicom Disk System to Video Game Den. How better to illustrate this event than to look back at the birth of the system. To look at the first images japanese kids discovered just before they plugged in their new Famicom for the first time and inserted those weird looking yellow disks. [...]

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Auction sites... Tip and Tricks to find the way out
Auction sites... Is there a way out ?...

You're maybe wondering why one of the first article to be available here is about auction web sites. The reason is somehow really simple. First of all [...]



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Games on a card... short history of the Hucard format
Video Games 'à la carte'...

Numerous great web sites propose complete and accurate history and technical specifications of the PC Engine system. For this very reason, VGDen will not fill up this page with the same stories, let's talk about other stuff. Let's talk about HuCards and where they come from [...]

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