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Review
Arcade Retro Gaming – MCC-216 (C64)

By Jorge Figueiredo - January 13th, 2011

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For a number of us, old game system emulation is a fun hobby; for others, it is a frustrating exercise involving endless tweaking of hardware and headaches (not to mention the grey area of ROM acquisition). Arcade Retro Gaming‘s MCC-216 takes some of the guesswork out of emulation by actually utilizing an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) core; this makes life easy for amateurs and puts power into the hands of the pros, allowing us to play some of our old favourites on any TV or Monitor (depending on which model you buy).

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Classics
Sword of Fargoal

By Dave McLean - March 10th, 2010

Sword of Fargoal

If you place Sword of Fargoal along the Commodore 64 RPG timeline, it sits snugly between Telenguard and Questron.  It’s a brilliantly straightforward dungeon crawler.  If you’re looking for class selection, stat management, socketable equipment, and battle tactics… well, this will number as one among many disappointments in your life.  Sword of Fargoal offers the simplest pleasures: killing monsters, leveling up, and finding treasure.  Frankly, what more do you need?

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