Retro Gaming Australia

Posting these ads wouldn’t be much fun if we didn’t post ones for the games we all love;

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Final Fantasy VII was developed by Squaresoft and published outside of Japan by Sony Computer Entertainment. This particular advertisement comes from the United States. The game is credited with turning the tide in the fifth generation console war, putting the PlayStation far ahead of the Saturn and Nintendo 64, and bringing Japanese RPGs to a mainstream audience. The game is now available as a PSOne Classic on the PlayStation Store.

Let’s kick off the new feature with an ad for a game that is a favourite of many SNES collectors:

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Cybernator, or Assault Suits Valken, is one of the best run and gun platformers on the Super Nintendo/Super Famicom. Originally developed by NCS Corp and published in Japan by Masiya, Konami picked it up for international release. A remake, simply titled Walken, was released for the PlayStation 2 in 2004. You can also get it on the Wii Virtual Console. This particular ad originates from the United Kingdom, where it was one of the last games to use the Palcom Software brand that Konami used to bypass Nintendo’s publishing restrictions.