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Salamander 3 by Konami

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In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Gradius series, Gradius Origin Collection will be released on August 7, 2025! It includes 7 popular titles (18 versions) from the series, including the first new 2D shooter in 17 years – Salamander III, and the first appearance on a home console of Gradius III AM Show Version! Official website: https://www.konami.com/games/gradius/

In US the NES Salamander is known under the name Life Force. It is a bit different updated version of the original.

A little while ago Konami made a similar Castlevania Dominus Collection release where they made a remake of Haunted Castle from arcades – Haunted Castle Revisited. Which was warmly received by fans. Maybe Konami has a proper 2d developers team because the short glance of the Salamander 3 looks quite legit.

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Doom runs in a PDF file

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Doom runs on anything trend go for years. It was launched on all kinds of stuff it was not supposed for. All kinds of consoles and computers and arcades, iPod, Printer, Keychains, Microwave, Washing machine, Photo camera, Pregnancy test, Toothbrush, Ticket validator and Card reader, Drone controller, Oscilloscope, inside of other games(including modern sequels of Doom), and many many more other stuff.

It’s no surprise Doom can run as a PDF file. Everyone knows – Doom can run on anything. You open a PDF file, and it runs Doom. How cool is that?

Author info: https://www.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/comments/1i02c6b/doom_in_a_pdf_file/

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Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers Remastered Concept

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There was that old fan pixel art for Chip and Dale. Like part 3 or something. And recently the author somehow got inspired and made into a game concept. Which looks quite great. The big dog is a nice surprise if you still remember the old NES Chip and Dale 1,2. There everything was small due to the limitations.

And here is that fan art from 2014:

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Fan made NES intros

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Some NES games lack of intros. Here are the examples of possible intros for some NES games.

Super Contra NES intro, made of using arcade version graphics. It is a video made in editor:

Mega Man 3 NES intro. An actual game mod. So it could be on actual cartridges:

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Changeable Guardian Estique progress

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There seems quite a hype around the game from the Compile’s ex-developers. “Changeable Guardian Estique” is a SHMUP with a transformer.

Looks quite nice. However I highly dislike the music. I mean, it’s an OK music it just doesn’t sound like it fits in there.

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Changeable Guardian Estique

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New SHMUP game by Compile ex-devs in developement. Changeable Guardian Estique(超翼戦騎エスティーク). Devs tweetter – @kakikukecat

You play as a robot transformer who can transform into a jetfighter.

I hope they will change the music. It doesn’t seems to me to fit the game.

Recent tweet shows a new boss, who is also kind of a transformer:

The footage of the demo which shows full 1st stage and most of the second stage:

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Astrolancer got its page on Steam

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The indie game inspired by The Guardian Legend now has the page on Steam:

Astrolancer on steam

It is not a metroidvania. It has linear progression between levels. Means you walk through a level, reach SHMUP level and then a next walking level. The game has difficulty levels(I guess easy, normal, hard).

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