Racketboy

Note from racketboy: I’d like to take a quick second to welcome Ivo to the blogging staff here at RetroGaming. He will be one of the members that will be helping me post interesting goodies here in the future.
From Ivo:
I’ve found a link to an interesting (from a historic point of view) forum post [...]

Back in 1996, Widescreen TVs were just a distant possibility for nearly everyone, but in typical ahead-of-their-time fashion, Sega added widescreen support to a small handful of their Sega Saturn games. Of course, I couldn’t have chosen a better title for widescreen support than the crown jewel of the Saturn library, NiGHTS into Dreams. [...]

Even though its younger sibling, the Sega Dreamcast, may get all the fame when it comes to a great homebrew community, the Sega Saturn still has a loyal following of developers.
The yearly Saturn Coding Contest hosted by Rockin’-B has concluded for 2006 and the results are quite impressive.
The winners are:

Bounty Getters (proof of concept) by [...]