The iPhone is no stranger to emulators of one sort or another, but having an official emulator sanctioned by the original hardware manufacturer is a rarity indeed. Sega has announced the company will be releasing a Genesis emulator in early February, with the following games available at launch:
Shining Force: $2.99
Ecco the Dolphin: $2.99
Golden Axe: $4.99
Sonic the Hedgehog: $5.99
Stay tuned for more details.
Road Rash was one of my favorite games on the Sega Genesis, so hearing that it’s making a welcome return pleases me to no end. Road Rash should have been a long-standing franchise like Need for Speed and Test Drive, but for whatever reason, the series went straight into the toilet and hasn’t been heard from in many, many years.
Electronic Arts’ Warrington studio is hoping to revive the motorcycle classic and they’ve released some very early test footage of the game that instill some hope. While most of textures haven’t been placed within the game as of yet, what you see here is gameplay testing. It looks like a lot of fun. Better yet, it looks like Road Rash.
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The Pocket Retro Game Emulator is saddled with a lame name, but the specs sure are impressive and the $99 price-tag is just about right. What’s it do? It plays all games for the NES, SNES, GBA, SEGA Genesis and NEO GEO. Better yet, no third-party emulation software is needed as it can play any and all ROMs you throw at it. But wait, there’s more! This bad boy can play movie files, audio files, can view JPEGS, read E-books, record your voice and even has a built-in FM radio. That’s a hell of a package for $99.
Want specs? Course ya do!
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Discovered by a Turkish shepherd in 1994, an area now known as Gobekli Tepe may indicate the original location for the Garden of Eden story. Since its discovery, scientists have been unearthing one standing stone after another. Estimates indicate there may be hundreds more buried under the sand. Most amazingly, the standing stones have been carbon-dated to be approximately 12,000 – 13,000 years old.
From Daily Mail:
That means it was built around 10,000BC. By comparison, Stonehenge was built in 3,000 BC and the pyramids of Giza in 2,500 BC.
Gobekli is thus the oldest such site in the world, by a mind-numbing margin. It is so old that it predates settled human life. It is pre-pottery, pre-writing, pre-everything. Gobekli hails from a part of human history that is unimaginably distant, right back in our hunter-gatherer past.
How did cavemen build something so ambitious? Schmidt speculates that bands of hunters would have gathered sporadically at the site, through the decades of construction, living in animal-skin tents, slaughtering local game for food.
The many flint arrowheads found around Gobekli support this thesis; they also support the dating of the site.
This revelation, that Stone Age hunter-gatherers could have built something like Gobekli, is worldchanging, for it shows that the old hunter-gatherer life, in this region of Turkey, was far more advanced than we ever conceived – almost unbelievably sophisticated.
So what is this about links to the Garden of Eden?
In the Book of Genesis, it is indicated that Eden is west of Assyria. Sure enough, this is where Gobekli is sited.
Likewise, biblical Eden is by four rivers, including the Tigris and Euphrates. And Gobekli lies between both of these.
In ancient Assyrian texts, there is mention of a ‘Beth Eden’ – a house of Eden. This minor kingdom was 50 miles from Gobekli Tepe.
Another book in the Old Testament talks of ‘the children of Eden which were in Thelasar’, a town in northern Syria, near Gobekli.
The very word ‘Eden’ comes from the Sumerian for ‘plain’; Gobekli lies on the plains of Harran.
Thus, when you put it all together, the evidence is persuasive. Gobekli Tepe is, indeed, a ‘temple in Eden’, built by our leisured and fortunate ancestors – people who had time to cultivate art, architecture and complex ritual, before the traumas of agriculture ruined their lifestyle, and devastated their paradise.
It’s a stunning and seductive idea. Yet it has a sinister epilogue. Because the loss of paradise seems to have had a strange and darkening effect on the human mind.
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