Xeno Crisis is on pretty much every home console known to man right now, and we very much approve – it's a wonderful Smash TV-style blaster with amazing visuals and a fantastic soundtrack, and it deserves to reach as large an audience as possible.

That potential audience is about to expand a little bit more, because we can exclusively reveal that Bitmap Bureau is bringing Xeno Crisis to the SNES.

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As part of our end-of-year celebrations, we're digging into the archives to pick out some of the best Time Extension content from the past year. You can check out our other republished content here. Enjoy!

UK company Rare was one of the most prolific supporters of Nintendo's NES and Game Boy consoles, even before Nintendo bought a stake in the studio. However, it's important to remember that the company held a very keen interest in hardware around this time; Rare's founders, the Stamper brothers, famously reverse-engineered the Famicom in order to convince Nintendo to give it the opportunity to make games for it, and Rare was very hands-on when it came to creating the tech which powered the Killer Instinct arcade hardware with Midway. Indeed, the Stampers were involved in arcade games prior to founding Ashby Computers and Graphics Limited (which traded as Ultimate Play The Game), the company which preceded Rare; hardware was in their DNA, you could say.

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Playmaji's modular retro-gaming platform Polymega will be getting N64 support, we can exclusively reveal.

The all-in-one console – which has finally found its way into the hands of customers this year after a prolonged delay – will be getting a new EM05 'Ultra' module soon, complete with a controller designed by Retro-Bit, based on its popular Tribute64 pad. In case you weren't aware, Polymega already supports original NES, SNES, Mega Drive / Genesis and TG-16 / PC-Engine games via its optional 'Element Modules', and the base unit itself can play CD games for the Mega CD, Saturn, PlayStation, TG-16 / PC-Engine CD and Neo Geo CD.

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A short time ago, we lifted the lid on a new handheld games system aimed at retro players, called the Evercade. Rather than attempt to go head-to-head with the Switch, this pocket-sized marvel will instead focus on running old-school games, and it will come bundled with a cartridge (remember them?) packed with classic Atari hits.

The idea of playing Atari 2600 titles might not get everyone's pulse racing, but we can now exclusively reveal that more licenced carts are coming to the platform – and these are a lot more interesting if you're a gamer who grew up in the late '80s and early '90s.

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Like a great many retro gamers out there, we've been following developments surrounding the Polymega console closely for quite some time now. Originally announced as RetroBlox, this modular system is built on a single goal: to offer modern-day players access to the original, physical-media libraries of as many vintage machines as possible thanks to interchangeable (and upgradeable) modules which come with their own, authentic controller ports.

The system had its first public showing at E3, and pre-orders recently went live. Well, kinda - the Polymega site immediately turned turtle and many people had to wait a few days before they could pledge their support (thankfully it's all working as planned at the time of writing). Then, there was the furore surrounding the use of arcade Sega Rally footage in the latest trailer, and many weren't pleased with the fact that FPGA support has been shifted out of the main console and into the modules themselves.

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Remember Paprium? An incredible-looking Sega Genesis / Mega Drive scrolling fighter from the team behind the Wii U eShop RPG Pier Solar (which, incidentally, also began life on Sega's 16-bit system), it was announced over a year ago with a proposed launch in late 2017 - a launch that never happened.

Creator WaterMelon cited issues with PayPal for causing the delay - the studio effectively crowdfunded the game by accepting pre-order payments in March last year - and this year it was stated that a production issue was causing problems. Still, Paprium has fallen off the radar somewhat (we pre-ordered a copy for $90 in March 2017 and have had no email communication regarding any delay) and this has predictably led some to suggest that all is not well behind the scenes:

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The announcement of RetroBlox (now known as Polymega) came as something of a surprise a few weeks ago, but in many ways this proposed system is a logical evolution in the growing "clone" hardware market. Built around modularity, RetroBlox aims to offer the benefits of next-gen clones like the Retron 5 and Retro Freak but with options for supporting even more systems, the inclusion of CD-ROM support and online functionality - elements which are sure to give it a massive advantage over what has gone before.

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