Capcom port “inspired” the creation of Sonic. Many articles and books have been written about the origins of Sonic the Hedgehog, but this interview from 2016 includes comments from Yuji Naka which we hadn’t previously heard (thanks to John Szczepaniak for bringing it to our attention). According to Naka – who was recently in the…
Game would sell over 1 million on home computers alone. We imagine there are many people who, over the years, have pondered why the name ‘Ocean Software’ appears on so many RoboCop video games. Arguably the most famous adaption of the classic 1987 movie is Data East’s coin-op, which was a global smash-hit and made…
I-Ninja was originally released for the PS2, Xbox, and GCN in 2003. In the early 2000s, Namco & Argonaut Games — the developer of such beloved titles as Star Fox and Croc — released an action platformer for the PS2, GameCube, Xbox, and Windows called I-Ninja. The game focused on a ninja-in-training who accidentally killed…
“I apologize if I cause any trouble to the rights holders”. Arika Vice President and former Mega Man producer Ichiro Mihara has caused something of a kerfuffle on Twitter by sharing a previously unseen Mega Man design. Mihara, who worked on Mega Man: Network Transmission and Mega Man 5, shared a cropped image which shows…
“It’s great to have had an influence on where retro gaming now is”. Incredibly, March marks the 20th anniversary of the UK’s Retro Gamer magazine, one of the first mainstream publications to truly celebrate the incredible legacy of classic gaming. Issue one arrived back in 2004 under the banner of Live Publishing, which sadly went…
If you’ve ever had a Nintendo and a Light Gun, then chances are that you would’ve played the 1984/95 NES game of ‘Duck Hunt’: A game in which players fired a NES Zapper at a CRT television, with three attempts per round to shoot ducks and clay pigeons. Well if you remember our previous announcement …
If only we’d had this back in the ’90s. The introduction of trading in the original Game Boy Pokémon games was a watershed moment for many players. Here was the chance to create a physical connection with other fans and exchange digital monsters via a handy link cable interface; it felt like the future in…
Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, and more. We love a good Switch eShop sale, and Square Enix has a pretty solid one on offer right now for both Europe and North America (and likely in other major regions, too). There are some really decent games on offer here, including the likes of Tactics Ogre: Reborn, the…
“Save your scores and play a mean game of Pinball”. Devil’s Crash is one of the best pinball games of all time and is influential enough to have inspired the equally brilliant Demon’s Tilt on modern-day systems. Developed by Compile for the PC Engine / TG-16, the game was ported to the Mega Drive (where…
“Yes this is real”. Aftermarket mods can result in some truly amazing bespoke creations, such as backlit Game Boys and consolised Neo Geo MVS systems. However, sometimes the world of homemade mods throws up some more (ahem) “unique” offerings, and that’s precisely what VGC’s Andy Robinson has stumbled upon on Facebook Marketplace. Read the full…