Retro Gaming News
With the release of the M64, most hobbyists concern themselves with the technical aspects of the machine. How does it compare to the Analogue 3D, or original Nintendo 64 hardware? Worthwhile questions to be sure, but I prefer to try and evaluate the console on its games and how they play. To start out,…
There’s one type of genre that I loved playing in the arcades and more so on my home console, and that is the shoot em up genre! You know the type, enemy waves coming at you at all sides, your ship blasting across the landscape with adrenaline flowing as you try to survive and wipe…
Arrives on Nintendo Switch & PS4/PS5 next month. The 2024 Neo Geo shoot ’em up Project Neon is coming to modern consoles, starting today with Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and the Xbox Windows App. So, if you don’t fancy paying Neo Geo prices, this could be your ticket to finally getting your hands on…
For fans who like “methodical party-building, careful mapping, & turn-based combat”. If your favourite video games include Wizardry, Etrian Odyssey, and Shin Megami Tensei, then the upcoming dungeon-crawling RPG Häxeri might be a project to keep an eye on in the future. Developed by the Swedish solo developer Fabian Sorensson (under the name Tarpit Games),…
Works on both MiSTer and SuperStation One. If there’s one big sticking point with MiSTer FPGA at the moment, it’s the fact that the system’s intentionally lightweight user interface isn’t quite as user-friendly as it could be, and, to more casual players, could present something of a stumbling block. That’s why there’s been so much…
“Something was strange about these cartridges”. Super Mario Bros. might be one of the most famous and best-selling video games of all time, but, as recent auctions have shown, copies of it can fetch insane prices if the stars align. You can imagine, then, why the discovery of 97 copies of a previously unseen variant…
“The classic audio-visual puzzle sensation, now in your pocket.”. The 2018 remaster of Q Entertainment’s classic PSP puzzle game Lumines is available now on Google Play and the App Store. Sound Games, the company behind the mobile ports of lente’s Spilled! and multiplatform games like Go Ape Ship!, announced the news yesterday on social media,…
“Built with help from Codex”. Nintendo’s SNES classic Zelda: Link To The Past has had its fair share of official re-releases over the years, and came to the 3DS Virtual Console in 2016 – but it now has a new port to that same system which unlocks the latent potential of that second screen. Developed…
Human translated, but Claude code was used to “decode” the Loopy’s Hitachi SH-1. I can’t help but be a little fascinated by the Casio Loopy. Released exclusively in Japan in 1995, it was a 32-bit console primarily targeted at young female gamers and was really unlike many other systems at the time, with one of…
Retro gaming enthusiasts often debate which platform produced deeper strategy: the coin-operated cabinet or the home console. Both formats shaped competitive play, but they did so through entirely different design pressures. Understanding those pressures explains why arcade and console games still feel so distinct decades later. The differences weren’t accidental. Hardware limitations, business models, and…