Retro News

“They believed that if it’s small it should cost less, not more”. The PC Engine was a huge success in Japan, keeping Sega’s Mega Drive / Genesis in third place and even challenging the might of Nintendo for a few years. However, it’s a system that struggled to achieve the same impact overseas, with its…

In the early 80’s Nintendo released one of the most famous games of all time, and that game was ‘ Donkey Kong ‘. A game in which you played as Mario that had to avoid obstacles across a number of platforms, with sometimes a hammer in hand to save a damsel in distress from a…

Yoko Shimomura will be presented with a BAFTA Fellowship award. Yoko Shimomura — the legendary composer behind the soundtracks to games like Kingdom Hearts and Street Fighter II — is set to be honoured with a BAFTA Fellowship later this year. The award will recognize “her incredible body of work” from her almost four-decade-long career…

Cyan announced the difficult news on social media. The legendary development studio Cyan Worlds — the creators of Myst and Riven — announced last Friday on the social media that it had been forced to lay off twelve talented staff members — roughly half its team (h/t: PC Gamer). This decision came about due to…

“I have no employees, I have no investors”. The rise of retro gaming has led to a flood of aftermarket mods and optional equipment, all of which is designed to make playing your classic games as enjoyable as possible. These range from everything from Optical Drive Emulators to AV hubs and next-gen memory cards, and…

Rockman DASH: Great Adventure on 5 Islands was originally released in 2008. Back in February 2024, we reported that feature phone preservationists had managed to archive a complete copy of the Japanese-exclusive Mega Man Legends game, Rockman DASH: Great Adventure on 5 Islands. And now, a little over a year later, it appears that work…

“Probably one of the most major finds we did in a while”. Nintendo’s Satellaview add-on for the Super Famicom (SNES to you and me) was a fascinating piece of equipment—as you’ll be aware if you’ve read our exhaustive feature on it. Using satellites to broadcast data, the Satellaview was home to some unique titles, many…

This afternoon, Zen Studios, maker of the Pinball FX virtual pinball game, revealed that the iconic 1988 Williams pinball machine Banzai Run will be the second of three upcoming tables that it is releasing in December.   Zen previously revealed the first table in the pack as the 1989 Williams game Earthshaker. Table three in…

Serani Poji won a”Streaming Hit Award” from the record label Nippon Crown. 25 years after the release of the Japanese-exclusive lifestyle-sim Roommania #203, Sega has published a message on social media about the obscure title, announcing that the “fictitious” band from the Dreamcast game, Serani Poji, has just won an award from the record label…