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AYANEO’s latest budget handheld is one of its best. AYANEO’s budget brand, KONKR, has already given us some welcome options in the handheld emulation space, but few of them have attracted the kind of fevered attention that the Pocket Advance has managed. This GBA-inspired portable sold out of its pre-order quota in astonishingly quick time,…
Pixels the size of postage stamps still fill Discord chats, school clubs, and handheld screens in 2026. Retro gaming keeps pulling in players who never blew dust from a cartridge or waited for a CRT to warm up. The draw is plain. Old games start fast, ask little, and put skill on display after one…
The NAMCO LEGENDARY 2026 SALE has officially kicked off. One common complaint we see on a lot of our Arcade Archives-related stories is that the price of the games can sometimes be slightly higher than some people are willing to spend, especially for many of the simpler, much older titles. If that sounds like something…
Wolf is out now on itch.io! The Game Boy Color was never meant to be a playground for fans of 3D shooters, but that hasn’t stopped people from trying to turn it into one over the past couple of decades The most notable example is Xanth and Bullet Proof Software’s 1991 Game Boy port of…
“This will very likely be a treasure that we’ll go back to for the rest of our lives”. The Zelda series isn’t alien to the concept of co-operative play – see Four Swords and Tri Force Heroes – but the original 1986 title has remained a resolutely single-player affair, until now. Developer Deric Miller has…
…but Minish Cap lists Anthropic’s Claude Codex as a contributor. EstebanPdN, the creator of the 3DS port of Link to the Past, has returned with two more native 3DS ports – one for N64 racer Mario Kart 64 and another for the GBA Zelda, Minish Cap. Based on SpaghettiKart, the Mario Kart project is “designed…
I’ve been a fan of games based on the Rogue formula for quite some time. It probably stems from my love for the dungeon crawls in RPGs like Phantasy Star and Eye of the Beholder. Roguecraft GB Title Screen For the uninitiated, the basic formula for a Rogue game, or “roguelike”, is pretty simple. You…
Tvrtko Horvat, a casino expert and iGaming industry advisor who tracks Croatia’s online-gaming market closely, noticed something in Commodore’s TAC-2 announcement that resonated well beyond the retro hardware circuit. The company’s explicit commitment to authentic feel — a steel shaft replacing a flawed original component, a tactile response preserved unchanged — mirrors precisely the test…
Ninety-seven copies of a previously undocumented Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt cartridge variant for the Nintendo Entertainment System have surfaced at a retro game store in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and the first of them are now heading to auction. The find, reported by UPI News, is being described as one of the most significant discoveries in video…
Some video games arrive quietly, sell a few copies and disappear. Others show up, take over living rooms, and suddenly become a franchise with sequels, spin-offs, films, merchandise and fans who can quote every line twenty years later. It’s funny looking back at the original releases, because nobody buying those first games could have known…