Retro Gaming News
“Everyone at M2 Co., Ltd. has a strong passion and love for classic games”. When it comes to retro game ports, M2 Co., Ltd. is a byword for unimpeachable quality, so it was great to catch up with Naoki Horii on how he founded the beloved game studio. M2 Co., Ltd. has been around since…
Gaming historians often write about popular media in the pre-internet age as if it all existed in vacuum-sealed silos by country, but that’s not true at all. Intercontinental communication may have been a lot more complicated back then, but consider Heiankyo Alien, a minor 1970s video game hit in Japan that demonstrated how Western and…
Teases “old-school” challenge & plenty of throwables. The last year was a great one for fans of ’90s ninja-themed action games, with Game Kitchen’s excellent Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound and Lizardcube’s Shinobi: Art of Vengeance doing a superb job of paying tribute to their respective franchises. Interestingly, though, as we recently learned, these don’t seem to…
The Pocket Vert & Pocket S Mini to be impacted. Over the past couple of months, AYANEO revealed dramatic changes to its existing product line in the wake of rising storage component costs (including suspending pre-orders for the AYANEO Next 2 and teasing the end of the KONKR Pocket Fit 8 Elite), and it looks…
Playsoft have released a number of games over the years, from Blowsub on the Atari 5200, to the Atari 8bit hack of Donkey Kong by Darryl1970. Well it’s time for the Atari 5200 to get a new game announcement, as Playsoft has released the eagerly awaited high quality Mario styled platformer of ‘Wee Ninja’. A…
Katsuya Akitomo pitched the game to his bosses at Capcom. If you’re a fan of the Darkstalkers series and have ever been curious about how Capcom got the idea to make a fighting game themed around classic movie monsters, then you’re in luck. That’s because Katsuya Akitomo, the former Capcom developer credited with pitching the…
Grab the first episode of ‘BioMenace Remastered’ now for free. Blaze Entertainment, the company behind the Evercade family of consoles, revealed in a blog that it is making the first episode of BioMenace Remastered, “Dr. Mangle’s Lab,” free for all Evercade owners, with the full four-episode game set to appear on its next Indie Heroes…
The pre-Tyson build has now been dumped online. A rare pre-Mike Tyson prototype of Nintendo’s 1987 NES title, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!, has appeared online, giving “a basically unheard of” insight into the early development of a first-party Nintendo game, while stumping historians in the process. The NES prototype cartridge was shown off yesterday in a…
Features ‘Spica Adventure’ & ‘Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III’. Taito and ININ Games’ retro collection Parasol Superstars will finally launch digitally on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch next week (April 14th). As you may recall, the collection, which contains Spica Adventure and Parasol Stars: The Story of…
Most games are built to entertain. A select few are built to challenge the way you think, and those are the ones that tend to stay with you long after you put down the controller. Strategy-based games force you to process information under pressure, anticipate outcomes, manage resources, and make decisions with incomplete data. Research…