Retro Gaming News
Some toys are fun. Some toys accidentally predict the future. The Texas Instruments Speak & Spell did both. To a kid in early middle school back in the late 70s / early 80s, it felt less like a spelling toy and more like a tiny robot computer from another planet. A Toy That Felt Like…
Carts? Hardware? Or something else? Evercade maker Blaze has just posted a short teaser video on social media which asks a simple question – what if your favourite home computers of the ’80s were portable? The seconds-long video has been shared on both the Evercade and HyperMegaTech social channels and presents the aforementioned text in…
A new news item titled “C” You Soon – Commodore 64 Ultimate Line-Up Expands with C64C Edition Later this Year (dated April 28, 2026) was added to the What’s New feed and includes a “News” link. https://commodore.net/news/ https://commodore.net/computer/ https://commodore.net/product-category/apparel/ The post IMPORTANT: change on Blog | Commodore appeared first on Old School Gamer Magazine.
Promises “top-tier image quality”. Pixel FX recently announced the $199.99 Morph 2K, a new upscaler that’s squarely aimed at those who don’t want to break the bank to get razor-sharp visuals from their retro hardware. Unlike the pricey (but amazing) RetroTINK 4K, the Morph 2K’s HDMI output tops out at 1080p / 60Hz, so if…
God-tier. I can imagine that when the Super Famicom launched in Japan, titles like Super Mario World, F-Zero and Pilotwings were the ones that caught the vast majority of attention – and with good reason. Mario World was (and, in my opinion, still is) one of the best 2D platformers ever created, while F-Zero and…
“Studios [were] seeing what they [could] get away with”. Last year, we reported on the news that video game journalist and all-round good egg Mike Diver was writing a book about all of the lovely video games the Aliens film series has inspired. Fast forward to the present day, and said book – entitled Aliens:…
Which will you be playing? If you’ve been waiting patiently for another Namco System 22 title to come to Arcade Archives, then it appears you’re in luck. That’s because Hamster has just revealed that the next title being released will be Namco’s first-person/third-person vehicular combat game, Cyber Commando, which launched on the arcade hardware back…
“I think the guys from Plaion are going to give us more joy”. FPGA developer Jotego has already confirmed that he and Furrtek are involved with Plaion’s upcoming Neo Geo AES+, but he’s now spoken to Spanish YouTube channel Creativo en Japón about the project in a little more detail. Interestingly, Jotego compares the system…
We knew from the start, it would be a race. From the moment the first Commodore 64 Ultimate arrived, the community was going to find a way to give their Ultimate the C64C ‘Slimline’ treatment. We knew you wanted it. We were hoping we could beat you to it. But it’s only fitting the community…
“Elden Ring as it was originally intended… a 1989 Nintendo portable console”. Here’s a sentence we never expected to write: an Elden Ring fan has recently gone to the effort of creating a playable version of the From Software action RPG based on the Nintendo Game & Watch, and it’s available to download now, for…