Retro Gaming News
if you spent your entire lifetime doing so. From amazing modern masterpieces to the most primitive, barely playable first-generation games, it’s hard to determine what’s worth your time and what isn’t. But for old-school gamers like us, one of the best ways to identify early standouts is to look at which games inspired successful modern…
Works with pretty much any Neo Geo system. The news that a Neo Geo revival is taking place later this year will no doubt prompt many people to ponder the best interface for the console. While the iconic Neo Geo arcade stick is a wonderful piece of kit, many SNK fans swear by the Neo…
Glass mousepads aim to revolutionize the pad industry. They give your desk a more premium look while also offering a very consistent glide for both gaming and productivity. They look and feel smooth and solid, but they’re also available in a variety of designs and styles. Plus, they last much longer than traditional cloth pads,…
“We had to destroy them after production was finished.”. When looking at videos and photos from the marketing campaign for the 1993 SNES classic Star Fox, one question comes up time and again: “What happened to the puppets used in the game’s marketing?” It’s a question, we admit, we’ve been curious about here at Time…
“There’s more detail to the story than you can ever possibly absorb”. David Hayter has acted in movies, written scripts for blockbusters, and even starred in commercials, but for gamers he will always be best known for voicing Snake in the Metal Gear Solid video game series. You’d assume, given how close he is to…
Including a “re-imagined story”, “improved controls”, & more! If you were a Mega Man fan in the early 2000s, you might remember Mega Man Xtreme. Released by Capcom for the Game Boy Color in 2000, it was a spin-off of the Mega Man X series, featuring a cyberspace-themed story and elements recycled from previous games…
“The creativity was still there at Rare”. We were recently lucky enough to sit down for a chat with Xbox co-founder and former Microsoft vice president of gaming, Ed Fries, and one of the topics that came up was British studio Rare. Microsoft acquired Rare in the 2000s, transforming it from a Nintendo-centric outfit into…
“‘Well, we could be selling so much more if we were cross console’”. Most people today will largely associate Ed Fries with his role as an Xbox co-founder and Microsoft’s vice president of gaming in the late ’90s and early 2000s, but his career in games actually dates back a lot further than that. Before…
Better late than never. Langrisser III occupies a very unusual place in my personal gaming history. Warsong / Langrisser is one of my favourite games of all time, and I recently managed to play the sequel, which sadly never got an English release back in the day, and I loved it. Back in the mid-’90s,…
Thanks to the fan translators Chapu & Etokapa. A brand-new fan translation patch has just been released for the Japanese-exclusive PS1 game, Tiny Bullets, giving players the opportunity to experience the rare PlayStation-exclusive in English for the very first time (h/t: GameVecanti). Tiny Bullets is the work of the developers, Kuusoukagaku Corp and Contrail, and…