Retro Gaming News
Final Fantasy VII! Resident Evil 2! Tomb Raider! & More. A new PS1 and N64 asset library (and “digital museum”) has just launched, giving players the opportunity to view and compare models and animations from various classic games. Alfred Baudisch’s Pardall Games Library went live late last month and currently features assets from 18 games…
Pocket-sized Politics. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has requested that U.S. trade representatives scrutinise the handheld emulation market. The story was initially spotted by RetroHandhelds. The ESA’s suggestion was put forth to the Office of the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) “Notorious Markets” list – an annually updated report of websites, manufacturers, and individuals that…
Wumpa-ful news! Is your gaming shelf calling out for some new dust collectors? Then you might be excited by the following news. Youtooz, the toy manufacturer (which our friends over at Push Square like to refer to as purveyors of “plastic tat”), has just announced two new “retro”-themed vinyl figures based on the ’90s platforming…
Life is better on two wheels! This year saw the surprising news that Software Creations’ cancelled Barbie game, Barbie: Vacation Adventure, would finally be getting a commercial release, after more than 30 years (as part of Digital Eclipse’s Barbie Rewind collection). Remarkably, though, it seems that this isn’t the only cancelled title from the Plok!…
‘Ah, finally, Super Mario 32 + 32’. I’m probably burying the lede a little. While front-facing Chain Chomp is undeniably nightmarish, the focal point should be that modder “BudFolk” has created a rudimentary build of the iconic N64 platformer Super Mario 64 for Atari’s insolvent console, the Jaguar. A video, uploaded by BudFolk this past…
‘I’m still trying to make this work for around $100’. It’s a day ending in “y”, and so RetroRemake founder Taki Udon is excitedly sharing updates from their big batch of hardware dev projects. This time around, it’s in-game footage pulled from the FPGA SP – a handheld emulation console capable of running original Game…
As a Star Wars mega-fan, one of my greatest fantasies was to take control of a vehicle from the universe and go on a joyride filled with destruction. Some of my favorites were the various walker variants throughout the movies and television series. When Return of the Jedi hit the screen in 1983, my newest…
You finally got the machines downstairs. Two friends, a dolly, a lot of swearing on the stairs. Then you plug everything in, start a game, and the first time the knocker fires, it sounds like somebody dropped a cinder block. Multiball? Forget it. Within a minute, the room turns into one long rattle of flippers,…
Counter-Strike began in 1999 as a free Half-Life mod made by Minh Le and Jess Cliffe. Valve’s November 2000 retail release is now 25 years old. Its path into organized competition began with a recognizable rhythm: two teams, an objective, and rounds with a definite ending. Shooting remained essential, but a match also demanded cooperation…
Counter-Strike containers are one of the few systems in modern gaming where the odds are published rather than guessed at. Valve prints the drop rates, and anyone can read them before deciding whether to bother. That has not stopped the numbers being widely misunderstood. Most players know a knife is rare without knowing how rare,…