Retro Gaming News
“‘Where the f**k am I gonna put a store?”. When you think of Dungeons & Dragons, there are certain expectations that immediately spring to mind, such as roleplaying, progression, epic loot, and elaborate quests filled with non-playable characters to interact with. All of these are at the heart of what makes the tabletop role-playing game…
The “next challenge”. Japanese company ZUIKI – which recently gave us the X68000 Z micro-console based on the legendary Sharp X68000 home computer – has just teased its next piece of hardware. The system shown in the image doesn’t give a lot away, but to my eye, it looks a lot like the form factor…
Water surprise! Zelda: The Wind Waker may have caused some drama when it was officially announced, but it has gone on to become one of the most beloved entries in the entire series – so the fact that I can now sail around its oceans in my web browser is very welcome news indeed. Thanks…
King of the hill. While The King of Fighters did find its way onto one Nintendo system back in the 1990s, it was perhaps the wrong one: the Game Boy. SNK’s popular three-on-three fighter was one of the biggest arcade hits of its era, but ports were mostly limited to 32-bit systems, like the Saturn…
“We used every card we had”. In the realm of retro gaming news in 2026, the announcement that 70’s Robot Anime Geppy-X is getting a re-release certainly ranks pretty high on the ‘shock-o-meter’, not least because the game is considered to be a cult classic even in Japan, but also because it’s getting a Western…
“It was very disappointing”. Released over a decade ago, Sonic Boom was supposed to be a fresh take on the iconic character; a cross-media blitz that would include video games, a TV show and related merchandise, giving the Blue Blur a new lease of life with younger audiences. As it turned out, the resultant video…
With a new 16-bit makeover & a “true, SPC700 soundtrack”. A new fan-made NES-to-SNES port of Mega Man 2 is currently in development, courtesy of the homebrew developer Infidelity. Infidelity revealed the news on social media this past weekend, announcing that he is aiming to implement proper 16-bit graphics and a “true, SPC700 soundtrack” to…
“The energy was so negative”. Much has been written about Sonic X-treme over the decades, and with good reason – it was billed by some as the game which could have reversed Saturn’s fortunes in the West, but it ended up becoming one of the most famous unreleased projects in Sega’s history. Sega Retro had…
Before the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) hit the states, Nintendo had a console in Japan that would start a revolution of gaming. It was called the Famicom, or the full name, Family Computer. In 1983, the console hit the homes of gamers in Japan and test the waters of this new generation of console gaming. …
Fort Apocalypse Title Screen Early in my video gaming life, one of the first computer games I ever played was Dan Gorlin’s classic Choplifter on my cousin’s Apple II. The simple presentation, on that glowing monochrome green CRT, was instantly addictive. When we got our Commodore 64 some time later, it was one of the…