Retro News

…and it’s fan-made, too! Final Fight is a special game to me. It was arguably one of the first coin-ops I became utterly obsessed with as a youngster. The moment I laid eyes on its towering characters, colourful visuals and bone-breaking action in a seaside asmusment arcade during a family holiday in 1990, I was…

“They pushed me to make a very difficult puzzle level”. With LucasArts’ 1997 western-themed shooter, Outlaws, and its expansion, A Handful of Missions, set to get a shiny new remaster from Nightdive Studios later this month, Nightdive’s Locke Vincent recently sat down to interview one of the game’s original level designers, Kevin Schmitt, for the…

Thanks to a heads up by Aladin, he has told us that not only can you still download the PC remake of Camelot Warriors from 2007, but S0Y is currently working on an Amiga AGA edition with the first footage teased below! For those of you who don’t remember the game however, this was a very difficult…

On November 20th, to be precise. Nihon Falcom’s 1987 MSX version of its highly influential RPG Xanadu is releasing on the Nintendo Switch eShop later this month, courtesy of D4 Enterprise’s EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues. Notably, this will mark the third time D4 Enterprise has released the influential Japanese role-playing game on Nintendo Switch…

Thanks to Amiga Addict. Amiga Format was one of the leading publications covering Commodore’s 16-bit home computer back in the day, and it is making a return to newsagents thanks to the team behind Amiga Addict, a modern-day magazine devoted to celebrating the legacy of the system. The one-off issue has been produced with the…

As well as tilt support. If you’ve ever dabbled in the realm of flash carts, then the ‘EverDrive‘ name is almost certainly going to be familiar to you. Developed by Ukrainian modder Krikzz, the Everdrive range has been part of the retro gaming landscape for years, and we’ve seen it provide flash cart solutions to…

Steam, Switch, and Xbox versions also coming early 2026. The “surreal” Sega Mega Drive / Genesis sidescrolling shoot ’em up ZPF is receiving another set of cartridge releases later this month, giving even more people the opportunity to pick up the game for Sega’s 16-bit machine. Originally launching on Kickstarter back in July of last…

And no GenAI was used in its creation. A promising new tabletop RPG is in development which takes inspiration from the likes of The Legend of Zelda, Dragon Quest and Wonder Boy. It’s called Twilight Sword, and it’s currently crowdfunding on Backerkit. Read the full article on timeextension.com And no GenAI was used in its…

“And they lived happily ever after”. Hiding little Easter eggs in video games isn’t a new craze, but I’ve yet to witness one which is quite as heartwarmingly wholesome as this particular secret, unearthed by @memory_fallen (also known as ‘The Master of Finding Cool Hidden Stuff in Old Games’). The title in question is NCAA…