Retro Gaming News
Releasing this Winter in Japan. Shinichi “Touma” Higashi, the former Sega artist perhaps best known for creating the character Fang the Sniper in the Game Gear title Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble, has teamed up with Sega to create a bunch of new vinyl figures based on Sonic and friends. Higashi, in case you’re unfamiliar…
“It might be hard to believe, but physical media sales are up”. Leicester might be globally famous for being the burial place of the last English king to die in battle – and, to a lesser extent, the scene of football’s most unlikely underdog story – but the city has also become something of a…
“We had it in our pocket”. When Nintendo secured home console exclusivity for Street Fighter 2 in the early 1990s, it sent shockwaves through the gaming world. Capcom’s one-on-one fighter was the world’s biggest game at the time, and whichever home system got the first port was going to benefit massively – and I imagine…
The unofficial port will include a bunch of great improvements over the original. A new native fan port of Konami’s 1988 NES action platformer Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest is currently in development for the Super Nintendo, as spotted by VideoGameEsoterica. The port of the game is being created by the ROM hacker and NES-to-SNES developer…
Hungry like the wolf. Evercade’s collaboration with SNK has already delivered one top-tier collection in the form of Neo Geo Arcade 1, and the two companies have followed it up with this second helping, again made up of six AES / MVS classics from the early ’90s. Neo Geo Arcade 2 features Garou: Mark of…
“We believe it is quietly living on somewhere in Japan”. Taito, one of the video game industry’s most significant companies, is seeking assistance to locate a crucial piece of its history. The item in question is the Crown 602 crane game machine, released 60 years ago in 1965. This mechanical device is ultimately what set…
Only just recently I was talking to a few friends about the original David Braben’s 8-bit space combat trading simulator of Elite, and how we’ve seen a few fan based remakes appear as well as improvements and ports to different 8bit systems. But this latest news may interest you, if you have an Atari XL/XE…
The easiest way to enjoy your first day is to make it deliberately uneventful. Read the stuff that actually matters, set a small plan, and let the platform prove it deserves your time. Do that, and the path from “new account” to “first redemption” is short, calm, and repeatable. Start with the model, not the…
The best casino games today borrow from the roots of good design. The kind that came from the arcade halls, pixel heroes, and side-scrollers that made people fall in love with games in the first place. Casinos look back at those classics to understand what made players stay, lose track of time, and come back…
“There is some atmosphere and vibe which makes the Vector War special”. Hey, stranger. Pssst. Over here, I want to tell you a secret. You’ve seen the film Bloodsport, right? Where a group of international warriors battle it out in a secret underground kumite tournament to discover the best? Well, did you know the Vectrex…