Retro Gaming News
You know the day-one thrill of unboxing an 8-bit Mario Pop—the colors leap, the corners stay razor-sharp, nostalgia fires on all cylinders. Keep that mint-fresh joy intact. The 2026 line of Funko Pop protectors uses rigid 0.50 mm PET, roughly 40 percent thicker than yesterday’s 0.35 mm sleeves, to shrug off drops and stop UV…
A “first look” at the patch has just been released. A PS2 on-rails shooter game based on the popular manga/anime series Gunslinger Girl is set to get a fan translation from the translation team at Hilltop Works, allowing players to experience the title with English subtitles. Gunslinger Girl, in case you’re unfamiliar with it, originally…
“People around me gradually began to see me as ‘the guy who sings’”. Takenobu Mitsuyoshi is famous for his vocal contributions to classic Sega titles like Daytona USA and Sega Rally Championship, and has revealed to Time Extension contributor Ollie Barder that his legendary career as “the guy who sings” happened almost by accident. In…
Coming this Winter. We have some good news for English fans of Bandai Namco’s Idolmaster series. A new fan translation patch is currently in the works for The Idolmaster SP, the 2009 entry in the idol raising simulation/rhythm series for the PlayStation Portable. Read the full article on timeextension.com Coming this Winter. We have some…
“Nice of him, that compliment (in my mind anyway)”. Gregg Mayles recently announced his departure from Rare after 36 years, which means the brains behind such classics as Battletoads, Donkey Kong Country and Banjo-Kazooie is no longer with the legendary British studio. While he’s very much focused on his future, Mayles is equally keen to…
Includes Zan II: Spirits, Zan III: Spirits, and Sangokushi Seishi: Tenbu Spirits. Edia has announced another compilation of Telenet Japan games. This time, focusing primarily on Wolf Team’s Zan series of Japanese-set simulation titles, which see players stepping into the role of a warlord tasked with commanding an army around a battlefield (thanks, Gematsu, for…
Fan-made effort is looking promising, though. Square’s Secret of Mana (known as Seiken Densetsu 2 in Japan) is one of my personal favourites in the SNES library, so when I heard the news that a fan-made attempt to bring it to another of my beloved consoles – the PC Engine – is underway, I was…
“A special edition that fuses a physical comic book with a real, playable Game Boy cartridge”. A new indie title for the Game Boy is being described by its creator as a comic book in cartridge form. Triple Threat Terror is a wrestling title which is accompanied by a physical graphic novel and is the…
Say hello to ‘Sammy Salazar’. Tommy Tallarico was once famous for his long-running series of video game music concerts and impressive list of composing credits, but in more recent times, his name has become associated with fraudulent claims and the ill-fated Intellivision Amico. The full scale of Tallarico’s career of deception was exposed by the…
With a combat and item system that’ll remind you of “Castlevania: Symphony of the Night” and a multi-player mode that borrows from “Super Smash Bros,” “Abyss Odyssey: Extended Dream Edition” is a nifty title that is great for hours or in 15-minute bursts. At the same time, many of the game’s biggest strengths also end…