Retro News

The collection will release on April 25th. A new emulation collection containing six classic Atari Lynx games is about to be released on the Nintendo Switch eShop later this month (as spotted by gosokkyu!). The Epyx Collection: Handheld comes courtesy of the developer Imagine Software, who was previously behind The Monty Mole Collection, the recent…

“7.4% the volume of an original Wii console”. If you’re the kind of person who always seems to have painfully limited storage space under your TV, then Wii must have come as a breath of fresh air when it launched back in the mid-2000s. Unlike the Xbox 360 and PS3, Nintendo’s console was compact, sleek…

Releases May 30th. ZUIKI has just announced a new deluxe pack for the X68000 Z — its recreation of Sharp’s X68000 — which will include Konami’s 1993 X68000 enhanced port of the original NES Castlevania as well as the puzzle shoot ’em up hybrid Quarth. Pre-orders for the pack will start later today at 8:00…

Available in the EU via the AltStore PAL marketplace. We have some more good news to share on the iPhone app store emulation front. The free game emulator Delta has just arrived on the App Store in many countries, bringing NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy/Game Boy Color, Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, Game Boy…

Same estate sale that gave us the $90,000 Castlevania. Not so long ago, headlines were made by the fact that a copy of Castlevania on the NES sold for a staggering $90,100 on eBay, setting a record on the popular auction site. At the time, it was reported that the person selling the game –…

“Turn your worthless brick into your precious handheld device”. The Sony PlayStation Portable was a fantastic handheld during its active lifespan, but it’s arguably an even more exciting one today thanks to the fact that it’s so easy to hack it with custom firmware, opening up homebrew and emulation possibilities. Indeed, many people still swear…

From writers behind Star Trek: The Lower Decks & American Dad! Comedy Central has announced that it has greenlit a 10-episode animated series based on Sega’s beloved sidescrolling hack ‘n slash series Golden Axe (as reported by Variety). According to the announcement, the show will be animated by Titmouse, with CBS Eye Animation producing along…

“This collaboration marks a significant milestone”. Yesterday, Blaze announced it was refreshing its line of hardware with the Evercade VS-R and EXP-R, both of which will be launched in July alongside a brand-new cartridge which uses “Giga Cart” tech for expanding storage capacity. Blaze has now confirmed that this cart will be Tomb Raider Collection…

Final Doom has been backported, too. The PS1 version of Doom wasn’t the first port of the PC original – it had already been on the Jaguar and 3DO and even SNES by the time it made its way to Sony’s 32-bit console – but it’s one of the most popular, mainly because the PlayStation…

“I’ve waited long enough”. Infidelity, the talented porter who was previously behind the fanmade SNES conversions of Mega Man, Mega Man II, and Mega Man IV, has revealed that he is finally going to give the same treatment to the third entry in the classic series: Mega Man 3. In a recent Twitter post, the…