Retro Gaming News
Jerry Momoda on his eventful journey from expert gamer to industry veteran. In 1982, Jerry Momoda was playing Donkey Kong at The Spot Tavern in Renton, Washington, following his girlfriend’s softball game, when he noticed something unusual. To the side of him, out of the corner of his eye, watching him closely, was a man…
Hosted by Team17’s Ashley Day. Created by Andy Davidson and launched all the way back in 1995, the Worms series is one of the most recognisable video game brands to emerge from the UK in decades. Now, a new talk in Team17’s native Wakefield aims to shed light on three remarkable decades of Worms, and…
“A premium collectible for retro gamers”. AYANEO’s work rate is truly remarkable – it seems that not a week goes by without the company announcing something new. Hot on the heels of the revelation that AYANEO is producing its first smartphone, we have more information on its previously-teased vertical handheld, the Pocket VERT. Read the…
Thanks to Hamster’s Arcade Archives series. After releasing the likes of Ridge Racer, Air Combat 22 and Aqua Jet, Hamster’s Arcade Archive range has dug into some more obscure, older coin-ops – but it’s back in the realm of Super System 22 this week thanks to the release of Namco’s Tokyo Wars. Released in 1996,…
Earlier today, Maiden of the Dark launched its Kickstarter campaign. The action platformer for the Game Boy is the first indie project from TigerChainsaw Studios, which is headquartered in Milwaukee. Led by TigerChainsaw, the four-person team also includes RetroRoo, PixelChunga, and OGM. Maiden of the Dark is an action platformer in the style of…
Includes Cho Aniki (1992) and Ai Cho Aniki (1995). Edia’s ‘Cho Aniki COLLECTION’ is coming to PC, the publisher has revealed, with a Steam page having gone live to wishlist ahead of launch (thanks Gematsu!). The collection, which includes the PC Engine shooters Cho Aniki (PC Engine) and Ai Cho Aniki (PC Engine), originally launched…
“It just felt like the game was so much about America”. In a newly published interview with the American podcaster Lex Fridman, the Rockstar Games co-founder and former writer on the Grand Theft Auto series, Dan Houser (who left Rockstar in 2020), weighed in on why we will never see the series return to London…
“Experience Deltarune as if it were made in the ’90s”. After two years of work, a group of EarthBound ROM hackers has released something truly special for fans of the Toby Fox-developed indie game Deltarune: a recreation of the game’s first chapter inside the SNES RPG. Bound to the Dark World had been developed in…
“I used Castlevania, a game I was really into at the time, as a reference”. Back in 2023, former Tecmo staffer Hideo Yoshizawa – who served as director on 1988’s Ninja Gaiden – posted a series of messages on social media which really dug into the legendary game’s genesis and development. The always-excellent Shmuplations has…
Including Dreamcast & Neo Geo AES/MVS. PixelHeart, the publisher behind retro games like Gladmort, Shadow Gangs Zero, and Chronicles of the Wolf, has announced it is planning to release a sequel to Visco’s single-screen Neo Geo platformer Bang Bang Busters. The sequel is crowdfunding now on Kickstarter, offering backers the chance to order a digital…