Retro Gaming News
Reissues of Taito’s ‘Polaris’ & Nichibutsu’s ‘Seicross’ announced. Hamster, the company behind Arcade Archives and Console Archives, has just revealed the next couple of retro titles it will be bringing to modern platforms this week. This includes Polaris, a 1980 submarine-themed arcade shooter from Taito, and Nichibutsu’s 8-bit port of the arcade hoverbike game Seicross…
‘Dodonpachi Resurrection’ announced for Steam. Cave, the legendary developer behind classic bullet hell shooters like Dodonpachi, Espgaluda, and Mushihimesama, has just announced it is working on an enhanced version of the Dodonpachi Resurrection (otherwise known as Dodonpachi DaiFukkatsu in Japan). Dodonpachi Resurrection Reignite, as the new version of the game is called, is part of…
A new “first look” video is now available. A native PC “port” of Twilight Princess is currently in development, with the project lead, Linifadomra, sharing a new “first look” video of the game in action. Twilight Princess: Courage Reborn, as the project is called, is based on the decompilation of the GameCube version completed at…
The used game market has changed a lot in recent years. Prices for classic cartridges and consoles keep climbing, yet plenty of people are jumping into the hobby anyway. Starting a retro gaming collection in 2026 is still very possible on a budget – you just need to know where to look and what to…
The company has once again promised to do better. Over the past week, Limited Run Games has sent out a mass email to its customers announcing delays for many of its upcoming titles, which it blames on “overly optimistic” and “aggressive” delivery dates set under its former leadership. Following the news earlier this year that…
Before home computers ever had an “adventure game,” there was Colossal Cave Adventure (1976- 1977) by Will Crowther and Don Woods. Often referred to simply as Adventure or ADVENT, it ran on a PDP-10 mainframe, a machine that cost about $150,000 in the 1970s, roughly $1,000,000 in today’s dollars. That kind of setup made sense…
Moving forward, “there will no longer be a release nearly every month”. The developers of the popular multi-purpose emulation framework, MAME, have today announced incoming changes to its system requirements and “the frequency of releases.” The news was shared in a blog published on the emulation framework’s official website earlier today, which revealed that Windows…
System 3 filed for the UK trademark in May 2025. The cult UK video game character James Pond has once again found himself in the middle of a trademark battle with Danjaq, the owners of the James Bond IP, according to a new report from the World Trademark Review journalist Tim Lince. James Pond is…
“Another Visitor! Stay A While…”. Earlier this year, in February, Icon64, a developer of new Commodore 64 games, announced that it had been approached to make a new Impossible Mission 3 game over on Facebook. And now it seems the development of this new game is finally underway, as outlined in a tweet from the…
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