Retro Gaming News
Blast Night in Soho. NQ64 Arcade Bars Ltd., the entertainment company behind a chain of popular gaming bars across the UK, has announced it will open a Japan-centric bar in London’s popular Soho district later in October. NQ JPN will offer a similar experience to the NQ64 venues, but focus more directly on Japanese import…
On October 12th, the French video game company New Old Pixels announced via its website that it is currently developing three new ports of the classic arcade game Toki. One is for the Sega Mega Drive, also known as the Sega Genesis in North America, another for the SNK Neo Geo, and a third…
Well, that’s just smashing! A trailer has just dropped for a new, non-“AI slop” static recompilation/PC port of the N64 title Super Smash Bros., which will feature high-frame support, low-input lag, “properly scaled UI for ultrawide displays”, and “day-one mod and texture support through N64Recomp”. Back in May of this year, as you may recall,…
Take to the stars! Origin Systems’ sci-fi space sim Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger is set to receive a 30th-anniversary edition, thanks in part to an internal restoration project led by an EA employee who has been digitising the company’s video archive. The news comes courtesy of a talk called “The Lost Tapes…
All Parts, All Courses, All Fingers. This past weekend, the F-Zero GX community released a litany of newly discovered cheat codes, offering a wealth of powerful shortcuts to unlocking parts, courses and machines in the 2003 sci-fi racing title. The cheats, as reported by NintendoEverything and noted in a video from dedicated player Madeo Joestar…
Big Box not included. Wonderful news for all dungeon crawlers, as the ScummVM team has announced that FTL Games’ genre-defining adventure Dungeon Master is now supported by everybody’s favourite Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine. Released in 1987 for the Atari ST, before being ported to myriad computer and console platforms, Dungeon Master…
A great ragtime show, indeed. A couple of days ago, M2 livestreamed a special event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its M2 ShotTriggers series. During the event, the company revealed several new projects, detailed below. Read the full article on timeextension.com A great ragtime show, indeed. A couple of days ago, M2 livestreamed a…
New characters! New items! New courses! & More! Earlier this week, the news broke that the long-awaited ROM hack Super Mario Kart Deluxe finally has a release date: December 25th, 2026. The ambitious project, led by MrL314 and ScouB, has been on Time Extension’s radar since the site began in 2022, and looks to be…
Secret weapon. Secret of Mana (or Seiken Densetsu 2, if you prefer) is one of those games that, when I think back to my first time playing it, felt like it arrived at a pivotal moment in my gaming history. That is because the day in early 1995 I bought a copy (pre-owned from a…
Evercade Nexus! SuperStation One! Atari 800XL! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Read the full article on timeextension.com Evercade Nexus! SuperStation One! Atari 800XL! Welcome to Retro Recap, a…