Retro Gaming News
The next controller to explore and to me the most recognizable and perfect controller ever made; The Nintendo Entertainment System or NES controller. This is the controller I grew up on as a kid in the mid 1980’s. Before the NES there were a few dull years of the home console business. The Atari 2600…
So you might want to grab them while you still can! As recently spotted by Wario64 on social media, Sega has announced it will soon be discontinuing support for the “Sega Forever” iOS and Android ports of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2. The news was shared via an in-game pop-up available on…
Adventure Canoe originally released in arcades in 1982. Taito’s 1982 top-down river adventure game, Adventure Canoe, isn’t exactly the best-known or best-documented game from the legendary arcade developer. If you look it up online, for instance, one of the first search results is a forum thread from 2019 where commenters are questioning whether the game…
When I was growing up there was a game I used to love playing with friends whereby your task was to drop bombs, and hopefully blow up other players in a maze like game screen. That game was none other than Bomberman also known as Dynablaster. A game which was actually first released way back…
More & more games are now reaching in-game status. The PS3 emulator RPCS3 is “closer than ever to having all PS3 games not only boot but reach in-game status,” according to a new social media post from its development team, suggesting it could be about to hit a major milestone (thanks retrohandhelds for the spot!)….
Before they were known as Rockstar North, the creators of a little game called Grand Theft Auto, the studio was known as DMA Design. A small team that would go on to change the video game industry forever, the beginning of DMA Design was scrappy, fueled by dreams of hitting it big. Despite the massive…
The Video Game History Foundation takes back in time to January 1995. The Video Game History Foundation has just published a new video on its YouTube channel, featuring some previously unseen footage of the Virtual Boy’s North American unveiling, just in time for the launch of the Virtual Boy app on Nintendo Switch Online. The…
You’ll still need the original files to get it up & running though. The Japan-exclusive Mega Man game Rockman.EXE Phantom of Network has just received an unofficial native port to PC, courtesy of StraDaMa, giving players the chance to play the game without the use of an emulator. As you may recall, Phantom of Network…
“This is the culmination of over a decade of work”. The developers of the popular GameCube & Wii emulator, Dolphin, have announced in a new blog update that support has recently been implemented for Triforce-based games; that is, games based on the GameCube-based arcade system created in 2002, developed as part of a joint venture…
If you remember playing the comical puzzlers of Gobliiins, Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon, Goblins 3 and then the 3D variant of Gobliiins 4, which had its first release as Gobliiins back in the 90’s. Then you are going to love this! As we have been informed that as of right now, you can download…