Retro Gaming News
All thanks to OmniDrive. A new tool has been released which allows you to legally rip optical media for a wide range of classic consoles using your PC’s Blu-Ray drive. OnmiDrive is a firmware modification for MediaTek MT1959-based optical disc drives manufactured by Hitachi-LG Data Storage, allowing the drive to read proprietary game discs for…
“JTCPS3 is finally coming together”. Ever since the MiSTer FPGA project took off, there’s been a hypothetical debate about how far it can be pushed in reproducing the performance of classic hardware. Capcom’s powerful CPS3 arcade system is one of the platforms many people assumed might be out of reach, but developer JOTEGO has been…
Super Mario Bros (NES) Super Mario Bros. This game single-handedly changed how platform games were approached after it stormed onto the scene in 1985. It established so many conventions that people now expect in side-scrolling platform games. When you approach a new platformer, what is the first thing that you try to do to dispatch…
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Mark Robichek who is displayed on card number 40, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Mark is another original Twin Galaxies alumnus from 1982. He can be seen alongside the greats in the Time Life Magazine photograph taken on November 7, 1982. Mark early on set the bar for…
DSpico! RetroTink! Resident Evil! Sega Rally! 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 DSpico! RetroTink! Resident Evil! Sega Rally! Welcome to Retro Recap, a…
Hiroshi Iuchi has also left the company. M2 has revealed that Hiroshi Iuchi’s Ikaruga spiritual successor, Ubusuna, has been cancelled. First announced all the way back in 2014, very little has been shown about the game. Read the full article on timeextension.com Hiroshi Iuchi has also left the company. M2 has revealed that Hiroshi Iuchi’s…
Those two epic words helped launch the work of Ed Boon, John Tobias, and the rest of the team behind Mortal Kombat in pop culture lore forever. It’s also made it a video game series that essentially always comes back refreshed and inviting, after over 30 years of entries. So while your love affair with…
Holy smokes. I’ve already written about the amazing impact Shining in the Darkness had on me as a young gamer; a Japanese fusion of Dungeon Master and Dragon Quest, it really opened up my eyes to the allure of the first-person turn-based JRPG – so I was actually somewhat dismayed when the follow-up, Shining Force,…
If you’ve had enough of blasting away enemies, jumping from platform to platform, or dealing with difficult puzzlers then come and check out Super Slalom by Bisboch for the Commodore 64. A new sports down hill skiing game, which is based on the original SLALOM game by COMMODORE ELEC. LTD & HAL LABORATORY, JAPAN. To…
Drop a quarter, get a game. Everyone within earshot knew exactly what that transaction meant. No subscription tier, no loot box probability table, no auto-renewal buried in a terms and conditions update. The quarter-per-play model was the most transparent payment system the entertainment industry has ever produced, and we have spent the fifty years since…