Retro Gaming News
The ‘Atari 2600 My Play Watch’ is available to pre-order now. Atari has revealed a brand-new $79.99 watch that aims to combine the worlds of retro gaming and fitness tracking (h/t: Retro Dodo). The “Atari 2600 My Play Watch” features a design reminiscent of the classic Atari console, first released in 1977, and comes with…
Thanks to Earok’s Scorpion Engine. Decades after the game originally debuted in Japan, Sega’s Mega Drive / Genesis classic Phantasy Star II is getting an unofficial port for the Commodore Amiga (h/t: IndieRetroNews). The port is the work of the fan developer monoz, and the musician Simone “JMD” Bernacchia, and is being created using Earok’s…
Hot on the heels of its surprise appearance at the recent Chicago Pinball Expo, where it showed off the prototype cabinet for its planned first pinball machine, this afternoon the potential new pinball manufacturer Wonderland Amusements shared a look at the prototype design for its first pinball playfield. The Company is in the process of…
“It’s time to kick this genre in the head”. The late Bill Kunkel is often referred to as “The Grandfather Of Video Game Journalism”, and with good reason. One of the earliest professional writers to spot the incredible appeal of interactive entertainment, Kunkel served as executive editor of Electronic Games Magazine in the early 1980s….
The game features an in-built randomizer that “splinters” its world “with each defeat”. Dragon Quest fans, take note! A new indie RPG, described as a “love letter” to the series, is launching later this week in Steam Early Access, which aims to pay homage to Enix’s classic while also introducing some exciting new innovations to…
They think it’s all over… it is now! As one of the most popular football titles of the ’90s, Sensible Soccer was released on a wide range of systems, including the Mega Drive, Game Boy, SNES, Jaguar, CD32, Master System and Game Gear—as well as home computers such as the Amiga, ST and PC. One…
PocketOS update delivers the goods. Yesterday, Analogue gave us the rather sad news that its FPGA-based N64 clone, the Analogue 3D, has been delayed. It wasn’t all bad news, however, as this was accompanied by some more welcome news—PocketOS has been updated to version v2.5, and this brings with it the ability to connect every…
The studio is working on an ‘as-yet-unannounced free-to-play soccer game’. Sporty Group, a global sports and betting company, has announced the launch of a new UK studio to be led by Sensible Soccer‘s Jon Hare. This appears to be a successor to the London-based company Tower Studios, which Hare co-founded back in 2004 and that…
“We experienced something that was only theorised”. GoldenEye 007 is fast approaching its 30th birthday, but Rare’s iconic FPS is still offering up interesting pieces of info—including an event which, according to seasoned player Graslu00, has never been witnessed previously (thanks, Games Radar). “Last night we were playing GoldenEye Netplay and we experienced something that…
Featuring dual wireless technology and Sixaxis support. Retro Fighters announced yesterday that it will be bringing out a new version of its PlayStation ‘Defender’ controller to celebrate the company’s 10th anniversary. The Defender Pro is described as “the next evolution of the Retro Fighters PS controller” and is said to be compatible with the PS1,…