Retro Gaming News
“I was telling [the Xenogears team], ‘Please tone down some of this stuff.’”. Last week, we published the first half of our conversation with the localisation legend Richard Honeywood. In that previous article, we covered the surprisingly eventful journey of how the Australian game developer originally moved to Japan, his memories of his first video…
Space Station Silicon Valley: Recompiled is here. Decompliation projects are big news these days, as they pave the way for coders to create native ports (or ‘recompliations’) for a wide range of systems. Recently, we’ve seen titles like Star Fox 64 and Banjo-Kazooie get recompiled for other platforms, and now it’s the turn of another…
Label management, save data, backups and more. The Analogue 3D, as we all know, is a great piece of kit – but there’s always room for improvement, especially when it comes to organising things like cartridge artwork, save data and per-game settings for graphical modes and so on. Thankfully, a clever coder by the name…
“Grid movement, slow tension and tactical combat”. First-person dungeon crawlers were all the rage at one point, thanks to the popularity of games like Ultima, Wizardry, Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder and Lands of Lore. The move to full-3D pushed this particular sub-genre into the shadows, but it reemerged in 2012 with the excellent…
The Bard’s Tale As I’ve spent the last 5 days sick as a dog, trying desperately to focus enough to accomplish even the most basic tasks, I’m taken back to my childhood in the ’80s. Back then, a sick day was a careful balancing act between not feeling well enough to go to school and…
The port is now in its “experimental” stages. A standalone VR port is currently being developed for the N64 first-person shooter Perfect Dark. The unofficial project is being developed by Alex Le Tux, who posted a video of their project over on YouTube a couple of days ago, and, according to the Twitter/X user Flat2VR,…
Castlevania 64 is finally shown some love! While Castlevania has had several 3D outings since the series began in 1987, it’s typically a lot more common today to see game developers drawing influence from the series’s 2D entries; games like the original Castlevania trilogy on the NES, Symphony of the Night, and the portable games…
New ‘Burai Complete Edition’ announced for Japan. The MSX2 version of River Hill Soft’s fantasy role-playing games Burai Joukan and Burai Gekan are being reissued on Nintendo Switch later this month, in Japan, as a part of a new “complete” edition, courtesy of Mebius and the game’s creator Takeo Iijima (h/t: 4Gamer!). As you may…
Rip and tear, old-school style. Evercade maker Blaze has announced it will bring the DOOM series to the platform this year. The teaser shown below doesn’t give much away, but it would be reasonable to expect a DOOM collection showcasing at least the first two titles, which were originally released on PC and console back…
Coming to Steam, Xbox, PS5, & Nintendo Switch. Studio Koba, the developer of Narita Boy, and Aeternum Game Studios, the studio behind Eden Genesis, are teaming up for a bizarre and frantic new run ‘n gun action shooter, inspired by LCD game systems (such as Nintendo’s line of Game & Watch handhelds). Future Knight was…