Retro Gaming News
It’s Commodore Amiga news time! Welcome to Elevator Action for the Amiga! A conversion by JOTD and team which has now been released as a final ECS build ( Previously released as AGA). A game that was originally released in 1983 in the arcades. Basically you are a spy who has must infiltrate a building…
What do you get if you mix the 1986 Arcade game of ‘Arkanoid’ and the 1987 game of ‘Space Invaders’? Probably this latest game from djpiotrs called ‘Invanoid’; a brand new Amiga game in which playing as a bat like device scrolling from side to side at the bottom of the screen, you must bounce…
The shareware version, that is. Duke Nukem 3D has officially turned 30! According to a social media post from Joe Siegler, the former webmaster at Apogee/3D Realms, it was on January 29th, 1996, that he officially uploaded the shareware version to Apogee’s BBS Software Creations, unleashing the 1.0 PC version of the legendary first-person shooter…
“We’ve had part of the previously unreleased VB game for years”. This week gave us the very welcome news that Zero Racers, a previously unreleased F-Zero spin-off for the Virtual Boy, is coming to Switch. Shown off at E3 1996, the game was cancelled due to the failure of the Virtual Boy, but, like Star…
“It was him wanting our help to deal with whatever he was going through”. The late Satoru Iwata is famous for leading Nintendo through some of its most successful years, but a new interview has shed some light on the uncertainty of his earlier years at HAL Laboratory. Iwata joined HAL in 1980 as a…
“Because it was for Nintendo, we made everyone have water pistols”. Since its original debut on the Wii U in 2015, the Splatoon series has become one of Nintendo’s most beloved franchises, with countless players having fallen in love with its stylish and colourful vision of a world where evolved marine lifeforms duke it out…
“They wouldn’t release it under the Seibu Kaihatsu name”. Those of you who followed the Japanese launch of Sony’s PlayStation back in 1994 will be aware that Seibu Kaihatsu’s Raiden Project was a very early release for the console. A two-game collection featuring Raiden (1990) and Raiden II (1993), it launched at the start of…
Localization legend Richard Honeywood talks us through his incredible game dev origin story. Richard Honeywood is a pretty famous figure when it comes to the world of video game localization, having many major achievements to his name. Not only was he responsible for establishing Square’s in-house localization department in the late ’90s at its Tokyo…
Will Maria Whittaker come out of retirement for the cover photo, though? With its gory visuals and “pornographic” advertising, Palace Software’s Barbarian is one of the most infamous 8-bit home computer releases of the 1980s. When it launched on the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum in 1987, it was hit with a barrage…
Courtesy of D4 Enterprise’s ‘EGGCONSOLE’ series. D4 Enterprise, the company behind the EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues, is bringing two old MSX2 titles to the Nintendo Switch: Compile’s 1991 puzzler Wonderland of Carbuncle, and Sein Soft’s 1986 action RPG Super Tritorn. Wonderland of Carbuncle is out today (January 29th) on the Nintendo Switch eShop and…