Retro Gaming News
Featuring three playable characters and 221 rooms! As a huge fan of Rare (and by extension its predecessor Ultimate Play The Game), one of my favourite retro-themed releases of the last few years was BitGlint Games’ Melkhior’s Mansion. A PC tribute to classic Ultimate games like Atic Atac and Knight Lore, it featured some truly…
“I can deal with disappointment. This feels more like a betrayal”. Once upon a time, the place to experience cutting-edge games and mechanics was the arcade. Back when coin-ops were king, the hardware that drove these titles was more powerful than home systems, but they were also backed up by high skill ceilings – an…
Amstrad GX4000, you are forgiven. The world of video gaming is littered with hardware flops, but few of them are quite as catastrophic as the Amstrad GX4000. It’s easy to see why this ill-fated 1990 console made sense from a business perspective; systems like the NES and Master System were gathering momentum in Europe at…
Get your guesses in now! Taito and Famitsu have announced a livestream later this month to reveal new software for the Egret II Mini. This livestream will take place on August 27th, 2026, at 8 PM JST (Japan time) and will again be hosted by the voice actress Miyake Marie, with the Famitsu editor Dedeo,…
A new video covers the 6-month journey to “close the gap”. A new video has just been released on YouTube, detailing a 6-month journey to “close the gap” between PS3 emulation on ARM and x86 (h/t: Retro Handhelds). The dense new video, uploaded by the RPCS3 developer WhatCookie, is roughly 1 hour long and gets…
The Sega Master System was available in North America from 1986 to 1992. During that time, it was never able to best the juggernaut that was the Nintendo Entertainment System, but it put up a valiant fight. Games like Phantasy Star, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, and the arcade port of Rastan helped to put…
By Charlotte Reber’s own admission, Dragon Age II is a somewhat counterintuitive choice for a Boss Fight book. After all, Dragon Age: Origins is the main famous, well-regarded game of the series, a fantasy epic role-playing game in the Bioware house style that takes place in an original fantasy setting. Reber’s book, while mostly…
“Our database even had a special page on dealing with the call”. The Animal Crossing series is known for its family-friendly nature, so it’s something of a surprise to learn that one of its most iconic features caused complaints back when the GameCube title hit store shelves in 2002. I’m talking, of course, about the…
Thanks to SNEG. Ecstatica is one of my all-time favourite PC games, as you may have gleaned from the feature I wrote about it recently. Released at a time when polygon visuals were still very crude in nature, 1994’s Ecstatica used ellipsoids to create its characters – a move which gave the game a more…
“Artificial intelligence tools were NOT used in the creation of this patch”. A new English fan translation has just dropped for the Japanese-exclusive PlayStation role-playing game, London Seirei Tantei-Dan, from Bandai. Focusing on a slingshot-wielding orphan boy who is recruited off the street to become an assistant to a famous detective, London Seirei Tantei-Dan (or…