Retro Gaming News
Based on the Macintosh CD version. French modder VBT has ported Delphine Software’s iconic Flashback: The Quest for Identity to the Sega Saturn and is looking to the homebrew community for help testing and polishing the port. Taking the Macintosh CD version of the game as his starting point, VBT has used the Reminiscence engine…
In a retro market typically dominated by high concept companies advertising their commitment to nostalgia or cheap Chinese knockoffs, 8BitDo operates in a curious middle ground. Very little is known about the history of the company, save that it was founded in Hong Kong in 2013 by a group of gaming enthusiasts, although its actual…
Space, man! You have to wonder if, when he conceived the seminal Space Invaders all the way back in 1978, Tomohiro Nishikado had even the slightest inkling that his creation would inspire so much money-spinning merchandise over the subsequent decades. Those pixellated invaders have been immortalised in numerous ways over the years, from toys to…
Remember when earning coins in a game meant collecting shiny gold rings as Sonic or jumping on Goombas in Super Mario Bros.? Back then, “in-game currency” was simple. It was a fun little reward for playing well. Today, gaming economies have become full-blown ecosystems. They are complete with real money, virtual markets, and, in some…
“Featuring innovative graphics”. David Crane is one of the game industry’s first superstar coders, having co-founded Activision in 1979 after Atari refused to give proper credit to its developers. Crane’s most famous creation is Pitfall!, but he’s been active in the industry ever since – and his most recent venture, Audacity Games (co-founded with Garry…
Maniacal Microgame Madness Featuring a Cast of Heroes from Classic Atari Games Atari® — one of the world’s most f Atari Mania, a past-meets-present romp through some of the company’s most beloved titles. Available today on PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch, and Atari VCS, Atari Mania sees players face off against the dreaded “dead pixels”,…
‘Ratchet & Clank: Clone Home’ is now available online. After 19 years, those who love Insomniac’s Ratchet & Clank are finally able to play a “lost”, cancelled entry in the series, which has previously been described online as “a holy grail for 14 people”, as recently spotted by the folks at Gamesradar. Back in 2006,…
As a “Rocktober” treat. Double Fine has released a previously unseen pitch video of its heavy metal-inspired action-adventure, real-time strategy game Brütal Legend, to celebrate “Rocktober” — the time of the year when Tim Schafer gets together with fans to matchmake against one another in multiplayer to mark the game getting one year older. The…
“It feels like the right time to start giving the SuperGrafx some love”. Back when arcade games were the cutting edge of gaming technology, the quality of subsequent home ports could make or break a console in the eyes of hardcore gamers. During the NES era, conversions of coin-ops were almost always compromised visually and…
Launches next month! A new indie game inspired by the Mega Man Battle Network series is set to launch next month on Steam. BerserkBoy Games’ Berserk B.I.T.S is being described as an “an idle-rpg, auto-battler, chip-collecting game” and is a spin-off to the 2024 title Berserk Boy. Read the full article on timeextension.com Launches next…