Retro Gaming News
The March ’99 announcement of the upcoming PlayStation 2 console instantly triggered a mental countdown timer for me. I knew I had to keep my finger on the proverbial pulse to ensure I could reserve one at my local EB Games store. I asked the store’s team to keep me abreast of when the PlayStation…
“PLEASE DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM THIS SCAM SITE”. DK Oldies, an 18-year-old, family-owned business selling vintage and classic video games and hardware, was apparently hacked in the past 24 hours, with the perpetrator revealing information about the company’s controversial pricing policies. The message “F**K DKOLDIES AND THEIR SCAM” was seen by several people before…
New hack adds Hi Score S-RAM, new modes, new difficulties, & more! If you’re a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan, we have some good news to share. An exciting new fan hack for the Mega Drive / Genesis title Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist has just been released online, adding a bunch of…
“The Dungeon on Blood Island”. Games industry legend and Fighting Fantasy co-creator Sir Ian Livingstone has revealed that he has penned another sequel to 1984’s Deathtrap Dungeon. The original book turns 40 this year and was followed by direct sequels Trial of Champions (1986) and Armies of Death (1988). Read the full article on timeextension.com…
You can preorder the book now from Amazon. A new book focusing on Nintendo’s ill-fated stereoscopic console the Virtual Boy has just been announced and is scheduled to be released next month on May 14th. Seeing Red: Nintendo’s Virtual Boy is a new entry in MIT Press’s “Platform Studies” series (a series focusing on the…
The key to success. Accessory maker 8BitDo is releasing another mechanical keyboard, this time based on the iconic C64. The second in the company’s Retro Mechanical Keyboard series, which includes a NES / Famicom version, which we reviewed not so long ago. It’s essentially the same deal here, just with design flourishes which mimic Commodore’s…
“The speed of advancement surpassed even my expectations”. It’s doubtful that the video game world will experience a change quite as dramatic as the shift from 2D to 3D again. Within the space of just a few years 3D gaming became the norm, and the transition was so swift that it even took the legendary…
Another Friday heads up for you all, as we’ve recently been told by Saberman. That the previously announced Arcade to Amiga conversion of Irem’s classic 1982 scrolling shooter of ‘Moon Patrol’, has now been teased with the first alpha download for you to play test by JOTD and n09(music). For those of you who don’t remember…
8-bit classics revisted. The Atari 400 Mini is the latest mini-console-styled product from Retro Games Ltd, following the A500 Mini of 2022 and the C64 Mini before that. Pre-loaded with 25 games, the system can run ROMs from the entire Atari 8-bit computer library and the Atari 5200, and comes with a faithful-looking (and feeling)…
“Man, if I had any idea what kind of price this might go for…”. A copy of Mystery House, the first game developed by the husband and wife duo Ken and Roberta Williams, is set to fetch an impressive figure at auction. The 44-year-old Apple II horror title came from a time when small-scale developers…