Retro Gaming News
“I used Castlevania, a game I was really into at the time, as a reference”. Back in 2023, former Tecmo staffer Hideo Yoshizawa – who served as director on 1988’s Ninja Gaiden – posted a series of messages on social media which really dug into the legendary game’s genesis and development. The always-excellent Shmuplations has…
Including Dreamcast & Neo Geo AES/MVS. PixelHeart, the publisher behind retro games like Gladmort, Shadow Gangs Zero, and Chronicles of the Wolf, has announced it is planning to release a sequel to Visco’s single-screen Neo Geo platformer Bang Bang Busters. The sequel is crowdfunding now on Kickstarter, offering backers the chance to order a digital…
Close to becoming Nintendo’s best-selling console of all time, though. Nintendo has just released sales figures for its consoles, and the headline news is that the Switch, which launched back in 2017, is within touching distance of overtaking the Nintendo DS as the company’s most successful console of all time. As reported by our friends…
Rapper is under fire again for rebranding other people’s products. Remember when one-hit-wonder Soulja Boy (real name DeAndre Cortez Way) got caught selling rebranded handhelds? Well, he’s back at it again (actually, this is technically ‘again again’) because he’s now flipping Retroid handhelds via his shady Soulja Game branding. As spotted by Retro Dodo, Soulja…
The PasocomMini PC-8801mkⅡSR has been delayed for a third time. Dempa Shimbun’s miniature recreation of the classic Japanese computer, the NEC PC-8801mkⅡSR, has been delayed for a third time, according to the company’s Twitter/X account (as spotted by Gosokkyu) The PasocomMini PC-8801mkⅡSR was originally announced back in May 2024 and is designed to be a…
Pricing starts at €99 / $115 / £87 / ¥17,500. The crowdfunding campaign for the Vectrex Mini is now live. “At 50% the size of the original classic console, the Vectrex Mini features a 5-inch vertical AMOLED display that helps recreates the crisp, glowing vector graphics that defined the arcade era,” says the team behind…
More Simon looks to be on the way! The Italian developer Smallthing Studios may have just released Simon the Sorcerer: Origins, but it doesn’t seem to be through with its resurrection of the classic Adventure Soft point-and-click adventure game series just yet. That’s because, as recently revealed in an interview via IGN Italy, it appears…
French composer Raphaël Gesqua is working on the soundtrack. The SNES is getting a new action RPG called Eternal Hunters – The Branford Legacy, and legendary French composer Raphaël Gesqua is on board to contribute to the soundtrack. Gesqua, whose previous games include Flashback, Mr.Nutz, Shaq-Fu, Fade to Black and Moto Racer, has already written…
‘Dark Empires’ was a dragon-based RTS for the Sega Mega Drive. The video game preservation website Hidden Palace has just released a prototype of Sega Technical Institute’s dragon-based real-time strategy game Dark Empires, in collaboration with the Sega Retro researcher Alexander Rojas. Dark Empires began life at Sega Technical Institute in 1990, shortly after the…
Sonic & Knuckles (& Arkagis Revolution). While some people still criticise Sega’s decision to effectively split Sonic 3 into two releases by holding back content for Sonic & Knuckles, I still think it’s one of the coolest hardware gimmicks of all time. Being able to ‘unlock’ bonus content by combining cartridges is something that appeals…