Retro Gaming News
Is it all doom and gloom? While the pandemic led to a surge in prices for retro video games in the United States after years of the hobby already getting absurdly expensive, the opposite occurred here in Japan where you couldn’t walk into a used games store without tripping over good deals. In 2021, I…
With better animation, larger levels and CD-quality music. The Sega Mega Drive / Genesis classic Revenge of Shinobi is getting a fan-made “remake” on the 32-bit Sega Saturn. Coded by Pigsy (the same person who is bringing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night to the Mega Drive) using Johannes Fetz’s JoEngine, this update will boast more…
Trading Cards for Grown-ups Day CLICK – The Walter Day Trading Card Collection History of Trading Cards for Grown-ups Day Original trade cards were used to stiffen the packaging of cigarettes, and they were advertising cards. In the 1860s, baseball cards were printed and usually sold in packets of candy or other tobacco products….
A Kickstarter will launch on May 6th. Update : PixelHeart has finally offered a bit more information on its upcoming action-platformer Gladmort. According to a recent Twitter post, a Kickstarter for the project will go live on May 6th, 2024 at 6pm CEST, with versions of the game planned for the Neo Geo, Sega Dreamcast,…
Plus some other cool stuff. Wii and GameCube emulator Dolphin has been around for over twenty years now, but it’s still getting improvements – and the latest update delivers some serious cool features. The headline (for us, anyway) is the addition of HDR support on Windows, macOS, and select Linux systems. When attached to a…
Wil Overton’s Super Play art gets another lease of life. If you grew up in the UK around the time of the SNES, then you’ll almost certainly be familiar with the amazing Super Play magazine. With its mix of talented writers, focus on import releases and adoration of Japanese culture, it became one of the…
Thanks to 7-Eleven. The Tetris Company is teaming up with US retailer 7-Eleven to produce a range of exclusive merchandise based on the famous puzzle title (thanks, VGC). Items will include shirts, hats, and other clothing featuring both the Tetris and 7-Eleven branding, and are currently exclusive to the US. Read the full article on…
You can now see the true origins of the popular match-three game. Almost 35 years after it was originally made, the first-ever version of the popular match-three puzzle game Columns has finally been found and documented online. Most people will probably know of Columns from Sega’s versions of the game — which have since been…
The site was started all the way back in 1999. The lost-media/games preservation website Games That Weren’t is currently celebrating 25 years since its initial formation. Inspired by Ian Osborne’s Commodore Force article “That Was The Game That Wasn’t”, Frank Gasking first started the project as a column in Commodore Zone magazine back in the…
About This Episode We head to the movies to see Jason Statham’s latest film where he’s a one-man vengeance machine, check out some innovative and entertaining tech designed to be used in the shower, and play a brand new game that evolves the classic, Pong, into a methodical action adventure! Patreon » patreon.com/genxgrownup Discord »…