Retro Gaming News
The Kickstarter for Annalog only launched on Tuesday, but the NES game has already achieved its initial $7000 goal and then some. The Retro Room Games has confirmed that it has hit its first stretch goal of $10,000 with 28 days left to go in the campaign. Backers are now guaranteed to receive their…
Epilogue’s new Retrace app could save you a fortune. We covered Epliogue’s amazing GB Operator a while back, and found it a great way to combine your physical collection of Game Boy carts with the comfort and functionality of modern emulation. The adapter is capable of accepting Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy…
“Destroy Jason if you can”. As we’ve mentioned on the site before, LJN’s 1989 video game adaptation of Friday the 13th isn’t necessarily held up as a shining example of what the NES library has to offer. Gaming critics and YouTubers, for instance, have regularly included it on lists of the worst games available for…
“A premium historical artefact and definitive physical release”. Gremlin’s Zool was one of the many platform games to try to muscle in on the craze kicked off by Mario and Sonic, and was reasonably successful on the home computer formats and consoles of the era. It would seem that the ‘Ninja of the Nth Dimension’…
‘Cotton: Rock With You’ launches in Japan this August. A new 2D entry in the Cotton series is releasing in Japan later this year, on August 6th, on PS5, Switch 2, and PC (via Steam) (thanks, Gematsu!). Cotton: Rock With You is the latest Cotton title from Success Corporation, the original creators of the Cotton…
“With added gameplay and graphical options”. Indie coder Richard Langford has remade Ultimate Play the Game’s 1983 classic Jetpac for PC. Programmed by Chris Stamper with art by his brother Tim, Jetpac won “Game of the Year” at the Golden Joystick Awards in the year of its release. Read the full article on timeextension.com “With…
“I feel like I made an adventure game starring Hugh Hefner”. The award-winning designer Brenda Romero has a piece of advice for developers wishing to make great games: “Look at whatever company you want to work for and see what their Metacritic rating is.” If the Metacritic score is 85 or higher, “go join that…
Includes “improvements designed to improve aiming stability”. Tassei Denki’s G’AIM’E light gun has just received its first firmware update, as well as an ongoing ‘World Championship’ which allows users to test their skills on a global scale. Firmware update (V4.0.3) includes “improvements designed to improve aiming stability in a wider range of home setups.” Read…
An “old school mecha platform game”. If you’re a fan of old-school mech-based action titles like Assault Suits Valken / Cybernator and Ranger-X, then you might want to check out a new demo for the AGA Amiga. Running on an A1200, Impact Armor Alpha is already looking pretty great, and the good news is that…
Kan Naito is bringing ‘Lady Stalker 2D’ to Nintendo’s 8-bit console. It has been announced that Kan Naito is developing a new NES / Famicom RPG called Lady Stalker 2D, and that it will feature character designs created by the late Yoshitaka Tamaki, who sadly passed away in 2023. Both Naito and Tamaki worked at…