Retro Gaming News
Released in 1994 by Atari Games, Primal Rage emerged during one of the most competitive eras in arcade gaming history. Fighting games dominated arcades in the early-to-mid 1990s, fueled by the massive success of titles like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II. Into this crowded arena stepped a bold and unusual contender, one that replaced…
Frogbull has released yet another “alternate reality” project. The homebrew developer Frogbull has brought us some bizarre crossovers over the past few years: from creating playable versions of PlayStation classics like Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII, and Crash Bandicoot for the Sega Saturn to showing off a Nintendo 64 edition of Spyro the Dragon….
PS2 emulation just took another leap forward. We have good news for PCSX2 fans — a brand-new update has just dropped for the popular PS2 emulator, bringing with it a bunch of great improvements, from “serious performance gains” to support for new input devices, UI improvements, and more. As always, full details on what’s been…
Songbird Productions unveils the ‘Zool Collection’, two Zool games on a single cartridge. When 2025 came to an end, we had no idea just how many times the gremlin ninja Zool would end up popping into our news tips over the eight months that have followed. Since 2026 began, we’ve had 33 Games’ reissues of…
Releases next month! Throughout this site’s history, we’ve covered a few different news stories about Prince of Persia being ported unofficially to other platforms, and it seems like we now have another to add to the growing list. That’s because, decades after its original release for the Apple II, it now appears that a version…
“A handcrafted Steam remake by its original creators”. It has been revealed that the 1988 NES title The Battle of Olympus is being remade on Steam. The game was designed and programmed by Yukio Horimoto, with Reiko Oshida, who would later become Horimoto’s wife, responsible for the story and graphics. It was also ported to…
At Gamescom this year, Retro Games, Ltd., made an impressive showing with their THEA1200 release. It’s a retro computer that emulates the classic Commodore Amiga 1200 from the 90s, complete with a full-sized keyboard and support not only for running the built-in games, but also for adding your own games and running the system with…
Long before daily rewards and mobile notifications defined casual gaming, a deck of digital cards showed millions of people that a computer could be a place to relax. Solitaire asked for no manual and no gaming identity. The table explained itself. A modern browser version such as PlaySolitaire preserves that same invitation: open the game,…
It’s no secret that Mortal Kombat is violent by and large the most graphic fighting game series ever created. Full of blood and gore, it pushed the limits on what was acceptable for video game violence in the ‘90s, eventually leading to the formation of the ESRB ratings board. For a perfectly apt representation of…
“For me, in a way, he’s the best music teacher there is”. I first heard Nobuo Uematsu’s music in 1997, when I was only five. To give you some background, I was standing in the hallway of my childhood home when my older brothers excitedly darted down the stairs, about to head to the nearest…