Retro Gaming News
“Your imagination was kickstarted by the pictures and text on the box”. Preserving history is often all about archiving before it is too late, especially when it comes to games. Saving that floppy before it becomes unreadable, ripping that CD before ‘bit rot’ sets in and a hard drive before it dies a quiet (well,…
See Luigi in Super Mario 64 for the first time! Various pieces of evidence have appeared over the years to confirm that Super Mario 64 was originally going to include Luigi as a playable character. In several interviews, including a 1996 interview translated by shmuplations, Miyamoto went on the record as saying that the character…
“Kept you waiting, huh?”. In the past, Uniqlo has occasionally collaborated with the video game publisher Konami to produce clothing like t-shirts based on the Metal Gear Solid series. These were typically only available for a short period, but are set to make a return next year on Uniqlo’s website as well as in some…
Getting to know you. You might be getting ready for Christmas and the New Year, but we’ve one favour to ask before you don your festive jumper and tuck into those mince pies – we’d love it if you could spare a few moments to fill in the user survey below, which has been lovingly…
Releasing in Japan by the end of the year. A new kit that converts early Nintendo Famicom models into a portable device is set to be released in Japan by the end of the year. The Mobile FC Creation Kit came to our attention earlier this week thanks to the manager of the Ken-Chan home…
A barebones take on an adventure game classic. The Secret of Monkey Island is often regarded as one of the best adventure games that Lucasfilm Games ever produced, so it comes as no surprise that there is still an active fan community around it all these years later who are intent on paying tribute to…
Defying gravity. WipEout was the game that ‘sold’ the original PlayStation to an entire generation of gamers, but it was also released on Sega Saturn and PC. The latter version was pretty poor, but it has redeemed itself by forming the basis of WipEout Phantom Edtiion, a new PC port which offers HD visuals, an…
Another PC-88 classic to play over the Christmas period. Yesterday, we reported that the PC-88 shoot ’em-up Silpheed was coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop as part of D4 Enterprises’ Console Egg series of reissues, but, as spotted via the Japanese publication 4Gamer, it seems like we only got half the story there. That’s because,…
13 games included. Blaze has announced that it will be releasing another one of its ‘Indie Heroes’ carts for its Evercade family of systems. Indie Heroes Collection 3 will pull together nine titles, which have all been featured in Evercade’s Game of the Month program, as well as four extra games. Read the full article…
v1.2.1 brings with it fixes and improvements. Retro Games Ltd has revealed that its ‘Amiga Mini’ The A500 Mini has been updated to v1.2.1. The update brings with it a host of fixes and improvements, as well as a new game, Time Bandit, which Zzap! magazine rated at 92% back in 1988. Read the full…