Retro Gaming News
Releasing alongside ‘Over Horizon X Steel Empire’. Hot-B’s Steel Empire (known in Japan as Koutetsu Teikoku) is one of those games which has gained a seriously passionate cult following over the decades. Originally released on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis in 1992, its steampunk setting takes a large amount of inspiration from the movie…
Previously available as part of the “Johnny Turbo’s Arcade” series. A bunch of old Data East arcade games have disappeared from the Nintendo Switch eShop, as spotted by the reddit user Karnov_ and the publication GoNintendo. The games — which included titles like Joe & Mac, Night Slashers, BurgerTime, and Gate Of Doom, among many…
Will hopefully launch “sometime next year”. In a new video on its YouTube channel, The Video Game History Foundation has revealed an exciting first look at its upcoming library tools that will eventually be made available to researchers, academics, and video game enthusiasts in the future. Ever since The Video Game History Foundation was first…
Raising Steam. The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX has been ported to PC, giving us one of the best possible versions of this classic Game Boy Color title. A massively expanded view, improved frame rate and much more besides are all part of this unofficial port, which isn’t emulation – it is the game…
Video Games — Auction Preview by Cierra Caballero Our December 14th Power of PlayStation Showcase features a pair of dazzling copies of ParRappa the Rapper, widely considered the first true rhythm game. We’ve got a shiny VGA 90 NM +/MT copy as well as a pristine Wata 9.8 A+ example. PaRappa has always been ahead…
Mitsuo Kodama, an artist on KoF ’94, shared his memories on Twitter. Since its debut in the arcades back in 1994, The King of Fighters 94 has quite rightly been regarded as one of SNK’s greatest-ever fighting games, kickstarting a series that continues even into the modern day. However, not everybody always expected the game…
A list of supported titles was also given. In its latest blog post, Evercade has detailed some of the exciting new features and improvements that are arriving for the Evercade VS and Evercade EXP with its December update. Among these are a heavily requested Turbo Fire feature, the ability to save high scores without save…
Along with the already-confirmed Jet Set Radio. Sega appears to be in something of a revival arc at the moment, having announced that it has new entries in the Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi and Virtua Fighter franchises in development. It would appear that this is just the beginning, as…
5 Nintendo Gadgets We Wish Existed, Based on Actual Patents They say that the book is humankind’s greatest invention — durable, navigable, versatile and non-reliant on external power sources or connectivity. Perhaps gaming’s equivalent invention is the deck of cards — be they the familiar 52 poker cards, Top Trumps or any other variation. Nintendo…
Board games, books, Barcode Battler cards and more… If you’ve followed my work over the years you’ll know I’m a huge fan of The Legend of Zelda series, including all the non-canonical material, even things like Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon – to the point where I was the only person to interview…