Retro Gaming News
“He basically shut the door on my face”. The Sega of the 1990s must have been a very exciting place to work. The company had gone from industry also-ran to one of the world’s most recognisable entertainment brands in a short space of time thanks to the commercial success of its 16-bit Genesis / Mega…
Along with X-Multiply, Dragon Breed and More. Irem’s M72 arcade hardware is coming to Analogue Pocket thanks to a new OpenFPGA core. The core is based on the work of FPGA developer Wickerwaka and has been ported to the Pocket by Boogermann / Marcus Jordan. Read the full article on timeextension.com Along with X-Multiply, Dragon…
About This Episode Before the days of media streaming & binging, we were often glued to our sets to watch contestants compete for cash and prizes! From quizzes, to puzzles, to trivia and more, game shows both entertain and allow us to play along at home. So, hands on your buzzers: it’s time to look…
Damn that dodo. Blaze’s Indie Heroes range of Evercade carts features titles that have previously been made available as part of the Game of the Month campaign, which sees a new title downloaded to the console each month, entirely free of change. The catch is that when the new title arrives, the only one is…
It’s a Jungle out there. Someone is trying to get a whopping $45,000 USD for a non-working Panasonic Jungle handheld. If you haven’t heard of this particular device, don’t feel too bad. Announced in 2010, this clamshell-style handheld system looked like a small laptop but was intended as a portable platform for MMO titles; indeed,…
“I would be very happy to contribute some tracks”. Richard Jacques is a name that will be instantly familiar to any self-respecting Sega fan. During his time at Sega Europe, he created music for a wide range of titles, including Sonic R, Shinobi X, Sonic 3D Blast, and Metropolis Street Racer. He also contributed a…
Capcom port “inspired” the creation of Sonic. Many articles and books have been written about the origins of Sonic the Hedgehog, but this interview from 2016 includes comments from Yuji Naka which we hadn’t previously heard (thanks to John Szczepaniak for bringing it to our attention). According to Naka – who was recently in the…
Game would sell over 1 million on home computers alone. We imagine there are many people who, over the years, have pondered why the name ‘Ocean Software’ appears on so many RoboCop video games. Arguably the most famous adaption of the classic 1987 movie is Data East’s coin-op, which was a global smash-hit and made…
I-Ninja was originally released for the PS2, Xbox, and GCN in 2003. In the early 2000s, Namco & Argonaut Games — the developer of such beloved titles as Star Fox and Croc — released an action platformer for the PS2, GameCube, Xbox, and Windows called I-Ninja. The game focused on a ninja-in-training who accidentally killed…
“I apologize if I cause any trouble to the rights holders”. Arika Vice President and former Mega Man producer Ichiro Mihara has caused something of a kerfuffle on Twitter by sharing a previously unseen Mega Man design. Mihara, who worked on Mega Man: Network Transmission and Mega Man 5, shared a cropped image which shows…