Retro Gaming News
What a legend. Once upon a time, video games used to come complete with an instruction manual, and one of the great pleasures of buying a new game was that time spent in the car on the way back from the shop, leafing through said manual to scrub up on things prior to booting up…
“We named him War Machine and got permission from Marvel”. It’s been particularly pleasing to see Capcom and Marvel hook up again in recent years, as I was a massive fan of the many superb one-on-one fighters the pair collaborated on in the ’90s. So much so that any little piece of trivia relating to…
And it’s all thanks to the SM64 decompilation project. We’ve seen a flurry of decompilation projects recently, many of which are focused on pulling apart classic N64 titles so they can be natively recompiled for rival systems. Star Fox 64 and Mario Kart 64 have both been ported to other platforms, for example, but this…
Earlier today, ModRetro began its Black Friday sale for the Chromatic and its associated accessories, the first ever for the company. All products associated with the Chromatic, whether it be the unit itself, games or accessories, are marked down 15%. There are currently 19 games available for sale on the ModRetro store, seven of…
Modern game systems load games almost instantaneously, it seems. In general, most mobile games are at your fingertips with minimal loading time, while larger PC and console games may take 30 seconds to load their data into memory. Our expectations, as modern gamers, are that we shouldn’t have to wait more than a minute to…
Fancy playing a new Commodore 64 demo that is not only fun to play but will also have you tapping your feet listening to its great soundtrack. Then make sure to check out this upcoming Commodore 64 platformer by Bonette2020, Adrian Bonnette, Dirk Roosen, and Richard Bayllis called ‘El Chef’. A game whereby you play…
The Stern of the Union Address, your monthly resource for news, information and highlights on all things Stern Pinball. Without further ado my fellow pinheads: The Walking Dead Remastered: There’s a Horde coming with a technologically advanced version of one of the most beloved pinball games of all time… The Walking Dead Remastered! Stay tuned…
Price is jumping to $270. Analogue’s amazing FPGA-based N64 clone, the Analogue 3D, will go back up for pre-order next week – but the price is getting a bump thanks to President Trump’s infamous tariffs. The company announced on social media that a new batch of the systems will be available for order at 8…
Promising system goes up in smoke. The promising MARS FPGA console is dead, according to one of the project’s developers. Todd Gill – a longstanding and influential figure within the FPGA community – broke the news on Discord recently. Read the full article on timeextension.com Promising system goes up in smoke. The promising MARS FPGA…
If you had dabbled in retro games pre-COVID (yes, we know that was a lifetime ago), you may have noticed that there wasn’t much in the way of appeal for retro games. It was there, but retro gaming seemed to be the sole domain of ‘gamers’. When COVID hit, things changed. Retro game prices shot…