Retro Gaming News
Fast and impressive flicker-free blasting. It’s an exciting period to be an enthusiast of old hardware, as the homebrew community makes use of modern technology plus decades of experience to create a wealth of new releases. Recent examples have included Space Hunter on Mega Drive, a port of Konami’s Asterix to the SNES, and Dangan…
“Pure blast processing”. One of the key weapons the SNES had in its battle against the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive was the ability to smoothly scale and rotate background layers using Mode 7, a special graphics mode built into its hardware. This feature was put to excellent use in a wide range of SNES…
Works with Dreamcast, Switch, PS3, PS4, PC, MiSTer, and more. Turkish company TR has announced it is launching an IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign for its new Octopus Fight Stick controller. This bespoke stick will work with Dreamcast, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC, MiSTer and more, and uses a wired connection to keep input latency…
I’m a huge top down racing fan, from games such as Micro Machines to Supercars and Indy Heat on the Amiga. Well here’s another top down racing game you might like to try that was recently updated for the Commodore Amiga, and it’s ‘Rally Cross 1.0’ via Ozzyboshi and team; A tiny racing game that…
Will be available on PlayStation Plus Premium. Game Arts’ epic RPG Grandia is coming to the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 later this month on November 21st (thanks Gematsu!). The classic RPG was originally released on the Sega Saturn in Japan back in 1997, before being ported to the PlayStation 1 two years later. Read…
“We have to make the game without the movie”. Before he punched torpedoes in Fast and Furious movies, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was set to star in a movie adaptation of Midway’s then-recently rebooted Spy Hunter game series. As was the norm in the mid-2000s, a game adaptation of the movie (based on a game)…
Featuring insights from Gail Tilden, Scott Douwes, and Kim Logan. If you missed the Portland Retro Gaming Expo last month and the 35 Years of Nintendo Power Magazine panel, then we have some great news to share. The roughly 46-minute panel is now available to view on Art of Nintendo Power’s YouTube channel, letting you…
Out Run! Space Harrier! Virtua Fighter! Daytona USA 2! It’s fair to say that many people’s minds were blown when Yu Suzuki included fully playable arcade games in his Dreamcast magnum opus Shenmue, and while that series continues to this very day, the retro-gaming torch has passed to another Sega franchise: Yakuza (now known as…
It lives! Superhero movies appear to have hit a bump in the road of late, with Marvel struggling to maintain its cinematic universe and DC finding that nostalgia alone isn’t enough to turn films like The Flash into box office gold. The genre is still big business, however, and Sony – which owns the cinematic…
Available to preorder until December 15th. Atari earlier this month announced that it had partnered up with the ’80s fashion brand Members Only to bring out a modernized take on the classic Atari clubhouse jackets from the 1980s. This was a special collection of Atari jackets that were exclusively available to paying members of its…