Retro Gaming News
‘Zophar’s Underworld’ went live for the first time in 1999. If you hung around on the internet in the mid-to-late ’90s and were a fan of retro gaming, there’s a good chance that you’ll have heard of Zophar’s Domain, one of the early online websites dedicated to providing information on how to relive classic gaming…
“Classic” Game Boy colours this time. The Analogue Pocket continues to be one of our most-played devices in the Time Extension office, thanks to the fact that it not only plays original Game Boy, Game Boy Color and GBA carts but also has a vast array of FPGA cores covering a wide range of consoles,…
Time to dust off those old carts. Originally released back in 1977, the Atari VCS (later known as the 2600) was a groundbreaking piece of consumer electronics. Sure, it wasn’t the first ‘game console’ to hit the market, but it was the first to find lasting commercial success; indeed, the name ‘Atari’ became synonymous with…
Includes Naious, Aquales, Etoile Princesse & Geograph Seal. The X68000 Z version of the Exact Perfection Collection has now got a proper release date and a price. The compilation of games from the Japanese developer Exact will be released on January 25th, 2024 on Beep’s website and will cost ¥12,100 (thanks GamerNeJp!). It will contain…
The soundtrack was composed by Manabu Namiki. The record store Ship to Shore Phono Company has revealed that pre-orders are now open for its upcoming vinyl release of Contra ReBirth‘s soundtrack. Arriving on Nintendo WiiWare back in 2009, Contra ReBirth was an M2-developed entry in the classic Konami series that saw players initially take control…
And it looks to be Mega Drive/Genesis-themed! Sonic the Hedgehog is getting a new board game from the board game developer Kess Entertainment (as spotted by VGC!). According to the information shared about the project in its announcement tweet, the board game will be a 1-4 player semi-cooperative experience, which sees Sonic, Tails, Amy, or…
And it’s less than $1000… The world of retro game upscalers is pretty wild, and over the years, enthusiasts have spent countless amounts of money on these products – with good reason. If you want to get the best possible picture out of your vintage system when using a modern-day TV, an upscaler is a…
Arriving November 16th. Taito’s dinosaur-themed fighting game Dino Rex will arrive on Nintendo Switch & PS4 on Thursday, November 16th as part of Arcade Archives, Hamster has announced (thanks Famitsu!). The game was originally released in arcades back in 1992 and is notable for its unusual list of fighters, which exchanges the typical collection of…
“Don’t you know who this is? This is Jeff Minter”. In January 2003, legendary British game developer Jeff Minter and the Guildford-based development studio Lionhead announced Unity — a brand new game for the Nintendo GameCube that was set to combine a psychedelic virtual light synthesizer with groundbreaking shoot ’em-up mechanics. The exciting project had…
But currently only as a disassembled kit. FunnyPlaying’s FPGA Game Boy Color is now available to order online, and it appears that the first reviews have already started to come out (thanks Retro Dodo!) The FPGBC, as it is being called, is a new budget Game Boy Color-like device, which simulates the original hardware with…