Retro Gaming News
Love my Tetris, no doubt about it. I’m not very good at it, at least compared to CTWC-level competitors, but it’s a game I have fun on without a doubt and probably my most played video game. I now have the game in four different forms, my cabaret arcade machine, NES Tetris, GameBoy Tetris and…
No longer any need to buy the SBom Joycard controller! Back in 1997, Hudson released Saturn Bomberman Fight!! in Japan, a year after it had released its SBom Joycard controller. In a pioneering piece of commercial trickery that wouldn’t feel out of place in 2024’s DLC-ridden landscape, Hudson sneakily locked away three exclusive Battle Mode…
Distribution starts on January 25th! The next PC-88 title to hit the Nintendo Switch eShop as part of D4 Enterprise’s EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues will be AlexBros and Bothtec’s top-down action game Yokai Tantei Chima Chima. It will be released on January 25th in Japan and is also expected to launch on the North…
…and a high price tag, to boot. The handheld gaming PC market is becoming pretty saturated at the moment, with devices like the Steam Deck, ROG Ally, OneXPlayer and more all fighting for the same sector of the market. To stand out, some manufacturers are starting to add unique features to their products, and AYANEO…
Did we mention it’s free? Locomalito, the developer behind titles like Super Hydorah, L’Abbaye des Morts, and Solar Gladiators, has just released a brand new Master System-inspired game for Windows computers. Toxic Tomb sees players take control of a Demon hunter named “Lime Eyes”, who is tasked with exploring a dangerous power plant after it’s…
The obscure Japanese console was released all the way back in 1983. The preservationist website Gaming Alexandria has announced that it has managed to scan, dump, and preserve every game that was released for the Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy — an obscure game console that was released by the educational toy company/publisher Gakken. The…
Now available in purple, too. We reviewed the superb 8BitDo 2.4G Ultimate Controller a while back and found it to be one of the best options on the market if you’re looking for a low-latency pad for your gaming systems (which includes Switch, although 8BitDo doesn’t do a good job of advertising that fact). The…
Its creator hopes to license the game properly for a physical release. A fanmade port of Epyx’s 1984 classic Impossible Mission is currently in the works for the Atari Lynx, as recently spotted by Atari Scene News. The port is the work of the coder Nop90, who uploaded a four-minute video of a prototype to…
Seems to be exclusive to the southern hemisphere at present. Fashion retailer ZARA is doing a fantastic line of Sega-related merch these days, with the Saturn and Master System already getting super-fancy cross-body bags. We’ve now gotten word that a Dreamcast variant is available – but sadly, it seems to be exclusive to the south…
Formerly known as LaunchShop. Nintendo switched off the Wii eShop in 2019, removing access to many titles which were exclusive to the console. It was only a matter of time before the community stepped in to restore this aspect of the machine, and we can now report that RiiShop – a replacement Wii eShop –…