Retro Gaming News
Street Fighter II and Final Fantasy VII oral histories are currently offline. It all started so brightly for Polygon. Launched by Vox Media back in 2012, the site promised to “redefine games journalism” by hiring the best of the best, and even released a multi-part documentary series to promote its launch. While people might argue…
“Y’all should make a video game about drug dealers and pimps”. Sanity: Aiken’s Artifact isn’t a title that typically comes up in conversation all that much today. But, regardless, I’d argue it’s one of Monolith Production’s more fascinating projects. Released in the year 2000 for Windows PCs, the 3D top-down action RPG was part of…
The early days of home video games were, to put it lightly, a mess. Dozens of companies scrambled to cash in on the Home Pong craze by releasing largely identical standalone consoles powered by fully identical chipsets all sourced from the same manufacturers. Pong was fun, sure, and the fact that it turned televisions into…
“Escape from the underground labyrinth”. Nihon Falcom’s Brandish originally launched in 1991 on the NEC PC-9801 and FM Towns home computers, and has since become something of a cult classic for JRPG fans all over the world, eventually spawning ports to the SNES and PSP (both of which got released in North America) and the…
Sir Alan’s 8-bit computer could be coming to the Next. The latest ZX Spectrum Next campaign on Kickstarter has been a tremendous success so far, raising £1,836,515 against an initial goal of just £200,000 and unlocking a ton of additional stretch goals. As a result, SpecNext Ltd, the company behind the new version of the…
FPGA-based system still on course for Q3 2025 release. We haven’t covered Taki Udon’s promising SuperStation One FPGA console for a while, but there have been some exciting developments in recent days which are worth shouting about. For starters, Taki Udon has added support for Sega CD games running directly from disc via the SuperStation’s…
Doesn’t bode well for the impending Kickstarter campaign. James Pond is one of the classic characters of the ’90s gaming scene, but time hasn’t been kind to the underwater agent. Since his third mainline adventure, Pond has been treated rather shoddily, with the ultimate insult being a Kickstarter campaign (involving original creator Chris Sorrell, who…
In the realm of FPGA Game Boys, the Chromatic has some obvious disadvantages compared to its main competitor, the Analogue Pocket. Where the Analogue Pocket has Game Boy Advance cartridge support, adapters for other cartridges, as well as SD card support that allows for playing, well, pretty much anything, the Chromatic is a much…
“We own Computer Entertainer. And now it belongs to everyone.”. The Video Game History Foundation has announced today that it has acquired the rights to the historic US magazine Computer Entertainer, and is making the entire magazine free for anyone to read or use. Computer Entertainer was a magazine published between 1982-1990, and is significant…
Star Fox 64 will be the next N64 game to get a fanmade Dreamcast port. JNMartin’s unofficial Sega Dreamcast port of Mario Kart 64 is getting pretty close to its first public release. However, it appears that its lead developer has already started working on his next port of an N64 classic. The Dreamcast developer…