Retro Gaming News
In the late ‘70s, Mattel Electronics’ Intellivision machine was carving out a respectable space among the dense pack of lesser-powered gaming consoles and the deluge of Pong clones that were rapidly flooding the marketplace. Distinguishing itself from the horde, the Intellivision represented a multitude of “firsts” for the industry: It was the first console to…
‘Razing Core’ is the new game from BadComputer. If you’re at all familiar with the homebrew community for the Sega Master System, you’ve probably heard of the name “BadComputer” in the past. The homebrew developer has been one of the most prolific creators designing and creating new experiences for Sega’s legendary 8-bit machine, having previously…
Battle Master was released in 1993 for the Super Famicom. We’ve seen many great SNES fan translations over the years, and it appears that another has just been released, with the 1993 fighting game Battle Master: Kyūkyoku no Senshitachi finally being available to play in English, 32 years after its release. Battle Master: Kyūkyoku no…
For some reason this month there has been a surge in Adventure games for our retro computers (not that I’m complaining ;)). We’ve had Herra 47 : Midsummer Festival for the Commodore 64, and even the more recent announcement of Leisure Suit Larry: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards, which is also coming to the C64….
Flight simulator video games have existed in one form or another since the 70’s. When referring to flight simulator video games, we are talking about a simulation of a flight environment for non-official flight training and more as a form of entertainment or “edutainment.” Flight simulator video games could involve simulation of commercial flights, military…
Originally went up for pre-order in 2021. As somebody who has limited space beneath their television (and an increasingly limited amount of spare time to play video games), Playmaji’s Polymega modular retro gaming system was a breath of fresh air for me when it arrived a few years ago. Here was a system which could…
They drink it in the Congo. Man, Sega really was all over the place back in the mid-’90s. It produced a capable console in the form of the Saturn and pumped out some amazing ports of its arcade smash hits, but then it also parcelled off valuable resources to produce critical and commercial duds like…
“Contact with serious inquiries only”. The Panasonic M2 was intended to go toe-to-toe with the PlayStation, offering cutting-edge processing power and the best visuals of any home console. As we all know, it didn’t work out that way; initially developed by The 3DO Company as a successor to the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, the tech would…
Revisit the 1993 classic in this new in-depth documentary. A new 3-hour documentary has just been released by the YouTube onaretrotip about Bullfrog Production’s classic real-time strategy game, Syndicate, featuring new interviews with the level designer Alex Trowers, lead programmer Sean Cooper, the composer Russell Shaw, and the intro artist Paul Walker. So if you…
“We all agree that the Speccy is the superior platform”. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is perhaps the most famous home computer to come out of the British Isles. Launched in 1982, it is credited with creating an entire generation of designers, artists and developers, and continues to attract adoration and attention more than 40 years…