Retro Gaming News
“Pure, unadulterated love for the NES, packaged in an unofficial history book”. Ninty Media, the publisher behind GameBook, GameBook Color and GameBook Advance, is preparing to release a new tome which celebrates Nintendo’s first true home console, the NES. “We’ve been making books for more than 5 years now, with Paul Murphy (Ninty Media’s owner)…
Once upon a time in Portugal… Loading Studios, not happy to secure a spot in their country’s video gaming history by producing the first Portuguese physical Game Boy release Alentejo: Tinto’s Law earlier this year, is now returning to the 8-bit fray with a bigger sequel. Alentejo: The Tinto and the Ugly once again casts…
Announcing the release date of “Arcade Archives SCION” “Arcade Archives 2 SCION” HAMSTER Corporation (Head Office: Tokyo-to, Setagaya-ku; CEO: Satoshi HAMADA; referred to below as “HAMSTER”) is happy to announce that “SCION” will be released for Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®4, Nintendo Switch™ 2, PlayStation®5 and Xbox Series X|S. The game will be available digitally on October…
The company is now gathering feedback online. Barely two days have passed since Retroid revealed the Retroid Pocket 6 in a YouTube announcement, and it already looks like the company is set to make some changes to the device’s design following some negative feedback from commenters online. The landing page for pre-orders went live earlier…
“Enjoy this KOF board game with lots of references to the series”. A translation patch has been released for the 2000 Neo Geo Pocket Color title King of Fighters: Battle de Paradise. Based on the world of King of Fighters and other SNK properties, this digital board game showcases four new characters – Yu G,…
The 1984 shoot ’em up ‘Scion’ arrives this week. This week’s Arcade Archives release has been revealed to be a 1984 shoot ’em up from Seibu Denshi, the company that would later change its name to Seibu Kaihatsu and become famous for games like the Cabal-esque shooter Dynamite Duke (1989) and the vertical scroller Raiden…
“I actually did not expect to meet that goal”. If you were around in the late ’90s and you owned a PC then chances are you encountered ZSNES, one of the first retro emulators to really break into the mainstream. Coded by zsKnight, the emulator was astounding for 1997 – not only did it offer…
The Plus/4 World website has surprised us with yet another new recovery! As they have informed the Plus/4 Facebook page, that the 1985 Interplay Productions RPG has been recovered for the Commodore Plus/4 by Csory and Siz. As in the words of the website. “Today, we put a period at the end of a very…
I’ve got my C64 Ultimate Ordered but I’m debating whether I need to get this Amiga A1200. So many cool computers from the past are coming back… but what I really want is an Apple ][c replica. I’d love to see it but I’m not holding out much hope. Apple will never do it, and…
Launches in “Early Access” this December. Given Rockstar is currently heads down finishing Grand Theft Auto VI, it doesn’t seem likely that we’re going to get a follow-up to the publisher’s 2006 school-based action adventure title Bully anytime soon. But for those who have been looking for a brand new reason to go gallivanting around…