Retro Gaming News
Wonder no longer… The fact that Taito’s Rainbow Islands is coming to Hamster’s Arcade Archives series is something to celebrate, but long-standing fans will have one burning question: what version of the theme tune will it use? In case you didn’t know, the main theme used in the arcade version of the game was changed…
Includes 12 toys to collect and a limited edition mobile game! Following last year’s Sonic Superstars promotion in Portugal, McDonalds has just launched a new Sonic the Hedgehog-themed Happy Meal that will be available in the UK from January 4th to February 6th 2024. The Happy Meal set includes one of 12 Sonic, Tails, Knuckles,…
You can grab the latest build now! Update #2 : Another new build has just been released for Portal 64 — the N64 demake of the original Portal from fan developer James Lambert. Portal 64: The First Slice is available to download for free using Lambert’s custom patcher and introduces an updated version of the…
The best of both worlds. Optical drives are often the first thing to fail on retro consoles, which is why so many people choose to swap out their disc drives for an Optical Disc Emulator – effectively, a device which replaces the drive and allows you to load games from solid-state media. We’ve seen the…
Which of Sony’s anti-grav racers is best? While many people associate Ridge Racer or Tekken with the early years of PlayStation, for others, it’s WipEout that really sums up the incredible impact Sony’s 32-bit console had on the gaming landscape. Not only did this 1995 racer represent the pinnacle of home gaming technology with its…
Goemon! Snake! Pyramid Head! And More! A new Konami-themed gashapon series called “Power Pros Baseball KONAMI Dream Stars” is set to go on sale in Japan later this month (as spotted by @GoemonNational!) The series will feature 6 characters from various classic Konami video game series such as Ganbare Goemon, Power Pros Baseball, Metal Gear…
Even though we were late in writing this one up as it was Christmas, we are pleased to inform our Indie Retro News readers that if you loved that classic Cartoon of Duck Tales, then you may also be interested to know that N10Team has released the ZX Spectrum game of ‘Duck Tales – Family…
A Lara Lara laughs. Sega’s 32X may have been a dismal commercial flop but, had things gone a little differently, we could have seen Lara Croft make her debut on the system (stick with us on this one). Designed to be a stop-gap between the 16-bit Mega Drive / Genesis and the 32-bit Saturn, the…
“Beating Tetris is not a life goal”. Yesterday, we reported on the news that 13-year-old Willis “Blue Scuti” Gibson had beaten the NES version of Tetris by reaching the game’s “kill screen” – a point where the game’s code crashes. While the gaming world celebrated this remarkable achievement, Sky News journalist Jayne Secker took a…
Adds modern lighting, high-resolution widescreen support, and more! Following years of development, Daggerfall Unity — a fanmade mod and Unity recreation of the second and largest of The Elder Scrolls games — has finally been released in 1.0.0 (as spotted through VG247!). This means there’s no better time than now to jump back into the…