Retro Gaming News
Introduces new trial initiative “Speedrun” and production tracker. Over the last few years, Strictly Limited Games has been subject to a lot of deserved criticism over the lengthy shipping delays experienced by customers pre-ordering products from their site. The Turrican Ultra Collector’s Edition, for instance, took 2-3 years from the initial preorders opening for people…
In Haunted House, players take control of Lyn Graves, the precocious niece of legendary treasure hunter Zachary Graves. Lyn visits her uncle’s mansion with her closest friends, only to find the massive house overrun with ghouls and monsters who quickly grab and spirit away her friends. In order to free her uncle and her friends, Lyn…
BBG Entertainment’s reimagined 16-bit cosmic classic is making a comet-sized comeback on Steam, Xbox, Switch, Windows & Apple Mac Astronauts, to your stations! Embark on an epic journey through the cosmos with ASTROSMASH®, where the only thing between survival and an unyielding interstellar onslaught is your trusty laser cannon. Players will navigate through 10 increasingly…
The set up takes advantage of a Game Boy modded with an Arduino. The UK-based musician and inventor Sam Battle (better known by his channel name Look Mum No Computer) has used Game Boys in his music before, both as a synth and as a sound source. However, in his latest video published on YouTube…
Here’s some more Atari XL/XE news to be featured on the site, as Saberman also let us know that another game entered into the ABBUC Software Contest 2023 was a rather interesting platform puzzle called ‘Time Wizard’. A game whereby you don’t just manipulate time to your advantage, but you must put a stop to those…
Former DMA Design staffer Steve Hammond spills the beans. Steve Hammond worked for DMA Design as a writer, amongst other things, whose credits include Hired Guns, Uniracers/Unirally and a brief stint on GTA, from which he is still recovering. After spending most of the 21st century in the aerospace industry, he is now a freelance…
The 1982 title was released in North America as Loco-Motion. Hamster announced yesterday that the 1982 puzzle game Guttang Gottong (also known as Loco-Motion and Crazy Train) will be this week’s Arcade Archive release (as reported by Famitsu). It launches today on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. The game, in case you’re unfamiliar, sees players…
Trust the fungus! The Australian film distributor Umbrella Entertainment revealed yesterday on Twitter that it will be bringing out a new 4K release of the ’90s live-action Super Mario Bros. Movie and that pre-orders are now open from its website. Released in 1993, the live-action Super Mario film starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo was…
But there are some doubters… A hobbyist developer published a video on Monday (October 9th), which appears to show a prototype of Metal Gear Solid up and running on a Sega Saturn (thanks SegaSaturnShiro!). The unlisted video by the French modder Frogbull shows a Sega Saturn boot-up screen, before displaying logos for both Konami and…
When the going gets Tuff… Back in the ’90s, you may have read about a Super Nintendo platformer called Mr. Tuff from the developer Sales Curve Interactive (SCI) and the publisher Ocean Software. It was reviewed in a bunch of magazines throughout 1995 like Super Gamer and Game Fan, but was oddly cancelled at the…