Retro Gaming News
Super Basketball was released all the way back in 1984. Konami’s 1984 sports game Super Basketball is coming to Nintendo Switch and PS4 this week, as part of Hamster’s Arcade Archives series. The game is notably the first basketball title that Konami released in arcades back in the day, and was later followed by titles…
Courtesy of the musician chirinea. If you’ve ever been curious to witness what Konami’s Contra or Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest might have sounded like had they been released on a Sega Master System, instead of the NES, then you’re in luck. That’s because, recently, a musician named chirinea has been putting together some impressive Sega…
When you hear the word retro games, your mind goes back to the good old days when the gaming world was dominated by the likes of Sonic the Hedgehog, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, etc. Today, with technology being at its peak, the simple designs in retro games are proving to be a gamechanger in the online…
With enhanced graphics and physics. 30 years on from its original release on PC, a fan developer, named Tim Comport, is currently in the process of recreating the engine of Origin Systems’ 1995 sci-fi action adventure game BioForge, in the hopes of offering players a better way to experience the cult classic title. BioForge, we…
Legends of Amberland III: The Crimson Tower is a throwback to the “golden era of RPGs”. The developer of the Legend of Amberland games, Silver Lemur Games has just announced a third entry into the retro RPG series, and it’s one to have on your radar if you happen to be a fan of classic…
“Sometimes things just don’t work out”. Jamie D, the developer of the boomer shooter Hellscreen, has announced on both Steam and social media that he is cancelling the remaining two episodes of the Early Access game, due to its “severe under performance” as well as “external funding being non existent” Hellscreen, in case you’re unaware,…
“To gamers this is as egregious as trying to play a DVD on a record player.”. Yesterday, BBC Breakfast published a video report on the booming interest in retro games, featuring an interview with UKIE CEO Prof. Nick Poole OBE. But the segment hasn’t exactly gone over well online, with most people ignoring the content…
The Satellaview add-on for the Super Famicom has long been a notorious device, one of the first examples of Internet enabled gaming that never left Japan. Emulating the Satellaview isn’t difficult with modern technology, although it can be somewhat tedious since it requires using an alternate bios, causing even most of its brand name…
The device is expected to include a MediaTek Dimensity 8300 chip. Earlier today, the Chinese handheld manufacturer Anbernic officially announced the Anberic RG477M, a new “high performance” Android-based emulation handheld, in a brief teaser video published over on its YouTube channel. For some of you, we expect this probably won’t be the first time you…
Sonic 3’s file select hides a curious audio bug. One thing that we absolutely love about video games is that you can play a particular title hundreds (maybe even thousands) of times over a roughly 30 year period, and still find yourself occasionally encountering something “new” decades later that you’d never even noticed on all…