Retro Gaming News
Dracula Hunter was the work of the Japanese developer Teknon Kogyo. A developer named Arlasoft has just announced it has recreated the “lost” 1979 arcade game Dracula Hunter from the Japanese developer Teknon Kogyo, for modern PCs. If you haven’t heard of Dracula Hunter before, we certainly won’t blame you, as we hadn’t heard of…
Pre-orders are now open. The music label Data Discs has announced it will be reissuing a bunch of its previous Sega releases, giving fans of the legendary video game company another chance pick up the music to some of their favourite games. According to the recent social media post from Data Discs, the list of…
A new FPGA-based recreation of the C64. Commodore International has just announced just its first official hardware in over 30 years under its new ownership — a new AMD Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA-powered recreation of the Commodore 64, called the Commodore 64 Ultimate Edition (thanks TomsHardware for the spot). Pre-orders for the the new computer are…
There is perhaps no image of the aughts era arcade quite as iconic as those giant Dance Dance Revolution machines, paradoxically because it’s difficult to imagine anything quite so antithetic to the arcade experience prior to that point than dancing to often obscure music. While not the first rhythm game by any means, Dance…
“This was the most fun I’ve had working on anything in years”. We recently reported on the fact that Supercell – famous for its smartphone games – had teamed up with a bunch of former EMAP journalists to create Super Cellphone Gamer, a promotional magazine based on the legendary Mean Machines, one of the UK’s…
Safeguard Drac’s pumpkin garden. While the original Donkey Kong is arguably one of the most famous (and important) games in Nintendo’s history, its sequels are slightly less well-known and certainly struggled to match Kong’s explosive debut in terms of commercial and critical acclaim. Despite this, they actually enhanced and evolved the gameplay, with 1983’s Donkey…
“Composed and designed to run on actual Amiga computers”. German electro-pop composer Denis Karimani – better known as Remute – has cornered the market when it comes to creating albums which run on retro gaming hardware. He’s already produced albums for the SNES, C64, Game Boy and Mega Drive / Genesis, and now it’s the…
From Kumo Kagyu (Goblin Slayer) and so-bin (Overlord). While Wizardry was created by Andrew C. Greenberg and Robert Woodhead and is recognised as one of the foundational releases in the history of the RPG, the franchise has taken on a life of its own in Japan, where it was equally influential and spawned its own…
“This is the last go to keep it open”. A British amusement arcade is reopening this weekend in a last-ditch attempt to secure its future. Highest Score Arcade, located in Salisbury, Wiltshire, opened last August. However, it recently closed its doors and posted “Game Over” messages on social media, leading many to assume it was…
Steam version is still on track, however. Japanese publisher Superdeluxe Games has revealed that the download console versions of Earthion have been delayed until September. A social media post confirmed that “the release date for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4/5, and Xbox Series XIS has been postponed from July 31st to mid-September.” Read the full…