Retro Gaming News
To celebrate the arrival of Antstream Arcade on the Microsoft Xbox, we are currently showing off seven of the most terrifying and brutally tough challenges on the service. Think you’ve got what it takes to break into the top ten? Here’s Graeme Mason with details of each challenge, trivia, tips, and more! Good luck… you’ll…
Welcome Antstreamers, to another installment of “Game of the Month”. This time, we’re delving into the archives to revisit a true arcade classic that not only left an indelible mark on gaming history but also pushed the boundaries of what was possible in the early ’80s. It’s time to journey into the neon-lit, vector-graphic world…
The Commodore C64 was a great little machine for its day, and its games were worthy successors to the Atari games which came before it. One game will always stand out for me as particularly enjoyable, due to its innovative concept, progression, style, and overall replayability: Paradroid. Paradroid stood out due…
This has to be Irem Collection Vol. 3, right? Yesterday (October 9th), the Strictly Limited Games Twitter account put out a tease for an upcoming announcement featuring a silhouette of a dragon and it didn’t take long for many of its followers to identify it as related to Dragon Breed and Irem Collection Vol. 3….
Featuring the first-ever mention of Vaults. Ever since setting up his YouTube channel “Cain on Games” back in April, the Fallout creator Tim Cain has been publishing daily videos about various topics related to his 40-year-plus career in the games industry. This inevitably includes a lot of never-before-heard stories about the making of Fallout, with…
New York City is the largest city in the United States. Its culture is far reaching and iconic, and as a result, it has been used as a setting in numerous videogames. The skyline was often used to represent the great city, as it was easily identifiable by the Statue of Liberty and the World…
Could this be the best way to experience the classic arcade simulator? Next year, a large transport museum called Yumenova is opening in the Japanese theme park of Hirosawa City in the Ibaraki prefecture, and among its many attractions looks to be something truly unique: the opportunity to play the 1996 arcade train simulator Densha…
Forerunner to the infamous ‘Knights of Xentar’. ELF Corporation’s erotic dungeon-crawling JRPG Dragon Knight II has been translated into English, 33 years after it launched exclusively in Japan. A sequel to the 1989 original, Dragon Knight II places you in the role of Takeru, a warrior who battles a series of girls who have been…
The port was developed by Infinity Co. Ltd. Looking Glass Technologies’ first-person action-adventure game System Shock is considered one of the most influential science-fiction games ever released in the West. But what you might know is that it also has a couple of compatible versions for Japanese computers. As far as we can tell from…
Thanks to Jotego’s Patreon. FPGA developer Jotego has just released a new OpenFPGA core as part of his Patreon. The ‘JTNINJA’ core makes Data East’s legendary Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja playable on the Analogue Pocket, alongside fellow Data East arcade title Heavy Barrel. Read the full article on timeextension.com Thanks to Jotego’s Patreon. FPGA…