Retro Gaming News
Coming 2024. If you’re a fan of murder mysteries or Japanese adventure games like Famicom Detective Club or Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, then you’ll no doubt be excited to hear about Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved. Announced a few weeks ago for PC, it is a brand-new detective adventure game/visual novel from the first-time developer…
“A bit of a, um… fun?”. Easter eggs in video games aren’t a new thing – they started life right at the dawn of the industry, with Atari’s 1980 game Adventure being one of the most notable early examples. However, new secrets are always being discovered – even in games that are several years old…
If like me, you’re a huge fan of Zelda, then you’ll be happy to know as thanks to a heads up by Tom via Twitter, he has told us that linksawakeningdxhd has made available this incredible looking game of “Link’s Awakening DX HD”. As in the words of the creator “Dive into the enchanting world of…
Growing up in the 1980’s, I collected many things. Baseball Cards, Video Games, Pennies, and more. There was one item that always got me back to the 7-11 by my house. It was Garbage Pail Kids. These “Sticker” cards came with a stick of gum as well. There were so many different cards in the…
Only available in Japan, sadly. Japanese company Onkyo has just released some wireless earbuds which feature official Sega Dreamcast and Mega Drive branding, we’re pleased to reveal. As reported by 4Gamer, the company is launching the earbuds in limited quantities on December 22nd at 3 pm Japanese time and will sell them for 15,500 yen…
It shows the game back when it originally featured a jet instead of a human. Sega’s iconic 1985 arcade rail shooter Space Harrier is known today for its science-fiction and fantasy-like elements, including flying dragons, one-eyed mammoths, and giant robots, but that wasn’t always the plan for the title during its development. As some of…
The year GTA V first released… Back in 2013, the world was bracing itself for the arrival of the shiny new Xbox One and PS4. Sony and Microsoft’s previous consoles, the Xbox 360 and PS3, had been massively successful and, along with the Nintendo Wii, had found a way into millions of homes all over…
Stick it to me. We’ve only just reviewed the Game Boy-like Anbernic $70 RG35XX Plus and found it to be a welcome upgrade to the original RG35XX, which launched earlier this year. However, Anbernic is a company which doesn’t rest on its laurels, and it has just announced a new variant of the RG35XX (thanks,…
Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky. No matter how many years pass between the release of a game, there’s always a chance that some new information might be revealed – and that’s precisely what has happened in the case of Argonaut’s 2000 PlayStation release, Alien Resurrection. Based on the 1997 movie of the same name (its…
Half the price, almost as nice? There’s been a lot of chatter recently regarding the $750 RetroTINK 4K, a new-generation analogue-to-digital upscaling device designed around 4K TVs. As the apex of the RetroTINK line of upscalers, the RetroTINK 4K is, by all accounts, an amazing piece of kit (we sadly haven’t had the pleasure of…