Retro Gaming News
What a melt. While it’s not an especially amazing game, ClayFighter: Sculptor’s Cut is one of the most desirable titles in the Nintendo 64 library purely due to its scarcity. An updated version of ClayFighter 63⅓, it didn’t get a general retail release and was instead sold as a Blockbuster Video rental exclusive. This has…
The Nintendo-published title was released in Japan in 2002. The Starfy series isn’t the best-known franchise that Nintendo has published in the past, with only one of its titles ever making it out to the West in 2008: The Legendary Starfy for Nintendo DS. Nevertheless, that hasn’t stopped its main character, the friendly star-shaped prince…
“Myst was approachable; it felt real”. Cyan’s Myst, the game which, alongside The 7th Guest, is credited by many as kickstarting the CD-ROM revolution on computers, turns 30 today. The game launched on Mac on September 24th, 1993, and would come to PC the following March. It would later come to a wide range of…
“We were a casualty of our own success”. We’d be willing to bet that if you quizzed any games developer, they’d admit that pushing a system to its absolute limit is one of the most satisfying parts of the job. Taking a piece of hardware and making it do things it really shouldn’t be capable…
The collection includes four classic Telenet Japan games. Update : As spotted by Gosokkyu, the Telenet Shooting Collection has finally been released on the Nintendo Switch eShop as of yesterday in both North America and Europe (September 21st). The collection is priced at $44.99 on the North American eShop and £37.79 on the UK store,…
The one-room demo was made for N64brew Summer Game Jam. Here at Time Extension, we’ve been following James Lambert’s work for a while now, paying particular attention to his outstanding Portal 64 demake. But recently, the programmer blew our minds once again by showing off another one of his other projects: a small game jam…
The Nintendo fan’s ultimate keyboard. 8BitDo is famous for its excellent controllers aimed at both retro and modern-day systems, but the company has taken something of a departure with its latest effort, the Retro Mechanical Keyboard. As you can probably see from the design, it takes inspiration from the Nintendo Entertainment System, the console that…
Currently being demoed at TGS 2023. Aya Neo‘s latest handheld gaming PC, the Aya Neo Slide, will be available to pre-order on IndieGoGo later today, it has been confirmed. Packing an AMD Ryzen 7840U chipset and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, the Slide joins the likes of the Aya Neo Air 1S and Aya Neo Kun…
Shown off at TGS 2023. Japanese hardware firm Tassei Denki has been showing off some exciting retro-themed hardware at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, including what appears to be a Sega Saturn Mini that uses FPGA technology rather than traditional software-based emulation. The unit at the show – which is, of course, entirely unofficial and…
Arrives September 28th. During Hamster’s weekly livestream earlier today, the publisher announced that it will be bringing Namco’s side-scrolling action game Finest Hour to both the Nintendo Switch and PS4 as part of its ongoing Arcade Archives series (thanks Famitsu!). The arcade title will be released digitally on September 28th and will (as far as…