Retro Gaming News
From developer HeartLoop Games. Multiplayer has always been a significant part of fighting games, dating all the way back to the days of the arcade. So, when we first heard about Poly Fighter, a new single-player fighting game from the Canadian studio HeartLoop Games, it’s safe to say we were a little intrigued. Whereas most…
“Beautiful parallax effects, detailed scenarios and huge sprites”. Picture the scene: it’s 1988, and Sega has just launched the Mega Drive in Japan, a system that poses a serious technical threat to the ageing Nintendo Famicom and the relatively new PC Engine, which had arrived the previous year. NEC and Hudson Soft, the two companies…
Just in time for its 25th anniversary. If you happened to be in school in the early 2000s with access to a computer, or were simply a huge fan of freeware games, it’s possible you might have heard of the arcade-style platformer Icy Tower in the past. Developed by Free Lunch Design — a Swedish…
Will be hitting Steam Early Access soon. There’s definitely a trend for games based on ’90s visuals these days, with indie developers seeking to recreate the look and feel of PS1, Saturn and N64 titles. ReCollect64 has identified another example of this in the form of Born64, an Unreal Engine 5-powered 3D adventure designed to…
Landing on the Nintendo Switch eShop tomorrow. D4 Enterprise, the company behind the EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues for Nintendo Switch, is bringing another MSX title to the Nintendo platform later this week. This time, it is the turn of the 1986 action RPG Aramo, with the game being scheduled to launch tomorrow on October…
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Gumball in Treat-Or-Treat Land developer Adam Lewis Graf, who details the retro adventure game and more About Gumball in Trick-Or-Treat Land: Prepare to chew your way through an irresistible 8-bit adventure in a charming tribute to the Game Boy Color era. Retro-focused publisher Mega Cat Studios and Exquisite Laundry…
Let us introduce ‘Broken Relic’, a new game from developer Sandpenguin. ININ Games and Smallthing Studios’ prequel to the point-and-click classic Simon the Sorcerer, Simon the Sorcerer: Origins, is set to arrive later this month for consoles and PC, but it isn’t the only fantasy point-and-click adventure that adventure fans should have on their radar….
Poker games from the 1990s had something that modern titles often lack. They focused on the cards, the betting, and the basic psychology of bluffing. No elaborate animations interrupted the flow of play, and you didn’t need to download gigabytes of data to start playing. These games worked because they understood what made poker enjoyable…
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Quartercade creator Daniel Jones, who discusses the new console and its arrival on IndieGogo later this month. Check it out Below: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-quartercade-the-budget-gaming-console/coming_soon Old School Gamer Magazine: What was the inspiration for this console? Daniel Jones: Honestly, it was a number of things but I’d say the biggest was the…
FPGA system is getting closer to release. SuperStation One creator Taki Udon has given us the best look yet at the system’s ‘Console Mode’ UI. This is the culmination of eight months of work, and is a user-friendly frontend which will also be compatible with existing MiSTer FPGA systems (that will include Taki Udon’s own…