Retro News

Step on it! Here’s something slightly unexpected — a new fan recreation of High Voltage Software and LEGO Media’s cult classic ’90s racing game, LEGO Racers, has just been released, giving players a chance to play through the game on PC (Windows, Linux, Mac), mobile (Android), and in-browser, with cut content from the original. The…

‘Rise and Shine, Mr. Freeman’. A modder has successfully decompiled the Dreamcast edition of legendary first-person adventure, Half-Life (1998). The project, executed by modder “maximqad” and reported by Sega Dreamcast Info, sees Valve’s cancelled Sega port reverse-engineered, freeing up its source code for the homebrew community. But that’s not all. Given access to Half-Life’s infrastructure,…

And fresh artwork from 16 contemporary artists. Sonic the Hedgehog may have celebrated its 35th anniversary earlier this year, but it appears the festivities aren’t over yet. That’s because next month, a new 35th anniversary exhibition is kicking off at Ikebukuro PARCO in Tokyo, Japan, to take a look back at the series’ history through…

“I love digging into old arcade hardware and learning how it ticks”. One of the more unusual reveals at this year’s Tokyo Game Show was that Toaplan’s shoot ’em up Zero Wing was making the jump to SNK’s Neo Geo hardware. The news emerged after Plaion_JPN shared a now-deleted photo of its stand at the…

It’s the pits. Exciting news for all of the MGS speedrunning community, as a new skip has been found within 2001 release and speedrunning favourite Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Discovered by MGS and Tomb Raider runner “apel“, the new exploit lets players glitch through the corridor of explosives in the game’s “Tanker”…

LEGIONNAIRES – A Brutal 8-Bit NES Game is being developed by German father-and-son team German Garage Games. The Kickstarter reached its €5,000 funding goal in just two hours, and the campaign is now moving towards its next stretch goal. Inspired by Contra, Metal Gear and Predator, Legionnaires combines run-and-gun action with environmental puzzles and two…

Crash and burn. My long-suffering son Noah has had his interests shaped by my own over the full 18 years of his life (as is the duty of all fathers, in my opinion), including toys, video games, cartoons, and movies. Pacific Rim is one of my favourite films, and I made sure Noah watched it…

Woah, I got the picture! A dedicated Capcom modder has completed a long-awaited, much-requested project to restore several missing stages to one of the finest fighting games ever released, Street Fighter III: Third Strike – Fight for the Future (3S). Launched in arcades in 1999 and ported to Dreamcast in 2000, 3S was the third…

marc_max has offered an update on the long-awaited hack. The Game Boy title Donkey Kong – also known as Donkey Kong ’94 – was released in the same year as Donkey Kong Country and has been somewhat overshadowed by that fact – which is a shame, because it’s one of the best entries in the…