Retro Gaming News
10 years ago, an extremely weird game called Soda Drinker Pro was released on Xbox and Steam. Nowadays, it’s not uncommon to see silly simulation-style titles like PowerWash Simulator and Lawn Mowing Simulator, but Soda Drinker Pro hit the ground running long before this trend came to fruition. Despite its terrible visuals, harsh audio design,…
Last month, the Final Fantasy Five Four Job Fiesta started its usual summer event. Based around the 1992 Super Famicom Game and its various remakes, the Four Job Fiesta takes a simplifying approach to the job-based role-playing game. Instead of utilizing all 22 jobs, players volunteer to only use 4 jobs, selected via a…
With the kind of story any Manga or Anime fan can jump right into and easily palatable turn-based combat, “Lost Dimension,” developed by Lancarse, the minds behind other Atlus favorites “Etrian Odyssey” and “Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey,” is an enjoyable mystery that begs to be played. It might in fact be the best PlayStation…
If you’ve ever wondered why players buy lol boosting, it usually comes down to a simple tradeoff: time and consistency versus doing every game of the climb yourself. In practical terms, League of Legends Elo Boost is when higher-rank players help move an account forward in ranked progression, and LoL boosting services like Eloboss typically…
And it only took 37 years! I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – despite the passage of time and arrival of superior hardware, the original DMG-01 Game Boy is one of my favourite handhelds, and I still keep mine to hand whenever I fancy a quick game of Tetris or Super Mario…
“Players can finally walk through the places the 1994 version could only imply”. Here’s something that slipped through the cracks that people have literally been begging us to cover over the last few weeks. It appears the third game in Access Software’s Tex Murphy series, the 1994 FMV adventure game Under A Killing Moon, is…
Universal’s 1981 title ‘Lady Bug’ is also joining the Arcade Archives library. If you were hoping for Hamster, the creator of Arcade Archives, to follow up the Tekken announcement from last week with more Namco fighting games, like Soul Edge/Soul Blade or Tekken 2, then I’m afraid you’re unfortunately out of luck. Instead, it has…
When Jack Tramiel left Commodore in January 1984, he started a new company called Tramel Technology with several ex Commodore employees, and his three sons in top executive positions, with the goal of selling a new home computer. When Warner Communications announced on May 8 its intention to sell its Atari division, Tramiel then began…
“One more analog stick. That’s all we needed”. Much has been written about why the PS Vita failed, with its high cost, lack of exclusives and pointless features being cited whenever the conversation comes around. What makes its commercial performance all the more puzzling is that its predecessor, the PSP, sold over 75 million units…
Tune in. Argonaut Games has just posted a little video on social media that has fans anticipating Croc 2’s inevitable remaster. The clip shows a radio in a Croc-style 3D world which is playing a bunch of songs from previous Argonaut titles, including Starglider, King Arthur’s World, Star Fox, Vortex, Croc: Legend of the Gobbos,…