Retro Gaming News
A sequel 40 years in the making. More than 35 years ago, in 1989, Colin Porch finished programming the Amiga and Atari ST versions of Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond’s 1987 classic Head Over Heels and immediately began work on a sequel, which is only now being released, almost 40 years later. Return To Blacktooth…
Somehow, SuperSega returned. Alejandro Martín, the man behind the absolutely disastrous SuperSega project, recently made a return with a series of odd-looking PC cases made from wood. That project is now being incorporated into what he’s boldly calling ‘SuperSega V3’ – a bizarre revision of the original project that crashed and burned spectacularly not so…
“Clear 3DS shells are something so many people in the community have asked for”. KendyLabs and Raretro Consoles have joined forces to create KLRR, a venture which is bringing ’90s-style clear shells to the Nintendo 3DS family of handheld systems. The duo consider these to be the world’s first “functional, publicly available clear shell kits…
“Arcade classics Flying Shark and Fire Shark together at last!”. The M2 Shot Triggers collection Toaplan Arcade Garage: Flying Fire Shark is coming to the West later this year on PS4 & Nintendo Switch, its publisher, Clear River Games, has announced. The collection brings together various versions of Toaplan’s classic arcade shoot ’em ups —…
Hudson Soft’s Rune Jade is playable once more. This is now Hudson Soft chose to advertise the game in Japan. The main text reads, “Please don’t leave me alone. Chisato Uehara, 19 years old” Phantasy Star Online is the most famous online RPG on the Dreamcast, but it wasn’t the console’s only stab at the…
A successful operation. Romanian company Epilogue has already scored a hit with its GB Operator, which allows you to play and dump original Game Boy cartridges on your computer, as well as back up save data from your collection. Epilogue’s next product is perhaps even more exciting, as it focuses on the SNES/Super Famicom –…
‘Monster Demolition’ was one of the titles teased before the Lynx’s release. A large haul of Atari Lynx prototypes has recently been recovered and shared online, as reported by Games That Weren’t, the popular video game website dedicated to cancelled and unreleased games. The haul was preserved thanks to the efforts of Marty Goldberg, Mike…
“The main goal of the new approach is to balance accuracy with practical performance on Android”. The Sega Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro has taken a big leap forward thanks to a new rendering technique that allows it to overcome one of the console’s biggest quirks. As you may (or may not) be aware, the Saturn’s…
This could have safely guessed that Tetris (Alexey Pajitnov, 1988) would appear in our list of The 50 Most Influential Video Games Ever. There’s a simple reason for this… Tetris is the single greatest video game ever created… No caveats. No clarifications. No exceptions. No qualifiers. Tetris is objectively the finest video game ever made…….
“What could we possibly be working on?”. Piko Interactive has announced it has acquired the rights to two more titles released for the Taiwanese console, the Super A’Can: Kingformation’s Dragon Force – Light Saga (1996), and Horng Shen’s Rebel (1996). This now means the company owns 7 of the 12 games officially released for the…