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Game developer and publisher IREM announced on their Twitter page that their largely forgotten, but cult-favorite beat-em-up, Ninja Baseball Bat Man is getting an HD remake in the form of Ninja Baseball League-Man: Bases Loaded and is coming to Steam, PlayStation5, Xbox series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2 on December 10. The game, originally released…
Coming this week! Here’s an interesting bit of news for Atari Jaguar owners. After taking 37 years to complete, Return to Blacktooth: A Head Over Heels Adventure (Colin Porch’s sequel to the Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond classic Head Over Heels) is now setting its sights on the Atari machine. In case you’re unaware of…
“No AI” used in its creation. A recompiled PC port of Probe Entertainment and Acclaim’s N64 futuristic racing game, Extreme-G, has just been released, giving the game “a chance to shine again on modern hardware” with various enhancements. Extreme-G was originally released in 1997, almost a year before Wipeout 64 debuted on the Nintendo console…
GameCenter CX’s “Chief” Shinya Arino cast the final vote. Deciding what actually constitutes “retro” in the world of gaming is a tricky topic — one that inevitably ends up provoking a lot of debate among people online. For some people, the concept of retro gaming will always be fixed, referring to a very specific period…
“This project has been a long time coming, and has not been without difficulty.”. Over 31 years after its original release, an English fan translation patch has been released for Winkysoft and Banpresto’s Super Famicom strategy RPG Dai 4 Ji Sūpā Robotto Taisen (otherwise known as Super Robot Wars 4). Just to give you some…
When Street Fighter II: The World Warrior came to arcades in 1991, it turned the 1-on-1 fighting genre on its head. It added so much to the fighting games that had come before that it became a genre unto itself. With the massive runaway success of the game, it was only natural that sequels would…
Golden Axe! James Pond! Zelda! Panzer Dragoon! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Read the full article on timeextension.com Golden Axe! James Pond! Zelda! Panzer Dragoon! Welcome to Retro…
Resurrection, man. Clear River Games caused quite a stir this week after teasing a re-release (or possibly a remake) of Quintet’s SNES RPG Terranigma on social media. Released in Japan back in 1995, Terranigma is part of a loose trilogy which also includes Soul Blazer / Blader (1992) and Illusion of Gaia / Time (1993)….
“I borrowed $5,000 from a friend so I could survive”. Open the original Starflight PC packaging, and you will find a large photograph of the development team: Greg Johnson, Alec Kercso, Bob Gonsalves, Tim Lee, and Rod McConnell, dressed as a space crew in the cockpit of a Boeing 747 at San Francisco International Airport….
‘Super ROBO OH’ is getting a Steam demo later this year. Almost six years ago, a small Japan-based developer called Foxy Boxy Games released ROBO OH, a Famicom-inspired fighting game for PC (Steam) about a group of robots battling it out in a tournament to be declared the “king”. The game, in question, went on…