Retro Gaming News
“There is no way to make that make sense”. Earlier this year, it was announced that on-demand book publisher Unbound had slipped into administration following “cash-flow” problems, an event which led to many of its authors not getting paid royalties from book sales. Unbound, founded in 2011, produced books using a crowdfunding system, where customers…
“Some games were never meant to be translated…”. A new English fan translation has just been published for Yaku: Yūjō Dangi, a cult classic Japanese kusoge (“crap game”) released for the original PlayStation. Launched back in 1996, the same year as Resident Evil, Yaku: Yūjō Dangi (which is translated here as as Misfortune: A Story…
A pair of Amazon listings have appeared for physical copies. Earlier this week, a couple of listings appeared on Amazon for physical PS5 and Nintendo Switch versions of Simon the Sorcerer Origins, suggesting Smallthing Studios point-and-click revival of the Adventure Soft classic is still on the way. It’s been a while since we last heard…
Earthion 8BitDo M30 Gamepad also announced. Yuzo Koshiro’s highly anticipated shmup Earthion now has a release date: July 31st, 2025. It’s coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Switch, and Steam on that date. The Mega Drive version, however, has been pushed into next year, according to Japanese physical publisher Superdeluxe Games. Read the…
The ‘Craig Stitt Art & Design Papers’ are now available. The Video Game History Foundation has added yet another collection to its digital library — this time focusing on the work of the former Sega Technical Institute and Insomniac artist and designer Craig Stitt. Stitt worked at the Sega Technical Institute between 1990 to 1995…
Fly, power disc! The recent announcement that Evercade and SNK are working together to bring some of the Neo Geo’s most famous titles to a new audience was met with a positive response, but one game that sadly couldn’t be included as part of this deal is Windjammers—because SNK doesn’t own the rights to it….
Graphics from the game ‘Earthquake’ recently recovered. The National Videogame Museum in Frisco, Texas announced on social media recently that it had discovered graphics for a never-before-seen Atari 2600 title, in a batch of floppy disks belonging to the ex-Atari artist Jerome Domurat. Domurat, in case you’re unfamiliar, was an artist that worked at Atari…
An updated version of the 2014 classic. Over a decade ago, Read-Only Memory published Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works, a book which gave a surprisingly in-depth look at Sega’s most popular home console. Packed with artwork, interviews and concept drawings, it quickly became an essential purchase for fans—so much so that the company was convinced…
A Western release for Switch is also on the way. The PlayStation 2 shoot ’em up Triggerheart Exelica Enhanced is coming to PC (via Steam) later this year, Cosmo Machia has announced. Developed as an enhanced version of the 2006 arcade game, the game was released on the PlayStation console in 2009, bringing with it…
The “easy version” to be precise. The enhanced PC-98 remake of Nihon Falcom’s action RPG classic Xanadu is out today on Nintendo Switch, D4 Enterprise has announced. Released in 1995 as an attempt to revive the game for modern audiences, Revival Xanadu is a loose recreation of the second entry in the Dragon Slayer series,…