Retro Gaming News
The new Patreon blog focuses on design insights & slices of Mega Man history. The Mega Man creator Akira Kitamura has launched a new blogging project, with the help of the Brave Wave Productions founder Mohammed Taher. Kitamura Blueprints is a new Patreon-funded blog, which will reportedly cover the creation of Mega Man, video game…
Tron 2.0 first released on PCs back in 2003. Many years before Disney decided to continue the Tron story on the big screen with Tron: Legacy in 2010, the Washington-based studio Monolith Productions collaborated with the House of Mouse on another direct sequel to the groundbreaking 1982 science fiction film, for PC (and later Xbox)….
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Echoes of the Unread creator Matt Tuttle to find out what inspired the game and more. Check it out on Kickstarter. About Echoes of the Unread: Developed by Clever Cat Games and published by Mega Cat Studios, Echoes of the Unread puts players in the shoes of Rhapsody, a young girl…
NYC 2055: a city beyond salvation. Blast your way through this dense cyberpunk jungle in Neon Inferno, an explosive fusion of 2D run-and-gun and gallery-shooter, and help the Family dominate its streets! Three decades from now, New York City is at war with itself. A war with no battlefield: criminal syndicates control four of its five boroughs,…
Another classic video from Splash Wave. Sega’s Virtua Fighter is one of the most important video games of all time. Not only did it launch a series which continues to thrill and entertain players to this very day, it was also an important step into popularizing 3D graphics, and would sire a host of imitators…
A spiritual successor 2017’s Shadows of Adam. Back in 1986, Sega released Quartet in arcades. A moderate success, it took its title from the fact that up to four players could take part, and would later be ported to the Master System (minus the four-player option) and other home formats (on a side note, the…
Here’s some early footage of the game in action. A port of Mario Kart 64 to the Dreamcast is currently in development, from JNMartin — the same person who previously brought WipEout and DOOM 64 to the Sega console. The news was shared over the weekend by Falco Girgis, a member of the Sega Dreamcast…
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Ruyn developer Paul Marrable, who discusses the FPS’ creation cycle and so much more. Old School Gamer Magazine: How was this game born? Paul Marrable: It actually started from messing around with creating level editors and tools for a pre-existing game. I was playing around with an open-source raycasting…
“I went to see the devil, now it’s your turn!”. The 2005 action-adventure title Killer7 is 20 years old today. It launched in Japan on June 9th, 2005 on PS2 and GameCube. Developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and Capcom and published by the latter, it was written and directed by Goichi ‘Suda51’ Suda (it was notable…
Who Else Misses Football?! Football is an integral part of American culture, but it’s an even bigger part of video game history. From its roots on the Atari 2600 to the eight-bit classics that revolutionized the genre, football games are the rock that helps keep the industry afloat. Old School Gamer’s Patrick Hickey Jr. details…