Retro Gaming News
For the ridiculous price of ¥999,900! As spotted by SuddenDesu on Twitter earlier this week, an extremely rare and undumped piece of Mega Drive software called WonderMidi has just gone on sale in Japan on Yahoo Auctions for an eye-watering price of ¥999,900 (roughly £5,462/$6,765). Wonder Midi was a Victor-developed program created for the special…
The Sega Pluto visits Sega Europe’s HQ. Back in 2013, a forum poster named Super Magnetic blew the collective minds of the Sega community when they revealed the existence of the Sega Pluto, an unreleased Sega console from the 1990s that was essentially a cost-reduced Sega Saturn with built-in NetLink. Only two prototypes are believed…
Pre-orders are open now! If you’re one of those people who still can’t get enough of playing Tetris on the Game Boy all these years later, then we’ve got some great news to share with you. Matt Hughson, the developer of the incredible NES homebrew From Below, has just announced the launch of From Below…
“There was no connection between Game Yaroze and Net Yaroze”. You likely already know about Sony’s Net Yaroze project. It was a well-publicised global endeavour which attempted to allow PlayStation 1 enthusiasts the opportunity to create games for the system. Buying in to the project provided users with a black Net Yaroze dev kit, plus…
You can help by backing its Kickstarter. A Metal Gear fan named Zac Fitzsimmons has just launched a new Kickstarter to fund his research into deconstructing the Metal Gear D — the iconic bipedal tank that features on the box art of Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake and that also appeared as one of the…
Featuring Hi-Score SRAM & difficulty tweaks. SNK’s Mega Drive / Genesis port of Art of Fighting is a lot harder than your typical fighting game, thanks to its punishing AI and challenging single-player campaign. But a new ROM hack has recently set out to change just that, improving the number of options available so that…
The game features music from Nobuo Uematsu. Update : The download link for the English fan translation of Dynami Tracer is now available on romhacking.net. So if you want to play one of Square’s more obscure titles from the ’90s, now’s your chance! You can grab the patch here. Original Story : Another “lost” Squaresoft…
“Social media has become absolutely useless for sharing anything meaningful”. As well as being a Time Extension contributor, Mikolai Napieralski runs Forgotten Worlds, a website about video game magazines. It’s not a magazine about video game magazines, and he’s here to tell you about it, and several other examples… My COVID fever dream has a…
“We have to start by brainstorming”. Yasuyuki Oda, General Manager of SNK Software Development Division 1, has revealed that early work has begun on a reboot of the Art of Fighting series, as well as a Samurai Shodown entry which isn’t a fighting game. Speaking to the Japanese site 4Gamer (thanks, gosokkyu) Oda said: Read…
Pre-orders are now open. Update #2 : Atari and MyArcade have opened up pre-orders for their brand new game console, the Gamestation Pro (which is not to be confused with Atari’s other recently announced retro console, the Atari 2600+). According to the store page now live on MyArcade, the device will feature over 200 games,…