Retro Gaming News
Junior, Senior. What was the first video game you ever played? This might be an easier question for some of you to answer than others, especially if you’re under the age of 30; chances are, there was a console of some description in your house during your formative years, owned by an older sibling or…
Rayman Lum’o’grams has a demo out now! With the Rayman series officially hitting 30 years of age, Ubisoft has been marking the occasion with concept art, in-game events, updates about the future of the series, and rereleases of older titles. However, it isn’t the only one celebrating, with the fan-hosted Rayman Alive 2025 event also…
“We’ve got to put ourselves out there”. According to a report by Women in Games, around 22% of the games industry workforce is female, and the higher up the chain to executive level, that percentage drops to 16% within the business’s top 15 game companies. This is something that Maya Rogers, president and CEO of…
Complete with a new soundtrack. It’s amazing to think that Ubisoft’s Rayman series is now 30 years old – it feels like only yesterday that we were gazing at screenshots of the Jaguar version in video game magazines – but time stops for nobody, not even limbless cartoon heroes. To celebrate the occasion, Ubisoft has…
“We’ve seen that this work can go better than ours”. Back in 2022, we reported on the fact that a homebrew coder by the name of Retro Encoder was porting Data East’s legendary 1988 RoboCop arcade game to the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive. The project went somewhat quiet until very recently, when Retro Encoder…
‘Dacholer’ & ‘Kick Boy’ arrive tomorrow. Following last week’s release of the early Taito game Steel Worker, Hamster seems to be sticking with the theme of the early 80s, revealing that it will be reissuing Nichibutsu’s football-inspired action games Dacholer and Kick Boy later this week. Both games were originally released in arcades back in…
‘R-Type DX’ is being resurrected later this year. In the run up to Tokyo Game Show, City Connection has revealed that it will be bringing out a new version of Bits Studios’ 1999 Game Boy Color title R-Type DX for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) later this year. The…
Now you’re playing with power. The Evercade EXP and Evercade VS are now a few years old, but both have already had a redesign in 2024, swapping out the white colour scheme of the original models for a grey-and-blue approach, known as ‘Neon Retro’. Manufacturer Blaze has now given both machines a third spruce-up, this…
From its debut in 1979, the Atari 8-bit computer family set a new standard for home computing by combining cutting-edge graphics, rich sound capabilities, and a design philosophy rooted in arcade gaming expertise. Powered by a trio of custom chips – ANTIC, GTIA, and POKEY – these machines delivered features like hardware sprites, smooth multi-directional…
Heavyweight Champ was released by Sega in 1976. A museum based in Bologna, Italy has recently come into possession of the blueprints to a Sega game from the 1970s that has long been considered “lost” (the video game historian/preservationist Damiano Gerli recently informed us). Heavyweight Champ was a boxing game that Sega originally released in…