Retro Gaming News
Going for gold. Once upon a time, Golden Axe was a key franchise for parent company Sega. It arrived in arcades in 1989 in the middle of an explosion of side-scrolling fighters, competing successfully with the likes of Double Dragon, Final Fight and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Alongside Altered Beast – which, coincidentally, shared the…
The meeting of minds. Artist Roger Dean’s work has sold over 150 million copies worldwide and has graced everything from album covers to art galleries. For gamers, however, he’s most famous for his contributions to the covers of various games published by Psygnosis, including Shadow of the Beast (1989), Barbarian (1987) and Brataccas (1986). He…
New era! New energy! Sega has officially revealed that it is bringing back a ton of its beloved video game series, including Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Shinobi, and Streets of Rage. Sega announced the development of these titles at last night’s Game Awards, showing them off in a stylish reveal trailer that…
For Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5, and PC. Last night, at The Game Awards, Square Enix revealed a brand-new mainline Mana with a new trailer — the first in over 15 years. Visions of Mana, as the title is called, will be coming to PS5 / PS4, Xbox Series X / S, and Windows (via…
Featuring Boulder Dash, Summer Games II, & many more. Earlier today, Evercade unveiled TheC64 Collection 3, the latest in its series of cartridge-based retro reissues for its Evercade line of consoles. The collection will feature 13 games that were previously released for the Commodore 64 back in the 80s, including sports titles, classic shoot ’em…
Preserving ‘Nintendo Game Pack’ cards for a new generation. Before we get into the nitty gritty of this piece, some background info. The original plan was to write an article documenting the more than ten examples of lost and forgotten Zelda games, which included the Barcode Battler cards, the Milton Bradley board game, and the…
The game has been rated by Taiwan’s classification body. The Taiwanese video game classification body has rated Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace for PS4 and PS5, as reported by Gematsu (and picked up by VGC). This has inevitably led some online to speculate that it may be about to join the collection of…
“The Americans took to this like you wouldn’t believe”. The following is an edited extract from the book Curious Video Game Machines by Lewis Packwood, which explores the stories behind rare and unusual consoles, computers and coin-ops. In this chapter, Lewis focuses on the history of the 1990s company Virtuality, which pioneered virtual reality arcade…
You can now finally try out this epic RPG in English! Hudson Soft’s 1989 Japan-exclusive role-playing game Tengai Makyou: Ziria (otherwise known as Far East of Eden: Ziria) has just been translated into English, thanks to fans (as spotted by David Shadoff on Twitter). So if you’ve ever wanted to dig into this PC Engine…
Arrives December 14th. D4 Entertainment and Project EGG have revealed that the next title coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop as part of its Console EGG series of rereleases will be Nihon Falcom’s PC-88 action RPG hit Xanadu (thanks gosokkyu!) The second game in the Dragon Slayer series, Xanadu was released for the PC-88 in…