Retro Gaming News
Part of the ‘Robot Spirits’ series. Back in 1996, Bandai released the first entry in the Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: The Blue Destiny series, a trilogy of Sega Saturn games that has remained exclusive to Japan. Despite the lack of a Western localisation, the trilogy has gained a cult following among Gundam fans, thanks…
An interactive documentary coming from Digital Eclipse in 2024 Gridrunner. Revenge of the Mutant Camels. Tempest 2000. Llamatron. In the British gaming universe of the ’80s and ’90s, nobody made games like Jeff Minter. Just revealed in the Day of the Devs showcase, Digital Eclipse’s Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story is an interactive documentary coming to PC…
The project was leaked last year in an SEC filing. Update : Digital Eclipse has finally revealed that the next game in its Gold Masters series will be Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story. The interactive documentary was unveiled at Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Edition earlier today, and will feature 42 titles from…
“Ceiling tiles were displaced and light fittings were dangling by their cables”. There are a lot of common problems that tend to crop up while making a video game, but having your whole office destroyed in an explosion isn’t typically one of them. Nevertheless, that’s exactly what happened to Perfect Entertainment’s Manchester studio in 1996…
There are more than you think… The Evercade family of systems is a glorious throwback to the days when physical media was king, and there was no such thing as a lengthy online update before loading up your game – but the range harks back to the past in other ways, too, such as the…
What a shodown! The Nintendo Entertainment System – or ‘NES‘ for short – may not have sold as many units as the PlayStation or Wii, but it remains one of the most influential consoles of all time. Not only did it resurrect the console sector in North America – arguably the world’s biggest market for…
Better yet, it’s free! The Sega Master System may have debuted in North America back in 1986, but games are still being released for the console all these years later, thanks to its amazing community of homebrew developers. Case in point — earlier this week, the developer badcomputer0 announced that they had released a brand…
How hard is yours? Worms has become one of the most recognisable brands in the world of video gaming, which is no mean feat when you consider that it all started as a personal experiment by computer shop staffer Andy Davidson on his humble Casio graphing calculator. This triple-pack of Worms titles kicks off with…
Arrives on December 7th. Namco’s racing sequel Pole Position II will be coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop & PS4 this week on December 7th, as reported by Famitsu. It joins the original game, which was released across both consoles earlier this year on July 6th. Pole Position II debuted in the arcades back in…
Valis! El Viento! Gaiares! Exile! Renovation was one of many publishers who made a tidy profit bringing Japanese games to Western shores (mainly Wolf Team and Telenet titles) and this Evercade collection pulls together a whopping 12 of the firm’s most notable Genesis / Mega Drive titles. We’re not talking AAA here – these are…