Retro Gaming News
UPDATE 5/5/2025 3.45 AM – Sources can now corroborate the earlier reports that the Switch 2 is now set for a June 2025 release. The console’s launch was moving into early next year – but in a surprise move – is designed to ensure Switch 2’s launch line-up features as many titles as possible……. The…
‘The Last Ninja’ is out today! City Connection yesterday announced the next Jaleco NES title it will be bringing to the Nintendo Switch will be 1989’s The Last Ninja. This is the home console port of System 3’s 1988 isometric action-adventure game Last Ninja 2, which was originally released for home computers, like the C64,…
Earlier today, Tassei Denki set up a Pre-Launch Kickstarter page for its upcoming Time Crisis plug and play lightgun device. Tassei Denki also appears to have acquired the rights to include Steel Gunner, Steel Gunner 2, and Point Blank in this device. A Vimeo video, which can be seen here, shows the prototype in…
“A design that is restrictive and faithful to ’90s hardware”. Back when Saturn was fighting with PS1 for market share, there were many people who considered the console’s 3D powers to be lacking, so much so that an entire narrative emerged that Sega’s machine was far weaker than Sony’s. Fast-forward to the present, and not…
“We came very close”. Video game movies have become a pretty reliable stream of income for IP owners and studios in the modern era, with the likes of Mario, Sonic, Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil spawning multiple cinematic adaptations. One of the most recent success stories is the Minecraft movie, which stars Jack Black. It…
“I hope that a group can produce it someday”. Remarkably, it’s been almost 15 years now since the last all-new entry in the Ape Escape series, PlayStation Move Ape Escape (which launched in Japan in 2010). And ever since then, the series’s mascot Pipo Saru has pretty much found themselves demoted to rereleases and cameo…
When I was young I used to love playing the very latest in 16bit/32bit racers such as Outrun, Lotus or even XJ220 on the Amiga. It was a time that gave me the feeling of intense speed and near misses without driving a real car and ending up in the local clink. Thankfully if you…
It’s called ‘Escape The House!’. Released on the Mega Drive and SNES in 1993, Zombies Ate My Neighbors (or simply “Zombies” in some parts of the world) is a run-and-gun classic from LucasArts which rightly has legions of fans, and those same people might be interested to learn that a patch is now available that…
65 years young! Sega is one of the industry’s most famous companies, and it turns 65 this week. The company was founded on June 3rd, 1960, by Martin Bromley and Richard Stewart in Hawaii under the name Nihon Goraku Bussan and would be rebranded as Sega Enterprises, Ltd five years later (Sega’s history technically goes…
The title probably isn’t entirely fair. Plenty of Shining Force fans would say the game doesn’t need to be fixed, it’s already a classic, and I would wager that greyskies is among them. Nevertheless, greyskies has brought his Return to Grans hack of Shining Force 2 up to version 1.15. Paradoxically, what makes this…