Retro Gaming News
Hungry like the wolf. Evercade’s collaboration with SNK has already delivered one top-tier collection in the form of Neo Geo Arcade 1, and the two companies have followed it up with this second helping, again made up of six AES / MVS classics from the early ’90s. Neo Geo Arcade 2 features Garou: Mark of…
“We believe it is quietly living on somewhere in Japan”. Taito, one of the video game industry’s most significant companies, is seeking assistance to locate a crucial piece of its history. The item in question is the Crown 602 crane game machine, released 60 years ago in 1965. This mechanical device is ultimately what set…
Only just recently I was talking to a few friends about the original David Braben’s 8-bit space combat trading simulator of Elite, and how we’ve seen a few fan based remakes appear as well as improvements and ports to different 8bit systems. But this latest news may interest you, if you have an Atari XL/XE…
The easiest way to enjoy your first day is to make it deliberately uneventful. Read the stuff that actually matters, set a small plan, and let the platform prove it deserves your time. Do that, and the path from “new account” to “first redemption” is short, calm, and repeatable. Start with the model, not the…
The best casino games today borrow from the roots of good design. The kind that came from the arcade halls, pixel heroes, and side-scrollers that made people fall in love with games in the first place. Casinos look back at those classics to understand what made players stay, lose track of time, and come back…
“There is some atmosphere and vibe which makes the Vector War special”. Hey, stranger. Pssst. Over here, I want to tell you a secret. You’ve seen the film Bloodsport, right? Where a group of international warriors battle it out in a secret underground kumite tournament to discover the best? Well, did you know the Vectrex…
“The atmosphere in the emulation community was pretty rough”. Back at the start of 2024, fan-translation and ROM hack sharing site CDRomance was forced to take its operations ‘underground’ following threats of legal action. Then, at the close of the year, it was announced that the site was effectively dead and would no longer be…
“You deserve to finish the game even if you cheat”. If you grew up playing the games of The Bitmap Brothers, then there’s a good chance you’ll be keenly aware of the brutal difficulty level of most European action titles in the late ’80s and early ’90s. In an era when save games and multi-button…
Powered by AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395. AYANEO has just revealed its flagship Windows handheld gaming system, the NEXT 2. Boasting a “top-tier” screen, TMR sticks and an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chipset, the NEXT 2 is shaping up to be one of the most potent gaming handhelds on the market – but then…
“A playground for software and hardware tinkerers alike”. The popularity of retro gaming has given us a steady stream of hardware to purchase, from the NES Mini to the Analogue Pocket, but one thing all of these devices have in common is that they allow you to play decade-old games – and not entirely new…