Retro Gaming News
Super Rare Games Announce First Nintendo Switch 2 Physical Release: Minishoot’ Adventures! Eight years and over 150 physical releases later, Super Rare Games is officially stepping into the next generation. We’re thrilled to confirm that we’ll be continuing our mission to preserve amazing indie titles in physical form for Nintendo Switch 2 – starting with our very…
Neo Geo+! Polymega! Zelda! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Read the full article on timeextension.com Neo Geo+! Polymega! Zelda! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run…
“Every chance of being the best since SNK themselves stopped manufacturing hardware”. Ever since Plaion announced it was working with SNK to produce a replica of the Neo Geo AES, there’s been a fair amount of speculation about what’s going on under the hood of the machine. Plaion has already stated that the Neo Geo+…
Ahead of the November launch. Plaion Replai has teamed up with SNK to create a new Neo Geo system, called the Neo Geo+ Advanced Entertainment System / AES. Launching on 12th November 2026, the Neo Geo+ AES (£179.99 / €199.99 / $249.99 / ¥32,800) will be accompanied by ten games and a selection of accessories….
Donkey Kong not only started a trend with platform games back then, but it also created a vast universe of games based on the two main characters from the game (Donkey Kong and Mario, then known as Jumpman). I remember seeing this game for the very first time in the arcade in my hometown in…
‘Wild Gunman’ was originally released in Japan back in 1974. We have some remarkable news for fans of Nintendo’s early arcade history. A retro collector has recently come into possession of rare 16mm film reels of Nintendo’s early arcade coin-op Wild Gunman (not to be confused with the NES black box title of the same…
“The value proposition is absolutely UNREAL!!”. Yesterday, Plaion and SNK announced the Neo Geo+ AES, a revival of the original 1990 home console that cost an absolute fortune back in the day. In fact, many existing AES games have ballooned in value since the system launched in the ’90s, with prices often hitting thousands of…
“Supported on both Base Unit and App”. The Polymega modular retro gaming system has seen its fair share of teething troubles with distribution and delays, but it feels like it may have turned a corner in 2026, with manufacturer Playmaji confirming a power upgrade and the launch of the Polymega Remix and Polymega App this…
“We had to take immediate action”. One of the internet’s largest catalogues of video game hardware has been forced into read-only mode thanks to hackers. Established in 2018, Consolevariations.com aims to be the “ultimate console database” and lists over 12,000 variants and more than 100,000 photos, many of which are uploaded by the community. Read…
“For the first time on AES”. Yesterday, we were given the very welcome news that Plaion and SNK are teaming up to create the Neo Geo+ AES, a modern-day recreation of the iconic super-console that everybody wanted but nobody could afford back in 1990. As part of this release, Plaion is reissuing 10 classic Neo…