Retro Gaming News
“I can’t believe this happened”. If you’re a fan of retro gaming YouTube channels, then you’ll almost certainly have heard of Happy Console Gamer, a channel that has been run by host Johnny Millenium for 17 years now. Johnny’s love of retro and infectious presenting style has helped the channel build up a considerable following,…
Company recently moved to a new location in Chiswick Business Park. Back in 2023, Sega announced that it had tracked down and painstakingly restored the Sonic the Hedgehog statue that once stood in London’s short-lived SegaWorld indoor theme park. That statue has now taken pride of place in the company’s new office, based in Chiswick…
Radio NECstalgia is now available online. A new radio station has just been launched for fans of NEC’s PC Engine. Radio NECstalgia is available to listen to online for free on Netlify and was recently brought to our attention thanks to the NEC super fan and La Bible PC Engine author Sébastien Valencia. It was…
From the developers of ‘Double Dragon One’. It looks like Irem’s submarine-based shooter In the Hunt could be getting a new enhanced port for Neo Geo hardware, thanks to the homebrew developer Casa De Ruivo. This is the same team (comprised of Ozzy and Johnny16Bit) that is also behind Double Dragon One — an upcoming…
It might be “putting on some weight”. Rechargeable batteries are found in pretty much every piece of consumer electronics these days and are a wonderful inclusion when you want portable power without the need for old-school disposable batteries. However, they don’t last forever—and, in some cases, when they reach the end of their operational life…
Even though it’s still Jan, already we’ve had so many Amiga game news stories, that at times I could hardly keep up! Games such as Bad Dudes vs DragonNinja, Castlevania AGA, Tracker Hero and WIZONK are just some of the ones I’ve featured already. Well the Amiga news just keeps on going. As I’ve been…
I never thought I’d see the day that an Amsoft game, more especially Harrier Attack, would be getting an enhanced edition. It is one of the best games I have ever played on the Amstrad CPC 464, and to see it remade for the Amstrad CPC Plus by Chris Perver fills me with retro joy….
Get ready for some Commerce Conflict. Back in the early ’90s, when I would have been around 12 or 13, I recall my older sister taking me to a somewhat dubious house in a rather run-down part of a local city. I can’t even recall why we were there, but one of the occupants fascinated…
Way back in the early 90’s a fantastic top down game based on an original board game was released by Gremlin, that became hugely popular to the point of receiving great reviews and ending up as one of the top most recommended games to have in any retro collection. That game was none other than…
The new hack adds in the bonus content from the later Mega Drive / Genesis port. A new ROM hack for the SNES puzzle platformer The Lost Vikings has just been released, which allows players to experience some of the bonus features that were added to its later Mega Drive / Genesis port. This includes…