Retro Gaming News
With enhanced graphics and physics. 30 years on from its original release on PC, a fan developer, named Tim Comport, is currently in the process of recreating the engine of Origin Systems’ 1995 sci-fi action adventure game BioForge, in the hopes of offering players a better way to experience the cult classic title. BioForge, we…
Legends of Amberland III: The Crimson Tower is a throwback to the “golden era of RPGs”. The developer of the Legend of Amberland games, Silver Lemur Games has just announced a third entry into the retro RPG series, and it’s one to have on your radar if you happen to be a fan of classic…
“Sometimes things just don’t work out”. Jamie D, the developer of the boomer shooter Hellscreen, has announced on both Steam and social media that he is cancelling the remaining two episodes of the Early Access game, due to its “severe under performance” as well as “external funding being non existent” Hellscreen, in case you’re unaware,…
“To gamers this is as egregious as trying to play a DVD on a record player.”. Yesterday, BBC Breakfast published a video report on the booming interest in retro games, featuring an interview with UKIE CEO Prof. Nick Poole OBE. But the segment hasn’t exactly gone over well online, with most people ignoring the content…
The Satellaview add-on for the Super Famicom has long been a notorious device, one of the first examples of Internet enabled gaming that never left Japan. Emulating the Satellaview isn’t difficult with modern technology, although it can be somewhat tedious since it requires using an alternate bios, causing even most of its brand name…
The device is expected to include a MediaTek Dimensity 8300 chip. Earlier today, the Chinese handheld manufacturer Anbernic officially announced the Anberic RG477M, a new “high performance” Android-based emulation handheld, in a brief teaser video published over on its YouTube channel. For some of you, we expect this probably won’t be the first time you…
Sonic 3’s file select hides a curious audio bug. One thing that we absolutely love about video games is that you can play a particular title hundreds (maybe even thousands) of times over a roughly 30 year period, and still find yourself occasionally encountering something “new” decades later that you’d never even noticed on all…
Dracula Hunter was the work of the Japanese developer Teknon Kogyo. A developer named Arlasoft has just announced it has recreated the “lost” 1979 arcade game Dracula Hunter from the Japanese developer Teknon Kogyo, for modern PCs. If you haven’t heard of Dracula Hunter before, we certainly won’t blame you, as we hadn’t heard of…
Pre-orders are now open. The music label Data Discs has announced it will be reissuing a bunch of its previous Sega releases, giving fans of the legendary video game company another chance pick up the music to some of their favourite games. According to the recent social media post from Data Discs, the list of…
A new FPGA-based recreation of the C64. Commodore International has just announced just its first official hardware in over 30 years under its new ownership — a new AMD Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA-powered recreation of the Commodore 64, called the Commodore 64 Ultimate Edition (thanks TomsHardware for the spot). Pre-orders for the the new computer are…