Retro Gaming News
The obscure piece of Breath of Fire history has now been preserved for the ages. It’s been a while since we published an update from the feature phone preservation community, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been hard at work saving more games from becoming lost media. Case in point, RockmanCosmo yesterday announced on social…
AG-Systems, Van Uber and Tigron available for construction. Lego and Sony Computer Entertainment haven’t seen fit to give us official WipEout sets as yet, but there’s clearly an appetite for them – as we’ve seen in the past. Now, super-fan Andre Lackmann has given us not one but three block-based WipEout models to create –…
Can you spot all the references? Shenmue fans have had a tough week and a half, following the release of a fake trailer online that managed to hoodwink a lot of the community into believing a potential sequel was on the way from Ys Net. But there are still some Shenmue-related things to look forward…
“We’re not starting at ground zero”. Legendary game designer John Romero has revealed that the unnamed FPS title he and his team at Romero Games is still alive – it’s just moving forward in a different form. Funding for the game was pulled a while back, and while Romero has never revealed who the publisher…
With 100 percent of the profits going towards the Video Game History Foundation. iam8Bit, the Video Game History Foundation, Mega Cat Studios, and Retrotainment Games are teaming up to finish and release a long-abandoned NES game by developer Chris Oberth on cartridge, with 100% of the profits supporting the VGHF’s “mission to preserve and celebrate…
Borderless screen with 120Hz refresh rate. Anbernic is pitching its upcoming RG 477V as its most powerful vertical emulation handheld. The device boasts a 4.7-inch, 1280×960 resolution LTPS screen with a 120Hz refresh rate, and is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 8300 CPU. It’s expected to handle everything up to and including PS2 and GameCube…
Jammin’ prototype was discovered on old VAX backup tapes. Atari was a real trailblazer back in the ’70s and ’80s arcade landscape, and was responsible for creating some of the most famous video games of the period – and it almost published a game which would have pre-dated the likes of Beatmania and Dance Dance…
As of December 10th, Montezuma’s Revenge – The 40th Anniversary Edition is now available for download on the Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, as well as the Microsoft Store. The porting of Montezuma’s Revenge to these platforms follows up on the game’s Steam release back in…
In issue #12, we started an interview with Nolan Bushnell that took us up to the VCS akaAtari 2600. Todd Friedman had also done a recent interview that we brought part of into this article. We pick up when competition in the home video game space kicks up with the IIntellivision, Colecovision, Chuck E Cheese…
More carts are set to enter “legacy” status soon. Blaze Entertainment, the company behind the Evercade series of consoles, has announced that three more Evercade carts are set to be retired next year, due to their licenses expiring. These carts include: Intellivision Collection 1, Intellivision Collection 2, and IREM Arcade 1 Read the full article…