Retro Gaming News
There is perhaps no image of the aughts era arcade quite as iconic as those giant Dance Dance Revolution machines, paradoxically because it’s difficult to imagine anything quite so antithetic to the arcade experience prior to that point than dancing to often obscure music. While not the first rhythm game by any means, Dance…
“This was the most fun I’ve had working on anything in years”. We recently reported on the fact that Supercell – famous for its smartphone games – had teamed up with a bunch of former EMAP journalists to create Super Cellphone Gamer, a promotional magazine based on the legendary Mean Machines, one of the UK’s…
Safeguard Drac’s pumpkin garden. While the original Donkey Kong is arguably one of the most famous (and important) games in Nintendo’s history, its sequels are slightly less well-known and certainly struggled to match Kong’s explosive debut in terms of commercial and critical acclaim. Despite this, they actually enhanced and evolved the gameplay, with 1983’s Donkey…
“Composed and designed to run on actual Amiga computers”. German electro-pop composer Denis Karimani – better known as Remute – has cornered the market when it comes to creating albums which run on retro gaming hardware. He’s already produced albums for the SNES, C64, Game Boy and Mega Drive / Genesis, and now it’s the…
From Kumo Kagyu (Goblin Slayer) and so-bin (Overlord). While Wizardry was created by Andrew C. Greenberg and Robert Woodhead and is recognised as one of the foundational releases in the history of the RPG, the franchise has taken on a life of its own in Japan, where it was equally influential and spawned its own…
“This is the last go to keep it open”. A British amusement arcade is reopening this weekend in a last-ditch attempt to secure its future. Highest Score Arcade, located in Salisbury, Wiltshire, opened last August. However, it recently closed its doors and posted “Game Over” messages on social media, leading many to assume it was…
Steam version is still on track, however. Japanese publisher Superdeluxe Games has revealed that the download console versions of Earthion have been delayed until September. A social media post confirmed that “the release date for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4/5, and Xbox Series XIS has been postponed from July 31st to mid-September.” Read the full…
On July 10th, ModRetro released several new products to its online shop, modretro.com. The most colorful of the set is a new colorway for the Chromatic handheld. The Cloud version of the Chromatic is physically identical to the existing six Chromatic handhelds save for its white sheen. Like those handhelds, the Cloud Chromatic also…
Partnerships confirmed with Ubisoft, Atari, and Argonaut. Despite some well-founded concerns over the business practices of its founder Palmer Luckey, ModRetro appears to have enjoyed plenty of success with its FPGA-based Game Boy Color clone, the Chromatic. The handheld has been sold out for a while, but ModRetro has today revealed that it is “back…
“Finally, thirty-four years later, we got an answer”. If you were one of the many kids who picked up Battletoads when it launched on NES back in 1991, you might recall gazing at the back of the box and wondering about which stage the bottom-right screenshot was taken from. While it looks like level 7…