Retro Gaming News
“It’ll all play out in real time”. Paul W.S. Anderson is no stranger to adapting video games for the big screen, having already performed the trick with Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil and Monster Hunter, but he’s taking a new approach with his upcoming effort, a silver screen adaptation of Sega’s light gun shooter House of…
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MemCard Pro 2 can also connect to pads via USB. 8BitMods’ amazing MemCard Pro range is already an essential purchase for any self-respecting retro gamer, but the company has just added yet another reason to pick one up for your PS1. Thanks to the latest firmware update, both the MemCard Pro and MemCard Pro 2…
Shoot em ups have never gone out of fashion, there’s something to be said about blasting waves of enemies on screen, while collecting wicked power ups and listening to that thumping soundtrack. Thankfully one such team likes to keep the shoot em up goodness flowing, as thanks to a heads up in our Shoot Em…
“I wonder if they had already had some of the Cammy stuff recorded by someone else”. If you look up who voiced the Street Fighter II character Cammy in the 1996 arcade game X-Men vs. Street Fighter you’ll find a large number of websites claiming Susan Hart to be the voice of the character and…
Known in Japan as Wild Fang. Tecmo’s 1989 belt scroller Tecmo Knight / Wild Fang has come to MiSTer FPGA and Analogue Pocket, thanks to Jotego’s Patreon. “This belt-scrolling action game was created by the same team as Ninja Gaiden,” says the FPGA developer. “An interesting aspect of the game is that the protagonist fights…
Kickstarter launches later this month. We hate using lazy comparisons, but there’s no getting around the fact that the upcoming indie title Monsterpatch is basically what happens when you combine a farming sim with Pocket Monsters. Developed by Sean Young (not the one from Blade Runner and Dune, we assume), Monsterpatch is described as a…
During 2019 Psytronik Software released(link) a C64 game by Megastyle called ‘ Mancave ‘; a game which follows the hilarious adventures of Richard Morningwood who has the unfortunate task of gathering up the pages of some rather naughty magazines that have been nabbed from his secret stash by his pesky kids. Well if you were…
Who are you going to vote for? The Strong Museum in Rochester, New York yesterday announced the 12 finalists that will potentially be inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame in May, after receiving thousands of entries for consideration. The list, which is available on the Strong Museum’s website, contains a wide range…
“It’s a really happy surprise”. Back in 1999, developer Sacnoth released the RPG Koudelka on PS1. Created, produced, written and directed by former Square staffer Hiroki Kikuta (who also composed the music), the game is unique in that it’s set in Wales, and its dialogue is spoken entirely in English. Kikuta—who recently reunited with Square…