Retro Gaming News
The story of JRPG music begins in that same ironic place so many JRPG stories begin, with Final Fantasy for the NES in 1987. After initially being thrown into the game without much explanation, the four warriors of light are rewarded with a bridge to take them further on their quest. But it’s not just…
“We aim to launch two types of hardware”. We’ve been speaking exclusively to Işık Şekercigil, the man behind the recently reported revival of The 3DO Company, and he tells Time Extension that one of his long-term goals is to return to the hardware arena that originally birthed the brand. Back in the early ’90s, The…
This time over an air freshener, of all things. A short while back, Sega’s upcoming Crazy Taxi reboot earned some rather off-putting headlines over its disclosed use of GenAI – something the company later tried to walk back on, claiming that everything in the final product would be “original” and any AI-generated assets were merely…
Nintendo DS is also in the company’s plans. Epilogue’s family of cartridge readers is set to expand, with the company confirming that it is currently working on a device for the N64. The GB Operator and SN Operator are portable cartridge readers which allow you to dump game data, preserve save files, check for legit…
…but there are more questions than answers. In this job, I’m used to seeing old, defunct companies come back from the dead, typically when some unrelated third party comes along and hoovers up a bunch of rights. But even I don’t really know what to make of this recent post from the publisher Empire Interactive…
“We want to revive the curious spirit of the old internet “. Wes Fenlon, the person behind the utterly superb Read Only Memo newsletter, has announced a new initiative he has created alongside Matt Sayer called Warp Point. “Warp Point is built around simple technologies like RSS with a simple premise: Helping writers connect with…
Yoko Kobayashi designed the iconic ship and the game’s other characters. Thanks to a new interview, we now know who was responsible for creating the amazing characters in Sega’s Fantasy Zone series of scrolling shmups. As spotted by VGDensetsu, Beep21 (paywalled) has just spoken to Yoji Ishii, Hiroshi Kawaguchi and Masaki Kondoh to celebrate forty…
Impressive knowledge on display. Nintendo has just revisited Star Fox 64 (again) on Switch 2 and delivered a game that reminds us why Fox McCloud and his crack team of mercenaries are so beloved in the world of video games – and it hides an Easter Egg that proves the team behind the game are…
Ridiculously, only 100 units were allocated overseas. Last Friday, AYANEO opened pre-orders for the AYANEO Pocket Micro 2, its successor to 2024’s AYANEO Pocket Micro, with a more powerful processor, a better battery, and dual power TMR joysticks, causing a mad rush to secure the console from its website. But almost as soon as it…
We haven’t featured a PC remake of Ian Bird’s Amiga/Atari ST Strategy game Deuteros for awhile, especially as a number of announced remakes of this classic game have been announced and then dropped never to be seen again. Thankfully it looks as if Tony Cheetham has taken to the task, as he has recently announced the…