Retro Gaming News
Based on the 1995 arcade title. Hamster has announced that it is bringing Namco’s 1995 arcade title Air Combat 22 to its Arcade Archives series on modern-day platforms this week (July 3rd). Following in the footsteps of the Arcade Archives version of Ridge Racer, Air Combat 22 is based on the System 22 3D flight…
Thanks to Cybermind, TheMajinZenki, and company. Sega’s Japan-exclusive turn-based strategy game The Hybrid Front is finally being translated into English, thanks to TheMajinZenki and the group of fan translators at Nebulous Translations. Originally launched for the Sega Mega Drive in 1994, The Hybrid Front takes place in a sci-fi future where a galactic trading empire…
AcidBottle(Abgames) is certainly no stranger to creating quality releases for the Amiga, the Arcade to Commodore Amiga game of Breakthru and Wonder Boy are just two of the ones that stand out on IndieRetroNews. Well here are with another fantastic news story in relation to AcidBottle. As thanks to our good friends BitmapSoft letting us…
“If you remember me, then you must also remember what you did”. When people talk about the rarest or most desirable video games of all time, you can be pretty sure that Panzer Dragoon Saga is going to enter the conversation at some point. Released in the three main territories in 1998 on the fading…
“Transcending history and the world…”. When it comes to picking the best video game opening of all time, there are obviously a lot of amazing candidates. However, there is one that always sticks in my mind for longer than most. That is the opening to the 1997 PlayStation port of Namco’s weapons-based fighter, Soul Blade…
At just $50, this is well worth a look. It feels like we’re drowning in GBA SP-style clamshell emulation handhelds these days, and PowKiddy is adding yet another one to the mix: the V90S, an update of its earlier V90 effort. Boasting a larger footprint and massively improved specs, it’s certainly a step up—but is…
At first I couldn’t understand why we had such an influx of Amiga game news in one weekend. Well it dawned on me, that on the 31st of May it was International Amiga Day! A day which is celebrated annually on May 31st to honor Jay Miner, who is considered the father of the Amiga computer….
“Jaffe… had everybody sit down and play Buffy”. We were recently fortunate enough to catch up with video game producer, designer, and project lead Antonio “Tony” Barnes, whose extensive credits include the likes of Desert Strike, Strider (2014) and Killer Instinct (2013), as well as many other titles from the past few decades. One game…
Again, there’s no English translation sadly. D4 Enterprise has announced it will soon be rereleasing the PC-98 version Microcabin’s action-RPG Fray on Nintendo Switch. Fray is a spin-off to the cult RPG series Xak, taking place pretty much simultaneously to the events of the second game. It was originally launched for MSX computers in 1990,…
“To put it simply – he is the big boss”. Square Enix is one of the game industry’s leading lights, with multiple million-selling franchises under its belt and a network of studios dotted around the world. However, for the longest time, the company’s success was built around its tentpole Final Fantasy franchise, a series of…